Ally's gluten free/semi lactose free SW diary

Ok, because i'm now having to adapt SW to being gluten free, I decided to start a fresh diary, start over.

Ok for anyone who doesn't already know me. I've been on slimming world since end of 2009, currently lost 6 stone 6.5lb battling again my own body which suffers from PCOS making it oh so hard to lose weight. My target weight is only 9.5lb away.

In late decemeber i was off work ill with sever stomach pains which went away...after 2 weeks they returned, I have been off sick from work since 3rd January, admitted to hospital mid january with suspected appendicitis, turned out it wasn't. Weeks came and past, test after test came back negative for anything. I was referred to a consultant see if he could find out what it was. In june i finally figured for myself that when i ate ice cream i was worse, so i cut lactose, the pain eased but was still there. The consultant suggested i be tested for coeliac (for some reason the dr hadn't tested me for it even though they were suspecting ibs (despite any of the usual meds for ibs not helping at all)), so after the test i cut gluten and have been mostly pain free since. But my coeliac test came back negative. However doesnt mean I havent got it.

I was suppose to return to work beginning of july but because of bad panic attacks when i thought about going back, i was put off again and referrred for CBT (which i still don't have an apointment for), although i have now figured the trigger for myself and working on it. Basically i am a web developer by trade, made redundant last august, but my new job uses a different programming language than i know and because i was getting stressed about it before being ill, thinking about going there again made me panic, so now i'm building my own website at home based around coeliac, so it will help in more ways than one, using what i'd use at work. And i think thats working, when i started i could feel the fear at writing the language, but now i don't feel as panicky thinking about it, so hopefully my method is working.

So anyway, i do have 2 old diarys on her but since i'm now gluten free i thought i'd start a new one, i have semi stuck to SW since cutting gluten/lactose, but only last few weeks i have done it properly as was struggling with all the changes.

So lets start here

Tuesday 29th - Red

Breakfast- 30g Doves Chocolate Stars (Hexb) with light soya milk (from Hexa), banana
Lunch - Egg and cheese tarts (30g lactofree cheese hexa) with babylead salad, banana
Tea - Chilli and herb burger (using 2 slices Marks Without Wheat White bread as HExb + 2 syns) with salad, mango and strawberries

Snacks -Caramel Highlights (2 syns), Nectarine, Apple, Sula Butterscotch sugar free sweet (0.5 syns), Mini bag haribo gold bears (3 syns)



Wednesday 30th - EE

Breakfast - 10g Buckwheat puffs (2 syns) with light soya milk (from HExa), banana
Lunch - Prawn cocktail wrap (bfree wrap Hexb), strawberries, pineapple and apple
Tea - Prawn fried rice, melon, strawberries and pineapple

Snacks - 6 Mini strawberry rice cakes (2 syns), Nectarine, Mrs Crimble gluten free peanut cookie (5 syns), 2x plums, peach, banana, Mini Twister (2 syns), 7/8th (jamies had a bite!) Prewetts guten free chocolate digestive (2 syns)


Thursday 31st - EE 0 day out in whiby - flexi to 50 syns

Breakfast: 20g Doves Chocolate Stars (Hexb) with light soya milk (from HExa), 2x plums
Lunch: Small Gluten free fish and 1/2 portion chips (20 syns)
Tea: Pear, plum, Gluten free chocolate digestive (2.5 syns)

Snacks: 140g mint fudge (19 syns), Gluten Free Chocolate cake (6 syns), Banana, Peach, Mrs Crimbles gluten free peanut cookie (5 syns)

Like the new diary hun.

I see you only have 1 WI to hols where are you off to?

Only down to weymouth, nowhere fancy

Friday 1st - Extra Easy

Breakfast: 40g Doves chocolate stars (30g HExb + 2 syns) with light soya milk (from half hexa), banana
Lunch: Cheesy (15g lactofree cheese as half hexa) scrambled egg and bacon, strawberries and mango
Tea: Prawns, green beans, peaches and pasta with 1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce (1.5 syns), strawberries and melon, mini twister (2 syns)

Snacks: Banana, Prewetts gluten free chocolate digestive (2.5 syns), 1/2 Marks without wheat coconut maccaroon (3.5 syns), pear, 3 mini banana rice cakes (1 syn), peach

Saturday 2nd - Green

Breakfast: 30g cocoa rice (Hexb) with light soya milk (from hexa), pear
Lunch: (30g lactofree cheese and spinach in quinoa, prewetts gluten free chocolate digestive (2.5 syns)
Tea: Chinese style omelette, mini twister (2 syns), pear, peach

Snacks: 2x peaches, 2x plums, 3x mini raspberry and blueberry rice cakes (1 syn), banana, pear, mesa sunrise cereal (hexb) with soya milk (from hexa)

Been stuggling a little with loss of appetite/a bit of depression last few days unsure as to why though, still been on plan though

