Confession Time?

[Yummy Profile]

Hi everyone,

Just for moral support - what did y'all find the hardest thing about the new diet? TBH was goin o.k up to last weekend but then really wanted a McDonalds . So strange - i only go to Mc Donalds once, max twice, a year (normally after Christmas nights out ). Perhaps the fact that takeaways in general (we would have been partial to the odd weekend takeaway pizza with a DVD) have been removed from my choices since diagnosis has finally hit home. Making your own "takeaway" does not have the same appeal.
Anyway TG the longing has disappeared and am back to resisting Brennan's batch bread
Would be interested in hearing how other peope have combatted the bad longings and avoided the pitfalls .

[Louise L Profile]

Its always tempting and worse when those around you can eat what they want! I still have my take aways - Indian and Thai - and have never had any problems. Also, as per another post there is a pizzeria in Dublin 18 that does GF take out pizza!!!!

I suppose the easiest thing that helps me avoid temptation is how awful and sick I feel when I am accidentally glutenated! Nothing is worse!!! Though sometimes when you've had a few drinks it can be hard to remember not to

[nellie Profile]

Hi,

I must admit I sometimes slip up and have something that 'may not' be gluten free, I suppose unfortunately its because I dont have any symptoms which is actually worse than having symptoms, At least if I knew I was going to be ill for two or three days I wouldnt dream of 'chancing' things!

[Louise L Profile]

My sister was like that as she didnt have any symptoms but she found the longer she was on the diet the more she felt the effects. So I suppose that in time you will feel it!

[Yummy Profile]

Yes, Nellie i'm like that too - i did have really strong symptoms that would appear in the form of constant fatigue or stomach bugs (the rest is TMI) for a few days - reckon it was the ongoing build up of gluten in my system. Now that i am on the diet i am beginning to feel like a new woman - no longer slumped on the couch at 7.30pm. That should be enough incentive for me - but do have the odd weak moment - oh well - will fight them off. Saw the post on D18 (tho did not notice the take-away mention - woohoo), will deffo be headin there at some stage.

[anothercoeliac Profile]

Hi all..

I found not being able to have that lovely crusty bread the hardest of all i think, worse still, having to watch everyone else around me chomping away without a care in the world and totally taking for granted the pure deliciousness of the whole thing while i on the other hand nibbled away on sawdust.. was sort of like torture,felt really hard done by! haha....now and again I admit to missing a toasted slice of batch bread,proper pizza and the odd take away.
..Yep and i will admit i was never even really one for take aways at all and only felt the longing since knowing that i cannot have it! always what you can't have eh!?
Also find lunches on a day out shopping are not as easy as they once were..especially when it would just be so nice to have a toasted cheese sambo now and again!
I think life would be relatively painless on a gluten free diet if it weren't for stupid cross contamination....
can i have it...or not?being the big question mark hovering over innocent looking items in the supermarket!

On the plus side...I feel very lucky to know what is going on in my body now and let's face it, there are people out there with incurable illnesses.
and I look a hundred percent better than what i did before..used to have a continually and abnormally sized bloated stomach.. looked permanently pregnant.and i have so much more energy now!
hail all coeliacs..haha

[Joanne Profile]

Yummy

I understand how you feel, its really tough when you are absolutely dying for something you know you cant have, I sound like a big alco now, but at first I really missed having budweiser

Now I just accept that i cant have it, but sometimes in the summer, especially when you have a BBQ, i'd kill for a nice cold budweiser.

I havent ever knowingly eaten anything with Gluten since being diagnosed, I would be too scared, as an Aunt of mine did form Cancer from not observing the GF diet, so I wouldnt attempt to ever stray off it. I'm a coward

[Marita Profile]

Hi All,
I was diagnosed with CD two weeks ago, just before going on holiday to France. I don't know how much damage I've done to my body yet, and I'm one of the ones who doesn't seem to experience very bad symptoms - it doesn't feel like I actually am coeliac yet. The temptation of all those lovely smelling boulangeries and patisseries in France was just torture!

[Yummy Profile]

Hi Marita, it is a strange condition alright. Mind you the longer you are on the diet the more edible / nice bread etc can be found. You would not believe the things that make such a difference, tasty sausages, nice bread, shop pizza.................. on Monday discovered that Dietary Special Frozen Pizza is now stocked in a Wholefoods' store beside me - ah the delight, as we had friends over for the night Sat, bought in pizza's garlic bread etc and i had to have beans on toast.............. i do find i have to vary foods quite a lot or else i get dangerously bored and start hankering after forbidden foods.
Anyway, just post enquiries and everyone is most helpful................