It's all over but the whining

My dear friends, it is time for our regularly scheduled round of Lorraine Whines about Celiac.

I knew that going gluten free was not going to be magical. I knew that it wasn't despite everything I'd been reading about going gluten free curing cancer and making rainbows shine out of my ass. I knew it.

And yet, I was optimistic. So many sources told me that going gluten free was going to do everything from relieve my Hashimoto's thyroid symptoms to give me energy to allow me lose weight.

None of those things have happened (not so funnily, my thyroid symptoms started to skyrocket the second I went gluten free; I'm positive the timing is a coincidence, but within days of going gluten free, my hair started falling out in handfuls again).

( spoilers for discussion of weight and eating )