Celiacs + Sugar = No Bueno.

I haven't posted much about my diet and my newly diagnosed disease since March. I thought four months later I'd at least be on the verge of feeling awesome. And in some ways I do feel a lot better. But I'm still struggling with headaches, feeling tired, and sharp stomach pains. Kudos to those of you who actually go on an elimination diet. That really is the best way to figure out what foods you are sensitive to. After cutting out gluten, dairy, and recently red meat, I'm starting to see a pattern when I eat sugar. Ahhh sugar. The glorious ingredient that makes food taste good. Especially gluten-free food. Well SURPRISE, many celiacs suffer from fructose malabsorption. Am I surprised? At this point my body is having a hard time digesting air.

Here are some foods you should avoid if you are experiencing fructose malabsorption:

• Fruit — apple, pear, guava, honeydew melon, nashi fruit, pawpaw, papaya, quince, star fruit, watermelon;
• Dried fruit — apple, currant, date, fig, pear, raisin, sultana;
• Fortified wines
• Foods containing added sugars, such as agave nectar, some corn syrups, honey, and fruit juice concentrates.

Yup, apples just about do me in. And agave? Shit. Here I sit sipping on an Oogave root beer. Wine?? God must hate me. I can have foods that contain equal parts glucose and fructose, but it might be easier at this point to just cut out sugar altogether.

So... no dairy... no gluten... no red meat... and no sugar. Somebody heal my gut pronto.

Leave me a comment. Have any of you gone off sugar? Am I insane for even considering it?