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1St Day Gluten Free Tomorrow


Sammyj

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I have been cutting back, but now have started much effort to avoid all gluten. So Friday, 8 July 2011, will be my first day gluten free.

The hardest thing to give up has been chocolate! Can I do this? I'm sure going to try.


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I have been cutting back, but now have started much effort to avoid all gluten. So Friday, 8 July 2011, will be my first day gluten free.

The hardest thing to give up has been chocolate! Can I do this? I'm sure going to try.

Why so you have to give up chocolate?

samie Contributor

I have been gluten-free for six months now and still go through times where I want gluten foods but I avoid them cause I know what will happen afterwards and the damage it will do. Getting better though.

Sammyj Apprentice

Why so you have to give up chocolate?

I don't! Peanut M&M's are gluten free! (my favorite)

1/2 way through day 4!

navigator Apprentice

Keep sticking with it - well worth the effort. I was wheat free from last September and gluten free since 6th May (except for 4 days when G.P. asked me to go back on gluten. It gets easier and now I'm finding it second nature. The improvement in my health keeps me going when I smell fresh produce in a bakery!! That was the one good thing about the four days back on gluten - whereas I'd really been missing some things, I felt so bad for those four days that now you couldn't pay me to eat them!

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