I lost the wheat, but didn’t lose the weight: Updated version

Yes, it happens: Rid your life of all things wheat and you get relief from acid reflux, joint pain, and high blood sugars . . . but not weight loss. While most people enjoy rapid and dramatic weight loss with wheat elimination due to the loss of the appetite-stimulating effect of gliadin-derived opiates, the loss of repetitive glucose-insulin provocation of amylopectin A, the reduction of inflammation from the combined effects of gliadin/wheat germ agglutinin/amylopectin A, and reversal of the leptin-blocking effect of wheat germ agglutinin, this doesn’t happen to everybody. Or you lose, say, 20 pounds, only to have weight loss stall for an extended period with another 50 pounds to go. Why? Elimination of wheat is an extremely powerful strategy for regaining control over health, appetite, and weight. But it cannot correct or undo every abnormal situation that causes weight gain or blocks weight loss. For some people, there is one reason. For others, there can be several. Sometimes the problem is something else in diet, others it can be entirely unrelated to diet. While wheat elimination is the most powerful strategy of all, given its ubiquity in foods and because it has the greatest weight gain effect, removing other grains also adds extra weight loss punch, since all grains share genetic characteristics, much like all the fish in the ocean share many traits. Lose the wheat, but then lose all other grains for maximum weight loss impact. This means getting rid of all ...
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