{"id":37705,"date":"2013-04-17T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=37705"},"modified":"2013-04-12T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T22:42:09","slug":"mourning-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=37705","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of you read, I did a gluten-free and dairy-free challenge in February<\/a>. If you’re a new reader, I did it because I wanted to see if I had any food\u00a0sensitivities\u00a0or allergies. My mom had done something similar and found that she lost 14 pounds, her sinus issues cleared up and she didn’t crave sugar. I also heard from other people that going dairy-free cleared up their skin. All of those things sounded good to me! Unfortunately that didn’t happen for me. I lost an inch and 2 pounds but my sinuses and acne didn’t clear up. I realized that I didn’t need to go dairy or gluten-free.<\/p>\n

One thing that did happen was that my boyfriend Michael discovered he had a sensitivity to gluten. He’s now trying to be gluten-free because he saw such a difference. I had no idea that this little experiment would end up changing our lives.<\/p>\n

While Michael is doing the gluten-free thing, I’m not really doing. I found that not<\/strong> feeling restricted made it easy to abstain from gluten. I can eat it IF I WANT TO–but most of the time I skip it.<\/p>\n

That being said, there have been a few times where I kind of felt sad that Michael’s diet was so restrictive now. It’s not like we ate pasta<\/a> all that often but suddenly realizing that we COULDN’T eat it together made me pause and think “oh.” Oh<\/strong>. Disappointing<\/strong>. Sure, there are alternatives and gluten-free products we can try but…it’s just not the same.<\/p>\n

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And it’s not like I did a whole lot of baking but as soon as I realized Michael wouldn’t be able to eat anything I made, I suddenly wished I could bake! I tried some gluten-free recipes<\/a> but they really aren’t the same. The results ranged from “just ok” to “this is pretty good as an alternative” to “how are these brownies both raw and burned?”<\/p>\n

I realized that I was going through something I had gone through before. When I first started losing weight<\/a> and was using calorie counting to achieve that, I had to stop eating a lot of things that I used to love. They were just too high in calories for me and I knew I wouldn’t lose the weight<\/a> if I kept eating them. For example: the decadent white chocolate mochas with caramel syrup and whipped cream on top. That was my coffee drink every day<\/a>. I was consuming around 500 calories in a drink! Absurd! When I realized that I immediately made the switch to black coffee with flavored creamer. It was around 100 calories and satisfied my coffee craving (to a point). Of course I missed those desserts I called coffee.<\/p>\n

Speaking of beverages…Michael’s dietary change also includes BEER! He’s been trying the various gluten-free beers that are out there and Omission is actually pretty decent. But it’s kind of a bummer that we can’t drink the same beer now. What happens when we go beer tasting? Or to the Brewfest<\/a>? I just don’t know. Yet.<\/p>\n

I went through a short period of mourning when I realized I\u00a0couldn’t<\/em> consume all the things I wanted to. I think it’s normal. It’s a mourning of your past, your old habits. Every once in awhile I feel a sense of longing for the days when I didn’t have to schedule a gym session into my day when I’d much rather go home, sit on the couch in my PJs and watch TV. I always feel better going to the gym, but still.<\/p>\n

I never really ate that often<\/a>Those feelings of longing don’t last. I don’t mourn the “bad” foods I don’t eat anymore because I don’t really miss them. And this pasta thing? Bizarre. Why would I miss something to begin with?<\/p>\n

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Am I alone in this?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

QUESTION: Has your significant other\/partner had a dietary change that effects you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many of you read, I did a gluten-free and dairy-free challenge in February. If you’re a new reader, I did it because I wanted to see if I had any food\u00a0sensitivities\u00a0or allergies. My mom had done something similar and found that she lost 14 pounds, her sinus issues cleared up and she didn’t crave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[311,6832,1193,84,104,6831,864],"tags":[376,2344,8617,6963,6879,6895,6965,6964,8674,6967,6968,6966,8795],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37705"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37906,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705\/revisions\/37906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}