PinkZebra's Blog

I have been Gluten Free for about 3 months now. I guess I should re-phrase...I have been aware of and learning to stay away from gluten-laden food items for about 3 months now. I think I am healing and my intestines seem to be getting back to "better." After a post on the forum regarding feeling horrible a few days after eating spicy foods when it had a chance to complete the digestive process, nightshades were mentioned. I have noticed that I don't seem to react to them as much, which gives me the indication that things must be healing and when I was still gunked up the nightshades were able to adversely affect me. I still lay low on the tomatoes-especially raw ones- but I will eat cooked ones and that seems to be ok. I saw that potatoes were pretty low on the alkaloid content list and I have been enjoying French Fries from Carl's Jr of late. I usually only eat half the container to be on the safe side. Their burgers with the lettuce wrapped around it are quite yummy.

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I have also found that I don't feel like there is cement running through my veins. I actually feel like I have some energy and that I can start doing some exercising again. The most exercise I have gotten in the past 6 months is walking around the grocery store or walking up and down the stairs at work. I also had stairs in my house, but I didn't have the energy to go down once I was up...my bedroom, kitchen, living room and sewing area where all upstairs so I didn't nee to go downstairs. I need to start getting ready for "no sleeve" summer....where are my 5lb free weights?

I used to also get heart palpitations and headaches. I would walk up the flight of stairs at work and be so winded that my heart would palpitate for the next hour. Then the headache would filter in and stay with me for hours. Now it is an anomaly to get a headache and my heart beats normally all the time now. I feel like a new person!!!

I wouldn't say that I am totally out of the woods yet...I guess we really never are...but I can FEEL a difference and is so totally fabulous.

My next mission....attack the cookbooks I have purchased over the past few months. My mother bought me some quinoa (spelling?) and I hope to learn what to do with that to make yummy stuff. It was her mother that had Celiac so she knows full well as she and my dad assisted her with food items for the last 15+ (if not more) years of her life. She went to be with the Lord when she was 94 so I know Celiac did not slow her down at all!!!