I am so ready for a new year!
"Why?" you ask.
Because 2016 has been the year of my glutening.
Let's take a stroll down the sad as in I was morose, constipated, bloated, migraine-ish, brain fogged... The gluten-filled year of my life...
January through August - there was my laundrysoap with a new and "improved" (she said mockingly) wheat additive. Thanks for not telling the general public.
While that was going on...
In March, I used an Amazon search of "gluten-free vitamin B complex." Amazon found me a B-complex with gluten. I didn't check the 1st bottle when it arrived. Naively, I trusted the Amazon search field. Three bottles later...which was around August when every bit of my sanity had been tested and I spent 5 days with a migraine, I read the vitamin bottle. I, then, threw the rest of the bottle into the trash.
August - discovered new handsoap at work with the first 5 ingredients containing gluten. Also discovered that my coconut oil was produced on a line with wheat germ.
October - bought gluten-free labeled chapstick. Discovered after 7 days of wearing it that it's not.
November - ate 2....ummm...ok, ate 4 bags of Bob's Peppermint Puffy candies. The bag says "gluten-free." Space cadet symptoms ensued. Googled "is Bob's Peppermint Puffy candy really gluten-free?" Guess what? The answer is a BIG, FAT NOPE. They have 200 parts of gluten to every 200,000,000 of non-gluten. Sounds like they contain gluten. Nicely done, Bob's. *sarcasm noted*
Starting in 2017, I am buying (of course after I RE-RESEARCH those products) formerly loved and tried and true products. Like my lip gloss, for example. I am returning to the Philosophy brand. They have 3 or 4 items that do contain gluten but the gluten-free list is amazing.
I am done. I have reverted back to my paranoid about gluten-self. It is not even that I have all the aforementioned symptoms, it's that my insides are being damaged with every spec of gluten. I am so done.
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