Avoiding foods that disagree with your gut can play an important role in fat loss.
Have you started your 3 weeks without wheat or dairy yet? To be able to carry out an elimination challenge diet without pain and suffering you need to stock up your kitchen with alternatives!
Preparation is the key to success with this diet.
But the good news is that there are a huge amount of alternative products on the market nowadays.
Wheat alternatives
Rye bread, rice, quinoa, brown rice, millet, corn, buckwheat pasta.
Wheat and gluten free pasta and bread. Spelt is an ancient form of wheat and contains less gluten. You might feel better with spelt but it’s probably best to avoid for 3 weeks.
Read labels carefully – sometimes buckwheat pasta or rye breads contain wheat. You will be surprised at how many products contain wheat.
I love quinoa – I add it to soups to fill me up.
Dairy Alternatives
There are a lot of calcium alternatives to dairy.
Soy milk (Bon soy is the best brand), Oat milk, Rice milk, read labels carefully to check for hidden sugar and additives
Goat milk and sheep milk can be good for your gut, cows milk can cause problems.
Fresh Almond milk is easy to make at home.
Easy & yummy fresh almond milk recipe
1 cup of almonds soaked over night (6-12 hours)
Wash almonds and and blend with 2 cups of water. Blend on high speed for 1-2 minutes
Sieve through a muslin cloth or cheesecloth. Delicious!
Foods that cause bloating, gas and heaviness make impure energy (Damp) in Chinese medicine.
The digestive system does not like damp energy and fat is the accumulation of damp energy in Chinese medicine.
Avoiding these damp forming foods such as wheat, dairy or banana is something worth trying to see the effect on your body. When you reintroduce the food in your system, you need to investigate how much is too much for your system. Once a day? Or once in a 3 days? Half size pasta is Ok? Or can you cope with quarter of a pizza?
I keep out wheat and dairy at home to enjoy Italian restaurant with my friends or to eat sandwich at café if there is no other choice.
I am fine now. I have established good relationship with my dear wheat & dairy, and so I believe knowing what foods that suit your system plays a big role on sense of well-being as well as weight loss. Foods you like not necessarily agree to your gut but there are a lot of other choices make you healthy and happy. Please take this opportunity to enjoy new discovery of foods for your gut.
Food should give you energy and smile not trouble.
Ayano Izuta, Naturopath
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