My Chronic Illness Revealed Society's Sick Weight Standards

I lost 15 pounds in two months. I should be excited . At 5'3" I now …

Celiacs and College Roommate

It's a common nightmare scenario . The popular, blond teenager boarded wit…

A Celiac and the Slumberparty

Everyone has baggage . A kid from a previous marriage. A phobia. That one annoy…

Moving on Past Diagnosis

Success with celiac disease involves walking a fine line . Enjoying a normal l…

College Celiac Fears

I am starting college in less than a month and I don't know how I feel . Wa…

Living With(out) Limits from Celiac Disease

Since childhood , we are raised to believe that the world is limitless . Dreams…

Practice Makes Perfect?

Right now I'm feeling a bit like creeper. It's an Edward Cullen moment,…

Body and Mind

When describing what I should expect, my doctor named three months as the mag…

Schar's GF Crust: A Slice of Heaven

Pizza and teenagers are like Siamese twins: inseparable without some major s…

Top 10 Gluten Free College Tips

If you don't have the time to scan all the posts I've written so far ab…

Light at the End of the Tunnel

The light at the end of the tunnel . Optimists say it's heaven; pessimists…

College as a Celiac: My 2 Day Twisted Fairytale

Everyone has that fairytale version of college : the cool crowd you'll join…

College: Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

It's not that I can't believe it's here. I've been thinking ab…

Gluten Free Cafeteria Grub

Everyone fears something . Spiders, heights, or in Harry Potter's case, the…

Sweetening Life, one GF Cake at a Time

A chocolate cake can mean many things. A calorie splurge after a hard workout…

The Hospital: Heaven and Hell

I always like to imagine that doctors , teachers, and other authority figures g…

Going with the Flow: Liquid Diet

Imagine a juggler with three batons poised perfectly in the air above his hea…

Celiac Disease: The Inevitable Bungee Jump

Now, I think most of the human population can be separated into two categories…

Accepting the New Normal

Normal has a lot of definitions these days. The high school boy who gets stea…