Wheat free

kountrygrl27
kountrygrl27 Posts: 107 Member
edited November 13 in Motivation and Support
Dr is putting me on a wheat free diet. Anyone else going wheat free?? Suggestions??

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  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    edited September 2015
    I did it a year ago. Arthritis pain greatly reduced (my reason for cutting the grains). IBS has been cured for six months now and am under 200 for the first time in 22 years. More mentally alert.

    In my case being 63 and hooked hard the first two weeks of withdrawal was hard then the cravings just faded fast. Wished I had done it at age 23, 33, 43, 53 but my health gains are beyond my wildest imaginations.

    I am reading Wheat Belly Total Health by William Davis MD and I suggest you to consider it. It is $10/$20 digital/paper.

    You are going to be so happy for the rest of your life over giving up the grains.
  • fiddletime
    fiddletime Posts: 1,868 Member
    I read Wheat Belly and also recommend it. Arthritis pain gone in my left knee for 3 years. I'm 60 and do from 30-60 min a day of strenuous workout 5-6 days a week. Thought I'd have to stop working out a few years ago. I can gain weight wheat free, so I'm on here like everyone, to develop better habits around eating.
  • hazeleyez26
    hazeleyez26 Posts: 71 Member
    I really need to do a wheat free diet.. I'm allergic to wheat and am pretty sure it's why I have daily headaches and so many migraines. I'm curious on others suggestions too and how it has helped them.
  • kountrygrl27
    kountrygrl27 Posts: 107 Member
    I've heard of that Wheat Belly...I'll definitely look for it.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    Dr. Davis goes into why the grains lead us to gain weight and a host of other health issues.
  • downa100
    downa100 Posts: 184 Member
    So if I am on a wheat free diet can I have oatmeal? Oatmeal is gluten free so it is allowed on a gluten free diet.
  • fiddletime
    fiddletime Posts: 1,868 Member
    There is a little bit of gluten in rolled oats but none in steel cut oats. You can see if you can get away with eating the oats. I eat oats and it doesn't give me joint pain like wheat.
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
    edited September 2015
    They sell gluten free oatmeal. Always look for that label on the box, because you'd be surprised what sneaks in otherwise. Including actual wheat in the same brand that also makes the gluten free one! Gotta find that label. For actual celiacs you want the box to say processed in a gluten-free facility or similar.
  • maggierenee88
    maggierenee88 Posts: 352 Member
    I also read wheat belly and chose to be gluten free. Been eating delicious meals without wheat for years and am very satisfied. I've explored so many alternatives since then which I'm really happy with! Once in awhile I'll have something that isn't gluten free just so I won't become completely intolerant to wheat but that's hardly ever. Give it a shot it's super easy.
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
    My poor mom! She's had her joint pain greatly reduced since cutting out gluten, but she hasn't quite managed to practice reading the labels.

    Tonight she found out wheat is an ingredient in her ice cream bars.

    It sneaks in everywhere! Good news is, for her issue, she doesn't have to be perfect to get results. But now she wants to get strict about it to see if her seasonal allergies go away, as per my brother in law, who is celiac and discovered a hay fever free life after changing his diet.
  • kountrygrl27
    kountrygrl27 Posts: 107 Member
    So Even tho my Dr recommended wheat free. ...should I go ahead and go gluten free also? ?
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
    kountrygrl27 wrote: »
    So Even tho my Dr recommended wheat free. ...should I go ahead and go gluten free also? ?

    Ask your doctor to clarify it for you. Maybe over the phone to save you another visit?

  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Ask your doctor WHY wheat free. That will help enourmously to decide whether the idea has merit, and what else you should or shouldn't stop eating.
  • scg17
    scg17 Posts: 88 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Ask your doctor WHY wheat free. That will help enourmously to decide whether the idea has merit, and what else you should or shouldn't stop eating.

    That makes the most sense to me. I am wheat free due to a specific carbohydrate I can't digest in wheat, not gluten at all. Mine is to help with IBS. Your doctor could try be getting you off gluten, off something else in wheat like I am, or just want you eating less carbs.
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
    scg17 wrote: »
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Ask your doctor WHY wheat free. That will help enourmously to decide whether the idea has merit, and what else you should or shouldn't stop eating.

