7. I Can't Eat Anything Gluten Free You and Me

💁🏼‍♀️Have you ever had the thought, I just can’t eat anything!? I sure did after being newly diagnosed, specifically after my first trip to the grocery store. Literally, I wandered helplessly for  3 1/2 hours checking package by package, isle by isle to on leave with 2 items in my cart. I thought I was prepared… I looked on Pinterest before heading their and I even had downloaded an app to help scan items… but to my frustration and despair I could not get any kind of reception at the store… so there I was… trying to understand how to read a label, not even understanding the overfilled gibberish list of ingredients I found on the packages… I have shared before that I went home sobbing, feeling so lost… and telling myself and believing the words ‘I can’t eat anything.
 
✨Today I want to share with you how I have come to squash that belief… and for those of you who have been gluten free for a while now… I will be sharing some inside secrets to help you step up your gluten free game as well!
🌺I thought it would be fun to share one of my favorite podcast reviews each week. So lets start today… and the person’s review that I read wins our Ultimate Gluten Free Guide with over 125 safe and better choice brands and products 
Podcast Review of the Week: 
New to celiac
I was diagnosed 2 weeks ago with celiac disease. I’ve looked high and low for help, and I found medical advice but I really needed the kinda of advice that a best friend would tell you and this is how this podcast feels.
I know this podcast is super new, but I can’t wait to hear more.
 
Thank you @kmgolightly… I am so grateful that you are loving the podcast so much and I have to be honest, I get so excited every Tuesday for the podcast to air. Like I get giddy inside… knowing that I am sharing my best and favorite tips with you each week. As my hope and prayer is to help you be your best gluten free self and of course to raise more awareness with the world!
 
So… Congratulations @kmgolightly You just won the Ultimate Gluten Free Guide With over 125 better choice brands and products that not only are celiac safe but are Karalynne approved with Just.Ingredients… This guide is seriously gold… Please just email me at Coral@servingceliacs.com to claim your prize!!
 
Let’s dive in to the nitty gritty of todays episode… now this topic of I can’t eat anything has been one that I have worked on and would like to squash this belief for you too. 
 
Last year my sister in law and brother were did the Whole 30 diet. (which I have sense done and completely loved it and really would recommend it to anyone) but back to their journey… I wasn’t too familiar with the whole30 diet so I asked my sister in law so many questions… I asked her ‘ so what is the whole30?’ Now she is a very optimistic person and is one that I often lean on for strength and positivity… but in answering this question, she began to tell me ALL of the things she couldn’t eat. And let me tell you the list was long. It is interesting… because when she told me she was doing the diet, she was excited and hopeful that it would help her with several health issues. But when I asked her details, her tone changed and she seemed more helpless than anything. After listening to her for about 5 minutes try to remember all that she couldn’t consume, I stopped her… and I said wait a minute… I don’t really want to hear all that you can’t have… tell me what you can have… her entire demeanor changed and she happily told me all the foods she can eat… and then just then it was like a light bulb a-ha moment for me… with gluten free and celiac living, how often do we dwell on what we can not have versus truly the infinite number of foods we can have. 
 
 
Moral of the story… Focus on what you can eat... holy smokes there are tons of things... almost too many things...
 
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