Monday, November 12, 2012

Gluten free: Three-month update

It's been three months of no gluten for me now! My reflections:
  • Definitely my stomach problems are much, much better. I've had a couple days in the past three months where I was kind of sick, but it seems like each time it was from eating potatoes (odd since that food has usually agreed with me) or undercooked rice. Once it was from eating peanuts that were labeled as being processed with wheat products.
  • I finally only weigh 6 or 7 pounds more than I did before becoming pregnant. I can't definitely attribute this to being gluten free, but it may have helped. Partly it's probably also that I can exercise again, whereas a lot of the year was spent recovering from the ankle surgery and the hernia surgery and before that the awful, awful joint pain.
  • It's super easy to not eat gluten. 
  • Biggest change: I'm not hungry all the time. It seems like it used to take way more food for me to not feel hungry anymore. Now it feels like I need way less bulk to feel full. Here's my typical daily menu: Breakfast of Chex cereal and coffee. Optional midmorning snack of a banana. Lunch of two small cheese quesadillas on corn tortillas with milk. Maybe a yogurt if I'm super hungry. Supper of some type of meat and vegetables and milk. Nighttime snack of popcorn. 
I keep thinking that what I need to do now is eat something glutenous and see how it works out before determining whether to stick with it. The problem is, I can't think of any food that I really, really miss. What's your favorite glutenous food?

1 comment:

  1. Mostly I miss being able to just have a chocolate cake dessert. Other than that I occasionally miss PB&J. Six years ago it was a lot harder for me to go GF, now....it's no biggie.

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