Table of contents for Gluten-Free Living
- Tips for Gluten-Free Survival
- How to Love Eating Gluten-Free: Introduction
- Discovering New Clarity on a Restricted Diet.
- Become Smarter by Web-Searching for a Few Minutes a Day
The secret is to make good food. Okay, that is not the secret, but you will find good food to enjoy as a result of following my advice. Let me begin by saying that my journey involved a more restrictive diet. I discovered a few years ago, following a history of nagging health issues, that I needed to become GFCF immediately. I mean, one day I had to go cold turkey. GFCF, by the way, stands for gluten-free, casein free. Very briefly, gluten is a protein in wheat and barley, while casein is a dairy protein. I had already cut out dairy a couple of years earlier after months of becoming progressively more ill and losing more and more weight. I improved, but many symptoms did not disappear although I could digest food and put on weight again. Eventually about two years ago, I again started to become violently ill, being up all night, every night in digestive distress, and suffering severe bloating and cramps constantly during the day. Luckily, I discovered the sound medical expertise needed to get me on the right track. This blog entry is not my life story, so I will skip ahead to my first days GFCF. I suffered through countless meals of rice, chicken and vegetables. I still got regularly ill, several times per week in my attempt to secure safe food to sustain myself. Eating nutritiously was not on my mind, despite studying the subject for well over a decade. I was operating on a survival level. Back then, I had no idea if I would ever even live a normal life, or be able to work any regular job again. Little did I know that I would conquer the GFCF limitation, and turn it into a strength.
Up next: How I mastered eating GFCF and how I made it not suck! Also, why this process I will show you applies to many other nutritional and health concerns.
