So I'm pretty sure the cause of the mystery tiredness I suffered from for several years was non-celiac gluten sensitivity, in that cutting out gluten seemed to help and continue to help long-term when nothing else did ( Read more... )

Five years ago I gave up sugar for Lent, partly as a spiritual discipline and partly as a biological experiment, to see if it would improve my energy levels (after a brief initial withdrawal period).
It really didn't, and caused me to be more run-down than usual for the whole six weeks ( Read more... )

You Look Like A Thing And I Love You - Janelle Shane
Janelle Shane writes the excellent AI Weirdness blog, where she trains neural networks to do things like write fanfiction or recipes, or come up with names for rock bands or ice cream flavours, and posts the hilarious results. I'm often reduced to helpless giggles reading it.
You Look Like A ( Read more... )

This was going to be a separate heading in yesterday's post, but yesterday's post got too long.

Non-fiction

Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve - Ben Blatt
This fascinating book applies the same kind of data analysis insights as in Dataclysm or Everybody Lies to the world of books. Two of my favourite things ( Read more... )

The dessert cafe on the Leisure Park, Creams, has finally opened, after "coming soon" for most of a year. We went there on Friday night.

They have an amazing choice of desserts: all the flavours you could imagine of ice cream sundae, waffles, cookie dough, crepes, freakshakes, and some traditional desserts like cake, pie, sticky toffee pudding, etc ( Read more... )

I found a breakfast which fulfils all of: quick, tasty, filling, gluten-free, and doesn't taste like dinner ( Read more... )

Yay, I made a gluten-free banana cake which was really nice. Alex couldn't tell the difference from a normal one.
I used half ground almonds, and half GF flour improved with xanthan gum.

Dietician appointment today went much better than I expected. I was afraid that either (1) she wouldn't have heard of non-celiac gluten sensitivity or would be sceptical that it was a real thing, or (2) she would tell me off for starting a GF diet without official medical advice (I know that people who suspect they're celiac should carry on eating ( Read more... )

Domino's PizzaI think the North Cambridge branch must have changed hands in the last year, because it used to be good ( Read more... )

* Make or buy gluten-free and gluten-containing versions of a food which are very difficult to distinguish. (Something made with a digestive biscuit base, like Nanaimo bars, is an option ( Read more... )