Sun, Oct-09-05, 16:20
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,271
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Plan: original 72 Atkins
Stats: 201/177/142
BF:44/44/25
Progress: 41%
Location: Northern Virginia
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ditto...
Back a few years ago, before I discovered I had FM, I had a girlfriend that would always ask me what my "pain du jour" was.
I used to feel guilty because I thought I was just being a big baby; I sure was glad when I found out I really was feeling pain that other people just don't deal with... and I was feeling it every day...and it could be different every day depending on what I had done the day before.
I definitely believe it is a grain issue...and it's not even how much you eat of it although I would feel worse the more I ate...it's that you eat it every day. Even if I didn't eat bread per se', I might would eat ceral, or birthday cake, or popcorn, or even drink a beer. It takes 3-5 days to get something out of your system and even longer to get out the side effects. I guess I realized about six weeks in that I was not having daily pain anymore.
So, yes, grain is the culprit for me, not just for the pain but for the weight and fogginess too. It got so bad several of my family members feared I was already showing signs of Alzheimer's. And I'm not even 50 yet! But that is how bad my memory got and how foggy I was all the time.
And being allergic to food is different than being sensitive to other things...it's more like a drug...you feel so happy when your eating the bad stuff and then as little as 20 minutes later I would start suffering...only to eat more again later.
You can do a grain free diet without going low carb. I do low carb, modified, but I still only eat organic, whole foods...free range chickens and eggs...buffalo or grass fed beef with no antib's etc., etc..
I'm not going to say it's easy to get grain out of your diet, but it may be the best first thing if you're not sure you want to go completely low carb.
My sister is also bothered by grains...but she wasn't bothered until just recently...and she has learned to exchange rice for the grains. So she hasn't lost any weight and that's not why she's doing it...she just feels 100% better.
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