I love breakfast food but they have tons of gluten. This week I made breakfast tacos that were gluten free. There are these amazing wraps called Crepini which I use to replace my tortillas. They are amazing for tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas, and burritos. I had also seen a video where they cooked the egg most of the way then added the tortilla so that it attaches to the tortilla and so I did that. It was brilliant!
Recipe for those on the Optavia plan: 1 crepini (1green), 1/2 cup egg white (1/4 lean), 2.5 oz diced chicken or turkey (1/2 lean), 1/2 oz cheese (1/4 lean) then what ever other ingredients you want I used salsa, spinach, and peppers to get all my greens. First start cooking your eggs mixed with your diced meat and topped with cheese. When the eggs are soft set add the crepini. Flip over to finish cooking. Pull out and add salsa and veggies. Fold in half and enjoy!
I thought I would put the recipe first since it drives me crazy when its 5 pages later to get what you want but if your interested in the back story it’s down below….
Most people seem to think if you don’t have celiac disease and you avoid gluten then you are jumping on the band wagon. I’ll admit I was one of those people that wondered how big of a deal it really was.
6 years ago Charlie and I were in the middle of fertility treatments. Secondary infertility is hard because everyone is always telling you well you got pregnant once it will happen again just relax.
Our infertility journey had a lot of bumps. We had moved between having our first and trying for our second so we had a different doctor. Lots of people had referred this doctor and he specialized in uterine abnormalities. I had been told after Chris was born that I had a complete bicornic uterus so he suggested that if we removed the extra wall everything would be go to go after that. He did investigatory surgery but everything came back normal. I had even asked if I had PCOS and was told that wasn’t possible as I was too small for that. I weighed 172 pounds and I am 5 ft 2 in.
My husband’s cousin was also struggling with infertility and suggested I try a Reproductive endocrinologist. As soon as I stepped in his office he asked me if I had gain a lot of weight lately. I had gained 40 pounds in the year since I stopped nursing our son. Then he asked if I had really oily skin and if I had problems with acne. He also pointed out that I have a willows peak hair line and wide shoulders. At this point I was getting a bit offended to be honest. He told me he thought I had PCOS and he would like to do testing to confirm it. Turns out I did. Charlie’s cousin also has PCOS and was a huge support to me.
After the PCOS diagnosis the Reproductive Endocrinologist also figured out I was gluten intolerant. If you have ever had my mom’s rolls you know she makes the best rolls in the world and my dad makes the best cinnamon rolls so the thought of giving up gluten was extremely hard so I thought I would just reduce it.
We also found out about other issues including unicornic uterus (yep the doctor that did my surgery was wrong ). With unicornic uterus I basically only have half a uterus and it explained why Chris’ pregnancy had been so difficult. We did iui’s and eventually IVF. After our IVF cycle ended in miscarriage I really buckled down and cut more gluten and daily from my life. In 3 months I lost 25 pounds. After loosing 25 pounds the FET cycle worked and we got pregnant with Spencer.
Spencer was by far my easiest pregnancy. I threw up only 5 times, had tons of energy, and really enjoyed being pregnant. Labor with him actually started while I was at work taking care of another mom.
The other nice thing was I could eat whatever I wanted while I was pregnant with him and not have the consequences I have when I am not pregnant.
When we wanted to try to get pregnant again I started cutting out gluten and dairy again but our FET cycle failed. It was our only chance at a daughter and I struggled with being able to try again. My body was not working at all after that cycle. Charlie heard about maca root helping one of his friend’s wife get pregnant. I did research and found it helps regulate your cycle so I did it more so I wouldn’t have to take medications. It worked better then we thought possible and my cycles regulated, I lost 25 pounds again and bam we were pregnant.
Sorry that was a lot of back story to get to now! Last September we had another miscarriage and after that happened I decided I needed to get healthier if we were going to have another baby. I had been eating the way I had the other 2 times but it just wasn’t happening. My friend was doing Optavia and I decided to join her. I lost 20 pounds in 2 months and we did an FET cycle with adopted embryos at the end of December. Sadly that cycle also ended in miscarriage. In February we decided to do another adopted embryo transfer which ended up being our ectopic pregnancy.
Well I was sick with the ectopic pregnancy so I ate bread because it was the only thing that sounded good most of the time. All total with that pregnancy I was on some sort of bedrest or restrictions from end of February til the beginning of June. During that time I ate a lot of bread products but I was doing okay.
Usually when I eat gluten I am in pain but that wasn’t happening so I thought maybe my body was doing better. We found out beginning of June that the methotrexate I had been given to end the ectopic pregnancy hadn’t completely cleared it. This had been why I had been sick for so long and in pain.
On June 3rd I had surgery to completely remove everything and I suddenly felt better but I have discovered that I am back to not being able to eat gluten. That doesnt mean I don’t try. I ate 2 pieces of pizza and a small slice of cake at Chris’ birthday and I ended up with intestinal pain before we were done cleaning up.
When I had done Optavia they are very big on having a why. My why had been to loose enough weight to have a baby. Now my why is to learn to say no to food so that I don’t deal with that pain again.
A Garden and a Bush 