Diet

[Jax02]

I mainly go without food until one in the afternoon most days because my stomach feels heavy after eating anything, what do I need to eat if I have Hashimotos? Avoiding gluten is really hard because I have sandwiches at work.

Thanks

[Nanaedake]

Why do you need to eat sandwiches at work? I take my own lunch every day and never eat bread or gluten. I eat salad with tinned fish like tuna, salmon or sardines. Or I take soup in a flask and eat nuts and cheese. I take yoghurt with gluten free oats or granola and fruit for desert. You can buy gluten free coconut bars in Aldi's for desert. Is there a microwave at work? If so, you can take all your leftover food for lunches.

[Jax02 in reply to Nanaedake]

Thanks. It is because that's all the catering company at work offer that is filling enough. There is a microwave at work

[Nanaedake in reply to Jax02]

In that case you could cook lots of vegetables during the weekend and keep some of them back in the fridge for the week. I fill a pot with veg and sprinkle liberally with grated cheese and a dollop of butter and pop in the microwave at work. If you include sweet pototo with your veg it will be very filling.

[TSH110 in reply to Nanaedake]

Sounds fab but I have a thing about microwaves I am convinced food cooked in them gives me gut rot!

[Katherine123 in reply to TSH110]

TSH110 you are right! Microwaving your food takes all the B12 and all the other vitamins and minerals out of the food. You are actually eating 'dead food'. We must not do that as we need all the nutrition we can get :0/

[bantam12 in reply to Katherine123]

Microwaving food correctly actually retains far more nutrients than other cooking methods.

[Katherine123 in reply to bantam12]

I do disagree with you bantam12...we are each entitled to how we see our world :0) I know the jury is out on this one! and there are many arguments for the 'for and against' the main one being that boiling veg takes a lot of the nutrients out anyway. Make a lunch soup of yesterdays vegetable water so that you get a heap load of potassium that has leached into the water (but please don't microwave it). Vitamin B12 does not survive the microwave. Eating mostly raw would be the answer. I found it so strange when on occasions when I have had to resort to a chill cooked supermarket dish, on the side of the packets they say can be microwaved or oven baked. They only give the nutrient content of that food if oven baked, no nutrient content on the microwaved.

[TSH110 in reply to Katherine123]

Gosh I didn’t know that. I just assumed the vibrating molecules that cause the cooking must affect me adversely

[Katherine123 in reply to TSH110]

I got rid of microwave 15 years ago darling, a period of adjustment and then all was ok :0)

[TSH110 in reply to Katherine123]

I’ve never had a microwave - I am highly suspicious of them!

[TSH110 in reply to Jax02]

Could they do you gluten free butties instead?

[Katherine123 in reply to Nanaedake]

Nanaedake I am not sure if you know if you microwave your food it takes all the B12 and all the other vitamins and minerals out of the food. You are actually eating 'dead food'. We must not do that as we need all the nutrition we can get :0/

[Nanaedake in reply to Katherine123]

Send me the link to the scientific study that evidences this. I'm interested. Www.harvard.health.edu. Seems to think otherwise.

[Katherine123 in reply to Nanaedake]

I am assuming you mean this link from harvard.heath.edu. Nanedrake health.harvard.edu/staying-... I did read but saw no scientific data to back up what they are saying. It is still the old food industries reasoning on it microwave versus boiling...The jury would be out! but I am going on it does destroy the molecular structure of food and nutrients, I would not use one. I think this would be better as a post on it's own rather than block up Jax02's post, don't you think?

[Nanaedake in reply to Katherine123]

feel free.

[TSH110]

I never eat until 1- 2pm and I feel fine I do a hard physical job starting at 7:30 I do have a drink c 10:30. I just follow my bodies inclination. I eat oat cakes (you can get gluten free ones) cheese apple and avocado (which is filling and full of nutrients) and there are lots of other things you could try instead of sarnies. Nanaedake has some good ideas 😉 I am really boring I like to eat exactly the same things every day at work! Some strange disorder perhaps, but it keeps things simple 🙄. It might be a bit more effort (not much in my case chuck it all in a paper bag and go!) but it is worth a try. If you are disinclined to eat till 1 I would not worry about it as long as you feel ok. It allows your body a good rest from food and digesting food so it can concentrate on repair.

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I really think you'll feel better if you ditch the gluten. It does mean more planning for meals, especially food on the go, but the benefits are worth it.

Also you could try a good probiotic ( I use Solgar's) I noticed a big improvement straight away. All the bloatedness has gone.

[SilverAvocado]

No one says going gluten free is easy. It can be quite a bit of work at first, especially if you were eating it a lot. For some it means learning to cook or other new skills.

Sounds like for you it means switching from a canteen lunch to making and bringing in your own, which can be a big change in routine. Another thing you could try, if there are other options in the canteen, is to just bring a substantial snack to supplement?

[Katherine123]

Jax02 I was like you. Did not eat until 1pm survived on 2 or 3 cups of tea with a heaped sugar in each. I always said I felt ok until I started eating. Turned out I had low morning blood sugars, celiac, and very low morning cortisol, adrenal problems, the works! Eating requires energy to be diverted to the stomach, so I would feel awful after eating as my energy systems were pretty low. I bet you feel much better after 6pm at night and feel nearly normal and normal energy up to 1am in the morning.

[TSH110 in reply to Katherine123]

I feel best am, I am ok pm - bit sluggish after eating but by evening time can fall asleep at the drop of a hat often on the sofa. The only way to stop it is to go up to my allotment after work and do more physical work and avoid food 🙄. It’s crazy.

[Katherine123 in reply to TSH110]

Are your insulin levels ok TSH110

[TSH110 in reply to Katherine123]

Recents rest showed them to be fine but I do wonder...

[cazlooks]

Don't miss breakfast, you will end up with more problems than you started with. Try starting the day with a glass of water just as you get out of bed. Then why not try the 'Raw till 4' diet, where you have fruit or veg, raw, until 4pm, when you can have a lovely big snack to keep you going until your late big dinner.

Although, there's really no excuse for not making your own sandwiches at home with gluten free bread, ASDA has the best selection.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

M&S do fantastic brown seeded GF bread or GF thins

It's just getting used to a new way of life.

Avoiding cross contamination important too, separate toaster, don't share butter, jam etc

[Cooper27]

I quite like the microwave rice packs you get, supermarket own brand costs about 60p a sachet. you could always take one of those to have on the side of whatever the catering company is offering? My work colleague eats half a sachet of rice with a tin of tuna each day, I would tend to eat a whole sachet with some veggies or maybe some cooked chicken - I buy frozen, so you take out just as much as you need and don't need to worry about dates, it defrosts just in time for lunch.

It could be worth reading more into whether microwaves affect your foods nutrient content, read both sides of the argument to satisfy yourself.

[laura-mac]

If you are trying to avoid gluten in your diet and still prefer to take sandwiches to work you can but gluten free bread and gluten free wraps if that is of any help. Most supermarkets should have them in their free from section.