Billy shared his “before” and “after” photos after completing the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox.
“We started the 10-Day Detox on 01/24/16 and I’ve lost a total of 21 pounds and 15.5 inches total!
“I no longer have pain in my feet, knees, and I wake up every morning refreshed and full of energy. I’m never going back to Grains! Looking forward to a healthier, longer life!”
Critics say that losing two pounds a day, as Billy has, is physically impossible, a violation of the laws of thermodynamics. But that is not true.
As Billy has experienced, the reversal of visceral fat and the relief from joint and feet pain reflect the impressive reversal of inflammation and the water retention that accompanies it. Yes, Billy has also mobilized fat stores and lost fat weight, but he mostly lost a huge amount of inflammatory edema—a terrific development for health, as well as appearance.
Billy has more to lose, but I’d say he’s had a pretty darned successful Wheat Belly Detox process!
I have had terrible pain in my feet since June of this year no doctors could figure it out . I started the wheat belly diet and it disappeared after 3 days I’m a believer :)
hard to say because he is bigger on the left picture
Wrotek, my skeptic,… I see why the challenge… but look closer…. two different pictures anyway.
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yeah maybe…something is happening
wrotek wrote: «hard to say because he is bigger on the left picture»
What’s hard to say, wrotek?
Dr. Davis will have vetted this report, and Billy is to be congratulated, both for the results and for being willing to share the photos. But beyond this particular anecdote, there are some important messages here:
• This is a record result, which means that no one else has so far reported losing 21 pounds in 10 days. Therefore, people shouldn’t routinely expect this much weight loss in the first 10 days.
• This amount of weight loss in 10 days is not hazardous, if you have a well-founded reason to expect it. If it happens to someone who hasn’t made important dietary changes, then sure, get medical attention.
• Expect weight loss to continue, but after the edema is resolved, don’t expect this high rate of loss to be sustained.
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pictures are subjective, objective measurement is desired. like waist tape with scale
wrotek wrote: «pictures are subjective, objective measurement is desired. like waist tape with scale»
What part of “…lost a total of 21 pounds and 15.5 inches total!” is unclear?
And having photos of the weigh-in and tape provides no more proof. It’s trivial to Photoshop such things to make them say whatever you want.
What contribution are you trying to make here?
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“What part of “…lost a total of 21 pounds and 15.5 inches total!” is unclear?”
Yeah i somehow skipped that line…. maybe i was tired.
Sounds unbelieveable
Hi I would like to know what to substitute your grain free baking mix with. I don’t think it’s available to buy in nz
The baking mix is not available to buy anywhere. Wheat Free Market Foods has an excellent one, but shipping to NZ may be a problem. It is much easier to follow the recipe developed by Dr. Davis. This is published in several of his books. Make up a batch, refrigerate for freshness and it is very handy to have on hand.
Tracy,
If you can’t purchase his books, which are very worthwhile, and your local library doesn’t carry them, you might try an internet search for the ingredient recipe. It is excellent.
There are many paleo, low carb and similar recipes found on line and even on this blog.
Tracy wrote: «…grain free baking mix…I don’t think it’s available to buy in nz»
The All-Purpose Baking Mix is:
4 cups (946 ml) almond meal or flour
1 cup (237 ml) ground golden flaxseed
¼ cup (59 ml) coconut flour
2 teaspoons (10 ml) baking soda
1 teaspoon (5 ml) ground psyllium seed (optional)
Whisk together and store in an airtight container, preferably refrigerated.
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Great job!
I would actually be interested in learning about people who complete the 10-day detox who lose little or no weight because for whatever reason, they are still consuming excess calories. But at the same timethey have other excellent health outcomes like this gentleman had.
That would be proof positive that Wheat Belly is just another high-fat diet that works short term because fats provide satiety and junk food is eliminated, which is a criticism I have heard, but do not believe.
Eric wrote: «I would actually be interested in learning about people who complete the 10-day detox who lose little or no weight because for whatever reason, they are still consuming excess calories.»
The blog seems to hear from people when they don’t get textbook results. Failing to lose weight (or stalling later) is a common one, with multiple reasons that are usually easily corrected.
«That would be proof positive that Wheat Belly is just another high-fat diet that works short term because fats provide satiety and junk food is eliminated, …»
Consuming too many fat calories (because we don’t count calories) hasn’t to my recollection arisen as a no-loss or gain-back complaint in the last 4½ years. When helping people work through a stall, I don’t even ask about it, and the reference articles don’t bring it up either.
“Fat makes you fat” is some of that conventional wisdom that H.L.Mencken warned us about a century ago (“…there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” )
Blogger Sam Felton pretty well demonstrated in his don’t-try-this-at-home experiment that it takes about 5x more fat to gain a pound than it does to gain that pound with carbs. In practice, you’d have to force yourself to eat enough fat to gain weight that way.
There are people acting just on what they read of [parts] of this blog, and getting astonishing results just from cutting the wheat, and not necessarily increasing fat consumption. Cutting out wheat consumption is only part of what Wheat Belly advocates, but it’s easily step #1. Adding specific fats to the diet is further down the list.
«…which is a criticism I have heard, but do not believe.»
Watch out for straw men when appraising alleged debunkers, who are usually critiquing what they imagine, having not actually studied it, much less tried it. Presuming that WB is high protein is another common assumption made by people who routinely assume that LC means HP. WB isn’t “just another” anything.
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