Healthy Weight Loss — Without Dietingbread and wheat pasta that are clearly recognizable as wheat-
containing foods. The list of processed foods that can contain wheat
components includes soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, and seasoning mixes;
common processed food ingredients like malt (including barleymalt
and malt extract) may also contain components of wheat. Like
adverse reactions to dairy, adverse reactions to wheat can leave
individuals feeling like their entire dietary balance is thrown off,
and can increase the difficulty of weight management.
Elimination Diet
I have seen that adverse food reactions can be a barrier to losing
weight. As such, when you embark on your Healthy Weight Loss, if
you find that after three weeks of focusing your diet on enjoying
the World’s Healthiest Foods you don’t lose any weight, you may
want to investigate whether adverse food reactions may be the
culprit.
What I would recommend in this situation is a modified elimination
diet. One of the best tools to use for this is to keep a journal. Write
down all the foods that eat each meal, and then when you reintroduce
eliminated foods, write down whether or not you notice experiencing
an adverse reaction to them.
I realize that you’ll need the help of a licensed healthcare practitioner
to diagnose or treat a food allergy, and that you will also need the
support of a healthcare practitioner to go on a full-fledged, nutri-
tionallyrestrictive or nutritionally complicated elimination diet. (I
should also point out here that in the case of some full-blown
elimination diets, medical monitoring is important from a safety
standpoint.) But I am not talking about a full-blown elimination diet
in this situation. I am only talking about some practical steps you
can take to experiment with avoidance of foods that are most
commonlyassociated with adverse food reactions. The chart below
shows the foods that are lesslikely to be associated with these kinds
of problematic reactions.