Yesterday was my second full day of gluten free eating and so far it hasn't been too painful. In fact, if I ignore the fact that I want to eat a waffle topped with some french toast and sausage and sandwiched between a bagel, it has been less painful.
For the first time in weeks, I woke up this morning without a headache. I was a little tired and groggy when I first awoke, but once I got moving, I was surprisingly awake. I had only half a cup of coffee this morning before switching over to water. I woke up in time to make myself a full breakfast. I even managed to do my school reading on the train ride to work rather than read a page before falling asleep.
Last night, I noticed that I felt as though I was very hungry. This lasted up until about 10:00, when I told myself authoritatively that it was far too late to eat anything, so I would just need to deal with it. I shouldn't have been hungry. A lovely taco salad was prepared for me with organic ground chicken, spices that didn't come out of an envelope labeled "taco seasoning", and a mound of fresh vegetables. There were even some corn tortilla chips on the side.
I wonder what the correlation between wheat and my body's hunger signals? Perhaps it is a correlation with sugar instead? Though my meals are still not the absolute most healthy things in the world, the lack of wheat is also decreasing the amount of sugar I am consuming. It is possible my "hunger" is just my body wondering where those two ingredients have gone that I have fed them for so long.
Either way - I feel good. I am awake and alert and ready to face the day. I don't have to wait for my morning headache to disappear, I don't have to move carefully through my morning aches and pains, and I don't feel like there are little monsters living inside my sinuses. I really hope this positive trend continues and supports that I made the right diagnosis.
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