Out of control carb cravings...

amycal

http://fitbie.msn.com/eat-right/tips/8-reasons-wheat-making-you-gain/tip/0

Here's a link to an article that goes in detail about those cravings and carb addiction. I am a recovering carb addict, and have eliminated grains from my diet. I honestly do not crave them anymore. At all. And I feel great, and am very happy to keep eating this way.

Wow thanks for sharing this link. I get the emails from fitbie but their slide show format bugs me so I don't always read them but I am so glad I took the time to read this. I have recently started following a diet outlined by a local doctor who practices integrative medicine and it is gluten-free. At his last seminar on gluten he talked a lot about how gluten intolerance leads to many neurological disorders such as Alzheimers and migraines because of this (quote from article)

" Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that polypeptides in gluten have the ability to penetrate blood-brain barriers. Once they gain entry into the brain, wheat compounds bind to the brain’s morphine receptors, the same receptors to which opiate drugs bind, producing a sense of reward or mild euphoria."

That whole blood-brain barrier thing breakdown is BAD. It was enough for me to try to be gluten free even though I don't really know that I am intolerant. I have not felt dramatically better, although I did have a beer last night and kind of a "cheat" meal that didn't strictly follow the diet and I am up 1.5 pounds from yesterday. I am hoping it is sodium due to eating out but now I am thinking if possibly having had some wheat in my food led to it as well. I am back to the strict adherence today to hopefully drop back in a day or 2 and then lose more! Also probably 90% of my excess fat is in my belly so I really am determined to be wheat/gluten-free!