Hey I totally agree with you. It is so hard to find gluten free foods now a days. But gluten free bread in pizza? MY GOD that makes me hungry. I have starved myself because all the weight I gain because I cant eat products with gluten.

Thanks for the great post!

I wanted to let you know about a pizza place in Colorado called Beau Joe’s… they have a gluten free pizza and it rocks! The crust is made by Deby’s who used to have a gluten free cafe here in Denver but I believe she just sells her products now. You can have anything on your pizza you want. I get Hatch green chili peppers, turkey pepperoni and a Mozzarella-Chedder cheese blend. They make the pizza in dedicated pans. And they sell Red Bridge which is my favorite gluten free beer.

This beer and pizza combo is so wonderful. They even have gluten free Wednesdays where they have a special price for a salad and gluten free pizza. I believe Beau Joe’s is a pizza chain only in Colorado. I think perhaps Deby’s crust can be purchased online… I don’t know for sure.

The only problem is it is so yummy and a ton of calories! Which leads me to my main concern about being celiac. I was diagnosis a few days before Thanksgiving last year. As a result of being so sick I lost lots of weight. In fact I was able to eat whatever I wanted and never gain any weight. Over the past five months I rapidly gained 20 pounds which has been very hard for me.

I guess I liked being thin… now I’m not because oh how I love the gluten free bread I can make in my new bread maker and of course the yummy pizza and beer I mentioned above.

I have been working out a lot over the past four months and I discovered I have to limit the gluten free bread products because of the high calories.

What is so hard for me is that I have to be on this “diet” where there are so many foods I can’t have and yet I have gained all this weight. I don’t mind being gluten free, in fact it is a little weird to me how much I like the gluten free stuff… especially the bread and cookies, but the weight issue is the main concern. In fact some times I toy with the idea of eating gluten again to lose weight… you can probably tell I have some weight issues. Also I went about 10 years without being diagnosed so during that time I liked being thin and thought I was just lucky to have a high metabolism.

I’ve figured out that I can’t eat all that I want anymore. But it is hard because I still get so hungry. I plan to keep working out and pretty much stop using my bread maker. I’m still going to Beau Joe’s every once in a while… its way too yummy! I don’t think I will ever go back to eating gluten out of concern about the health risks… increased rick of cancers and other disorders. But I do wish I could go back to eating whatever I want without a concern about my weight. Worrying about weight takes some of the fun out of food for me.

Thanks for listening… the non-celiacs don’t seem to understand.