I'll cut out fats and sugars and caffeine...even chocolate...before I'll cut out wheat.
I have something like an addiction to sugar, and to wheat/cornbread/quinoa even. To every starchy thing. When I do eat these things, I love it so much. But I can feel a reaction beginning within twenty minutes. When we have these things in the house (like when the kids are here), I eat and eat pasta and cookies and pie and ice cream. After everyone is gone, we don't have those things around and I go through a kind of sugar-craving, starch of any kind craving withdrawal. Once I am through that...I see the bones on my face, again. My eyes are not swollen. I have energy
and my mood improves.
I haven't researched the why behind it, but I am very sure that is how my body works.
I too have food-related asthma. It isn't just to any one thing. I think it must be something to do with sugar/starch metabolism more so than gluten. Gluten free products elicit the same reaction non-gluten free things do.
I also believe we require a certain amount of fat to counteract the sugars in ice cream and etc that are made now in low fat varieties. I do not eat low fat anything. When I see pics of myself taken with the kids at the beginning of our time together I look like myself. Pics taken toward the end of the trip show my face swollen and just ~ I just look less defined, less
clear.
There is a diet my sister used. The one where you eat all the meat, all the fat, all the eggs, you want. No veggies, even. Then, after your system has cleared, you add veggies.
Then, fruit.
Sugar, the metabolism of sugar, sets up a pattern of insulin release and sugar craving and more sugar and more insulin release, so that we feel as if we are starving because of our own insulin.
My sister had always had a heaviness in her hips. With this diet, she lost that.
So it does matter what we take in.
I ate cookies again last night for that same craving-related reason. The kids have just been here and I am pasta addicted, and sugar addicted, again.
D H craves pasta, too. As he ages, he finds too that if he eats too much of it, he just isn't feeling right.
Same thing with potatoes. For me, rice will set off whatever it is happening with starches and sugar for me.
I love to bake. I love everything to do with baking and smelling and eating fresh bread or any kind of bread, even bread pudding.
For me, it has to do with how we metabolize sugar.
What if you were to stop using any kind of sugar, to stop eating any form of starch too, for three weeks, Lil?
Or even, for three days. That is the amount of time it takes for me to stop craving sweets or bread or pasta after the kids have gone home.
I weigh less than what is expected, for my height.
Cedar