For someone who loves to bake the idea of living gluten free (as i have a few friends that do) has always scared me, like an allergy to peanut butter, I only thought, oh god i'm glad thats not me! Recently I have noticed my arms getting more little blisters/sores than normal, and they have been more itchy than ever....breaking out in little open sores everywhere, not only that but my un-diagnosed IBS has taken a serious turn for the worse...curiously my husband decided to look online at the symptoms of celiac or gluten intolerance and the dots just seemed to connect, the list of symptoms was very clear: abdominal pain, bloating, gas, anemia, easy bruising, fatigue or general weakness, fluid retention, infertility (took us 6 years to conceive), panic attacks, b12 deficiency, obesity, and skin blisters. I honestly thought most of these were normal. On my journey to weight loss I have found it difficult to lose weight even with constant consistent exercise and reduced calorie intake. I have had a few consults with a weight loss surgery specialist dr arson in Victoria, and he referred me to a blood specialist, and a respiratory specialist (I also live with very bad asthma, but it is under control). When visiting the blood specialist in October, he could not figure out why I was so highly anemic, so he sent me for more blood work. He wanted to test for Cushing syndrome and I asked if we could please add on the test for celiac. He agreed to and I had the blood work done today ( I realize its a month later, but I have an extreme needle phobia, so had to work up the nerve for all the blood taken!)
The results will be here in 10 days, but until then I am going gluten free to try and see what a difference it makes in my body. I may take this time to say also that I am EXTREMELY lactose intolerant and allergic to tomato seeds....though I take lactaid sometimes for the lactardedness
Step 1: rearrange the cupboards: of corse I don't expect my husband or daughter to be gluten free so I went thorough the cupboards and made one cupboard for all things that contain gluten, and one that contains none, let me just say the gluten cupboard looks delicious! I then went through the fridge and freezer separating things, and in the freezer moving all meals with gluten to the downstairs freezer.
Step 2: a grocery list: I looked up some gluten free recipes that I think I would like and created a grocery list along with a Meal plan (having a 2 month old makes it difficult to cook quick meals so I will be making food ahead of time and freezing dinners to make more convenience.
Step 3: figure out the extent I want my gluten free life to be. I will be doing this one on my own, however I'm sure my husband will probably have a pretty gluten free diet ( when he is home, he works a camp life of one week in one week out) but at this point I am not bleaching the kitchen and making it entirely gluten free. I won't be doing that unless its doctors orders. I like baking way too much for other people to do that!!!
So tomorrow I start eating gluten free, I will try and post daily and include as many photos as I can :)
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