Anyone who knows me knows that I am willing to try anything (well almost anything) so that I don't have to put another pill into my body. When I started getting awful joint pain four months ago, I knew that I couldn't live with it. I couldn't exercise and I couldn't walk properly, and I was not willing to live like that for another four years.
I started doing some research and searching the discussion boards and found women with the same issue who had given up eating wheat which in turn eliminated their joint pain. I read Wheat Belly and decided that I could give it a shot ... that my body was not going to be deprived of essential nutrients.
On February 5 I started eating wheat free. I've had a couple instances when I ate a cupcake or a bite of pizza early on, but now I am mixing my own flours and am baking entirely wheat free, and my body has adjusted to this new way of eating. My joint and muscle pain has disappeared. I am exercising and I feel human again.
I have lost about seven pounds since Feb. 5, and I am all right with that since the whole point of this new eating regiment was to get rid of the joint pain. I am happy about the weight loss but that was not my main point.
It hasn't been as hard as I thought it was going to be. You have to read labels and you have to be really, really good about scrutinizing everything, and when in doubt -- don't! Every now and then the craving for a sandwich hits me. I have been looking for bread substitutes everywhere but it wasn't until this weekend that I found a recipe for a gluten free white bread, that might actually do the trick. It's a little chewier than regular white bread but I'm ok with that, and it looks very much like white bread. This might be sufficient for the moment.
Life goes on ... just a different way.
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