Wheat Belly?

I appear to have a gluten intolerance. I don't understand why anyone would want to cut it out unless they have to, I'm like a food leper and have to be very careful that I get enough carbohydrates from other sources or I get binge urges, I doubt that makes anyone lose weight
yes supermarket bread is pants. So make your own.
If there are revolutionary new findings in the field of nutrition they will be published through peer reviewed studies, NOT profit making faddy books. Save your money spent on crap books and the additional cost of a GF diet and pay a subscription to a website that has journal archives.
Just my 2pennies.

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Picture of the author. Looks like whatever he promotes is bunk if he follows it. Pretty chubby fella. And yeah, wheat doesn't make you fat. Check out the middle east, the bread basket of the world. They are all skinny as heck. If anything, eat more wheat, unless you have gluten sensitivity.

I read the book a few months ago, and that's what kept jumping out at me-Dr. Davis is overweight :huh: And it's not an old picture-I watched an interview he did earlier this year and yep, that's what he looks like. I'm definitely not one to pick on someone for being overweight, but if you're promoting a way of eating, in part as a way to lose weight, then it's fair game :drinker:

I hate to point it out but in the first few chapters he discusses how he looks and talks about how most people don't trust an over weight man to give them weight loss tips. Don't judge and give it another read. He does address his weight.

It is ironic how he's overweight (obese even?) and promoting a diet book for losing weight. I read the book a while back and don't recall him giving an excuse for his weight. Does he have some kind of medical problem that interferes with his weight loss?

As for cutting out gluten, I tried that and didn't notice any changes. I was hoping, though! But now I'm glad I didn't because I like having some gluten foods in my diet.

My first clue I might be sensitive to wheat was when I tried whole wheat pasta, you know cuz it is healthy right?

Thought I was going to explode from the super painful gas I had. Sorry if that grosses y'all out. At first I was thinking maybe I am just not used to this much fiber. But when it kept happening even after I had been eating healthy for a long time and it never caused any such discomfort in my husband I was pretty convinced to let the wheat go.

No I haven't been officially diagnosed or anything, but seriously, when eating something causes me physical pain do I really need to have a Dr. tell me to stop eating it if it hurts. I have figured out what I can and can not eat by trial and error. Hey, works for me, cuz I'm a snowflake 'yo.:drinker: :laugh:

I have just started reading the book this weekend but after advice from a nutritionist with her Masters in Functional Nutrition, I cut wheat and gluten out a week ago after trying to do a eating plan through my Personal Trainer that was supposed to be a well balanced diet. It contained only wheat/whole grain breads which I never used to eat a lot of, I always ate white

I have terrible, diagnosed, tendonitus in my thumb/wrist of my right hand which have not really bothered my in many years unless I do something specific to aggravate it (gardening, sewing etc.). After 2 weeks of being on the new eating plan, my wrist/thumb hurt so bad I had to wear a brace 24/7 and would wake up in the middle of the night due to the pain. It hadn't hurt like that in YEARS! I mentioned to someone at work and he suggested gluten being a cause of inflamation which causes pain and then someone else suggested Wheat Belly.

Well, I am living proof-I stopped the wheat and within 3-4 days was able to take off my brace and have had no pain for over a week. Yesterday, I cheated, had macaroni salad & a hot dog roll along with a few other picnic foods and again-thumb/wrist are throbbing.

I have my answer and will be wheat free going forward. The people they say it has been "debunked"....how do you know those people know what they are talking about either? We never know who REALLY knows the truth but Dr. Davis makes sense, we all know foods are not made/grown the way they were when our parents and grandparents were kids--buy organic & grass fed meat & do a taste test--that alone proved to me that we need to eat whole foods and buy organic, chemical free, grassfed as much as possible. My 9 yr old son has been able to stop taking acid reflux meds he has been on since he was 4 months old thanks to our switch to organic--proof enough for me.

Well, I am living proof-I stopped the wheat and within 3-4 days was able to take off my brace and have had no pain for over a week. Yesterday, I cheated, had macaroni salad & a hot dog roll along with a few other picnic foods and again-thumb/wrist are throbbing.

My wife has fibromyalgia and there are several food triggers that, if she eats those foods, aggravate various aches and pains. She cut out red meat, then poultry, then she found that cutting eggplant and tomatoes helped, and most recently she's found that broccoli is a trigger. It may be that you are gluten intolerant, but it may also be one of several things that might aggravate your system. If the pain comes back, you may try cutting other foods to see what happens.