Hello WFW friends, I'm brand new to this forum and 3 weeks into 100% 'wheatlessness.' At the risk of sounding evangelical, I'm glad - profoundly so - that I made this change.
Going wheat-free may just have triggered my first ever religious experience: this 6ft 3" alpha-male readily genuflects to Dr William Davis. Thanks Bill:)
Why did I relinquish wheat? I'm a fit, mid thirty something man; pescarian, slim(ish), active and generally fit and healthy. But I knew my diet (a lazy fish-eating vegetarian, as you might put it) wasn't doing my favours; pasta, bread, cheese on toast, pastries, sandwiches from petrol stations, subway foot-longs' - supposedly healthy or benign foods that contain wheat - were having progressively unsavoury affectations. But that's par the course, right? I now know how deluded I was. And how, if it wasn't for books like Wheat Belly, and the arguments put forth, that I would have steadfastly remained so. Like so many others.
A few weeks in I'm far less hungry - you really can forget to eat! - and no longer being food-focused or next-meal orientated when on holiday (after all, were we designed as such?). From what I've read and heard, this appears to be a typical benefit. I'm less moody, too - dammit - I never really suffer from pendulous moods, at least I didn't think I did, until people around me started chiming how "calmer" I am nowadays (3 weeks in).
I am clearer in my thinking, too. I must add that in addition to reading Wheat Belly, devouring the myriad interviews and podcasts with Dr Davis and other advocates was especially helpful. "wheat belly podcast" brings up lots of interesting interviews well worth listening to. And lastly, I'm getting more attention from women without even having to work for it - something MUST be working. In fact, I'm half in mind to write the book Wheat Free Not Date Free, but I think that's a niche too far.
Lastly but not least, I'm keen to help some friends I know who work with children with behavioural disorders; I know wheat-free is effective here - does anyone have any recommended links to proven studies in this regards?
pss Incidentally, as I type, Doctor Feelgood's No Mo Do (Dough) Yakamo is playing on Spotify; if anyone knows the song, they'll know why I think of it as calmer.