lose the wheat, lose the weight

I limit my wheat - I find that it makes me feel bloated and get gassy. Two things not conducive to me being happy.

I own a horse.

Precisely.

I cut out eating broccoli and cauliflower. I've lost over thirty pounds so that must be the reason.
<groan>
<rolleyes>
I still eat bread though...

:laugh:

Some people metabolize wheat just fine and experience no side-effects. Those of Scots-Irish descent may find they are the ones who have a lower tolerance to wheat and wheat by-products. This isn't to be confused with Celiac Disease. Celiac causes people to become violently ill when they consume wheat, and wheat by-products.

Having said that, there are many people who have an "Intolerance" to wheat and/or gluten. An intolerance implies unpleasant side-effects that aren't life threatening. The following are my symptoms when I eat wheat gluten, more than on rare occasions. I get hives on my arms and face. They itch and I now have faint scars from scratching them. I become bloated and experience constipation. My immediate reaction is what I call "brain cloud." I become very tired and I have a hard time concentrating. The number one sign of wheat intolerance is regret! And you know what I'm talking about if you are wheat intolerant. If you don't, lucky you... now go away and hush-up.

There have been studies that show people who are allergic or intolerant of wheat actually crave more of the thing that is making them ill. The body is trying to produce an antibody, and as we all know the vaccine IS the illness from which you are trying to protect yourself. Thus, eating pasta or bread is often a simple pleasure that tuns into a vicious cycle of over consumption and illness.

Those who are intolerant to wheat pasta and bread might find "gluten free" options more tolerable. I happen to do best when I eat modest amounts of gluten free alternatives.

What are your thoughts about this, MFP community?

It would totally depend on how much wheat your currently eat, and what you replace it with. I lost the weight without giving up wheat, but I don't eat wheat every day.

my thoughts are that it's nonsense

I eat an average of 35,000 calories per week from wheat. Will cutting it out help me lose weight?

It depends. Are you cutting out the calories, or replacing it withh 35,000 calories of something else? Are you losing, gaining or maintaining on your current intake?

I wish I had known all of this when I lived in Italy. I could have saved all of those fit Italians from becoming fat by telling them to lay off the pasta.

Bull, if you ask me.

I'm jaded due to my annoying sister in law - she had some illness sometime back (which everyone is like 99% sure had to do with her trying to complete her phd - its a long story - but its mental). part of her rigorous re-work was to quit all foods containing wheat. she doesn't have celiac disease, and the doctor had just recommend giving it up for a little while as she figures out what works, but she's just given it up like a religion and basically forces everyone to cater to her. I think its all BS - I'm sorry. a small percentage of folks are allergic (just like for MSG, or lactose, etc) and for everyone else tbe doctor's say ok.

perhaps wheat will go the way of tobacco?

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/oct2011_Wheat-The-Unhealthy-Whole-Grain_01.htm

what I find interesting is remembering one of my great grand parents and all my grand parents.
They weren't fat and lived into their 90s & never went to a gym.
They also used to eat a lot of fat (lard anyone!)...and they didn't have diabetes.

Meat and 2 veg was the order of the day, pasta & rice were seen as foreign food and shunned.

I wonder if the nay sayers have the bottle to drop grains from their diet for 6 weeks and can blog it.
It would be interesting

BTW - I didn't cut grains to lose weight, I cut them because they appeared to not offer any nutrition for the amount of kcals they deliver. And I wanted to experiment with something that when considering evolution, wasn't in our diet as a species for more than 10,000 years.

If you google nutrition on grains, you get the usual pro-grain blurb sponsored by the food industry.
Then again, didn't they do the same with smoking in the 1960s as it was (and still is) a large multi-million dollar industry?
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20307049,00.html

Maybe we don't get lung cancer from smoking?
Maybe we don't get intestinal leakage and other allergies from wheat?

Your body can't do without fats and protein.
It can do without carbs from wheat.

Comparing wheat to tobacco and providing a link to an interview of the wheat Belly author? lol

Did your grandparents and great grandparents eat bread or was that similarly shunned?

Wheat wasn't in our diet for more than 10,000 yrs?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC470712/?tool=pubmed

My great grandparents were Italian and ate bread AND pasta with every meal.

Not everyone who has lost weight succeeded because they stopped eating bread.

Everyone who lost weight succeeded because they ate fewer calories than they burned, and whatever method they used to keep themselves on track, it came down to calories in < calories out.

for me there is no choice! I'm actually allergic to wheat! ..found out after being sick for so long.. i lost 40lbs without cutting it out when i was allergic to it, and gained 25 back after cutting it out! it's complete crap! everyone's body is different!

My husband was exactly the same as you before being diagnosed with coeliacs desiese. He was constantly sick and losing weight. Once he had the diagnosis and cut out all gluten he slowly started to gain weight.

What are your thoughts about this, MFP community?

if one were to replace their lost calories from "wheat avoidance" with another equal carb source... their weight would never change.


for a mental flip to make you think:

if you're from a culture with a diet that is heavily dependent upon rice.. you would lose weight with the "rice diet" where you didnt eat rice?