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splash07 wrote on 06/26/12 at 08:00:46:OK, so I did read about the first 3-4 pages of this thread before skipping to the end here. So it may have already been covered but I will ask anyway.
I am young (27) and very active, I ride a bicycle around 50-75 miles per week, work outdoors for the Department of Natural Resources, play on a club soccer team, and play on a club ultimate frisbee team. I burn around 1k-2K calories per day in activity alone not including my resting metabolic rate. It is hard for me sometimes to get healthy calories, I find that bread and grains can be the only way for me to get the energy I need to sustain my activity. I am interested in the wheat belly phenom because even I have ailments. I have arthritis in my lower back from an injury and years of farm work when I was younger, I have a bad left knee from soccer which aches and pops a lot, I get sinus congestion from allergies especially in the fall, and I am wondering if the wheat belly diet is for me? Is it OK for someone as active as I am to eat carbs and are there alternatives i should consider?
Sorry if this has been asked, if so please just refer me back to the appropriate post. Great questions, Splash.
This is something you should try, for lots of reasons.
1. There is no downside. If for some reason it does you no good, no harm, no foul. If it makes any changes for you, they can be only positive changes.
2. This is a low-carb effort as much as it is wheat-free grain-free.
-- If you are a big-time carb incinerator, you'll need more carbs than the rest of us plain folk, but that is easy to do with healthy carbs, rather than poison carbs like wheat.
-- Lots of veggies, fruits, wheat-free baked goods, etc., can give you lots and lots of carbs that you'll burn off and yet not be subjected to all the nasty stuff in wheat.
-- Dr Davis, the preventive cardiologist that started all this, is a marathoner, so he knows these things. His wife is a runner too, so they are well up on the concepts of sufficient amounts of wheat-free grain-free carbs for athletes.
3. The bread and grains you have been eating for "energy" are hurting you in all kinds of ways. I won't be surprised if you are surprised with how much better you feel once you stop. You'll have to realign the way you get your carbs, but if your bod reacts the same way most other bods do, you'll be getting a lot more energy for what you stuff in than before.
4. I'm 65. For the past decade or two my joints were getting stiffer gradually,... sometimes to the point of being outright painful. I thought it was just part of growing old.
-- The biggy was the neck,.. it was getting to be unsafe for me to ride motorcycles and fly gyrocopters because I couldn't twist my neck to check for traffic. I was gloomy,.. thinking I might have to give up these cherished activities.
-- Then, Wheat belly happened. ALL my joints (fingers, hips, ankles, knees, and especially the neck) got all smooth and loose. This happened within the first few weeks!!!
-- You'll know why after you read the book. There are a few debilitating substances in wheat that keep the joint surfaces inflamed. No wheat,.. no inflammation. Well, less inflammation, anyway. For me, my joints, including my neck, feel as good as they did 20 years ago.
-- This is why I am hopeful for you concerning your back and knee problems. Wheatlessness certainly won't repair any permanent damage, but it WILL reduce the irritation from inflammation.
--- I'm building a couple of RYCA bikes. As you might expect, this involves a lot of kneeling and squatting beside the bikes. A year ago my knees and lower back were in agony. I'd have to stand up verrrrrrry slowly each time, and my knees sounded like a popcorn machine. Now I can hop up and down like a kid,.. no pain, no popping.
--- My boss (a good buddy as well) at Delta had permanent shoulder damage from athletics in school many years ago. Several operations over the years. Couldn't lift his right arm above his ears. Constant pain even when still. Bothered his sleep a lot. Then,... Wheat Belly. It took a while (several weeks) but now he has NO pain when still. Everytime he sees me now, the first thing he does is to lift his arm over his head with a gleeful smirk on his face! His shoulder (seriously and permanently damaged) is still pretty much useless for anything requiring much force, but the pain is gone. He has a reasonable range of motion now. He says it is a lot easier to put on a t-shirt now.
5. On the allergies thing,.. mine have just plain gone.
-- Last year, before I would go out to mow the lawn I would take an allegra, do the work, then come in and try to recover. If I didn't take the allegra, I'd be sick for a day at least. Now,... no allegra, no allergies to pollen, dust, flying grass, any of that.
-- No more seasonal allergies either.
-- On a related note, for the past few decades, I would get sick every few months pretty reliably. Cold, flue, sinus infection, etc. Knock on wood, but I have not had a sniffle since October of last year. This is the first winter EVER, I have not gotten sick.
-- On another related note, ... I have always had a metal-on-skin allergy. Since I was a teenager I could never wear rings, metal watchbands, etc. Now,.. for the first time in 44 years, I am wearing a wedding band. A few months ago, I bought my first ever watch with a metal watchband.
6. This Wheat Belly thing is more than a diet. A diet is more of a fad thing that aims at losing weight for a while. To me this seems more like an awakening to the idea that for many decades we have all been hornswoggled into believing that grains are healthy. WRONG!!!!!! Once you understand this, the changes you experience transcend that of just doing cabbage soup, or south beach, or weight watchers, etc. Once you get wheat/grains/sugar out of your life the health improvements are,.... well,.... astounding for most folks.
7. Some of the changes happen within a few days. My headaches (something I endured for decades) disappeared forever on the third day. Other changes, like joints, might take weeks. Others, like atherosclerosis, blood pressure, and diabetes might take months. A few folks with nervous system maladies (MS, FM, etc.) relate after a year or so, things were noticeably better. These nervous system improvements, by the way, don't happen to every person,.. maybe 20%.
8. Most of the benefits don't ever come about if wheat/grains/sugar is just reduced. Having no wheat except for a bagel a few times a week is like having wheaties and bagels every day.... Unfortunately, a little goes a LONG way,.. so if a person wants to get the full effect, he should just blow off all wheat, all grains, all sugars. Cold turkey. Just do it.
9. Sorry for the novel!! Jeeeezzz. I got carried away again. I guess you can tell I am pretty well convinced of how well this works because it works so well for me. Here's a file I have been keeping on all the things that have happened to me. There are so many different things happening, I had to keep them organized in one place. http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh253/Gyrobob_theOriginal/Healthy%20Stuff/...
10. Read the book. Check out the Wheat Belly FB page. Ask me any questions anytime.
Good luck!! I sincerely hope you try this out.
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