Whatever next.....

I had my visit to the dietician on Wednesday which proved to be interesting.  I don't take milk due the effects it has on me as well as the gluten.  I am also trying to reduce the amount of bread I am eating as GF bread is unpalatable and falls to pieces when you try to butter it.  Not only that, whenever I eat bread I always feel hungry a hour or so later and end up grazing.  Not good at all and due to my other conditions I need to lose weight which is not easy on a GF diet no matter what the celebs think.  Bread and pasta are made from potato flour and starch and a small slice of bread has 99 calories in it.  When you take into account that a large slice of brown bread has 101 calories, that is very worrying.

The dietician has also asked that I keep off cheese for a few weeks to see if my symptoms get any better but anything can set me off.  On a GF diet, once my body is used to it, the symptoms should settle down but I am still having some days in a month when I can't keep off the loo.  She and I am worried about my calcium levels but luckily my good friend has told me that there is calcium in plenty of other foods besides dairy.  I also have a vitamin D deficiency but I take a suppliment for that.

So, I am restricted on what I can eat and everything needs to be cooked from fresh.  I am eating eggs for breakfast, boiled, scrambled, and now Spanish omellettes.  I did an omelette for breakfast this morning and, as it was so big, I saved half for lunch with a salad.  I am going to make fritatas and freeze portions, just to make life easy.

I am now being referred to the gastro dietician, who can liase directly with my specialist, which should be fun.  The specialist has informed me that there is nothing wrong with me and that I should eat lots of fruit and veg, which will give me more loo time.....but that's fine.......God help us..............