How the gluten free life started.

Have you ever wondered what it is like to basically start your life over? In a weird way I had to do just that and I never realized how hard it actually was for me to start over. Last November, a week after Thanksgiving Break I found out I was diagnosed with Celiac disease which means I have to be on a gluten-free diet for the rest of my life. It all started when I was young, I would always complain to my mother that my stomach was really hurting me. She would always tell me that I come from a family with bad stomachs and that it would go away but it took days before it actually went away. I remember it always leaving me curled up in my bed or on the couch hoping the pain would ago. Sometimes it got to the point that I wouldn't eat during the day and only ate one meal per day. Flash forward to  my junior year of college, it was just a random day and all of a sudden my stomach irked with severe stomach pains and I could barely move so I finally decided that I could not deal with the pain anymore and I had to figure out what was going on with me. I went and saw a specialist and a few weeks later I had a procedure done to confirm that I indeed have celiac disease.   When my doctor told me I did in fact have the disease that I needed to be on a strict gluten free diet and a low-fat diet as well. It has definitely turned my life around and there are days that I feel like I can't do it anymore but I know that I can't be sick all the time.Before I had the procedure done, I did some research on Celiac Disease and it turns out that most of the time when people have this disease that will never know or it takes them 10 years before being diagnosed. Which is crazy because it took me 12 years before I found out I had it.There are several hard parts about this disease but I know that my health is so important that I have to stick to this diet no matter what.