Weight Watchers no more after 37 years

Carol posted this interesting comment about her weight loss and health success experienced after reading Wheat Belly: “I have been mesmerized by the book. Being a lifetime member of Weight Watchers since the age of 21 (now 58), I am amazed at how I feel and the weight lost. “I have also suffered from severe scoliosis all of my life and have been on prescription naproxen for since 1987. Since I eliminated the wheat I have not taken any meds, I’ve lost my sweet and salty cravings that often consumed me. Now, with spring in the air, I have not had the sneezing and itchy eyes that I’ve suffered with in the past. I am also a breast cancer survivor, so the cancer linkage is interesting as well. “I am a believer. I feel the best I have in years. I was also amazed at the weight loss–basically a 1 lb a day-–better than what I experienced with Weight Watchers.” You can indeed lose weight without the insights provided in Wheat Belly, but it is typically a painful exercise in deprivation, as many people following Weight Watchers will tell you when you count and limit calories and portions. The opiate peptides that develop upon digestion of the gliadin protein in wheat are appetite stimulants. Any diet that therefore contains wheat will cause you to be hungry all the time, craving junk carbohydrates, especially when you try to cut calories. Remove wheat, remove the gliadin derived opiates, experience a marked reduction in appetite with a drop in calo...
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