Yeah, say that 10 times fast.
I’m not one to jump on the bandwagon of fashionable food fads (wow, I’m getting fancy with the alliteration today!). Well no, that’s not true. I will try out fads and then the fad fades and well gee, that was fun and pointless. I like treating my body and sometimes my life (hello ex-boyfriends!) like experiments, sometimes with clipboards and spreadsheets and everything. But at the end of the day most of these experiments fizzle out (goodbye ex-boyfriends!).
Wheat and Gluten Free foods are all the rage right now. This is not to say that Celiac Disease isn’t real and terrible and I profoundly feel for anyone having the disease, but I’m not so sure that there is as much “gluten intolerant” folks out there as your local expensive healthfood store will make you believe. It’s ever so fashionable to go “gluten free” right now, just like it was fashionable to be vegan a few years back, and go “low-carb” before that.
So why am I being all trendy and going wheat free for a week? Well, Welcome to TMI-Ville. You see, I’ve been having tummy issues for quite some time now ranging from mild discomfort and indigestion to well, let’s just say I’ve been having tummy issues. Could wheat and gluten be the problem? Sure as could a myrid of other things, but I’ll never know unless I experiment.
I’m not actually going gluten free, because that’s far too tricky. My time eating animal-free taught me that eliminating entire ingredient categories from your diet entirely is really really difficult. It boggles my tiny little red head where milk protein and wheat products show up. So I’m going wheat-free, the light and lazy way. Basically, I’m not doing any bread or pasta or wheat flour baked good for a week. If I feel remarkably better after a week. I’ll reassess how wheat fits in my life.
You have to tell me when you go off cheese… and bread.
Cheese isn’t until next week
It is amazing where wheat shows up in processed foods. I do the “wheat lite” as you’re trying and it’s made a big difference in my tummy issues. If you don’t already, I would also suggest at some point trying the probiotic capsules you find in the refrigerated section. I used to take antibiotics fairly often and just killed my gut as a consequence. The probiotics helped a lot to get things back on track, so to speak; when I cut out most wheat it helped even more.
Good luck!
You know, I’m a terrible vitamin taker. I just can’t seem to take them on a regular basis. I’ve got probiotics sitting right on my desk and they rarely make it into my tummy. I will try and get better about it. I promise!
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