Gluten free for a year

[cj hood]

Originally Posted by Dorothy Wood

Just wanted to defend gluten free eating kinda because so many people are annoyed by it. I generally try to keep it to myself because who cares, it's my body. I can't afford to get the testing done to see if I'm celiac, and I don't really think I am, because I don't get hella sick if I accidentally eat some gluten. I do, however, immediately need to poop and/or have diarrhea the next day. Anyway,

Here are benefits I have reaped:
greatly reduced respiratory allergies, like almost none (they were bad my whole life previously)
no more itchy legs (I used to have really itchy legs)
better skin tone
gloriously healthy poops (they were more like 6/10 before, now 9.5/10)
reduction in tendonitis pain
better mood overall
more energy
reduced appetite (because I'm absorbing more nutrients perhaps?)

I did lose about 20 pounds without doing anything else but eliminating gluten, but I mostly just started because my mom dared me.

Also all the food I eat tastes great and I eat better tasting food than I ever have before. Sometimes I miss real pizza, but it's not worth it to me to eat it. I eat fake pizza and that's still better tasting than whatever 7-11 frozen pizza I'd get and mow down at 2 a.m.

ok that's it. I recommend it if your guts seem weird and you can't figure out why or if your respiratory allergies are driving you insane. It really worked for me and my mom too, and some other people I know who are very nice.

what specific foods did you stop eating?

[Dorothy Wood]

Originally Posted by cj hood

what specific foods did you stop eating?

There are too many to list. I basically don't eat anything made with wheat flour. So nothing involving bread or breading is allowed. Except some fried stuff at Indian restaurants is made with lentil flour, I eat that.

I eat tacos like it's my job.

[YoungRemy]

my younger sister went gluten free and looks great. her skin and hair look better, she has lost weight, and she has also noticed less general sickness in her life... (like allergies and stuffed up-edness)

[kll]

I did a cleanse in January that eliminated a lot - gluten, corn, soy, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, dairy, eggs, etc.

I 100% agree with you that everything tastes soooo much better now and I can pick out "chemicals" and bad stuff... an example would be the boyfriend had a Sweet Tart and it was just horribly chemical and nasty after the cleanse. Being gluten free, along with the other stuff made me sleep amazing and co-workers commented on my "glow".

Definitely thinks there's a lot to healthy eating than people realize, although it is expensive, at least on the initial grocery shop.

Congrats to you for seeing the difference and encouraging others!