# @a.culling on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKSdmDzNJGY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31090487-aculling-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-30T18:53:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Anya Culling (@a.culling) — https://gondola.cc/a.culling

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🙃A little bit of a personal update from me, turns out I have coeliac disease! I have suspected this for a while but in true honesty I just didn’t want to be ‘that girl’, I didn’t want to be high maintenance or difficult and I simply love bread so much maybe I didn’t want to face it! Coeliac disease is a condition where your immune system attacks your own body when you eat gluten, it means you can’t absorb the nutrients and damages your gut. I heard lucycharles93 and jennyyyy_fit opening up about it and I realised it wasn’t a big deal and I probably ought to sort it! My diagnosis explains a lot, I’m deficient in a lot of minerals, my liver isn’t fantastic and my HR is very high… but turns out I have been effectively poisoning myself… which I know is very dramatic but I think it’s crazy that every time I’ve carb loaded I have done more bad than good. And when I have tried to fuel, I wouldn’t have been absorbing what I needed to! I found it impossible to train in the afternoon because I’d be in so much pain but I just thought it was normal, I was also so tired all the time but just ignored it! It’s going to be a journey back to rebuild my gut / small intestines / get my liver functioning again properly but I am already excited for my potential when training with my body firing properly!! If I can achieve what I have with a chink in armour, I’m so motivated to push 100% with my body at 100%. It’s not going to change my training all good, I’ve been through the worst of it, performance should be up from here! I know people are going through a lot worse and in the grand scheme of things avoiding gluten is very trivial but it is important to spread awareness! Will miss you 🥐🥖🥨🥪🥯🍞 PLEASE let me know your Gluten Free recommendations and favs!! 🫶🏼 #coeliac

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