Stephanie shared her photos and Wheat Belly lifestyle experience after 6 months:
“Our latest before and after picture. The left is exactly one year ago, July 2014 on the San Antonio Riverwalk. The right is today, July 12th, 2015 after 6 months of my hubby Mark and I following the Wheat Belly lifestyle. Total of about 80 lbs lost between the both of us.”
Those of you who’ve been following these conversations know that you will NEVER encounter advice such as cut your calories, push the plate away, reduce portion sizes. In fact, I tell people to eat more fat, to never sweat the calories, and exercise for health but not for weight loss.
And, though Stephanie does not mention it, the effortless weight loss is paralleled by reversal of numerous metabolic distortions and health conditions. This ain’t no diet; it is an effort to set eating straight and follow the path that humans should have followed all along despite the mistake we made in desperation 10,000 years ago when we turned to the seeds of grasses for survival.
I am always so moved when reading everyone’s posts. You should all be so proud of yourselves for embracing these changes. We have been so indoctrinated to eat these damaging seeds of grasses and it takes strong minds and good will to change paths as you have.
Isn’t it just amazing when the transformations happen so quickly? Things can improve right away after people first begin cleaning out toxic grains from their bodies and lives! It can be just that fast! I love reading your stories and learning how astonished and relieved you feel – and how thankful you are for the chance to regain your health!
For some of us it begins within days, for others it takes a few short weeks or months to realize it has begun, and after a few more months, even more improvements can occur! As we learn how to really enjoy eating healthy foods, there can be surprising changes that “happen” later on our journeys back to health. I have had vision improvements too and also most recently in my hearing! I don’t know why exactly but I am so grateful! I can feel my body functioning in unity as it was meant to and it feels great! I have been seeds of grass free for two and a half years now.
After decades of eating wheat’s toxic paste, I am amazed such healing can take place at all! But it does as you all have experienced. When I think back on how long I pasted my palate and clogged my chemistry and cells with all those “healthy grains” we now know are so harmful, I can’t believe the turn around is so possible. Thank goodness our bodies know what to do when we stop hurting ourselves with what we have been advised to eat. It is just amazing to experience!
And to Dr. Davis who figured it out and kept talking it up and backing it up with good science until more and more of us listened! YOU have changed the world for the better! I am forever grateful to you.
You know this of course but can we ever say it enough?
Keep sharing and good health to all,
CA
I started this lifestyle Jan 2015. I’m 43 and was 35lbs overweight. Having to many surgeries to count in my short life so far, and having every joint and bone ache so bad I was on daily anti inflammatory meds and pain meds I was ready to give up!
However about 6 weeks in I knew this was my new way of life. I was now waking up virtually pain free! NO MORE PAIN MEDS!!! Yayyyy! LoL
At around 12 weeks I started sleeping thru the night…..something I haven’t been able to do in about 15yrs because of body pain.
Also, now 6 months in I’m down 25lbs to boot……the best part?…are you ready? At 41 I entered into unknown early menopause. Been on hormone replace therapy for almost a year……I now have my menstrual cycle BACK!! No more cancer causing medication because my hormones have balanced themselves!
Everyone needs to say goodbye to grains and hello to a bright pain free future. That’s all! :-)
I had been struggling with multiple system issues for about two years when my chiropractor asked me to try wheat and sugar free eating for just two weeks, in January, 2015. My body hurt, my bones hurt. I was being treated for reflux and asthma. I had gained 30 pounds over the past two years, also. At 52, I was miserable.
I was willing to follow my chiropractor’s advice for two weeks. I was shocked to realize I had lost six pounds, and my body was feeling much better. It has now been 6 months since I started living wheat free. I’ve lost 32 pounds, and no longer suffer from any symptoms. I am so grateful, and share my lifestyle change with anyone who cares to hear.
I have been an avid follower of the wheat belly lifestyle since August 2012. In the three years I have had many of the normal to us improvements in health but my most recent I find absolutely astonishing. I have gone from corrected vision to not needing to wear glasses or contacts for distance or near vision. I will be 60 years old this week. Thank you thank you thank you Dr. Davis!
re: … have gone from corrected vision to not needing to wear glasses or contacts for distance or near vision.
So you’ve experienced an increase in accommodation amplitude? Magnificent. I don’t recall anyone reporting that previously on this blog (or anywhere else, for that matter). According to standard references, the only direction for accommodation is down with age:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation_%28eye%29
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My eyes have improved as well, I think I have told this before.
re: My eyes have improved as well, I think I have told this before.
Various improvements in vision are commonly reported with Wheat Belly, but improvement in accommodation specifically (Presbyopia), is unusual. This is not to say that it’s impossible, but anyone reporting it can expect to experience extreme skepticism from consensus medicine generally, and ophthalmology in particular.
http://www.reviewofoptometry.com/continuing_education/tabviewtest/lessonid/110707/
“Indeed, and by how many diopters?” might be an expected challenge.
The dioptric range loss with age curves on the wiki page linked earlier appear to date from 1922. So this is an old age-related ailment that seems to predate most (but not all) of the hazards of modern diet.
All that said, ophthalmology does not actually know for sure what causes Presbyopia. Several factors appear to be involved, as described on the wiki page. Some of these might well respond to dietary intervention, although I think remediation of the lens itself is the least likely, and would require an extended period of time if it did respond.
Being an owner of eyes whose focal range locked up at age 42½, I would love to experience increased accommodation, but so far, after 4 years of WB, they’re still frozen, and at this point aren’t my own lenses anymore anyway. The Standard of Care treatments for Presbyopia frankly don’t look all that appealing (I got one of them due to surgical instruction error – monovision).
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