Gyrobob wrote on 03/26/12 at 11:32:17:


I believe Bill was alluding the lubrication he got from fried anything.

Gyrobob wrote on 03/26/12 at 11:32:17:


I'll take offense for that, free of charge.

For one (ONE) Shakespeare and one (ONE) Isaac Newton boasted by the (almost) wheat-free English, there are so many "wheatie" philosophers, physicists and mathematicians in history that it makes the wheat-free theory look like Nelson form the Simpsons, as opposed to Milhouse.

Socrates, Plato, Aristoteles, Cicero, Seneca, Julius Caesar and Diocletian... St.Augustine, St.Gregory, St.Nicholas (yep! Good ol' Santa Claus ate wheat!) not to mention Giotto, Dante, Leonardo, Galileo, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli and Bernini...

Anyway, I TRIED ! I TRIED HARD !!!

One full day wheat free, no wheat for breakfast, no wheat for lunch, there I come proud and wheat free in the evening and the wife says
"Darling, tomorrow's my birthday so we're dining at Mother's tonight"
Well, I KNEW it was her birthday the next day, gift bought weeeks ago and all that, but I hadn't planned for dinner at Tiffan... Mother's.
Rice and lentils, extremely healthy and verry ancient recipe and all that, but still contains rice, i.e. a grain.
Oh, well...  
This morning, coffee in bed and lots of birthday kisses, then we go out for shopping (forget window shopping we've got plenty of windows!  ) and home we come and the wife says
"Darling, I really feel like linguine with mussels..."   Wheat free... yah, right

Anyway, treat her (and me ) to dinner in a nice Austrian restaurant, first course striclty meats, second course strictly meats, side dishes sauerkraut and salad and ...
"Waiter! TWO helpings of those terriffic stir fried potatoes with onion and speck!"  
The wine was good, excellent...

Will try again tomorrow...

SuperSavage wrote on 03/27/12 at 21:50:36:


I hate the word diet as well.  this Wheat Belly scheme is a lot more than a diet.

Telling you what I ate yesterday would do no good.  I ate nothing.  nada.
-- Two or three times a month I do a mini-fast of sorts.  
  --- There are all kinds of health benefits, and once you get to the "Dirt Pebbler" stage of this way of living, you can skip eating with absolutely no problem at all.  
  --- No kidding.  No hunger pangs, no blood sugar reactions, no energy effects, etc.  
  --- I had pizza Monday evening, and today, Wednesday, I'm taking the current wife to Cracker Barrel for brunch.  That amounts to about a 40 hour fast.

Being able to eat nothing for a long time comes in handy for when you are doing things where it is incovenient to stop just because you have to shovel some food into your facial opening.  For example, on the ride to Daytona a couple weeks ago, I was quite comfortably able to not eat at all for the whole 9-hour ride.  Previously I always had to take food with me to eat along the way, or actually stop somewhere to get a burger or something.

Back to your point.

Typically I eat meat/fish/poultry and veggies,.. trying to stay with real food rather than manufactured or packaged food.  So, over the past several days I've had these things:
-- stuffed green peppers
-- lots of salads
-- wheatfree grainfree bread (I'll put the recipe in the next post)
-- steak
-- baby back ribs
-- green beans
-- low-carb yogurt
-- choc chip cookies (wheat,grain free)
-- squash of various kinds (butternut, spaghetti, acorn)
-- nuts
-- cheese
-- eggs fixed various ways
-- quiche
-- hot cereal (wheat/grain free)
-- strawberries
-- fruit smoothies
-- tea
-- tomatos
-- guacamole
-- tilapia
-- pork chops
-- oven baked chicken
-- cauliflower, broccoli, etc.
-- celery stalks loaded up with peanut butter, cheddar cheese, or cream cheese with salami
-- crustless pizza

That list doesn't count what I had at Golden Corral last Sunday.  Here's an excerpt from another file:
chicken, steak, bacon, eggs, sauteed green pepper & onions, shrimp, ham, stewed celery from the pot roast pan, spinach salad, caesar salad, chicken noodle soup sans noodles, three slices worth of pizza toppings, crab salad, black olives, tomatoes, meat loaf, instant tea with saccharine, water, raw onions, several raw strawberries, sugar-free choc pudding, cottage cheese, and maybe something else I forgot. Small quantities of each, except for the steak. All this took place in a leisurely manner from 1030 to 1140.

A typical reaction from someone first considering getting off of wheat is,"Man, there is nothing left to eat!"  I beg to differ.  If you eliminate anything with wheat or any other grains, or sugar, or high-carb, you are left with only,....oh,.... 56,000 things left to eat.

just watch the first 3-4 minutes of this lecture, then you
decide to continue or not, most everyone does, trust me.

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I've been following this thread for months now
and today I finally decided to join in.


About me:

I weigh less now than I did in high school (20y ago)
but still have a muscular build (I swim regularly),
I quit smoking, no meat, no pop, rarely drink,
I juice every morning (and make carrot cake-like
nut & grain bars with the leftover mulch), have a
small garden/greenhouse and I am very close to
becoming full vegan, the only thing really stopping
me is my stubborn brat-eating wifey. Last time I got
sick was a flu 3 years ago.

I am also a professional chef and used to own my own restaurant,
I know what is in everything and when I go to the market I wanna cry.

Any questions, let me know, you guys rock.






A Baskin-Robbins true story.

Boule’tard wrote on 03/28/12 at 18:29:02:


Most excellent!  I wish we had your before and after numbers for blood levels and pressure and glucose.

From the 90s to 2003, I was around 235.  (on a 6'3" frame)

In 2003, I started Atkins, and went down to about 215 and stayed there until last October.

At that time I kept doing what I was doing, but stopped eating any wheat or any other grains.  I went from 215 to about 205 in a month, and have stayed there since.

I each of those situations I was not trying to lose any weight, it was just what happened.  I do about 50 carbs daily now, eating mainly meat/fish and above-ground veggies with no wheat/grains/sugar or any other stuff that might cause a blood-sugar spike.

Life is good.

That's interesting.  I'm sure it applies to other crops as well.  I'm equally inclined to believe there are quite a few other unsavory chemicals in many of our foods - including meat and dairy.

Arnold wrote on 03/30/12 at 12:57:16:


Tibet has the only meat that is from cows that never ate anything bad.  Aside from that, Walmart is about the same as any other groc store.  Also, if you saw the Stossel show a few weeks ago, you put absolutely no faith in claims like "organic" or "free range" or "grass fed" or "uncured."

Is your back yard big enough so you won't be exposed to the smell?