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Update: home now I wrote this on our third to last day after being absolutely exhausted. All good. I have been vegetarian since I was 14, and diagnosed celiac 6 years ago. (I’m Buddhist and won’t break being veggie) Now I am on my honey moon, yay! …in Japan. I am using the find me gluten free app, the gluten free Japan Facebook page, but it’s especially hard being GF and veggie here. Also- I’m newly pregnant, yay! But also I just feel exhausted, starving and pretty miserable. I’m doing my best to smile, eat the snacks i brought (which I’m sick of) all while running around fighting morning sickness and dreaming of my comfort foods that don’t exist here. I’m too over stimulated to search out a lot of things I’ve seen posted- when I walk into a Japanese grocery store my brain shuts off. (I speak Japanese but it doesn’t help much with my predicament.) Anyway that’s my rant, I hate celiac!!!! I’m so effing hungry!
Update: There is a bio shop right by my hotel where I was able to get mozzarella and tomatoes and gf snacks and yogurt. I am not vegan, I already have a nutritionist, I’m on all the right supplements and eat really well usually. Yesterday was a hard travel day with a lot of trains and I just needed to vent. As I said I said: I am on the gluten free Japan page, I am on find me gluten free app… and I did do my research, I was just having a tough moment and needed to vent- and didn’t need people criticizing my being vegetarian (and this criticism toward my religion!) Thank you to those of you with helpful tips!
I get it. With celiac, we should all do what we can to have food bring us joy, since we're working under so many restrictions (and it can be very draining). What that looks like will be different for everyone.
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One reason: I have literally never eaten meat or fish. My parents were both vegetarians since before I was born. None of my siblings eat meat. I truly can't imagine changing this after 34 years. The idea of eating it physically repulses me. Even the smell of certain meats can be off-putting. I have celiac and eating out can be challenging, but it would bring me less joy to change my entire lifestyle because of this disease - it would be one more thing celiac took away from me.Â
As long as you are careful about your nutrition, it's possible to be vegetarian and celiac. I'm currently traveling in Australia, and I've been to Mexico City, Banff, and Bali post-diagnosis. I have no nutritional deficiencies since going gluten-free, even my iron has rebounded. My PCP said I don't need any additional monitoring while pregnant (currently trying) since I have no deficiencies or health issues.
That being said, I've been to Japan pre-diagnosis and can't imagine going now with my dietary restrictions.