Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Going Wheat Free.......it's tough

Hi Shells,

We've missed your posts. I'm sorry to hear you are having some symptoms that aren't familiar to you. I suspect they are surrounding your wheat intolerance, and the fact that you've made the conscious decision to give it up. It takes many, many months for your body to adjust, and at times, you will feel ill. I do believe you could even go to IBS-A for a while. A lot of it has to do with the psychological deprivation of wheat. I know that when you find really good suitable substitutes, substitutes that trick your mind into believing that what you are eating is every bit as good tasting as that freshly baked hot wheat roll, you mind calms down and your body in turn, will follow. In the meantime, if you've drastically changed your diet, say to include more root vegetables, or other grains the gut isn't used to it may react with gas, or indigestion, a bout of "C" or other symptoms you never had before. Here is where patience comes in��..believe me, you'll need it. It will take some time, but eventually you won't REALLY remember, exactly, what that bread tasted like. That's when the substitutes start having real appeal and everything will fall in place.

Over time, you'll see your body shape change as well. If you had a few to many pounds those will come off�.if you needed to bulk up, that will happen��It will all be pleasant��(not to mention amazing)�..but it takes a little time. The trick is balance. It's very easy to go to the one extreme of eating anything and everything just to try and satisfy that craving for wheat, to not eating enough because you think all hope is gone in finding anything that tastes quite as good as a wheat product, so why eat at all. I can tell you this because I've experienced it all, the good�the bad,�..the ugly, the rationalizing, and the cheating!!!

You had a very profound comment on an earlier post about wheat sensitivity possibly being a precursor to Celiac�.Interesting theory worth pursuing I'd say.

BTW, Acacia took me 3 months to get used to. Wish more would give it some time before they dismissed it.

And Shells, what was that English name for rutabagas? (It's one of my fav veggies, besides parsnips.)

And about a reply post you had a long, long time ago��you said, "Imagine if we were made to believe that liver was good for us?" Well, we were��it came with a lady named Adele Davis, who in the late 1950's and '60's was a nutritional guru in the US. She believed the most perfect foods were liver, yogurt and egg yolk. She also was the first to advocate nutritional supplements, and in a 1965 book of hers (that I still have) she devoted nearly 2 chapters to digestion and digestive enzymes. It wasn't too far out of line with the thinking of today....really!

Shells, I wish the best for you��.and better health ahead��.
Keep us in the loop, ok?

Kandee

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