| Everyone wants to be at a healthy weight, and | | | | with me at the time, but because of the allergies, |
| billions of dollars are spent each year in an | | | | our entire family made the dietary change. |
| attempt to lose excess weight. Unfortunately, | | | | That dietary change, a change to a gluten-free, |
| most of the methods simply don't work. If a | | | | casein-free diet, it what triggered my weight loss. |
| dieter does manage to lose any weight on a | | | | It was amazing weight loss - something you'd |
| reduced-calorie diet, as soon as the diet is over, | | | | hear about in a commercial and know that the |
| the pounds come back and they bring a few | | | | claim was too good to be true. A pound a day is |
| friends. | | | | impossible - everyone knows that. And it's |
| I spent years trying to lose weight - exercising an | | | | probably all water weight or muscle loss, right? |
| hour or more a day, eating practically nothing | | | | Mine wasn't. Part of it was water weight - food |
| (1,000 calories or fewer), and the scale never | | | | allergies and sensitivities cause you to retain |
| moved. My doctor finally said I must have | | | | water in your tissues, and cause inflammation in |
| "metabolic syndrome," that my body essentially | | | | the body. I lost a ring size in a few days. The rest |
| acted as if 100 calories was really 1000 or more | | | | of it was fat - mostly from my abdomen, hips, |
| when it came to weight gain. He stressed that no | | | | and thighs. I wasn't trying to lose weight |
| matter what I did, I wouldn't be able to lose any | | | | (remember, I had given up on that already). I was |
| weight, and my diabetes would never go away. | | | | still eating the same number of calories and I |
| He explained that I would never get back to my | | | | wasn't exercising, but I lost a pound a day for |
| high school weight of 125 - 135. At 5'8" I would | | | | more than a month. I dropped 6 sizes, and if it |
| have been happy even weighing from 150 - 175, | | | | hadn't been for a new pregnancy, I'm sure I |
| but the doctor was telling me that that was | | | | would still be dropping. |
| never going to happen either. I stopped starving | | | | Most people are weakened and tired while they're |
| myself and gave up on losing any weight. | | | | losing weight. After three days on the GFCF diet, |
| Fast forward a few years. When our pediatrician | | | | I had more energy than I'd had in years and my |
| discovered that my new baby was allergic to | | | | Fibromyalgia and arthritis were all but gone. It was |
| wheat and milk and said that chances were high | | | | unlike anything I had ever experienced, and if |
| that everyone in the family had the same | | | | anyone had told me that they experienced |
| allergies, I immersed myself in research. I found | | | | something like this, I would not have believed a |
| that food allergies and sensitivities can cause | | | | word of it. Only by doing the GFCF dietary trial |
| hundreds of symptoms, including weight gain and | | | | myself could I see and believe the results. |
| difficulty losing weight. That didn't really register | | | | |