Celiac is legit but it should be diagnosed by a doctor. [MENTION=308728]sheepdog84[/MENTION] made it sound like he was just self-diagnosing and basically any time people change their diet dramatically they lose weight and feel better for the first few days or weeks. That is why you have all these wacky fad diets like "The cupcakes only diet" or the "Eat like a Gaucho diet". They basically all work because of the way the body reacts to change but then once your body gets used to it, it isn't as good. My stepdad was on a paleo diet and seemed happy with it but I challenged him to go vegan for a month and see if he felt worse and he couldn't believe that he felt better, even though he was eating lots of grain. It wasn't the diet itself; it was the change in diet.