What is the best foods to eat to loose weight??

[tjs1008]

I want to loose weight, but am not sure which gluten free products are the best. I'm having a reaction to something just now as really bloated, but can't figure out what!! Help please!! xx

[KarenBC]

For many people being just GF isn't enough and GF products aren't always tolerated. After two years of struggling and lots of research on the net, I realised, like so many others, that I only got better on a grain-free diet rather than just a gluten-free diet which means to corn/maize, soya, rice... Yes its a bit complicated to start with but I am making bread as we speak! But tiredness has gone as has the bloating, swelling etc!

As for dieting, same rule as for any diet really. G-F products all have varying amounts of sugar and fat, some quite high so fresh fruit and veg, lean meat, lentils....

Good luck

[tjs1008 in reply to KarenBC]

Thank you.

I really think it's the Genius bread, but not sure. How are you making bread without cereals? Or it that a silly question??

[KarenBC in reply to tjs1008]

The bread I have just made is with quinoa, buckwheat, potato and tapioca flour. It's 'tastier' than normal bread but great warm. Not sure there'll be any left tonight!

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Hi tjs, as Karen says not all coeliac get on with some gf products and I'd start by eliminationg codex wheat and oats and breakfast cereals that are malted regardless of whether they are below 20ppm. Lots of coeliac have issues with corn and soy and I wonder if this is because these 2 grains have been GM modified.

Quinoa is an amazing food for coeliac and if you want to diet, because quinoa contains ALL the base 23 amino acids that our bodies require to function and I see quinoa as a super food.

What I think is a good idea for coeliac who have ongoing issues like bloating etc is to keep a food diary and even consider an elimination diet and then introduce new foods one at a time. I have big problems with fatty foods and they act like a laxative on me regardless of whether they are gf. I have found that palm oil has the most dramatic effect on me, it's a saturated fat so I'm happy to leave it out of my diet.

Good luck and let us knoiw how you get on as this subject comes up time and time again so could help others.

[Liana]

You can make it very simple to eat gluten free, if you wish. Focus your diet on lean, unprocessed animal meats, poultry, fish, seafood, eggs, hard white cheeses, all vegetables, fruits and nuts. Stay away from anything processed.

[tjs1008 in reply to Liana]

Thank you!! xx

[FionaGFG Administrator]

tjs1008

Genius bread has a high fibre content & can make some coeliacs bloat. Also look at sugar content on yr processed GF foods. Artificial sweetners e.g. mannitol, aspartame, sorbitol drive my stomach nuts and make me look like a beached whale. Start a food diary and see if you can pinpoint what it is.

[tjs1008 in reply to FionaGFG]

Think you hit the nail on the head, I have been eating Genius bread for lunch everyday!!

I may have had 4 slices of toast on Saturday (breakfast and lunch!!) and then had pizza on Sunday!! Seriously looked as though I was 5 months pregnant yesterday!! Not nice!!

Thank you for the advice. My food diary starts tomorrow!! xx

[LolaBlogger]

The losing weight and the bloating seem to be two separate issues. There are lots of hints about bloating in the answers so far, but in terms of losing weight, the advice is the same for someone on a GF diet as for anyone else: try to adjust your lifestyle/habits so that you move around more, and consume fewer calories.

Maybe try and cut down on the fat and sugar content of your food (look at food labels on products you buy), and increase the amount of fruit and vegetables that you eat? This should mean you can eat the same amount (and so not get hungry) but end up taking fewer calories on board.

Having said all this, different people find different ways to lose weight, and you may need to work out what suits you. If it were easy, then we'd all be at our ideal weight!

[lamcg in reply to LolaBlogger]

I've just discoverd this group via the tyroid group! I have Coeliac, & hypothyroid-following pasrtial thyroidectamy many years ago, & more recently menopause. I too struggle with my weight-but for me, it's difficult to know whether it's a thyroid , or coeliac issue! i do thinkf the advice you get from your GP is a bit hit & miss. i feel so well now my diet is undr control, I wonder if I shoud just be grateful, 7 put up with being overweight_i don't like it, but it's very diffcult to shift!

[Jacks]

I'm really amazed here as in real life I haven't met a coeliac who doesn't look starved and gaunt. I thought I looked bad enough until I went to my (first and last) local meeting - it seemed to depict a depressing prospect. I think if you have "issues" about weight then in a coeliac world that must be a good sign - it might mean there is healing taking place, and you are absorbing your food, ie. no malnutrition.

Last year I met a girl in Holland & Barratt who had a basket full of free-from biscuits, cake, bread, pasta, puddings. When I picked up an item to read the label she spoke to me telling me that she had to eat all this new gf food. She no longer ate what the family ate. The dietitian had showed her packets and boxes of her new foods and that was now all she ate. (Funnily enough, this was my experience with the dietitian too.) There's a lot of pressure to eat these foods which would definitely help you put weight on if you needed to! They are very calorific.

[tjs1008 in reply to Jacks]

I discovered I had coeliac disease when I stopped breast feeding my son and decided to shift to a "healthier" diet - you know brown bread, bran flakes etc!! Was then having issues and the dr advised blood tests which came back positive for coeliacs, but still had to wait for an endoscopy. At the point that the dr phoned to rush it through I lost 6 lbs in a week!! Got diagnosed, changed diet and all came ok!! Then I fell pregnant again and yes I'm glad that there is some healing going on, but that baby is now 3 and the baby fat is showing NO sign of shifting - lol.

Am going to keep a food diary though and try to eat healthy and possibly get off my bum and excercise a bit more hee hee. xx

[Jacks in reply to tjs1008]

I think you are healing as you got pregnant again. Sadly it isn't the case for a lot of coeliacs who don't know this 'till later in life.

As for the baby fat - my neighbour is in the same boat but I think it is due to her love of all things carbohydrate and as she isn't coeliac she has no limits! Good luck with the exercise.

[meanioni in reply to Jacks]

One of the side effects of coeliac - being starved and gaunt definitely does not apply to me. I am and always have been chubbly. Don't eat dodgy stuff or too much either.

My friend who is a biologist says its partly genetic (as my family are all round little Irish gnomes) and lack of exercise (too much of a desk job).

My doctor occasionally remarks about my weight - last time I went for the throat and remind them just how complex my diet is - coeliac, dairy intolerant, high triglycerides and low in purines. She admitted that maybe it was quite complex and referred me to a dietician who analysed my food diary and said I was doing a good job and could not come up with any suggestions. So I guess I am stuck being "cuddly"