Find out what NOT to eat with Gluten Intolerance! Be sure to grab the PDF list of Foods to Avoid. Don't suffer with bloating, burping and stomach pain from gluten intolerance anymore.
When you have gluten intolerance, it's hard to know what the HECK to eat.
You started giving up gluten but let's be honest: it's probably the hardest thing you've ever had to do (harder than quitting smoking).
You LOVE pasta and bread and crackers and well....
You get the idea.
You've had some success in reducing your symptoms, but let's face it: who can live on chicken, eggs, vegetables and nuts?!
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You need a list of foods to avoid so you can cut gluten out for good.
Because even if you're not 100% sure that gluten is causing all your issues, cutting out foods with gluten will help you feel better.
✅Grab this PDF List of Foods to Cut Out
🙋♀️What is Gluten Intolerance?
So definitely grab the cheat sheet list of gluten-containing foods, k?
And since you're here, let's learn a little more about gluten intolerance.
Gluten Intolerance is one of three gluten-related disorders.
The 3 Gluten Related Disorders are:
- Celiac Disease
- Wheat Allergy
- and Gluten Intolerance or Gluten Sensitivity
Gluten intolerance causes symptoms in people after eating gluten who do NOT have celiac disease or wheat allergy.
So what are the symptoms of gluten sensitivity?
Wonder if gluten is causing all your issues?
✅Grab the checklist of gluten intolerance symptoms!
A lot of signs and symptoms have been reported in studies done on gluten intolerance.
Some of the gluten intolerance symptoms are:
- Abdominal pain
- Bloating
- Diarrhea
- GERD (Gastric Esophageal Reflux Disease) or reflux
- Nausea
- Constipation
- Extra-intestinal manifestations such as canker sores and chronic skin conditions like, dermatitis herpetiformis
- Ataxia
- Inability to concentrate on work
- Inability to memorize various things
- Brain fog
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Fatigue
For me, I had extreme reflux or GERD that kept getting worse and worse over the years.
It got so bad, I was taking a prescription medication for reflux and stomach ulcers!
(Which, endoscopy showed, I did not have.)
For more on Gluten Intolerance check out: What is Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity?
🤦♂️How do you know if you have Gluten Intolerance?
There's a few different ways to figure out if you have gluten intolerance.
But know this: there's no definitive test for gluten intolerance or easy biomarker or simple screening test.
Which really SUCKS for us that have issues with gluten, because it makes it harder to figure out what's going on.
But I do hope that one day soon, we'll be able to easily test for gluten intolerance.
Until then, here's some ways you can try and figure out if gluten is causing you issues.
1. Get a stomach biopsy - when you have symptoms like bloating, heartburn and nausea (among others) it's a good idea to talk to your trusted healthcare provider.
If you're like me, you want relief from years of feeling so freakin' sick.
For me, I finally got an endoscopy - aka a scope of the inside of my stomach, including a biopsy of the lining of my stomach.
When the surgeon called me, he said my biopsy revealed inflammation of the stomach lining likely caused by non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
2. Go Gluten-Free first
But what if you don't want to wait for a biopsy or an endoscopy appointment?What can you do now to feel better from the effects of gluten?
In this case, you can try a "gluten challenge". This basically means you'd start a gluten-free diet and then see if you feel better.
After 2 weeks of going gluten-free, you would then start eating gluten again and see if your symptoms return.
If your symptoms come back, then this is referred to as "diagnosis via treatment": you were treated with a gluten-free diet and you got better.
Then you pretty much safely assume that there's something about gluten that's causing you problems.
For me, I was very wishy-washy with my gluten-free diet for a long time.
And because of that, I couldn't tell if going gluten free was helping!
So whether you've been told my your trusted healthcare provider to avoid gluten or you want to try it out for yourself, you're in the right place.
Let's go over what not to eat when you're going gluten free.
🚫What Not to Eat with Gluten Intolerance
The easiest way to stick with a gluten-free lifestyle for gluten intolerance is to start with the major gluten offenders.
So that means, any food or food products that made from wheat, barely or rye.
Grab this cheat sheet of foods to avoid when you have gluten intolerance and make sure you cut them out ASAP.
Here's a list of the foods to cut out for gluten intolerance:
- For oats, buy gluten-free (regular oats can contain wheat from cross contamination in the field they’re grown in)
- Bagels
- Bread
- Cake
- Cereals
- Cookies
- Crackers
- Muffins
- Pancakes
- Pasta
- Tortillas
- Waffles
✅What to Eat with Gluten Intolerance
After cutting out the foods that are major sources of gluten, you'll have to replace them with healthy alternatives!
Not only that, you need to learn new ways of:
- Cooking
- Planning meals
- Snacking
- Eating out
- Reading labels on food packages
It can feel overwhelming at first when you go gluten-free (I certainly thought so).
If you now want to know what you SHOULD eat with gluten intolerance, check out my gluten-free diet plan (PDF) for beginners so you can start eating gluten-free right away.
This Gluten-Free Diet Plan (PDF) for Beginners is a fantastic blueprint for you to follow as you adjust to the gluten-free way of life
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I can't wait to connect with you along the way!
You've totally got this🙋♀️
~April
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