Category: Gluten-Free Living

How I Lost Weight on a Gluten-Free Diet

When I wrote about Losing Weight While Living Gluten Free, I talked about the things I’ve learned on my journey. This post will get into specifics about how I actually achieved my goal. As of this writing, I have achieved my goal of losing 50 pounds (actually, I’m a bit over my goal, closer to 55 pounds), and am enjoying being in maintenance mode.

I will state for the record that most of the specific tips below have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I am gluten free. However, living a gluten-free lifestyle absolutely helped me achieve my goal as I was never tempted by certain high-calorie foods or fast foods. It’s a lot easier to avoid certain things when you know they’ll make you sick. Continue reading “How I Lost Weight on a Gluten-Free Diet”

Losing Weight While Living Gluten Free

Sometimes I read articles that, on the surface, seem logical, but don’t hold up upon close reading. One such article was posted on Glutenfreeworks and entitled “How to Lose Weight on the Gluten-Free Diet“. I’m guessing this was a linkbait headline.

The core premise of the article is that celiac disease creates different levels of malnourishment. For some people, this means unexplained weight loss; for others, weight gain. I fell into the latter group. I remember my doctor murmuring something about “getting enough nutrition”, though in retrospect, it was the wrong nutrition. Continue reading “Losing Weight While Living Gluten Free”

Bring Your (Gluten-Free) Lunch

Lately, my email has been filled with lunch. Or rather, it’s been filled with lunch ideas. While eating out is always an option, many people are catching onto the notion that it’s both the path to calorie overload and getting expensive.

And that’s before we get into the whole gluten-free issue. Continue reading “Bring Your (Gluten-Free) Lunch”

Sunday, Sunday

Weeknight cooking is a challenge, no matter what your employment situation. From full-time job to working at home to stay-at-home parent to retiree with spare time (what is that like?), putting together an evening meal during the week always seems to be a challenge. Maybe it’s our busy lives, or maybe it’s just that we’re out of practice.

Or a little of both. Continue reading “Sunday, Sunday”

To A Better Life

If there is one thing you can do to make the world a better place, it’s cooking at home. Okay, that’s probably too strong a statement, but how about this: if there’s one thing you can do to improve your overall health and diet, it’s cooking at home.

Ah, much better. And so very true. Continue reading “To A Better Life”

Allergy versus Intolerance

As mentioned, I read an article recently that left me thinking about labels and how they help us communicate. In the article, the authors was very clear that she considers her issue with gluten to be an allergy. That’s fine — she knows her body best.

(This article has inspired two pieces from me as there were two key points I took away. Here’s the other one, where I discuss communicating with restaurant staff.)

In the article comments, there was a lot of interesting back and forth (yeah, I broke the “don’t read the comments” rule, but this is a topic that interests me!), but there was one comment that really took me by surprise. One person took great exception to the author’s labeling her gluten issue as an allergy. Continue reading “Allergy versus Intolerance”

Restaurants. Again.

I read articles about how others handle their gluten-free lives with great interest, though, in all honesty, most of those articles have common themes. However, every now and then, a point jumps out at me, or a sentence helps coalesce my thinking about a particular issue.

A recent article got me thinking a lot about communicating our gluten free-ness with others. The author of the article made it clear she considers her gluten issue an allergy, and that lead me to think a lot about how restaurant staff look at an order of “gluten free”. Continue reading “Restaurants. Again.”