Alana shared this instructive story of finally being freed from food binging/bulimia by living the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“Restored, Renewed and Illuminating!
“At age 16 I was chubby, self-conscious, and began my 30+ year adventure of my big, fat bulimic life.
“I used binging and purging as a way to have my cake and eat it too, and it worked! I lost weight, looked great and loved my delusional life. I tried so many times over the years to get help and recover. Unfortunately, everything I tried failed. Therapist, diet pills, even my son’s Adderall. Finally, at age 50 I said no more purging, which took every bit of will power I had. I am a personal trainer and felt like a FRAUD helping my clients get healthy as I wrapped myself around a toilet with 2 fingers deep.
“Finally, last February while I was at the gym on the treadmill, I stumbled across Dr. Davis on PBS talking about his new book Wheat Belly Total Health. It was my biggest ‘Ah Ha’ moment of my life. It was the missing piece to the answer of my constant binging and having no control to stop it. I went to Barnes and Noble that day and bought his book and cookbook. I did his Detox, lost a bit of weight, which was a benefit, but what mattered most to me is that I no longer suffer from the damage the grains were having on my mind, body and spirit.
“I have shared my knew-found knowledge with my husband, friends, and clients. So many lives have been forever changed due to Dr. Davis’ dedication to his work, passion, and educating the millions of misled Americans. I am now 53 yrs young and for the first time ever can say that I’m loving the life I have.
“Thank you, Dr. Davis, from the bottom of my grain-free belly and healthy heart, I am eternally grateful to you!”
The gliadin protein of wheat, rye, and barley yield peptides that bind to the opiate receptors of the brain and stimulate appetite. While most of us experience increased appetite, thereby consuming 400-800 (mostly carbohydrate) calories per day and struggle with hunger, susceptible people will have extravagant appetite stimulation and 24-hour-per-day food obsessions that are uncontrollable and experienced as binge-eating disorder and, as did Alana, bulimia, purging food by self-induced vomiting. As Alana so perfectly lays out, the problems with bulimia do not end at appetite and weight, but impact emotional health, self-image, well-being.
Eating disorders are another wonderful example of the perverted and bizarre ways that humans manifest when our bodies are confronted by something that should never have qualified as food in the first place, the seeds of grasses or “grains.” Eliminating them from the diet can be liberating at so many levels. And, if you have an eating disorder, there is NO reason to not consider this lifestyle and potentially be freed from this bizarre effect.
WB lifestyle provides many proven health benefits. However, I’ll bet the house that the overwhelming majority of wbiers do it to lose weight.
Can wb practitioners:
1. expect weight reduction to place them within the healthy bmi range (19-24.9)?
2. expect an ideal body fat % of 15 or less for men and 22 or less for women?
3. know the lowest weight wb will take them?
4. do something to stop further weight loss if happy at a certain weight?
palo wrote: «I’ll bet the house that the overwhelming majority of wbiers do it to lose weight.»
That’s probably a safe assumption due to the branding, which had the benefit of making the program wildly successful, but the burden of appearing to be focused on weight loss. Hindsight doesn’t immediately suggest to me that there was a more optimal approach.
«Can wb practitioners:
1. expect weight reduction to place them within the healthy bmi range (19-24.9)?
2. expect an ideal body fat % of 15 or less for men and 22 or less for women?»
I think it safe to say that anyone not suffering from permanent pre-existing metabolic or systemic damage can expect that (and this would be over 99% of the population). Even with irreversible problems, it’s still the best bet for the least adverse future.
«3. know the lowest weight wb will take them?»
Now that’s an interesting question, and is going to be heavily influenced (pun intended) by exercise. My personal guess is that most people will end up at the weight they would have had when their height reached maturity (had they been on this diet all along).
«4. do something to stop further weight loss if happy at a certain weight?»
Strength training. See also:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2015/08/too-skinny-in-the-midst-of-the-worlds-worst-obesity-crisis/
and the discussions below it.
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Can you suggest a fiber supplement that is acceptable with the Wheat Belly regimen? Is psyllium okay? What else can you suggest?
Mike W. wrote: «Can you suggest a fiber supplement that is acceptable with the Wheat Belly regimen?»
For what purpose? As prebiotic fiber for gut flora, or as “roughage”?
«Is psyllium okay?»
It’s generally harmless, but ultimately not needed in most cases. See:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2015/07/eat-pray-push-2/
If what you were asking about was sources of prebiotic fiber, you can use [ prebiotic fiber sources ] with the blog’s Search feature to find information.
In a nutshell, the following have been recommended at various times: acacia, bananas (green, whole), chickpeas (limited), FOS (fructooligosaccharide), GOS (galacto-oligosaccharides), green peas (limited), hummus (limited), IMO (Isomalto-oligosaccharides), inulin, kidney beans (limited), lima beans (limited), lentils (limited), PGX, plantains (green, whole), potato, raw (whole peeled or unmodified starch), and Prebiotin.
Limited means: subject to whole meal net carb guidelines.
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This instructive story should remind us all that detoxing followed by feeding our bodies with the right food can treat some physical, mental and emotional conditions better than many prescription medications.
Amy winehouse had boolimia
wrotek wrote: «Amy winehouse had bulimia»
Celebrities are much more likely than average folks to be dealing with eating disorders. Unless they are trading on their excess girth, they are expected to be quite slender. Their diets can easily be more hazardous. They are of course subject to the same diet dogma that we’re all exposed to, but they also have to suffer eating on the road more frequently, and being tempted by random catered buffets on sets and backstage. Consequently, extreme measures are seen, including anorexia, purging, laxative abuse, excessive exercise, elective gastric surgery (when not even overweight), not to mention various unnatural diets that don’t actually work.
The solution to this will not be found in the “fat acceptance” movement, but in dissident diets that provide sane alternatives to the deadly dogma we get from government and consensus nutrition.
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Bob what do U think about this http://www.realfarmacy.com/reason-toxic-wheat/ ?
wrotek wrote: «what do U think about this {dessication & Seneff on glyphosate}»
Note that the farmer quote in that article is from this blog in January 2012:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2012/01/a-wheat-farmer-weighs-in-on-wheat-belly/
Yes, the practice (also called “staging”, and no longer necessarily off-label) is on the wheat rap sheet, as well as being an issue for other grains, but it’s not near the top of the list. Seneff’s curious correlation of glyphosate application and celiac diagnoses doesn’t explain other ailment trends that were going strong prior to 1990.
In the news last month, the FDA is finally going to take a look at glyphosate in food. Do note that Roundup® is not just glyphosate, and the other stuff in it needs food supply scrutiny as well.
Organic wheat, which includes probably includes most heirloom wheats, are slightly less hazardous, but only slightly. Avoiding pesticide uptake (which includes fumigants in storage and transport, not mentioned in that article) would not solve their core problems.
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