By: Revanche

6 weeks of gluten free living: Week 6

May 23, 2018

Week 6

Here are Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, and Week 5

This is the last week of this food diary, and I think I’m really starting to see a difference in my baseline pain.

As Court mentioned, it does seem like my original estimate of two weeks for the de-glutening was really too short. It feels as though this entire six weeks has been necessary to get it out of my system. It could also be because it took me a few weeks to do things like avoiding cross contamination and cooking in entirely separate dishes and so on. Now I’m wondering how to make this more sustainable.

I do want to (very carefully) bake up several batches of healthy breakfast muffins for PiC and JB to have on hand, thus using up the wheat flour, before I start experimenting with alternative baking bases, and get back into the habit of baking and cooking in a GF-friendly way without having to expend a ton of thought and energy on the process.

Day 1.

Since they were on sale, I’m taste-testing Kashi GF frozen waffles (original and cinnamon). If you actually liked Eggo waffles back in the day and have reasonably low expectations, the original plain waffles aren’t terrible. They’re not particularly good but when crunchy and dipped in syrup, they’re not bad either. I probably wouldn’t buy these again except to have on hand for those run out the door! mornings.

We ate leftover GF pasta with ground turkey for lunch, and I threw myself into making a really good pot roast for dinner full of carroty, potatoey, oniony, non-compromising goodness.

Pain/Discomfort: I completely overdid the day before and paid the price in lost sleep and full body aches the night before. This day was a foggy haze of trying to get things done and hoping that my sore throat was just a symptom of fatigue, not a third go-round with my cold.

Day 2.

Kashi waffles again for breakfast with a handful of antioxidant-full blackberries, a late lunch of leftover pasta and turkey, and a scrumptious dinner of pot roast with a side of brown rice. This makes me

Pain/Discomfort: With only one interruption to my sleep, an early headstart and a long night, I think the damage from the weekend may be mostly undone. I’m still tired but it’s sort of the normal kind of heavy fatigue, not double. That’s a great start.

Day 3.

Half an apple for breakfast, half a box of beet chips for lunch. JB and I shared a big bowl of butter lettuce with ranch while PiC reheated dinner. We had pot roast with brown rice, GF chicken nuggets, and broccoli. Not my most well rounded day but I’ve also been feeling rundown so dinner made up for it.

Pain/Discomfort: I haven’t woken up rested from sleep in years but I didn’t wake up totally drained like I spent my entire sleep time living a secret life, either. This is a huge improvement, I hope it’s around to stay. Or even better, that I’ll start feeling rested after sleeping! That’d be miraculous. Pain levels were also reasonably low this morning, though my hip bones are really angry about my sitting anywhere but on a soft surface today.  Some days my bones and muscles prefer harder surfaces, this was absolutely not that day.

Day 4.

Two slices of peanut butter on GF toast, two slices of apple, a protein bar. Lunch was even more spare because I was Extra Busy and tired: 2 Babybel cheeses and 3 GF chocolate chip cookies.

Pain/Discomfort: Every single joint, big and small, hurts today. Whew. This is more than likely because I had nightmares all night, though, and not anything diet related. It’s a bit weird parsing out the causes that aren’t diet related for pain because who really knows?

I failed to keep the rest of these records!

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