Discover the shocking reason behind giving up gluten after receiving my allergy test results. Find out more about my journey here.
Uncovering the Unexpected Culprit: My Allergy Test Results Revealed Gluten as the Surprising Reason
My childhood experiences led me to discover a gluten sensitivity that was causing various health issues for me. Through an elimination diet and avoiding gluten, I was able to identify the problem and make significant changes to my diet and lifestyle. I learned that the quality of the food we consume truly matters when it comes to our health.
By paying attention to my symptoms, doing allergy tests, and being mindful of what I was eating, I was able to make informed choices that greatly improved my well-being. This journey taught me the importance of listening to my body and making the necessary adjustments to live a healthier and happier life.
Unveiling the Shocking Truth Behind My Gluten-Free Journey: My Allergy Test Revelation
I had a slice and I was in so much pain I remember thinking to myself this is not normal like there’s something wrong there’s something I ate hey guys welcome back to my channel I’m Mayra from low carb love so for those of you that don’t know I’ve lost over 100 lounds I’ve been maintaining my weight for over 15 years and today I wanted to talk to you about gluten and why I can never eat gluten again now this kind of goes way back to before I lost my weight I grew up eating a lot of processed junk and so ultimately I ended up obviously probably really messing up my metabolism but fast forward to about 3 years ago I kind of wanted to just um incorporate that because I wanted you to know my backstory in case you haven’t been here so I do have that whole backstory and then over the last like 15 years I’ve been eating really good and for the most.
Part I eat very clean and low carb and I even then even then even while um just really watching what I eat I started developing a lot of stomach issues like I would get super bloated after I ate I would get just like stomach pains constipation like just dealing with a lot of just discomfort and I typically noticed it a lot after I had bread especially after I had like a really processed bread like pizza even just like I remember one time I suffered so much after having a slice one slice of like those box pizzas I had a slice and I was in so much pain I remember thinking to myself this is not normal like there’s something wrong there’s something I ate that is literally causing my stomach to feel horrible and so it just kind of stayed um in the back of my mind where I’m like okay Myra you need to get you need to get a test like there is something wrong like you should.
Not be feeling this way after you eat anything and so little by little I just started noticing that it was every time I had kind of like a cheat meal because I’ve been low carb for many many years and so my cheats were always like I wanted and it’s not like I would just indulge in binge but even if I just had a few bites of like a dut or if I had like a half a donut or if I had like a few bites of a funnel cake or if I had like a bite or two of like a croissant I ate something like every time I had a cheat I would feel sick and so then I started really paying close attention I was like okay it’s every time I have bread it’s every time I have like anything that’s like really Cary and so I thought maybe it’s just carbs like my body just doesn’t like carbs anymore but it that didn’t happen when I had rice it didn’t happen if I had potatoes I kind of did did a um Elimination.
Diet right throughout the process and it came down to being again just Breads and so I finally went to go get a allergy test and sure enough when I got my results it just showed that I was highly reactive to wheat now wheat is in everything okay we is in cookies crackers breads Pizza like everything and so a lot of times that’s one of the reasons why I would feel sick like every time I ate outside of like my Norm like outside of my food because all my stuff would never give me a stomach ache so anyway I get these results and I’m like okay so this is it it’s wheat I’m super highly reactive to wheat and so what that means is basically like my body when I consume wheat it sees it as like something dangerous like I’m putting something something dangerous into my body and so it reacts so I’ve been dealing with a lot of like allergies for years um I get really.
Bloated inflammation like even at one point about 2 years ago I started getting like patches like these like I don’t know was kind of like blotchy patches on my skin where I started getting scared I was like what in the world is going on and so a lot of times our bodies like literally these are like warning signs like no I’m not okay with what you’re doing so you know that’s why um a lot of times you notice things like getting bloated like um getting inflammation sometimes you’ll get like acne you’ll get um you’ll just start to gain weight I mean there’s just so many things a lot of people suffer even with like headaches I mean like our bodies are not meant to live that way like that’s not normal so if that’s something that you’re experiencing then uh you definitely want to just kind of pay attention to that listen to your body because there’s probably something.
