There is yet another diet fad sweeping America, Gluten Free Diets (please see tab above- About Gluten Free). The Hollywood svelt are singing it's praises. Now remember, I'm not a medical professional or dietician, so if you have been diagnosed with Gluten Intolerance or your physician has you on a Gluten Free Diet, then by all means carry on. If however, you are self diagnosing or you want to try a gluten free diet on your own, you may want to read on. Again, I was there earlier this year, I wanted to go gluten free. I thought maybe I was gluten intolerant. Like a lot of overweight folks, I was looking for something to blame. Some easy solution as to why I was working so hard but was still overweight.
What is really happening though, is that by eliminating gluten from thier diets, they are just avoiding a lot of carbohydrates. If you are otherwise healthy, this may not be so wise. We need a balanced diet, and there are a lot of benefits to eating healthy grains. We need to stick to whole grains and the less processed the better, but there is nothing wrong with eating grains if you can tolerate them. So if you stick to the formula I've been harping on since the beginning, eat the right amount of calories and have the biggest percentage of your calories coming from lean protein, then you should have no trouble losing weight. Keep your diet balanced, don't eliminate anything if you don't need to. This will keep you satisfied, content, and able to maintain healthy eating habits the rest of your life. Thus you will feel better. And that's been my objective all along.
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