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Originally Posted by Wannabeskinny
For some people gluten really is poison, if they are celiac.
No, that's the first piece of misinformation you're operating under. There is a condition called "gluten intolerance". I WISH I was Celiac! Gluten intolerance SUCKS HARD! Celiac gives you diarrhea and you drop weight. Gluten intolerance can cause you to lose weight, but for most of us it causes an inflammatory condition where we have pain, weight GAIN, our immune system decides to start attacking various parts of our body and we suffer from a condition called "low motility". Look it up, I'm sure you have access to an internet search engine. My record is three weeks. Conventionally trained doctors, for the most part, overlook this condition. This took me, being aware of my body's needs and signals, using an elimination diet, figuring this out.
My arthritis, tendon and ligament degeneration that started when I was in my thirties that my doctor link to any cause, all I can think is that it's the inflammation throughout my body due to this autoimmune condition triggered by diet. My thyroid operates at a suboptimal level, again, it's one of the most delicate organs and one of the ones the body is first to attack.
Oh, and BTW,. tons of people are functioning with suboptimal thyroid levels, but conventional medicine literally SUCKS at diagnosing this condition. So there's bunches of fat people out there who have hormone problems. Be as mindful as you like about food but if you have an endocrine problem you are NEVER, EVER going to get your physiology in balance without addressing the hormone problems. Most women need some form of hormone replacement after age 40, but doctors are not taught to keep us healthy, they are taught that our hormones FAILING is a NATURAL state of affairs. If men went through the same transition they'd have fixed that s**t before the end of the last millenium.
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Originally Posted by Wannabeskinny
Many people lose weight by all different means. I used to think that meant something, but it's impossible to follow diets that work for other people - there are too many, and none of them have worked for me. I had to face the fact that I had to find something that would work for me. Losing weight is great, but it doesn't qualify anyone for a nobel prize nor does it discount my health and progress.
Look, clearly your issues have nothing to do with
what you eat but
why you eat. Good for you, you've figured that out. But there is a whole bunch of us out there who have no emotional/psychological or whatever issues tied up in food, we're actually FAT and we can't figure out why. I piled on weight without changing my diet or activity levels! I've NEVER been an emotional eater, and not everyone is! The FOOD, however, changed and I suddenly, after being a healthy vegetarian, started piling on weight. Nobody TOLD me that wheat changed, not the FDA, not the EPA, not anyone. I was a healthy lacto/ovo vegetarian, eating a well balanced diet, and maintained my weight for over 10 years and then suddenly I'm gaining weight, having constant heartburn, breaking out with this weird acne, and can't ... um, go #2. GLUTEN! GLUTEN! GLUTEN! Took me nearly a year to figure it out! Doctors told me it WAS EMOTIONS/STRESS!
Primal eating isn't going to work for ANYBODY who hasn't separated their emotional emptiness from the emptiness of hunger, sorry. But when you know you're eating fine and still gaining weight a confirmation that conventional food, the GARBAGE that we're spoonfed as a culture, may be the source, not why you're eating but literally WHAT you're eating, even if you're being told it's healthy, is CRAP, is empowering.
Tons of people on this board have twisted up problems with feeding their bellies when it's their hearts that need nourishment, I get that. But others need to understand that, yeah, the food you're eating IS making you SICK, craving garbage, overeating. You're not overeating because you have emotional issues, you overeat because your body is not being nourished, whether you don't know how to nourish it, or whether what you consume is actually blocking the nourishment it needs. People need to have enough insight to figure out what's going on, but they can't make those decisions without having the knowledge and affirmation that their instincts might be right.