Some people are in tune with their body. Others are not.
Keep focusing on putting quality foods in your body, ignore the fads, keep and open mind. Listen to your body. Food is medicine.
Some people are in tune with their body. Others are not.
Keep focusing on putting quality foods in your body, ignore the fads, keep and open mind. Listen to your body. Food is medicine.
I'm glad to hear things are improving. I'm the opposite to you; my level of wellbeing suffers very quickly if I eat wheat but comes back rapidly, like within a day or two, when I shun the stuff again. My celiac screen came back negative but I couldn't care less. The old school medical dogma of "if it isn't celiac it doesn't exist" is not supported by those leading the field.
One friend of mine doesn't really feel any different on it or off it but his weight stays higher on it so he tries to avoid the stuff in general.
Another friend felt so crap when he tried cutting out wheat that he just couldn't stick with it. His body was probably like yours in that it could not rapidly adjust to the change.
I took high doses of probiotic pills for a few weeks when I stopped wheat/gluten as per the advice of the William Davis book. I obviously can't say whether or not they helped definitively but for the sake of a few quid I was quite happy to be potentially placebo'ed.
Three weeks in. My weekly food bill actually decreased. I eat less than I used to, have lost a few pounds, but the felt same/if not better just walking around.
The cruddy mood and energy swings haven't come back. My runs since cutting gluten have felt much better. I don't struggle to hit recovery pace.
I am not sure if this is related to the gluten or not, but I had some tender achilles and ankles every start to a run. Especially on cold days. In the past week, that has gone away.
I think I might be intolerant to wheat, periodically in my training I am plagued by annoying occurrences in which I'm in somewhat of a torper for the whole day, my legs get puffy, my stomach is uncomfortable, and a pace that normally feels effortless result in the overwhelming urge to stop at every corner to recover my breath. Still trying to figure this out, some days I feel awesome, other days it's like I've never run.
Get tested for it.