Started Gluten free diet and all the bread are soooooooo fat

I am sick to death of people saying GF is only necessary for diagnosed Celiacs.

Ed: cos reread quote but last statement stands.

Gluten free bread tastes awful, avoid it like the plague. If you insist on eating gluten free stick with the grains themselves. Learn to cook rice, millet, quinoa, amaranth and oats. Oh, and there is a brand of pasta that I am fond of. It is the Tinkyada brand.

lili200 wrote: »

I was told by ,y doctor to stop gluten, wasn't fashnable thing... jvs- so what carbs do you eat at breakfast if may I ask?
- I easyly finish my 1400 calories diet with current gluten free diet- thats the problem .

Can you post in complete sentences with functional spelling and grammar so that we can understand you?

Boogs54 wrote: »

LouLouBeans wrote: »

I'm gluten intolerant, confirmed by blood tests. I can eat it, but have pretty nasty reactions. There are not many GF products that I enjoy, but corn tortillas and corn pasta are awesome, if you can find them. As far as breakfast, I always go for fruit, especially bananas. Gives me plenty of energy and easy to take on the go.

I'm in the same boat at you. It took YEARS of working with my doctor to figure this out. When I make the decision to eat it, I pay for it.

NO! YOU'RE WRONG!

IF YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE CELIAC, YOU CAN GORGE YOURSELF SILLY WITH NO EFFECTS. DIDN'T YOU SEE THE OTHER COMMENT ABOVE?

Ahem.

Actually, I'm in the same boat. Even a bite will give me stomach problems and acne, of all things.

I just cut out the whole grain shebang. Don't even miss it.

You'll need to learn to replace your usual intake of bread with other non-bread things. Gluten free items are expensive and they have a lot more calories than the same portion size of "regular" bread. (or so I've found, personally.)

Try things like scrambled eggs or quinoa porridge for breakfast. Make a baked potato, sweet potato, bowl of quinoa, or rice instead of whatever bread item you typically eat at dinner, etc. Basically try to make meals that are naturally gluten free (like chicken, bone-in ham, potatoes, beans, etc.)

You'll also want GF bread on hand for those days that you're just craving a PB&J sandwich.

I haven't found a good alternative for pasta quite yet so I just buy the gluten free stuff.

All the best to you!

lili200 wrote: »

Strange! I have udi, I remember it is much more calories ( should check!) also hard to find whole grain!
And of course: no more beer...

You can actually buy GF beer! It's stinkin' expensive, but it's out there.

Also, I've found All But Gluten is about the best for GF breads. I didn't care for Udi's. Also, if you're baking, try out recipes that include bananas or zucchini as they'll make the bread more moist.

We love Udi's, and just discovered Aldi's GF sandwhich wraps. I do not like "wraps" per se, but these made excellet burritos!

s_pekz wrote: »

So you were diagnosed with Celiac disease? That's the only reason to go gluten-free.

What she says [/quote] I agree

Jeez if someone wants to go gluten free even for *kitten* and giggles then they should go right ahead! Honestly, it's not going to do any harm is it? The question isn't "Please give unsolicited advice on my diet" but "What should I have for breakfast?". As to that question, I went wild for chocolate banana quinoa a while back http://greatist.com/eat/recipes/chocolate-banana-breakfast-quinoa but I suppose it isn't particularly portable. I would say eggs, eggs all over the place. I bought the UDIs bagels once, they were alreet but yeah expensive. I'm not GF personally so can't be much help, just felt like judging the judgers!

GF is not just for Celiacs, there are some health benefits to eliminating some gluten from you diet. OP, I suggest making your own breads if you like, they are so much better than the store bought stuff. You can eat a lot of different things, anything made from rice flour or potato flour or vegetable flours. Early morning grits are good, or I like to scramble eggs with rice and have with salsa, sounds weird but tastes amazing. It is something I learned living in Japan for a year where they have rice with every meal. Skillet potatoes cooked with extra virgin olive oil, season to taste with eggs.

MFP is a great place to log calories. The message board is a horrible place to ask for advice on eating healthy. This is the crap you get if you do:

1) Define healthy!
2) Food is fuel, a calorie is a calorie
3) Eating good foods is a way for people to feel superior

All of these arguments don't stand up to anyone with a bit of intelligence, however.

Response:

1) Define healthy. OK Bill Clinton, we all know what *is* means. We all know what healthy means. If you think nobody knows what is really healthy, then why do people change their diet after their first stroke or heart attack??? Because deep down, you know some of the crap we eat is not healthy.

2) Food is simply fuel and a calorie is just a calorie. False. If food were only a fuel, then there would have never been horrible deficency diseases like pellagra . Pellagra is caused by having too little niacin or tryptophan in the diet, and hundreds of thousands of people died from it here in the United States. The truth is that foods are a nutrition delivery system, not just fuel, and some foods have more nutrition than other foods.

3) Eating good foods is a way for people to feel superior. Yeah, some people like to eat crap and make themselves feel better by berating those that are trying to better themselves.

What do we get from eating the SAD (Standard American Diet)?

In some parts of the US, life expectancy is lower than in Nicaragua and some other third-world countries. People in The U.S. now ranks 39th and 40th out of 187 countries for life expectancy for males and females respectively. [1]

-- Many Hispanic immigrants who relocate to the United States face much higher cancer rates than those in the country they left behind.
Cancer can be 40 percent more common for Hispanics after they immigrate [to the United States].

-- The risk of cancers common in Western countries is higher for Korean Americans than for their native counterparts.

-- Breast cancer among Chinese women who have been in the U.S. for more than 10 years is 80% higher than their newly arrived peers.

-- Studies of Indian immigrants in Western societies indicate that rates of cancer and other chronic diseases, such as coronary heart
disease and diabetes, increase dramatically after a generation in the adopted country. Change of diet is among the factors that may be
responsible for the changing disease rates.

-- A team of researchers at West Virginia University has shown that U.S. immigrants from India and Pakistan take on the habits of their
adopted country, increasing their risks of prostate cancer among male immigrants and breast cancer among females.

Eat Like An American, Die Like An American!



1. http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/life-expectancy-in-some-u-s-counties-is-no-better-than-in-the-third-world-20130710

johnnylakis wrote: »

s_pekz wrote: »

So you were diagnosed with Celiac disease? That's the only reason to go gluten-free.

What she says

I agree

Meh, more people have a gluten sensitivity than we know. With all the pasteurizing and sterilization of foods, our bodies have less healthy bacteria in them, coupled with enriching of wheat flours. I don't have celiacs and I'm gluten free and I can tell you that when I consume gluten (who doesn't need a slice of pizza every now and then) I can feel it. Mood changes, extreme fatigue, joint pain.