Just wondering if anyone is on weight watchers or trying to lose weight. I've gain about 20lbs from last sept and would like to lose it.
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The effect of wheat elimination on weight loss is intriguing.
I fully recognize that it defies credibility, but the typical effect of abrupt and total wheat elimination is weight loss of one pound per day. This translates to the equivalent of 3500 calories (the calories contained in one pound of body fat) lost. How can this be? How can elimination of wheat–without limiting other calories, without cutting fat intake, without pushing the plate away or consuming smaller portions–lead to an incredible rate of weight loss equivalent to 3500 calories lost per day? After all, elimination of wheat reduces calorie intake by 400 calories per day. That leaves 3100 calories per day unaccounted for. Where do they go?
I don’t have an answer . . . I can only speculate that, with elimination of wheat, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and 400 calories per day less consumed leads to the equivalent of 3500 calories lost in weight because:
–Wheat elimination restores leptin sensitivity–Resistance to the hormone of satiety, leptin, leads to stalled weight loss efforts. The lectins in wheat have been shown, at least in an experimental animal model, to block the leptin receptor. Could it be that elimination of wheat restores leptin sensitivty? And does that somehow lead to accelerated metabolism?
–The weight lost is really water weight–Actually, I don’t think this is likely to be entirely true, since there is such an large effect on reducing waist size. If you track waist circumference as you progress through your wheat-free experience, you will note substantial reductions in waist size. This is unlikely to represent water loss.
There is clearly something quite unique and not fully understood going on. I’ve seen it happen many, many times. Read the comments here and on Facebook and you see the rapid weight loss developing at about the pound-a-day rate...
I think Weight Watchers is a great program, but it is not a diet -- it must be a way of life -- the problem for people with Crohn's we often have to cut back on the raw veggies and opt for canned fruit, but it will work as long as we work with the crohn's. It is easy to get discouraged -- have had a very rough week -- too much raw foods -- so having a gout and crohn's flare. My one kidney is not liking it either. So back to primarily cooked foods, but WW will work with an eye to our particular problems.Just wondering if anyone is on weight watchers or trying to lose weight. I've gain about 20lbs from last sept and would like to lose it.
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Last week when i saw my sergeant he pulled out the BMI chart and told me i just need to drop 100 pounds so i'm no longer morbidly obese and i could stay in the obese section. He would not comment about taking off the excess skin once i lost the weight.Gahhh, Ill take all of your weight off your hands. I'm trying to put on 20lbs or so