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New look is GREAT!!!!
When there are bad days, like today, I’m thankful that every day isn’t a bad day:)
Wow! Your websiteis beautiful! Really nice?!
Would you mind sending me an invite to pinterest? I just saw that you offered it and I am waiting for a long time since I asked for an invitation. I would really appreciate it. I hope you are having a wonderful inspired holiday season and some relaxing time with friends and familiy.
Thanks for your offer.
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Alysa,
Hi! My name is Julie and my daughter is a basketball player for your sister. We were talking today about eating healthier and she showed me your site. I am really excited to try some of your recipes. I was reading your 5 things I would like to do this year and saw your one about being pain free. Just this weekend I started looking into magnesium glycerinate for health issues I have and noticed alot of info on magnesium being wonderful for pain. I just thought it might be something to look into. I am actually looking into it for depression and that is where the glycine comes into play, but I also saw information on glycine being helpful with muscle and nerve pain. Just thought I would share this with you and would love any advice on better nutrion for depression. Thanks, Julie
Alysa, I have been diagnosed with Gluten Intolerance just last week. Celiac disease came back negative plus I don’t have most of the symptoms of Celiac.
Here is my lovely health history in a nutshell but what I wanted to say is thank you so much for your blog/website. It makes having to go Gluten free a little less scary for me. My biggest hurdle is finding out how to budget it all in to my already tight single mom budget. Thanks again, I appreciate it so much!!
In March of 2011 I was diagnosed with an enlarged liver, high triglycerides and being overweight does not help either. The official diagnosis is NASH,Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis. I also have GERD and I am lactose intolerant. I am a mess.
I take Niacin for my liver/triglycerides and that seems to be working for that part of the issue. In March my triglycerides were 677 they are now down in the low 300′s. Getting better every day. Thankfully!! I also take calcium, fish/borage/flax oil, milk thistle and a multi vitamin.
My abdomen is always bloated and very hard and distended. I am over weight which does not help but the fact that I have changed my diet to a healthy diet and working out and I haven’t’ lost an ounce in a year. I weigh 217 and I am only 5′ 2″ and I would like to be around 135-145. I am muscular so being to thin would look strange on me.
It seems to me no matter what I eat I get bloated and then feel pressure in my abdomen and chest. It can be crappy pizza or a wonderful veggie stir fry.
It is very frustrating and I am not sure where to turn next. The doctor that diagnosed my NASH said I should have gastric bypass surgery and I said I would never do that…what good would that do. I keep a on line food journal and I am not really over eating. I eat about 1200-1400 calories a day.
I have eliminated carbonated beverages and that helps with the GERD a little.
I have had my thyroid tested and at that time it was normal but I have never been tested for celiac disease or any gluten sensitivity. I don’t seem to have any of the symptoms especially the inability to gain weight.
I am hoping cutting out Gluten will help with all of this stuff above.
I woke up this morning with Ethiopia on my heart. My husband and I plan on an international adoption within the next few years, with our primary focus on that wonderful country. We have a sponsored child who lives with her mother and many siblings there. And lately, God has been calling me to go, though I’m not sure how or when.
I’m also a Celiac and gluten free. So . . . with time to myself today I Googled “ethiopia mission trip gluten free” to check out the experiences of traveling on this diet and happened across your blog. I love it!
I’m also a medical/nutrition nut, but that’s another story.
Thank you for the blog! That you were able to see your sponsored child in person gives me hope that maybe one day I’ll be able to hug my little Beza, too.
Did you happen to try any of the injera bread while you were there? My husband and I were able to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant in Orlando, FL last year and it was all gluten free – made from teff flour – and topped with different meats and spices. We absolutely loved it. I’m hoping when we finally are able to ‘go’, that we will be able to eat it over there safely as well.
Michelle, I am so glad you found me and took time to write! I did eat injera in Ethiopia, I plan to do a whole post about the food at some point. As long as I stuck with the traditional Ethiopian food I was fine. Ethiopian food is gluten-free by nature (unless Americanized in the US, sometimes they use barley or wheat flour mixed in). I ate a lot of the “Tibs” which was spicy meat with peppers, and also a few different types of lentils on injera. My favorite was the yellow lentils on injera. As far as going to Ethiopia goes, trust in God’s timing
Love your blog. Happened upon it last year and just revisited it and after looking around it realized that we must go to the same church! I recognized your children’s coffee sale to raise money for Advent Conspiracy. That story was great!
Keep up the great work!
Hi Alysa,
Came across your blog about diastasis recti. I had three kids in three years, and was pretty much in the same boat you described- knowing I had it and trying to get back into the intensity of workout I was used to, but luckily haven’t injured myself yet. I’m definitely going to start the workout mentioned, but what about other exercise. The Tupler website recommends only walking and running until it is healed. And what are your thoughts on the Tupler splint?
I really look forward to hearing from you. Thanks a lot,
Anna
Hey Anna, I am preparing an interview that I just completed with an expert who explains why she doesn’t believe in the splinting technique. I’ll let you know when it’s posted!
Hi Alysa (Inspired RD) – My mom let me know about your blog this week, I couldn’t wait to check it out! I love it!!! So much much great information! Will keep following and hope get to more inspired! Ginny H
Love your site and your post about not being able to do it all. Going to share on my site.
Alysa,
Thank you for your post on safe places to eat g.f. in the Phoenix area! We are native Phoenicians but stationed in Kentucky for the last 2 years. While here, my two sons and I have begun eating gluten free and I am in awe of all of the wonderful changes it has brought for us health and behavior-wise. I’m currently planning for a trip home to Phoenix in June and was about to give up on eating out when I happened upon your site. Now, I am encouraged and even hopeful that this could work after all. Thank you so much for what you’re doing!