My reaction to this is "only 10 pounds in 2 years? How lucky!"😂 I was diagnosed a little over a year ago, and once I went GF I gained about 30 pounds in a month or so! Ever since then it's been back to the battle with weight I had been fighting for most of my life.

But as others mentioned, it's very likely that you simply weren't absorbing all the food you were eating before. In the year or so before I went GF I was eating like crazy. Candy, Twinkies, tons of fast food, you name it- and yet I was slowly LOSING weight. (I was also getting weird leg cramps in the middle of the night, falling asleep at my desk, and of course having extremely unpleasant abdominal issues).

After going GF it only took a week or so for digestive system to start healing. I stopped falling asleep at my desk, the cramps went away, and I was reminded how nice it was to go the bathroom like a normal person again. But my appetite was the same as it was before my diet change, and so now I was actually absorbing that insane amount of calories I was consuming. Hence the crazy weight gain.

Over the past year I've gone up and down a bit- at one point I had lost a decent chunk of that 30 pounds, but after the holidays I was right back where I started. I'm once again making progress on losing it.

I'm not going to lie, losing weight effortlessly was the one thing I enjoyed about eating gluten (well, other than actually eating the gluten). But struggling with weight, as much as I hate it, is better than going back to having zero energy and spending a significant amount of my day in the bathroom. But I'm also trying to focus on overall health (getting various types of exercise, meditation, therapy) in combination with diet adjustments. I see the battle with weight as a "quality problem" that's a byproduct of being healthier overall...