Weeeee’reeee baaaaacccckkkk! Courtney here and...Phew, 2020...what a year right? Pandemic...social justice movement...an election year...Wow. “Everything happens so much” or whatever that tumblr post said that one time. 

We decided to take the time we normally would toward this blog, to look at ourselves, and internally investigate our place and role in this world, and in society, to recognize our privilege and learn how to be the best allies we can be to the Black community. 

During this period of unlearning, some other things changed. I moved across the country from Louisville, KY to Salt Lake City, UT for a new job, and Kayla discovered something new about herself: she’s gluten intolerant, just like me!

Here’s her trial and error journey from the past couple of months:

One of our main goals here on Glam & Gluten-Free is to share information about food allergies, intolerances and the like. 

So when our friend Amanda Luberto reached out to explain her new lifestyle, we said heck ya!! Here's her story:

My dad thought I had a thyroid problem. He’s a doctor and I’m stubborn so this wasn’t the first time I’d heard it nor the first time I’d ignored it. I had treated a lot of my health issues, especially regarding my weight with a heavy dose of ignorance for most of my life. I guess it was easier than facing the music.

I’ve always been a pretty intense person. Go big or go home. There’s always room for improvement. 110%. Very high aspirations. That “most painful peel off face mask” didn’t even hurt that bad and I used it weekly. I took shots of pure apple cider vinegar daily because someone told me it was good for my vocal health. If I got a massage I wanted the pressure as deep as humanly possible and the rocks as hot as they could go without making my skin blister.

Something I get asked a lot when I tell people I am gluten intolerant is, “What does that mean? Do you have Celiac? What can you can’t you eat?”

Now before we get into this, just a reminder--I am NOT A DOCTOR NOR AN OFFICIAL EXPERT. This is all the information I’ve learned from the time I was advised by my chiropractor to cut wheat out of my diet, almost 10 years ago. 

Ok, we’ve all seen the headlines: “Millennials are killing this, Millennials are killing that”. Technically, a millennial is someone born between 1981 and 1996, but, what does that mean exactly? Well, I think it depends on who you ask.