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Eliminate modern high-yield semi-dwarf Triticum aestivum . . . and what is the effect on appetite?
A reduction in appetite is among the most common and profound experiences resulting from wheat elimination. I know that I have personally felt it: Wake up in the morning, little interest in breakfast for several hours. Lunch? Maybe I’ll have a few bites of something. Dinner . . . well, I’d like to exercise first.
The wheatless report that:
–Appetite diminishes to the point where you can’t remember whether you’ve eaten or not. It is not uncommon to miss a meal, perfectly content. Calorie intake drops by 400 calories per day, on average, calories you otherwise would not have needed but all went to . . . you know where.
–Hunger feels different: It’s not the gnawing, rumbling hunger that plagues you every 2 hours. In its place, you will find that hunger feels like a soft reminder that, gee, maybe it’s time to have something to eat because you haven’t had anything in–what?–4 to 6 hours. And it’s a subtle reminder, not a desperate hunt that makes you knock people aside at the food bar, steal coworkers’ lunches stored in the refrigerator, salivating at the mere thought of food.
–The simplest foods satisfy–It no longer requires an all-you-can-eat buffet to satisfy, but a few small pieces of healthy food. (Yeah, but what happens to revenues at Kraft, Nabisco, and Kelloggs, not to mention the revenues at agribusiness giants ADM and Monsanto? Slash consumption by, say, 30%, you likewise slash revenues by 30%. What would shareholders say?)
–Even prolonged periods of not eating, i.e., fasting, is endured with ease.
Hunger and the relentless search for something to eat disappear for most people. By eliminating the appetite-stimulating properties of wheat, we return to a natural state of eating for sustenance, to satisfy physiologic need. We are no longer victims of this incredibly powerful appetite-stimulant called gliadin from wheat.
This is why many diets fail: They fail to remove this powerful appetite stimulant. You might eat only lean meats, limit your calories, and exercise 90 minutes per day, but as long as the gliadin protein is pushing your appetite button, you will want to eat more or you will have to mount monumental willpower to resist it. You can lose 20 pounds on phase 1 of the South Beach diet, for instance, only to regain it in phases 2 and 3 when “healthy whole grains” are added back.
So the key is to remove the gliadin protein from your life, i.e., eliminate all things wheat.
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I have eliminated wheat and all sugars & carbs for about 6 months. I have lost almost 30# (from 200 to 173) in those 6 months. But now I am stalled. I have been at 173 for almost a month and have done nothing different. I want to lose another 10-15#. I am 5′ 6″ and still have some abdomal buldge. My weight loss was an almost straight line down for 6 months. What causes this plateau? I understand that my caloric needs will have changed due to the loss of 30# and I have adjusted for that. Anyone have any ideas?
Hi James,
I can only relate an interpretation of my experimentation this last year plus. Since I never have struggled with my weight it may not translate to others. My goal was mainly to see what changes were possible in MNR tests of lipid particles I could achieve with Doc’s insight (excellent results I’d say).
I recently completed several months when my only fat intake daily was a combination of coconut oil (2 tablespoons daily , as 28 grams total fat) , plus fish oil (4.5 grams total fat, as 1 teaspoon = 1.5 gr. EPA + 0.75 gr. DHA), plus 90% chocolate’s cocoa butter (60 grams, as 33 grams total fat), plus some olive and restaurants’ cooking oils. And I also specify that there was no intake of animal fat (ie: no meat) , fowl fat (ie: no chicken or eggs) or dairy fat (ie: only fat free dairy) – unless a restaurant used some in their food preparation.
My experience without any low calorie restraint, nor over eating, was that I lost weight and continued to do so beyond what I find suitable. In other words I had to periodically resort to over ingesting carbohydrate calories to stop from getting too thin. Of course I made sure to keep my daily protein intake consistently high enough all throughout the year.
When I started my experiment it was by daily using only 1 tablespoon of raw unrefined coconut oil & lost weight at nights. I took my first ever MNR test after a handfull of months of this.
After the initial MNR test I added the daily 1 teaspoon of fish oil , kept to the 1 tablespoon coconut oil (14 gr. fat) , but an irregular chocolate intake was daily limited to 40 grams (22 gr. fat) & even lost more weight. I took a 2nd MNR test after 4 months of that to see what was doing with my lipids.
