Day 8 Evaluation

After reading the book, Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, I decided to eat no wheat for a month to see how it would affect my weight and my blood sugar readings. Until day 6, I had absolutely no wheat in anything I ate. (Then I had a very small piece of marble rye bread, which had wheat as well as rye flour.) Yet in those 6 days, I did not lose any weight - and my morning blood sugar readings showed no signs of improvement. The only change I noticed was that my carb cravings did diminish. (Looking at baked goods in a supermarket gave me no strong desire to buy them!)

So after one week, I have decided to stop my experiment as it hasn't improved either of the areas that I am concerned about: blood sugar and weight.

The main reason I am stopping at this point is that I don't want to have issues digesting wheat, something the book says will happen if I remain wheat free and then start eating wheat again. So - after a week of disappointing results - I have decided to stop, before my body becomes intolerant of digesting wheat products.