Healthy again

Kate posted her story describing years and years of suffering at the hands of wheat, only realized when she rid herself of it. I suspect I may be wheat intolerant. That is, allergic. Something that happened to me recently has “clicked” and I just wish it had not taken me so long to put two and two together. When I was 15 years old, I had relentlessly gained weight over the previous year’s time. It was 1969. I decided I wasn’t going to put up with it, and with my mother’s endorsement I went on the then-popular “grapefruit” diet. I cut all carbs (and as a result, all wheat) out of my diet except for a half a grapefruit, three times a day. I never felt hungry, but I lost weight. When I was satisfied that I had lost all the weight I had gained the previous year, I reverted to a “normal” diet which included wheat breakfast cereal and bread or biscuits (wheat-based) at every meal. I was going to try to monitor caloric intake to make sure I would not regain the lost pounds. Within 24 hours, I developed pain in my upper abdomen which would not go away. I could hardly stand up straight. The pain soon spread throughout my whole trunk and did not subside for nearly a week. Mom thought I was faking it, or that the “grapefruit” diet I had been using was to blame. I never again went on a low-carb diet. I continued to gain a few pounds a year, every year, occasionally beating them back with severe calorie-reduced, high-exercise dieting, only to have the pounds return,...
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