Gluten Is My Bitch

I. Introduction

When Amy Peveteaux learned she had celiac disease, she went to her local bookstore to read up on living gluten-free. She stood in the diet and health aisle flipping through gluten-free cookbooks and celebrity memoirs of living with the disease. Something in all of these titles was missing, though. She didn’t see anything that addressed the emotional aspects of her diagnosis, that acknowledged what a pain-in-ass it was, or that gave her hope for leaving with it.

Frustrated, she went home and started her blog, Gluten Is My Bitch. She used her platform to talk “big-time smack about gluten,” and her book of the same title shares more of the feelings and frustrations that come with living gluten-free, along with scores of recipes and helpful resources.

II. Gluten-Related Illnesses

III. The Trouble Finding a Diagnosis

IV. Learning to Live Gluten-Free

V. Cross-Contamination or Getting “Glutened”

VI. The Emotional Piece

VII. The Risks of Eating Away From Home