For the Love of Bread-(the Gluten Free kind)

For the Love of Bread-Living the Gluten Free Life

Well friends, I finally did it. I made the commitment to be 100% gluten free. It took me many years to get here. Like 7 WHOLE years to be exact. For some people this comes easier to them, but I am not one of them. I am a AVID lover of beer, bread, pasta, FOOD, you name it, I love it. I also get bored really easy with my food so it’s hard to wrap your head around knowing you will be limited in what you eat for the rest of your life. It’s a HUGE commitment. It’s a change. It’s honestly kind of weird and unfriendly and I didn’t love anything about it. I am trying to only do things that bring me joy these days and the idea of never eating gluten again sounded horrendous to me.

So what changed?

To be 100% honest, as I like to be, I just got sick of being sick all of the time. I have Hashimoto’s Disease and Hypothyroidism and have been really sick for many years. I was struggling with sore achy joints, headaches, inflammation, weight gain, hair falling out, GI issues, stroke like episodes, utter exhaustion, just to name a few. And the idea that I could possibly but this nasty disease into remission maybe has been on my mind. The older I get the more scary this stuff becomes so it was time to buckle down and make a change.

How did I start?

I just did it. I went out and got all gluten free staples (I will do another post about this soon, I promise) and went all in. I’m not saying I don’t accidentally ingest gluten once in awhile-I am not perfect, but I try to never purposely do it and I try my best. And if for some reason it happens by accident, I just keep trucking along. It took a HUGE mental shift for me to be able to make this change. But if you get to the point of being sick enough, it’s a lot easier to make the commitment.