The other day I seen this post that caught my eye about a waitress
giving out about how people go to restaurants and say that they have a gluten
free allergy but they don’t there just on a gluten free diet and then it
blabbed on about how true coeliac’s cant eat in normal restaurants because of
cross contamination well to certain extent you cant go to some restaurants
where they just don’t do anything gluten free or make everything with flour but
most restaurants do.
When I was younger I was told I was to be put on a gluten free diet
because I was having symptoms of my belly swelling out and I had the usually
side effects of being a coeliac which are vomiting, stomach cramps, low iron
deficiency, fatigue your usual garbage and ye your probably reading that saying
oh my good god I’m a coeliac I have all of them or one or two of them. Don’t
stress your more than likely not a coeliac. So then because my number 1 Hun my
momma was and still is a coeliac I grew up getting used to eating the food I
had to because I didn’t know any different. I would have to bring in my own
chocolate muffins on a Friday because I couldn’t eat the ones in school and
then eventually the hospital told my mam when she gets to puberty take her of
the diet and see how things go and when that happened everything was fine. I
ate normal for about 4 years and I was grand. Then in fourth year I got a rash
called dermatitis herpepiformif and found out I should of never came off the
gluten free diet because once you’re a coeliac your always going to be one. It
sucked. Worst news I could of got ye I know being a coeliac is not as bad as
having diabetes 1 or 2 and I would know that because my brother has it or
having any other kind of disease because you cant exactly die from it. But
being a coeliac is so difficult.
Lets just say your cant eat anything nice no curry’s, or pizza, KFC
chicken or gravy, your more then welcome to have a burger without the bun but
what’s the point? You cant have crisps or biscuits, cereals or bread. Now I am
saying your not suppose to eat these things but when your surrounded with them
everyday all day its hard to stick to food you don’t exactly enjoy eating.
Because wheat makes everything nicer. So they make these gluten free foods and
they actually expect us to eat this garb. The pizza tastes like dry dough, the
bread use to taste like sick oh and its really small but Lidl made my toasties
so much nicer. Now it probably seems easier than it is but gluten is hidden
everywhere so you will become a label reader and then you get looked at for
that because people think your looking for the calories but no I’m just
wondering can I put this in my mouth without getting blisters. Then there’s
when you go to restaurants and you have to look at the menu before you sit down
or ask do they make there sauces with flour and when your on a first date you
don’t really want to be asking does there food suit your dietary needs.
When I tell people I’m a coeliac I always get what’s that? I explain and
there like ‘OMG can you die?’ ‘I wouldn’t be able to stick to that!’ 'why would you call it a disease when its a diet?' But then when I eat food that I’m not suppose
to eat in front of them and they give me abuse for it like your not suppose to
be eating that, don’t eat that, your going to get sick blah blah blah and then
I get why would you make yourself sick for or why would you eat that if you
know you could damage your Coline, or get bowel cancer, IBS, a rash,
depression, infertility, well maybe I should worry about that not you and if
you keep nagging me ill just eat more of it because it bothers you more than
me.
I will agree that saying all that does sound abit worrying and I could
be shorting my life by eating the foods I shouldn’t be eating but people just
don’t understand that being told not to eat these food or this could happen is
actually harder then wanting to be on the actually diet. Your crazy if you
chose this diet to loose weight because if I had my way I would be swimming in
pizza and currys and ye maybe I would be 20 stone and that’s not healthy but
sure at least id be eating the food I crave and not the food I’ve to look for
on that specific Isle.
Right now in 2014 being a coeliac is not pretty great its better than
when I was younger but not great and could be better, so unless you know what
its like don’t comment or judge. Put yourself in my shoes go on a gluten free
diet and see how you last because its harder than it looks. Coeliac is not a diet its a disease you just have to stick to a diet. Its for life which i have to live with.
Xoxo
CJ