Sunday 3rd - Red
Breakfast: Mesa sunrise (HExb) with coconut milk from (from hexa ), banana
Lunch: Scrambled egg and bacon, pineapple melon and mango
Tea: Cocoa Rice (Hexb) with coconut milk (from hexa)

Snacksear, 1/2 marks without wheat coconut macaroon (3.5 syns), peach, plum, glass coconut milk (from hexa)

Monday 4th - Red (was suppose to be EE originally)
Breakfast: 2x bacon ciabattas (2x ds ciabattas as 2x hexb)
Lunch: 2x plums
Tea: Tuna pasta (only ate a little so 4 syns for the pasta, 1 syn for sweetcorn, 1 syn sweet chilli sauce)

Snacks: Banana x2, asda fruit platter, 2x organix raspberry blueberry rice cakes (1.5 syns), glass coconut milk (hexa)

Weighed in today instead of yesterday as i was at Jamies, lost 1.5lb which puts me at me my 11 stone target for holidays

Tuesday 5th
Breakfast: mesa sunrise (Hexb) with soya milk (from hexa), melon slices
Lunch: 2x ham and lactofree cheese (hexa) on DS ciabattas (1 hexb and 5.5 syns for other), strawberries
Tea: none as was home late

Snacks: 3x nectarines, 2x prewetts chocolate digestives (5 syns), 1 mrs cimbles peanut cookie (5 syns)

Well done on the loss hun and the healthy BMI

Been a while since I was on, was on holiday for 2 weeks, then ended up off plan another week for one reason or another, weighed in a day late as was at Jamies on tuesday, so weigh in wednesday saw me gain 8lb after the 3 weeks off (well atfer the 2 weeks, maintained this week really), back on plan now though

Weds 3rd Sept - Red

Breakfast: Vine Fruit Muesli (HexB) with soya milk (from HExa), apple
Lunch:Ham Sandwich (2 syns soya spread, HExb for bread), vanilla soya dessert (5.5 syns)
Tea: Sausages (2 syns), egg and bacon with ketchup (0.5 syns), apple
Snacks: Banana, melon pineapple and strawberies, pear, choc shot (2 syns) hot choc made with soya milk


Will post todays log tomorrow.

Thurs 4th Spet - Red

Breakfast - Homemade Buckwheat pancakes (4.5 syns for two) with golden syrup (1 tsp, 1 syn)
Lunch - 1/2 pack sainsburys sweet chilli chicken (0.5 syns) sandwich (HExb bread, 2 syns soya spread), 1/2 moo free mint choc bar (3.5 syns)
Tea - Cod flan (soya milk from HexA and 45g lactose free philly from otehr HExa), strawberrie, sainsburys free from country cake slice (6 syns)
Snacks - pear, 2x nectarine, fig

I'm back again. Was kinda on plan last week then fell off again. Gained 13lb after hols and weekend in london, lost 1lb this week, hopefully back on plan properly now, start new job tomorrow too.

Breakfast: 30g gluten free cornflakes with soya milk (HExB with part of HExA)
Lunch: Tuna mayo jacket potato (5 syns for mayo)
Tea: Bacon, egg and mushrooms
Snacks: Banana, apple, 2x homemade choc truffles (5 syns), 2.5 homemade gluten free pumpkin cakes (11.5 syns)

Will make up the syns in the week

Your story sounds so familiar to me, I am now gluten free (again). My pain started last July and I am still undiagnosed. I have had so many horrendous tests and drunk so much salt solution! At present i am gluten free again whilst waiting to see my consultant. So many timesIi have been ready to say stop, no more tests but I figure they wouldn't waste their time and money doing all theses tests if they didn't think they were necessary but its so hard to go back to eating gluten for each test to enable an accurate result. Hopefully I'm at the end of that particular journey with the result that I am NCGI non-coeliac gluten intolerance. Strange to develop such an intolerance at the age of 42.

After a year on and off the gluten I've put on a stone in the last year so decided its now or never to lose it once and for all.

Best of luck with your last few lbs.

Sam

The GP's have pretty much said to me that if not ezting gluten and dairy works than stay with it, and that it havent bothered testing further, I don't mind remaining undiagnosed though as long as it means the pains gone! I've been GF for four months and lactose free for the same and felt better after it but since going full dairy free a few weeks ago i feel even better, except for bouts of depression. Mine came on pretty suddenly too, until i realised stress can trigger it!

Tuesday 1st october - Red Day

Breakfast: 30g Nature Path Gluten free O's with soya milk (HExB and part a)
Lunch: Tuna mayo (0.5 syns tbsp extra light mayo) sandwich (HExB), apple, banana, 3/4 homemade gf pumpkin cake (3.5 syns)
Tea: Chicken stirfry, pear, homemade gf pumpkin cake (4.5 syns)
Snacks: Moo Free mint bar (6.5 syns), Sea brooks crisps (6.5 syns)

Hope return to work goes/went well. And get the Vit B under yr tongue to help the depression hun.