Reged: 05/22/03
Posts: 3206
Loc: USA, Southern California
Quote: Hey Beth! Thanks so much for you post! You and Kandee have helped me out so much! I am definitely going to go Gluten Free - unfortuanatley I recently moved out of Vegas (3 hours away) so I cant start until I get back down there which will be tomorrow or Sunday. There are NO health food stores where I live now so I have to drive back down to buy all the GF essentials. Any tips for my first GF shopping list? Abby? Are you still in Nevada? If you moved to the CA side, you're close to me.
Since you know how to eat for IBS so well, here is a valuable file (pdf) to print out and take with you to a regular grocery store for a list of GF products: web page
Like Beth said, pick up a list of GF foods from the HFS if it's TJ's or WF's or a major one that has the list in the store. That's a great start!
Im sorda lost now that Im going GF as well as staying on the IBS diet. I just now am beginning to understand all the rules for the IBS diet and Ive been on the boards for over a year now! It does bother me that my tests were not a DEFINITE answer but I have been reading about it a lot and after reading Kandee's posts and I have hope that going GF will make a difference! Im to the point where I will try anything right now and the fact that all I might have to do is give up gluten doesnt upset me at all if it means I will feel better. That's a wonderful attidude Abby!! My only concern is not being able to gain weight - I know that you guys have both told me I will but its so IMPOSSIBLE for me to gain weight that Ive sorda lost hope! Oh, please don't loose hope. It's true, you will gain, especially once your body starts absorbing nutrients again. Before I got all these new sicknesses I weighed about 115 and everyone I saw always told me how great I looked and now I fight to stay at or around 100 and always get the "oh my god do you even eat" comments. Just ignore those, please. Anyways Thanks SOOOO much for all your help and Im sure Ill be bugging both you and Kandee with a TON of questions here in the next couple of weeks! Good!!! Kandee