Ranee at Arabian Knits wrote:
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> Once I discovered the difference in my health dropping wheat made, my
>> attitude towards it changed dramatically. Moo. Give that poisonous
>> grass stuff to the cows and I'll eat the cows thanks.

Thing is before I tried Atkins I had never gone a week wheat free in my
life. It was as much a part of the background as water. I was what I
thought was healthy and normal. I had no data and no idea that I had
any food intolerance. The increased health was very surprising to me.
And now I read folks who claim they have no food intolerances and I ask
- What foods do you eat all the time? Have you ever gone a week without
that food as far back as you can recall? In the absense of real data I
would have claimed I have no food intolerances.

Once I knew what happened when I went wheat free I auditted all of the
other foods I eat regularly. On the list were eggs and dairy. So a few
months down the line I went egg free for a couple of weeks and then
added eggs back in. Then in another month I went dairy free for a
couple of weeks then added dairy back in.

>> With a new
>> attitude I developed very fast and easy mental wheat filters. I scan a
>> menu or shelf and my mind ignores items that are likely to have wheat.
>> It took some practice to train my mind to it but it became easy in a few
>> months.
>
> I think this is true no matter how one chooses to eat. I think this
> is part of how some people don't see the boxed stuff in the store, like
> us, and how some people don't seem to find the real food and good deals.

Shopping habits are a matter of efficiency. I get that. Focus on what
you want and filter out the rest. I don't think folks even realize the
amount of filtering their minds do. When I changed how I ate I went
through the grocery store looking at every level of every shelf in every
ailse looking for stuff I had been ignoring. Then I decided what I was
going to start ignoring and what I was going to start focusing on. It
was work but with a little practice it got easy.

> I have trained myself to look for vegetables, fruit, whole grains,
> things like that. I've also trained myself to look for the orange mark
> down stickers, because it means we can get a treat for less (there was
> not from concentrate orange juice marked down recently that came in
> handy as we were all sick), or staples for a much better price. I
> bought a bunch of organic, non-GMO cornmeal for a better price than the
> plain yellow.

At this point some store could have a display of free whole wheat bread
and I wouldn't even notice it.

> So our corn bread has been blue for a little while.

Breathe, bread, breathe! Get that oxygen flowing! ;^)