I was diagnosed with Celiac while showing no, or very little, symptoms.  My blood work showed I had it and my endoscope showed little signs, therefore it was positive.  I could go eat a pizza buffet and not fart once!  A couple years ago, I went gluten free for a few months.  During that time, if I ate gluten I would have some stomach symptoms.  The same thing is happening to me now.  A couple chocolate chip cookies, hurts my stomach. So, if I eat gluten, I feel fine.  If I go gluten free, when I slip-up, I don’t feel fine.   Points To Remember  (Taken from celiaccentral.com) People...

Last night I went over to my aunt and uncle’s house for dinner.  She was having turkey, mashed potatoes, and corn… so I’m all good with the menu.  I immediately opted for a margarita instead of a beer… so far so good!  After dinner something terrible happened!  My aunt makes her amazing chocolate chip cookies!  I had to have just one… well I’d already had one- one more isn’t going to hurt… two or three, who cares!  So, about an hour later my stomach starts to act up.  You’re probably saying, “but Mike, I thought you didn’t have the typical stomach type of symptoms?” ...

I’m getting used to this hungry feeling… nothing seems to fill me up the same way a gluten filled meal does.  But really, it isn’t so bad.  I’m not on a super clean/healthy diet, so I can usually find something to snack on.  I’ve just been watching my portion size.  Corn chips, sunflower seeds, beef jerky, pistachios, an orange, and some gluten free pretzels.  The pretzels tastes just like normal people ones!

I love sushi.  Especially when it is half price at my favorite local restaurant, Kona Grill! Tonight, my girlfriend and I met a couple of friends there for Happy Hour. Usually, I would get a nice, cold, fresh, beer, but tonight I opted for a margarita (beer is going to be my downfall). Sushi is best when dipped in soy sauce that is mixed with some wasabi. Since, I am new to this lifestyle change (gluten-free eating that is), I don’t know all the particulars, like what brands of soy sauce are GF… I decided to eat first, and do my research later. After we finished our meal (it was really good!),...

Sometimes you are starving and in need of a snack.  Your hunger gets the best of you and you overlook obvious things.  Tonight I went to the local boat show.  Along with boating stuff, they allow any vendor with a product into the show.  One vendor was selling mixes for dips, and they had fifteen dips made and laid out as samples.  I asked the vendor how you make them and confirmed that there is no gluten in them.  Exciting!  So, I start to sample them… then I suddenly realize I am eating pretzels!  Crap!  Fun over! Don’t let your excitement and hunger get the best of you! Get some...

This morning I weighed myself and I was down 5 lbs in a week!  Talk about motivation!  I really haven’t been concentrating on eating particularly healthy, but just cutting out the gluten.  I have been very hungry and snacking between meals on not so healthy things… leftover dips from a party, corn chips, and sunflower seeds. For Christmas I was given a nice blender.  So, I have been having at least a glass or two of fruit smoothie every day, which I would have guessed all the sugar would have kept me from losing some weight.  I haven’t gotten back into the routine of working out. ...

On my third day of officially being gluten-free!  Doing well… a little hungry, but can usually satisfy that with some corn chips and water.  Yesterday, I had an all day class and was told to bring a lunch.  I ended up just snacking on some sunflower seeds, a banana, and drinking a Monster.  Leftover GF dips from a family get-together were my dinner!  

So far, NOT so good.  I wasn’t prepared for the diet to start and hadn’t done my grocery shopping by late this afternoon.  Therefore, “Its OK…one day won’t hurt…I need a final gluten meal…diet starts tomorrow.”  I’m ashamed to say, we went to a pizza buffet for dinner…  I blame it all on my poor support staff (the girlfriend).  All her fault!  …Spoken like a true overweight diet-aholic.