Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: Breaking plateau

I haven't read the Wheat Belly book, but I think he's done a great job

of making the whole wheat thing be easier for people to understand

(and funny!). Most of the books to date are pretty dry and scientific.

I was fortunate enough to change my diet while my thyroid still worked,

but some of the rest of my family wasn't so fortunate, and they are on meds.
And I'm still getting people telling me how it's all in my head and I'm

just being difficult. Sigh. My kids are on track though, and my daughter

particularly is happy that she doesn't have the "issues" her classmates

have.

My daughter, BTW, has grown up with a mostly Fast-5 kind of life,

mainly because I gave up trying to make everyone "have a healthy

breakfast". She eats very little, compared to her classmates, and

doesn't have the need to constantly snack. She is exceedingly healthy

and athletic. So I don't think parents really need to force kids to constantly

eat ... smaller kids do need to eat more often, esp. babies, but most of

the reason I got into eating constantly is that my Mom was constantly

feeding me. "You need to eat something!" mantra, and always we got a huge

breakfast before school. Quite possibly the starchy, sugary foods we did

have for breakfast set us up for a huge starchy lunch, and then a huge starchy

dinner.

And the main starch was wheat, of course! Your average Asian breakfast

would be a little white rice and broiled fish, or miso soup. And the main

"snack" was traditionally, cups of tea while you study.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:06 AM, <bbarndogz@aol.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response Heather. Your story sounds similar to mine
except I ended up with a severe case of Hashi's on top of all that. I
broke my neck, was paralyzed from the neck down (blessed with a full
recovery) in an accident when I was 18 & always thought that's where
the thyroid problems came from. Went to numerous doctors over the years
with symptoms (thyroid and gluten intolerance symptoms obvious to me
now) and they would either tell me its all in my head, I was just being
lazy, give me pain & other various meds, or they'd try and put me on
antidepressants- all of which I refused. I have learned so much about
my own body over the years. I will be 52 in Jan. Its been a long hard
journey but I'm grateful things are finally falling into place. The
human body is an amazing work of art. Too bad it takes years of study
on our part to learn how to care for it these days.

Thank you to the other person that responded to me also. I saw the book
Wheat Belly at the book store. The name sorta cracks me up. So true!
There's even a chapter in it called...somethin' somethin'..."and Man
Boobs". That cracked me up too:-) I've read a lot about the effects of
gluten and processed foods, "Wheat Belly" looks like a great one. I
will probably try and get it from the library. If I like it a lot it
will be one that I buy. I've got a pretty large collection of books, a
big section is all on true nutrition and health that I'm collecting for
my daughters. They have already learned a ton from me and their own
research but I want to leave them a lot of good references for when the
day comes that I am no longer around:-)

Nancy

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