i'm gluten free now.
i've written about my thyroid problems before. i have a multinodular goiter. which basically means there are benign lumps growing on my thyroid. the lumps are interfering with my thyroid's function and causing me to have all manner of hyperthyroid symptoms. heart palpitations, anxiety, hot flashes, etc. this has been going on for some time, years even. i was told the thyroid would have to come out and i've been biding my time until i was insured to do something about it. meanwhile, the lumps have been getting bigger, so big in fact, that they were visible to the naked eye, so freaking big, that they were hurting me every time i swallowed.
a few weeks ago i spoke to a friend's cousin who is a physician with an interest in holistic medicine. he advised that i try going dairy free and gluten free to see if that made any difference in my problems. (there is a lot of talk in the medical community lately about autoimmune diseases being linked to gluten intolerance and other allergies.) i was all, DUDE SERIOUSLY. i'm already vegan. no way i can be gluten free. BUT after some arm-twisting i agreed to try for at least a month.
you know where this is going right?
after just one week of no gluten, my thyroid has visibly shrunk. when i look in the mirror i can barely see it.
needless to say, i am a willing passenger on the crazy train right now. you should try going out to eat with me, it's SUPER fun. personally, i prefer eating at home. my food is better.
i've completely given up going to publix (our local grocery store), i have no use for it now. whole foods is my best friend. i found a super blog to support me, it's called gluten free goddess. her recipes are so so good, she never sacrifices flavor for health. plus there are pictures of the finished product on each recipe and i'm a visual learner.
tonight i tried her recipe for mac and cheese. this was a big step for me because seriously vegan cheese is disgusting. i love real cheese. vegan cheese has got to be someone's really bad idea of a joke. but this recipe didn't include vegan cheese, it included a crazy concoction of ingredients, but no cheese. i was scared, michael was scared, but we tried it. and then we had seconds.
speaking of, michael has been incredibly supportive of my eating habits. which, naturally, are now his eating habits, because hello, he isn't going to be cooking himself anything in this lifetime.
so besides me not dying of untreated thryoid disease, an admitted benefit, i'm even more excited about the fact that so far i've lost eleven pounds.
i am going to look super hot in my wedding dress.
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i love being on the crazy train, too.
ReplyDeleteyou are SO gonna look hot in your wedding dress.
ReplyDeleteso, guess what? i've been vegetarian for 3 weeks now. and i've been roughly 90% vegan for 2 weeks i'm pretty proud of myself. but apparently i need a substitute protein of some kind other than soy. because soy? i've never been so bloated and gassy. ever. ugh. so please blog more about what you're doing. that will help me. hanging out with you will help me too. but you know, baby steps.
that mac and cheese recipe looks good. and expensive? that's a lot of ingredients.
you are an inspiration. though i don't think i will ever go as far as being gluten free. and i don't really have any food allergies or other medical reasons to cut gluten out my diet.
i'm just fat.
well, i've been trying to go pretty light on soy as well, but that's just because it has estrogen in it, and i don't want to be all infertile. beans are good for protein but you have to eat them with something else to make them a complete protein. so rice and beans. beans and nuts. (hummus has beans and nuts in it, and i LOVE hummus so i eat that all the time). quinoa is a plant that is a compete protein and it's also pretty delicious, and easy to cook. also, buckwheat and hempseed. if i do eat soy it's usually either fresh or dried edamame. veggie meat is terrible for you, super high in sodium, fattening, and causes all kinds of bloat. i used veggie meat at first to kind of help myself over super hungry parts of my day, but it pretty much all has gluten in it so i have an excuse to get rid of it.
ReplyDeletethe ingredients of the recipe were kind of pricey, but most of them will last to make that recipe at least ten times. i also find myself using the same ingredients over and over, so maybe more money at the start, but worth it in the end.
The multinodular non-toxic goiter can become toxic after RAI uptake scan or seafood eating. The thyroid scans if MNG is present are done with technetium instead of iodine
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