“I ate one cookie and gained 30 lbs”

I’ve discussed this before, but it comes up with such frequency that it’s worth discussing again. Say you’ve been wheat- and grain-free for the past 3 months. Your son or daughter is celebrating a birthday with a big, beautiful birthday cake and a cheesy pizza. The aromas alone are intoxicating! What’s the harm in having a bite of birthday cake or just a single darned slice of pizza? You tell yourself that you’ll make up for it by being good all weekend, even exercising an extra half an hour. You experienced Wheat Belly followers all understand that this triggers re-exposure phenomena typically experienced as gastrointestinal distress, bloating, acid reflux, diarrhea, joint pain, and emotional effects (depression, mind “fog,” anger). If an autoimmune or neurological process was present before you began the wheat/grain elimination, symptoms of those conditions can return, such as joint pain and swelling with rheumatoid arthritis, loss of balance and coordination in cerebellar ataxia, or bloody bowel movements and diarrhea in ulcerative colitis, effects that can often persist for weeks or months after the re-exposure. But some people experience a re-triggering of appetite. Recall that wheat and grains exert three known paths to increase appetite: 1) Gliadin and related grain proteins are partially digested to peptides (not single amino acids as with digestion of other proteins not from poorly-digested seeds of grasses) that have opiat...
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