Then I upped the daily raw coconut oil to 2 tablespoons, chocolate up to regularly 60 grams & kept fish oil at same 4.5 grams for 7 months before I took a 3rd MNR test . It was during this latest stretch of experimentation that I sometimes needed to regulate my weight upwards by deliberately adding back more carbohydrates – & I was not pursuing a daily very low carb intake anyway.
All that staged experimentation seems to indicate that using coconut oil as my primary fat is what drove my weight loss. When I added in fish oil the weight loss rate was not noticeably accelerated & I can’t distinguish it from the pattern begun with coconut oil. However when I eventually went up to 2 tablespoons of coconut oil daily I sometimes had to fight to just hold on to my weight. The chocolate intake seems to be less of a factor in my weight loss.
So retrospectively, in my case I think the exclusion of animal/fowl/dairy fat kept certain specific fatty acids out of play and then the distinct fatty acids in coconut oil were both metabolized and incorporated in unique ways that resulted in sustained weight loss for me. I was concerned that 2 tablespoons of coconut oil a day might be excessive yet last MNR done is superb (I don’t seem to be ApoE 4).
Doc, you may know, has several posts about using finger stick testing of your blood sugar before and after meals. He explains how to use a simple home glucose meter to know which meals spike your blood sugar and lose weight by controlling after eating glucose “excursions”.
Hi S. Sinderson,
Since Doc hasn’t answered you about his protein protocol yet this may orientate you. Protein intake can’t exceed the ability of liver enzymes to make urea as a consequence of liver’s nitrogen metabolism. Basically, if one is healthy, beyond 3.9 grams protein daily per kg. of our body weight we can’t urinate all nitrogen “waste” from the kidneys adequately.
1973 Rudman set a periodic daily physiologically safe upper limit of 3.8 gr./kg one weighs (ie: not always every day) …. 2000 Metges calculated a top long term daily protein limit should be 2 gr/kg one weighs …. 1996 Eades pegged exercisers wanting to lose weight should use 1.7 gr./kg one weighs….2010 Speth analysis of paleo-anthropology suggests no more than 35% of calories were ever from protein (ie: less than 3.9 gr/kg hunter weighed daily).
So………
Has this blog been abandoned by Dr. Davis, in favor of the Wheat Belly blog?
Hi Might – regarding your 12/24 post on the coconut oil, etc. experiement. If you did not eat dairy, meat, fowl or eggs (?) for protein what did you eat for protein. I am very curious because I have been in a stall for a loooonnngggg time (about 6 months). I also take coconut oil daily (2 tsp) and Omega 3 fish oil (950 mg of EPA & DHA combined). I also should mention that I am diabetic (T2). My carb intake is 30-60 grams per day.
I am trying to find a way to break this stall and your post intrigued me greatly.
Thank you,
Hi Laura,
I buy 1 gallon of fat free milk & culture it into Kefir, which I then drain the whey from and go on to eat the milk solids. I roughly weigh the kefir “quark” that goes into the refrigerator because each batch will have it’s own variable amount of whey remaining . Once I know the batch weight I do a simple calculation to divide the total weight of that batch by 6 to know roughly how much protein is in a 1/6th portion.
When I know much 1/6 of the kefir quark made from tthat 1 gallon of milk I will then eat one of those 1/6th proportioned amounts in the morning, again during the day a 2nd 1/6th amount and then a 3rd final 1/6th amount of the kefir quark.
The result is that in 1 single day the milk solids are equal to 1/2 gallon of fat free milk. I approximate this as containing, in total, around 70 grams of protein which for me is a good minimum protein requirement . Then any other protein I eat in the day is not crucial & usually in form of nuts, hummus or some stray egg ingredient which can’t measure reliably. I think my daily protein consumption is around 120 grams or more protein daily (I certainly am not eating only 1 gram protein per kg of my weight).
In terms of people stalling on low carb & pseudo-paleo diets I do have some nuanced ideas if you’d like, but I don’t know how applicable the research might be. It isn’t like a formula & needs longer context to elaborate .
Hi Laura,
Please see what I also tagged you at Doc’s next thread (1st in 2012) on this same blog.
nothing satisfies hunger better than homemade beef or chicken stock,with beef being the best. One of my diet secrest when doing my low carb/Paleo regiment.
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