That you’re consuming that might be dead just not agreeing with you and it doesn’t mean that you’re allergic to it you might just be sensitive to that but there’s no way of really finding out until you actually take a test um like I self diagnosed myself as Gluten Sensitive and then once I got that back I was like I was right yeah another thing that I wanted to mention I have my little notes just because I didn’t want to go too much like off on a tangent but the quality of what you eat also makes a big difference so two summers ago I went to Europe and in Europe their standards of food are like a lot higher and so their their wheat out there is not as processed as ours is here so our wheat here is like highly highly processed and so while I was out there I literally had the time of my life I was able to like try pizza and like fasia and like everything.
Out there because my body was not reactive to it so all all of that to say that sometimes if you’re experiencing any of these issues as well um sometimes you can try making things at home so I also just found out that some people are not a reactive to sourdough like a homemade high quality sourdough I haven’t tried it yet I really really want to because like I totally Miss like a crunchy bread with like butter and not that I have that all that time all the time or like that I would but once in a while it would be great to be able to enjoy something like that without having like a huge stomach ache so just in case if you’re unsure of like whether or not you’re you might be sensitive to gluten what I personally feel when I have it is I feel like if I got a balloon and like put it in my stomach and then like blew it up and it just feels like.
Pressure and it feels like so uncomfortable and it just makes it not worth it so a lot of people are like oh my God my like what do you eat when you when you cheat and I’m just kind of like well like I can’t have some of my favorite foods because they just make me feel really bad like they just make me feel sick anyway I kind of wanted to talk to you about this just because gluten is in so many different things and I feel like a lot of us go through life like you just kind of live with pain like whether it be like always getting blown or always just feeling like discomfort after you eat or feeling like really gassy or again like even going to the extremes of like always getting headaches a lot of times it could just be something that you’re consuming that you have absolutely no clue that you’re sensitive to like it could be anything from.
The meats like chicken like I’ve literally seen everything like you could literally be highly reactive to something crazy like like peanut butter and you put that in your smoothie every morning and your smoothie is super healthy but you like have no clue that it’s peanut butter that you’re highly reactive to so um I just kind of wanted to bring this to light because I have been suffering from allergies for so many years and I had no clue that it had to do with what I was consuming the allergies that I was dealing with were I was like sneezing every morning and really just getting like crazy sinus pressure had to do with dairy so yeah it’s like a whole long story but once I eliminated certain da and it’s not all Dairy it’s more like cream cheese and sour cream and like just milk once I stopped consuming those products my allergies literally.
Went away like a miracle all of that to say is that I was miserable with those allergies got rid of the dairy good I was dealing with a bunch of um stomach issues and then I got rid of the gluten and now I’m good so if you’re dealing with anything like that just know know that it might just so happen to be something that you’re you’re consuming every day and you just have no clue that you’re sensitive to it yeah so all in all I would say just always listen to your body just know that you’re not supposed to be living in pain and that if you are I would really just recommend for you to like go out and do some type of some type of allergy test or you could even start by doing like a little Elimination Diet those are really easy because you could just go on line and look up like highly reactive Foods there’s like a food map and then you could just kind of go based.
Off of that I thought about doing something like that like a little challenge where we could just all do it but um yeah it’s very restrictive and we would really really have to like commit to it so um I did it once a few years about 5 years ago I lost so much weight it it was actually crazy I lost like 18 lbs I felt my absolute best had the most energy but it is so restrictive so if you’re interested let me know I’m totally down to kind of go over everything and then I can maybe plan a challenge I’ve never done a challenge on here so if you’re down to do a challenge with me let me know but I hope that overall this was really um helpful if you’re dealing with any type of like stomach issues or something like that hopefully you could just see that it’s not something that’s like normal and um maybe just kind of look into it because at the end of the day we don’t want to.
Go through life feeling you know yucky and having like tummy issues um if you know anyone that does share this video with them maybe it would be really really helpful don’t forget to turn that little bell hit that little bell notification so that you’re reminded every time I post a video but thank you guys so much for being here I love you and I’ll see you on the next one m