    That makes the most sense to me. I am wheat free due to a specific carbohydrate I can't digest in wheat, not gluten at all. Mine is to help with IBS. Your doctor could try be getting you off gluten, off something else in wheat like I am, or just want you eating less carbs.

    I didn't realize there were other reasons to take people off wheat. I thought it was just to greatly reduce the amount of gluten in a typical diet. Interesting!

  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Azuriaz wrote: »
    scg17 wrote: »
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Ask your doctor WHY wheat free. That will help enourmously to decide whether the idea has merit, and what else you should or shouldn't stop eating.

    That makes the most sense to me. I am wheat free due to a specific carbohydrate I can't digest in wheat, not gluten at all. Mine is to help with IBS. Your doctor could try be getting you off gluten, off something else in wheat like I am, or just want you eating less carbs.

    I didn't realize there were other reasons to take people off wheat. I thought it was just to greatly reduce the amount of gluten in a typical diet. Interesting!

    See: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/content/dam/SHC/for-patients-component/programs-services/clinical-nutrition-services/docs/pdf-lowfodmapdiet.pdf

    Apparently there's some thought that the reason some non-celiacs respond well to lowering wheat has nothing to do with gluten but is because of the lowered fodmaps.
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Azuriaz wrote: »
    scg17 wrote: »
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Ask your doctor WHY wheat free. That will help enourmously to decide whether the idea has merit, and what else you should or shouldn't stop eating.

    That makes the most sense to me. I am wheat free due to a specific carbohydrate I can't digest in wheat, not gluten at all. Mine is to help with IBS. Your doctor could try be getting you off gluten, off something else in wheat like I am, or just want you eating less carbs.

    I didn't realize there were other reasons to take people off wheat. I thought it was just to greatly reduce the amount of gluten in a typical diet. Interesting!

    See: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/content/dam/SHC/for-patients-component/programs-services/clinical-nutrition-services/docs/pdf-lowfodmapdiet.pdf

    Apparently there's some thought that the reason some non-celiacs respond well to lowering wheat has nothing to do with gluten but is because of the lowered fodmaps.

    Thanks for the link. I'm a total dork, I love learning all this stuff!
  • kountrygrl27
    kountrygrl27 Posts: 107 Member
    Due to my weight gain and a few other health issues I'm having. She thinks this at help with that. She said wheat and gluten then said just wheat. I go back this week for my lab follow up make sure there aren't any underlying heath issues
  • kountrygrl27
    kountrygrl27 Posts: 107 Member
    Labs all good..1lb loss......so I need to just eat better!;calories low and no wheat. ...
  • croftie4
    croftie4 Posts: 221 Member
    Hi I'm new and need to lose weight but also recently had it confirmed i'I gluten and wheat intolerant. Joint pain has cleared up really quickly off all pain killers and IBS is much much better with everyday. Headaches seem less and pins and needles in hands a feet seemed to have gone.

    I'm finding it hard to get info so if any of you could add me as a friend or point me to any other threads of interest please do. I go to the gym 6 days a week and hoping I can still meet my energy needs

    Many thanks
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    edited February 2017
    community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group

    Welcome to MFP forums @croftie4 .

    While I cut out both sugar and all forums of all grains Oct 2014 I got the same results that you got. I will try to find the MFP sub forum containing the info you are asking about. I just posted it at the top.
  • BeardSense2017
    BeardSense2017 Posts: 41 Member
    Went gluten free for 2.5 years. Militant!!! Lost 90lbs
  • croftie4
    croftie4 Posts: 221 Member
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group

    Welcome to MFP forums @croftie4 .

    While I cut out both sugar and all forums of all grains Oct 2014 I got the same results that you got. I will try to find the MFP sub forum containing the info you are asking about. I just posted it at the top.

    Thanks so much I've just spent far to long reading all the threads.

    I too don't have sugar, due to an allergy I can't even eat some fruit without having a reaction but so used to it now since it's been over 30 years living with it
  • croftie4
    croftie4 Posts: 221 Member
    bigsense7109 wrote: »
    Went gluten free for 2.5 years. Militant!!! Lost 90lbs

    That's amazing - my doc said I should find the weight starts moving now we know I have to avoid gluten and wheat but I couldn't find many people with success stories.
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