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Spunky007

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This thread [and forum] is incredible! I always thought I was so alone--either the only one struggling with gaining weight because of intolerances, or in the world of Celiac's, the only one who had to also fight to gain weight.

I haven't been officially diagnosed as Celiac, but after "digestion problems" took a severe downhill slide after graduating college, I've pursued close examination of my diet on my own. I used to just count calories and fight to eat 4000+ a day to gain weight. Suffice it to say this was miserable since instead of filling me up and making me gain weight like it would a normal person, it made me sick, irritable, and have no life outside the kitchen/bathroom.

I'm only at the very beginning of my journey to health-and LIFE-but after two weeks of finally getting hardcore about cutting out gluten, soy, and lactose [plus some other foods that seem to be triggers] I'm already seeing the improvements!

It's a rough road, even yet, as I still have confusing flareups for no reason, and almost anything I "put in" to my system riles things up. I still have trouble telling what could be a problem food vs. what is just plain tough to digest when my system is so messed up.

All of your posts encourage me that I DO have hope--even if I'm written off as the scrawny freak who just doesn't know how to eat by everyone around me.

I'll be looking around for some good ways to get more calories on a restricted diet and budget! Right now my "happy foods" are nuts and lactaid milk...but even those get old after a while.

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