Anyone suffering from celiac disease?? It is tough to find enough foods to eat to at lease feel full.

I am having so much trouble loosing weight, in fact I am gaining? I cut out alcohol, diet pop and

not wheat or fried foods.

Any ideas

I do not have Celiac disease, but know someone that does.  she reads a lot of articles on the Internet. Google Celiac Disease and you will find a lot of information.  I would stick with ones that are well known, like webmd or mayo clinic or nih.gov.   she also has trouble losing weight, but has found that weight watchers works well for her because you can pick your own foods.  she just knows what she can eat and what she cannot eat.

Good luck and hang in there! 

Let me start off by saying that I do not have Celiac Disease but my husband and son are both on a gluten free diet. I have never been a small girl by any means, but when my family transitioned over to this diet two things happened to me: First, I was hungry all the time and second, I gained 20 pounds in the first three months. I've done a little research to try to figure out why I gained so much weight so quickly and this is what I seem to have discovered:

1)Gluten free foods can be more fattening than their gluten counterparts because fat helps to make the food taste better.

2) Gluten free foods sometimes have more sodium and/or more sugar than their counterparts.

At least that was the case with what we tend to eat around my house.

I've learned to watch the sodium, sugar and fat contents of what we eat and to keep a very basic diet that includes a lot of the same things (we do lack variety). Here are some of our staples that seem to help keep the fat content down:

white rice, brown rice, wild rice

Broccoli, green beans, peas, carrots and salads

Meat and protein (we eat mostly boneless skinless chicken breasts that way we can eat a little more without feeling too bad about it)

Apples, oranges, peaches, grapes, bananas (we either eat them or juice them in a juicer and 1/2 cup of fresh juiced fruit makes me too full to eat anything along with it)

white rice bread (gluten free)

raisin pecan bread (gluten free)

gluten free waffles and pure maple syrup

eggs

turkey bacon

rice krispies

oatmeal (if you can handle it--some celiac's cannot)

corn flakes

corn tortillas

A typical breakfast that fills us up is either waffles, eggs and milk, or cereal and fresh juiced apples. A typical lunch is a sandwich on either of the above breads and a salad, soup or piece of fruit or cheese. Dinner almost always includes rice, veggies, fruit and meat or beans. We snack twice a day and juice for a snack also to keep full.

The trick is to think about what fills you up (even if it's not as full as you'd like) and eat smaller amounts more often.

That's what we do anyway. Hope this helps some.