Eating Gluten...??!!


Eating gluten...!!! 







  1. You sound exactly like me... if gluten and sugary things both bother you, look into the candida diet and try eating lots of foods with anti-fungal properties.

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  3. @Lauren Engineered
    Hi, Lauren! Have you tried the Candida Diet? I've read a ton about it, but am hesitant to start yet ANOTHER diet. Right now what seems to have been the most help ever is taking probiotics and especially including a saccharomyces boulardii supplement. That stuff is the bomb!

  4. I've been gluten free for just about 4 years now and it's cleared up all sorts of health issues in my particular case. In my experience, elimination diets are a wonderful way to determine which foods work for you or don't work. That's how I ended up going entirely gluten free after getting tired of all the failing western medicine. I love to cook and bake - so transitioning to doing those things gluten free was a good challenge that is now just part of normal life.

    So no, you're not crazy at all! Seems like you're taking a good proactive approach to finding what works or doesn't work for you.

  5. @Adina | Gluten Free Travelette

    Thank you for your comment! I really appreciate it. I definitely love a challenge and I love that I have learned many ways to make gluten free foods and even grain free. Some of the things I made I definitely will continue making, even if I find I can eat gluten again. I want to take it slow, though, so I'm trying to be patient to see whether I react to the gluten or not. I guess time will tell! I am grateful that I live in a place where there is gluten free options pretty much anywhere you go! ;)

  6. I actually try to live my life on the candida diet and taking probiotics is part of it. I don't want to get into the litany of my unpleasant symptoms on the www, but I have digestive and skin issues (also cycle-related) and after a year of experimentation, anti-candida has worked the best for me. It's not very different from Paleo, really. And like all of these "diets" there's no one way that works for everyone - it's really more about figuring out exactly what bothers you and avoiding/substituting as much as you can. Even if you're not into starting yet another diet, I would say at least take a look at the literature surrounding yeast and fungal issues in the body and see if they ring true! You may be persuaded by how dead on they are, which is how I mustered up the courage to give it a go!

  7. Laura,

    That is encouraging that the Candida Diet has worked for you. I'll definitely research it through again. I have often thought just going on an elimination diet would be useful. I definitely do believe my issues must be related to fungal issues because I used to put 2% clotrimazole (the 3-day yeast cream) on my knee rashes and that helped a lot. But never cured it, which is why I decided to change my diet instead. Anyway, it's all a journey to figure out what works best. Hopefully someday I'll get rid of it completely! At least it's not as much of a bother as it used to be!

  8. I had to go on an EIimination diet due to a skin reaction in my ears, just like u on your knees. That was hard, as it's hard to pinpoint. I then did a food sensitivity test and wow... Turns it I have several food allergies and sensitivities - eggs #1... I totally stay away from them. Dairy and wheat #2... I stay away but indulged once in a while...I feel so nervous when I do though.. Awful feeling. But I don't really get itchy ears that is good!!
    Good luck to you!

  9. Carole, That is very interesting about your food sensitivities. I've heard eggs and milk are some of the main culprits for a lot of people. Do you get allergic if an egg is included in a recipe? I should probably try removing eggs from my diet to see what would happen. I do eat an egg most every day for breakfast. The variety of foods to eat become less and less when you start cutting out things. When I cut out gluten, I no longer could eat toast or cereal for breakfast, not even oatmeal. So I started making an egg or yogurt. Now those may be the main culprits! Maybe in the new year I will try a true elimination diet and see what happens. Thank you for your comment! :)

  10. Anna, my daughter was getting horrible eczema outbreaks until I cut out dairy from her diet. As soon as she stopped eating dairy, the rashes went away. Anytime she eats dairy, they come back. Hope this helps!

  11. Hey Anna -

    well, this is a really belated comment, and I don't know if you'll even see it, but egg allergies (true allergies) in adults are actually very rare. They're far more common in children, the vast majority of whom outgrow them before puberty. With egg allergies, the body fails to produce the enzyme necessary to break down the egg's protein. When an allergic person eats eggs, the effects are almost immediate; it's like having a violent intestinal or stomach flu and it lasts for several days.

    But if you're still suffering from eczema, though, it might be worth getting a full allergy battery done. You could find out, once and for all, if your diet (or other environmental conditions) might be causing it.

    For example, my sister-in-law suffers from eczema on her eyelids (yikes!). She finally had a full allergy battery done and learned that she is allergic to the entire nightshade family - so, tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, peppers ... all of them trigger her eczema. Crazy, right? I never would have thought that such an allergy even existed!

    Anyway, just an idea - it might good just to know for certain!

  12. fleur_delicious-

    Thank you so much for writing! I think that would be a good idea to get tested. I hate going to the doctor's, which is why I have been putting that off. But I think it would be good to find out once and for all if there's something I'm actually allergic to. I have heard of being allergic to nightshade vegetables and sure hope I am not allergic to them!! But it's definitely a possibility. That's great to know about the eggs. I decided not to cut them out because I don't have any issues with them and they are my favorite food to eat for breakfast. Recently I started eating gluten again on occasion and my left eyelid started swelling up. I was really starting to wonder what was going on until one day I ate a bunch of gluten and in about 20 minutes my eye started to itch and I looked in the mirror and sure enough my eyelid had begun to swell. So frustrating!! So I cut out wheat/gluten again and it went down by the next day.

  13. How frustrating - and what a bummer! I *love* gluten. I'd be so sad if I had to give it up.