21 days of gluten free, because wheat is so addictive and toxic

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,102 Member
    MikePfirrman wrote: »
    hilla1996 wrote: »
    i find that if i have one cookie I am not satisfied until I finish them all

    But I can eat one apple or one banana

    I think wheat that is processed does not register correctly with our brain

    especially wheat and sugar combo

    I think the same of Honey Peanut Butter. But it's not scientific. That stuff is crack to me. And I could eat a whole jar of it without blinking an eye. Been there, done that.

    But this is more of a volumetric argument, not a scientific one. Yes, our brains react different, I think, to highly process foods -- like fried, sugary calorie bombs -- than they do to fresh vegetables or fruit, which are high in fiber.

    Well . . . maybe.

    Personally, I think it's more that our brain reacts in predictable ways to pleasurable things (patterns of activation similar for some non-food pleasures), and the highly processed foods push those buttons, but don't trigger satiation or perceived fullness or whatever we want to call it (whether that's brain thing, or a hormone thing, or what, I dunno - the mind/body duality idea really doesn't work for me, conceptually - but that's a whole other discussion. 😆)
  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
    Aside from suffering with the authentic wheat &/or gluten allergy, you do not become 'toxed on wheat. If you were actually 'toxed your liver and kidneys wouldn't be working.
  • Noreenmarie1234
    Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
    But Gluten free cookies are also delicious.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »
    But Gluten free cookies are also delicious.

    Yeah, the thing in my brain that makes me want lots of cookies still activates when I'm eating gluten-free sweets. It's not the gluten (at least for me).
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    ^^ Agreed. ^^

    My daughter had issues that required her to eliminate certain foods for a couple weeks to test possible allergies/sensitivities. She loves all bread foods, so when she had to eliminate gluten I went to the gluten free bakery to get a couple things for her. MAN! That is no way to reduce calories, I can attest to that!
  • zebasschick
    zebasschick Posts: 1,067 Member
    edited September 2020
    SuzySunshine99 wrote: »
    My husband has a newly-discovered intolerance to gluten. For his birthday, I got cupcakes from a gluten-free bakery. They were delicious, but were 600 CALORIES EACH! For what I consider to be an average-size cupcake. I knew gluten-free baked goods can have more calories, but I had no idea it was that significant.

    they don't have to have more calories; they just did. maybe it was the frosting or they used a lot of oil. maybe some wheat cupcakes are also very high in calories when bought from a bakery.

    i sometimes bake gluten free, and the calories are very similar to wheat baked goods. btw, GFJules gluten free flour is my favorite of the gluten free flours i've tried.

  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    Nut flours are more caloric than wheat flour, IME.
  • zebasschick
    zebasschick Posts: 1,067 Member
    ahoy_m8 wrote: »
    Nut flours are more caloric than wheat flour, IME.

    true. that's why i don't use them.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    lemongirlbc wrote: »
    hilla1996 wrote: »
    i find that if i have one cookie I am not satisfied until I finish them all

    But I can eat one apple or one banana

    I think wheat that is processed does not register correctly with our brain

    especially wheat and sugar combo

    As mentioned, cookies have a lot more to them than just wheat. Would you do the same with plain bread? If you ate a slice of plain bread, would you then be tempted to scarf the whole loaf? I just find it odd that you've identified the wheat in the cookie, rather than the sugar, butter, egg, whatever whatever.
    springlering62 wrote: »
    Diatonic12 wrote: »
    One of the funniest things about women's magazines is the diet in the middle and the next few pages are loaded to the gills with recipes for every dessert under the sun. Slick marketing tricks everywhere you look. The hook in the jaw is the brand new diet. The excitement never ends.

    I bought a women’s magazine the other day for the first time in years and am still traumatized by the recipes. Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies? Oh, my.

    I could eat my weight in frozen blueberries topped with blueberry balsamic. No wheat there. There’s nothing magic about wheat (unless you’re medically prevented).

    I still eat bread but not gobs of it. Although I do recollect telling hubs at dinner tonight, as I stared dreamily into space and savored every bite, “Nothing beats a piece of buttered homemade bread.”

    I used to bake bread and could eat at least half a (full size) loaf. I didn't eat it plain though, but dripping with butter, and sometimes sugar.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    Diatonic12 wrote: »
    One of the funniest things about women's magazines is the diet in the middle and the next few pages are loaded to the gills with recipes for every dessert under the sun. Slick marketing tricks everywhere you look. The hook in the jaw is the brand new diet. The excitement never ends.

    I bought a women’s magazine the other day for the first time in years and am still traumatized by the recipes. Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies? Oh, my.

    I could eat my weight in frozen blueberries topped with blueberry balsamic. No wheat there. There’s nothing magic about wheat (unless you’re medically prevented).

    I still eat bread but not gobs of it. Although I do recollect telling hubs at dinner tonight, as I stared dreamily into space and savored every bite, “Nothing beats a piece of buttered homemade bread.”

    America's Test Kitchen's "Food Processor Perfection" has a recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies in which the butter is browned. My OH calls them "World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies."

    I stopped making them for a while because I was unable to moderate them. Also because this recipe is fussy and takes about 90 minutes (with clean up by hand.)

    I am making them today though. It's a rainy day and I'm unemployed.

    My overeating pattern used to be to eat the whole container of ice cream or tons of cookies in one sitting. Now I seem to overeat like a post WLS patient who gains weight back despite the smaller stomach - calorie dense foods at frequent intervals.

    To help me moderate them I will put the tin of cookies out of site, the ones that get frozen in the downstairs freezer, budget for them, and otherwise try to put them out of my mind.

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