increasing carbs when gluten free

Sweet potatoes
I use almond flour to make these muffins - http://www.chatelaine.com/health/healthy-recipes-health/flourless-cranberry-muffins/
Quinoa
Millet

Vegetables, fruits, quinoa, root vegetables.

I would go for fruits or starchy vegetables if I wanted more carbs. I'm GF too but I prefer low carb.

Like stir fries.

If you're on mfp to lose weight, as far as the reflux, losing weight might help with that too. As you lose, you might feel a little better with your reflux . Doctors usually advise to lose some weight to help alleviate symptoms if you're overweight.

Have you totally cleaned up the gluten in your diet? You said you get plenty of protein. Are your sources free of traces of gluten, wheat? Why aren't you eating dried fruits and nuts? Are you also allergic to tree nuts? You can be allergic to peanuts but still be able to eat tree nuts. A trail mix with healthy fats , protein and carbs before workouts might help your lifts if you don't have these allergies. Have you gotten tested to know for sure what your allergies are? You might or might not have a reaction to rice or corn or other ingredients in gf breads or...see where I'm going with this? Get an allergy test done and if your tests prove you are allergic to these things, you can get help from a nutritionist/dietician.

christch wrote: »

Yes have had several allergy tests over years, highly allergic to grasses, cow dander, the cat, dust, mites, and some others. At 68 kg/150lb 5'10 I'm not over weight and as long as don't drink to much coffee,or eat rice, corn reflux seems to be easily dealt with. I can get away with ¼ cup rice every couple of months but no rice or corn crackers or substitutes for bread.
Protein sources dairy - milk, yog, cheese, lots of chicken breast, eggs and I do use protein shake. I do eat dried fruits and nuts with pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, it's an actual gluten free product. I've been eating them to'fill up' the carb gap but I wanted to know if there were other things I could eat instead.
I have been tested for Celiac's thru blood tests but they were negative.

Stop eating the rice altogether then. You're just playing a game of Russian Roulette with your health. The allergy testing don't always include tests for food. Sometimes you have to ask for it. You can't assume it's being tested.Were you tested for dairy? You weren't taking your allergy medicine for your allergy tests but had you already eliminated the foods you suspected were giving you reactions? You saying the doctor saying wheat would be an allergen because you reacted to grass on your panel suggested to me you hadn't been tested for it. Wheat, barley, rye are all in the grass family. I wasn't there so I wouldn't know.

There's plenty of things you can eat. Like others posted, quinoa is one. Replace that rice with quinoa. If you know that you will eventually get sick with it, why eat it? Just stop putting yourself through that. If you want some noodles, I would check whole Food Market. It's going to be a little pricey but there you go. Make zucchini noodles insted. There's a trade off. The same with the bread. Gluten free, corn and rice free bread. It might be pricey if you can find it or you might have to bake a loaf yourself using bean flours. Variety is needed to get the nutrients that would not be available in just what you're eating.

Theres plenty of vegetables that provides carbs. Root vegetables like sweet potatoes, yucca, rutabagas, jicama. Eat legumes, peas, squash,edamame, carrots. You don't have to just eat apples and green vegetables. A jicama salad paired with wilted spinach. The vitamin c from the jicama will help you absorb the iron in spinach better.

christch wrote: »

I am at the stage where both the Dr and Naturopath have said I might not get a definitive answer to why wheat makes me feel headachy and brings me out in hives, or why rice gives me reflux. I don't eat it, end of story and if I choose to then I have the headache and feel like rubbish for next few days.

Thank you for all the suggestions for other things I can eat. You have all given me something to work with.

This definitely sucks. I feel for you. I went for decades being told my symptoms was from my 'sensitive ' stomach or 'nerves' . I found a recipe for cloud bread. It's not really a bread per se but it's a great vehicle for sandwiches especially when I don't want to spend the money on gf breads. You can add add nutrition by using hummus. It's another source of carbs and tasty.

Good luck

The cloud brea

_SKIM_ wrote: »

randomsue wrote: »

christch wrote: »

I am at the stage where both the Dr and Naturopath have said I might not get a definitive answer to why wheat makes me feel headachy and brings me out in hives, or why rice gives me reflux. I don't eat it, end of story and if I choose to then I have the headache and feel like rubbish for next few days.

Thank you for all the suggestions for other things I can eat. You have all given me something to work with.

This definitely sucks. I feel for you. I went for decades being told my symptoms was from my 'sensitive ' stomach or 'nerves' . I found a recipe for cloud bread. It's not really a bread per se but it's a great vehicle for sandwiches especially when I don't want to spend the money on gf breads. You can add add nutrition by using hummus. It's another source of carbs and tasty.

Good luck

Cloud bread....can you freeze them?

You probably can. You would have to separate the bread so it won'It's so easy though. It's protein because it's just eggs, cottage cheese or cream cheese and cream of tartar. It beats the pricetag that gf bread has and I have used the bread in place of pancakes when I messed up baking it. Lol

_SKIM_ wrote: »

Ok. Thinking they'd probs crumble when defrosted. I'll have a go though. GF bread - agree the price and to add further insult it tastes like and texture is crap unless you toast it.

Yes! I tried making french toast once with it. It floated in the egg mixture and was a total disaster. Lol

randomsue wrote: »

_SKIM_ wrote: »

Ok. Thinking they'd probs crumble when defrosted. I'll have a go though. GF bread - agree the price and to add further insult it tastes like and texture is crap unless you toast it.

Yes! I tried making french toast once with it. It floated in the egg mixture and was a total disaster. Lol

If you toast it first, it works! Lol

Dont soak in egg too long though.

christch wrote: »

@Luvee_Dove5 I've had many years of sinus like headaches/migranes and after 3month course of antibiotics that made no difference, seeing ENT, and Neurologist both MRI and ct scan to rule out anything. It was the elimination diet I was put on that showed wheat was the likely cause of it all. After taking wheat out of my diet I have had no sinus headaches. If I eat wheat within an hr I end up with a rash, and within 2hrs I develop a migraine. I've also got a pretty good allergy to grasses which my gp said is linked to wheat. So it's just not worth eating it.

Is it okay to post a link to a topic I did on food sensitivity testing? If it's not I'll take this off, but here it is:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10273410/food-sensitivity-testing-alcat#latest

It's only a few posts long....scroll down, I posted the updates on the results of the test.

Potatoes, beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, corn, zucchini, cauliflower, mushrooms, celery, bell peppers, spinach, bok choy, spaghetti squash...there are LOADS of carby veggies you can eat! I've been gf for just over two years now, the first six months were the hardest. It became a breeze when I stopped trying to find "replacements" for the foods I was ditching, and just ate more veggies instead!