Attitude is everything when it comes to celiac disease. https://glutendude.com/category/attitude/ Celiac Disease Advocate Wed, 08 Dec 2021 23:58:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://glutendude.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/favicon.png Attitude is everything when it comes to celiac disease. https://glutendude.com/category/attitude/ 32 32 Dude…I hate the bitter person I’m becoming https://glutendude.com/bitter-about-celiac-disease/ https://glutendude.com/bitter-about-celiac-disease/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:59:13 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=19852 It’s beyond frustrating when you’re doing the right thing, eating the right gluten-free foods, and you still can’t heal. This fellow celiac is two months in, hating life and considering throwing it all away and eating gluten. She needs to heal physically and psychologically. Listen in as I offer some words of wisdom. Well…wisdom may …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/bitter-about-celiac-disease/feed/ 6 Eating Out with Celiac? It’s ok NOT TO EAT. Really. https://glutendude.com/celiac-skipping-meals/ https://glutendude.com/celiac-skipping-meals/#comments Mon, 10 May 2021 14:28:09 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=19580 First of all, a belated Happy Celiac Awareness month. I do believe we’ve made progress in the past years of 1) getting our disease out in the open more; and 2) reducing the number of idiotic gluten-free jokes. I had a friend come visit me a few weeks ago and he said he recently saw …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/celiac-skipping-meals/feed/ 33 Celiac Disease: The Cycle from Hell https://glutendude.com/vicious-celiac-cycle/ https://glutendude.com/vicious-celiac-cycle/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:38:15 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=19538 Celiac is such a strange little disease. You can go stretches where you feel totally fine and you find yourself thinking that you’ve got it all figured out. You’re like “Finally!” But then you get hit by god knows what and you become a prime candidate for the “Miserable A**hole of the Month” Club. It’s …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/vicious-celiac-cycle/feed/ 14 Struggling with Celiac? 41 Ways to Live a Better Life. https://glutendude.com/the-best-celiac-advice-ever/ https://glutendude.com/the-best-celiac-advice-ever/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:02:42 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=16277 Just diagnosed with celiac and struggling with how to cope on your new journey? Eating gluten-free but still feeling like crap? Worried about what the future will bring? We’ve all been there. That’s the main reason I started this blog in 2011. Because I wasn’t feeling better. I wasn’t happy with my celiac life. I …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/the-best-celiac-advice-ever/feed/ 15 Can We Just Stop the Food Bullying?! https://glutendude.com/can-we-just-stop-the-food-bullying/ https://glutendude.com/can-we-just-stop-the-food-bullying/#comments Wed, 02 May 2018 13:42:03 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=17328 Dude note: The following article, written by yours truly, appears (slightly modified) in the latest edition of Simply Gluten-Free Magazine. It’s a good magazine run by good people. —— When I was in grade school, I was a prime target for bullies. I was small. I was extremely introverted. I had some nervous tics. And …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/can-we-just-stop-the-food-bullying/feed/ 23 Feeling Thankful https://glutendude.com/feeling-thankful/ https://glutendude.com/feeling-thankful/#comments Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:08:17 +0000 https://glutendude.com/?p=16339 Many studies have shown that being thankful leads to a happier life. And heck…who doesn’t want to be happier?? So I’ve recently started a new habit. Every day, I name three things I’m thankful for. Yes…they should be said out loud. No…they don’t all have to be deep. Just anything I’m grateful for. Looking around …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/feeling-thankful/feed/ 13 5 Steps to Enjoying Thanksgiving as a Celiac https://glutendude.com/5-steps-to-enjoying-thanksgiving-as-a-celiac/ https://glutendude.com/5-steps-to-enjoying-thanksgiving-as-a-celiac/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:18:53 +0000 http://glutendude.com/?p=15585 1. Don’t 2. Focus 3. On 4. The 5. Food So I was gonna do a “what I’m thankful for” post but I have so much to be thankful for, the list would be endless and you’d all either 1) be bored to tears or 2) hate my guts. So I passed. Then I was …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/5-steps-to-enjoying-thanksgiving-as-a-celiac/feed/ 20 Surround Yourself With Good People. You Deserve It. https://glutendude.com/surround-yourself-with-good-people/ https://glutendude.com/surround-yourself-with-good-people/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:45:28 +0000 http://glutendude.com/?p=13916 I’m blessed. I’m more than blessed. The people I surround myself with are friggin’ awesome. My wife and daughters? Simply the best. My brothers? Very cool. My friends? So much fun. My in-laws? Amazing. But sadly I hear story after story of people who are surrounded by total turds and it just ain’t right. Here’s …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/surround-yourself-with-good-people/feed/ 41 Dear Celiac Newbies: Patience, Patience, Patience (and don’t eat crap) https://glutendude.com/newly-diagnosed-with-celiac/ https://glutendude.com/newly-diagnosed-with-celiac/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:28:54 +0000 http://glutendude.com/?p=13294 I was diagnosed with celiac disease 8 years ago this week. Happy Celianniversary to me. Happy Gluten Freenaversary to me. Happy 8 Years Later and I Still Hate Itaversary to me. Thanks. Do you know one of the main reasons I started this blog four years into my celiac journey? Because almost everyone said it …

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]]> https://glutendude.com/newly-diagnosed-with-celiac/feed/ 45 Dear Gluten Dude: I’m Newly Diagnosed…When Does It Get Better?? https://glutendude.com/newly-diagnosed-with-celiac-disease/ https://glutendude.com/newly-diagnosed-with-celiac-disease/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:03:26 +0000 http://glutendude.com/?p=13223 I love your emails. I love them so much that I will never delete them without answering every one of them. Then life happens and all of the sudden I’ve got gobs of emails to go through. And like anything else that over-accumulates, the task to get through them becomes overwhelming. Well…darn it…I’m overwhelmed no …

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