Wheat addiction?

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I didn't think that I ate a lot of wheat before attempting to go gluten-free, but I've found that I ate more than I'd realized. And I'm having a very hard time cutting it out. I'm quite shocked and disturbed by this. I know how miserable it makes me feel. It makes me physically ill, and it causes serious fatigue. And yet I have these intense cravings for it when I try to cut it out.

This past weekend I fell off the wagon and had bagels and pizza. As a result, the entire weekend I had no motivation to do anything and spent a good portion of it sleeping. Not to mention the stomach troubles. I keep doing this, and I hate myself for it. Why am I unable to resist something that so obviously makes me ill? I'm thinking they aren't kidding about celiac sufferers going through opiate withdrawal. This is ridiculous!

Has anyone else experienced this? Any tips on how to get through it? I'm sure that once the withdrawal phase passes, I'll be fine. But I've been trying to do this for months now, and I keep giving in and getting my "fix".

As you mention eliminating wheat can be real tough for some, as I've read. Recall this article about a persons difficulties when he stopped eating wheat and lengthy withdrawal that followed.

For me, I was lucky, I didn't notice a difference when I stopped consuming wheat.

"Heroin, Oxycontin, and a whole wheat bagel"
http://www.trackyourplaque.com/blog/201 ... bagel.html

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Thanks for the info. I really hope it doesn't take me a whole month. I've been feeling like I'm hung over since yesterday morning. So much for never touching drugs, eh?

I used to 'relapse' all the time. Just keep getting back on the wagon, and try and trundle a bit further before you fall off again. If you feel that crappy on the wheat, then it's fairly self propelling. Eventually you get sick of making yourself sick all the time.

Drink lots of herbal teas whenever you get the urge to nosh on munchie foods. This helped me lose some weight too.

That hardest part is foods being made from wheat taste so damn yummy! I do the same damn thing, knowing exactly how awful, loopy, and de-motivated I feel when I eat that crap, but doing it anyway. It's been about 4 days since my last "binge", downing a 1 pound bag of Twizzlers in a fairly short amount of time.

I couldn't help myself and ate 4 slices of white bread for lunch..... Going to regret that in the morning.

I am drawn to eating wheat - bread, pasta, cakes, biscuits etc. I know they make me sick but I can't stop craving them

I can give up chocolate more easily that wheat

Me too. I wish I was allergic to chocolate instead. That would be way easier.

I bought some gluten-free flour today and a few other things, so that next time I'm craving it so much that I feel I'm going to give in to the temptation, I can eat that stuff instead. I hope it works, because that stuff is expensive. I'm on day 6 now this time.

I am addicted to wheat, straches, breads, bagels, and twizzlers too i could eat alot of those, plus lots of chocolate i am addicted to. My moods and focus plus energy arent so good when i have these foods, but i do it anyway. I need to try to get back on track and exercise again.

I've been trying to be gluten-free for a while now. I think it's actually been several months, but every time I give in, I reset the time mentally, so I'm not sure how long it's really been. Every time I eat gluten, whether it's on purpose or accidentally (the last time was from some soy sauce!), I start craving it like mad and feeling incredibly hungry. Once I manage to get through 7-10 days, then I stop craving it and don't feel hungry all the time.

But I wanted to say that I went to the doctor yesterday and all of my deficiencies and malabsorption issues are GONE. I can't believe I spent so many years having no clue that it was gluten causing me so many health issues. I especially can't believe my doctor never thought of it when visit after visit, year after year, no matter how many mega-doses of supplements she prescribed me, nothing ever changed. I can't tell you how happy I am. I will never (purposely) eat gluten again. Even though it's all my favorite foods.

I used to get all wacky eating wheat, but I seem better now, and I tentatively speculate that I was suffering from a 'leaky gut' and that it was healed by drinking kefir. I don't know this for sure though, so I wouldn't claim it as a fact.

Sadly, I gave up dairy products years ago for making me ill. Seems that celiac can cause dairy intolerance though, so maybe if I'm lucky I can start consuming dairy again at some point.

I found for me, I stopped craving wheat about 2-3 days. But this might have been because I didn't eat much of it (aside from the occasional pastry) and so it was easier for me to quit.
But even those occasional pastries had been making me sick. I'd always be hungry, tired, and not able to exercise much without it feeling like I had 'legs of lead.' Once I quit totally, the change was amazing.

I think the only thing that's hard, is that wheat/gluten is found in soo many things, from some forms of caramel coloring to cans of Cambell's Tomato Soup. It really is a pain in the butt going gluten free, because the manufactuers insist on putting the stuff in everything.

I went for year going gluten free. What a waste of a year. I feel better since that year. Also in december of that year I went without solid foods for 21 days. I might have had chocolate candies but other than that no edible food. Horrible.