Positive Results and How to Cope?

Happy Gluten Free New Year for 2015 - I hope you all have a wonderful year and get everything you wish for!  

My wish for this year is to start afresh with this blog, and to do this I suppose I need to explain a little bit about my family and our experiences with being Gluten Free and Coeliac.

My hubby Darren has been a Coeliac for nearly 8 years now, but when I had my little girl Emily (just over 7 years ago), I never imagined that the day would come when she would also receive the positive diagnosis of being a Coeliac - this happened on Monday December 22nd 2014.  She had gone through the blood test at our local Doctors, but because the TTG wasn't 10x the normal amount (60+) then she had to endure an endoscopy.  She was an absolute star and took it all in her stride - I on the other hand was a complete wreck, and felt VERY emotional for weeks leading up to the day and also on the morning of the hospital visit.

For most families im sure that have already gone through this, everyone has different emotions on how they cope with not only the tests but with the results and the aftermath of this.  I'm a bit of a mixed bag at the moment - one minute I think im on top of everything, and the next I feel like im going around in circles again.

My main issue is the fact that Emily is very 'picky' with her food and only eats a handful of items - most of which unfortunately contain Gluten.  How do you get a 7 year old to change her eating habits to not only GF but to start adding new foods to her list of 'safe' items.........this is the bit im stuck on!

I know time will tell as they say, and im sure we will be fine - am I just being an overprotective Mom or am I right to worry.......who knows!!

Anyway, enough rambling from me on my negative feelings on this as here are a few positive things: 

• I will be putting my baking/cooking skills to the test and will endeavor to make more and more things Gluten Free so that I can cater for now 2/3's of our little family - I am now the odd one out!!
• I will be rejoining Coeliac UK with a Family Membership.
• I will be clearing out the whole of my Kitchen and getting rid of all the non GF foods - may as well try and start positively!!
• I will finally get around to looking through all of those cook books that ive purchased over the past 8 years - don't think ive ever made one recipe out of any of them.......shocking!
• I will hopefully be doing some product reviews along the way as well.
• To lose another 2 stone whilst following the Slimming World diet, and trying to do it the Gluten Free way.

Well that's it from me, until next time!!

Nicky x