Do you find that...

After a month or so on the diet, your cravings for all the bad things you
used to love pretty much go away?

I mean my brother has pizza in the fridge right now and I don't even think
about touching it. Ditto for those white bread rolls and stuff mum bought.
If those things were around when I was starting out, I'd never have made it
past the first week!

"Ignoramus3578" wrote in message
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I do. I gave up sugar and junk food 1.5 years ago, and after a week or
so, all my cravings for it stopped. Gave up wheat 5 months ago and am
not missing it too much either. I still bake my sourdough bread, but
do not eat it.

What is it about sourdough bread? I never liked it (it's yeast free right?).

I eat my weet-bix at breakfast, and bread sometimes. I am looking for a good
whole wheat pita type bread to make chicken and salad wraps but haven't
found one yet.

That's a great thing if you can give up junk and not feel
deprived. You have a great advantage in dieting.

I've had a relative blowout this week. Lots of brown rice, plus I didn't do
that much exercise. I hope it doesn't cost me tomorrow when I get the
measuring tape out!

What is so bad about wheat? Can you explain? I have body-obsessed,
rail-thin coworkers (I work in media and entertainment) who cringe at
the thought of ingesting wheat. I love it.

HS

Her Subj. wrote:

What is so bad about wheat? Can you explain?

Different stuff for different folks. Personally, I have an addictive
reaction
to wheat. If I eat any more than an accidental exposure in some soup
and I eat everything in sight. Even with a small accidental exposure
I'm likely to get an assortment of symptoms ranging from sweating
through snoring. Other folks get similar reactions from corn, and
others don't have any ill effect from either.

I have body-obsessed, rail-thin coworkers (I work in media and
entertainment) who cringe at the thought of ingesting wheat. I love
it.

Low carb works for a lot of people. Refusing to eat grain is a good
way to keep your carb intake down. Could be anything from my
clear-cut ill effects through wanting to stay low carb.

Wheat is bad for more people than you'd think, but certainly it is
not bad for everyone. Think about it - Before I went on Atkins
there had never been a time in my life that I'd gone more than a day
without wheat. What I now think of as ill effects back then was just
the normal way I'd been my entire life. I sweat after eating random
meals, snored loudly most of the time and so on. I had always
been that way so it was normal. Then I went off wheat because
the directions for Atkins told me to, not because I had the
slightest suspicion that wheat was bad for me, and a couple of
weeks later I hadn't sweat after a meal for the two weeks and my
snoring turned off like a switch from constant and loud to
occasional and not loud.

Folks who've never gone two weeks wheat-free before, consider
trying it just to see how it goes. The same applies to all types
of foods. I've gone two weeks free of pork, wheat, dairy, eggs,
you name it over the last several years. Turns out in my case
it's only wheat but you never know if you might end up in
better health if you don't eat X, whatever X is that's common in
your diet. Don't drop everything all atonce, just one type of
food for a couple of months every so often as a learning
exercise.

Worth doing? It sure was for me and you can only know for
yourself after trying. At least there's no down side to going
without something for a while to see what happens.