Gluten Is Gone

Monday, July 11, 2011

gluten free, a diet?

I have heard of “the gluten-free” diet a good bit recently. It is a completely hilarious concept to me. However, I am not going to deny that I have lost weight since going gluten free. Because I have. Not anything drastic of course, but still. The reason I lost weight, however had nothing to do with the mere fact that gluten was no longer in my food.

I lost weight going gluten free because I had to make a permanent lifestyle, or in this case eating style, change. Gluten was not miraculously making me fatter. It was the foods as a whole that I was eating. The foods that I no longer could eat because they contained gluten, I replaced with healthier gluten free options. Now that is not to say that I couldn’t have replaced them with unhealthy options because I could. That was a choice I made. Gluten does happen to be in a lot of higher calorie foods that are not essential but are delicious. That is why I weighed more; not because of gluten.

It is just like the no carb diets. People don’t lose weight because they have eliminated carbs. They lose weight because the majority of the foods they eliminated because of carbs, were also unnecessary and full of empty calories.

Going gluten free works when you make a lifestyle change that is permanent. If it was temporary as the term diet suggests then you must also understand that the results too are temporary.

People if you don’t want to be fat, then think about what you are eating. That is all that a good diet really does. It makes you think about the foods you are eating and guides you to make better food choices.