{"id":1614,"date":"2011-11-19T07:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T07:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2023-07-14T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T01:09:08","slug":"30-days-without-wheat-the-first-20-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/personal\/30-days-without-wheat-the-first-20-days\/","title":{"rendered":"30 days without wheat: the first 20 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a difference ten days makes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten days ago (more or less) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/personal\/30-days-without-wheat\/\">I told you about my 30 days without wheat diet self-experiment.<\/a> I decided to try going for a month without eating any wheat at all. No breads, crackers, pizza, wheat beers, etc. for a full 30 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s now been 20 days since I started the diet, and 10 days since the previous post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The diet so far hasn&#8217;t been terribly difficult to stick with. As much as I love getting sandwiches at local favorites The Sandwich Place and\/or Clare&#8217;s Deli, I stopped thinking about these dining options entirely. Substituting corn tacos for wheat burritos was a refreshing change, and you can&#8217;t go wrong with corn arepas (they&#8217;re delicious.) Plenty of Asian and Indian food is wheat-free. Honestly I wouldn&#8217;t have a problem eating nothing but sushi for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also seems I&#8217;ve inexplicably begun eating smaller meals. Somehow fruit and cheese started becoming my default breakfast recently. For reasons I can&#8217;t explain, everything else seemed disgusting all of a sudden. I started craving more rice and potatoes at lunch and dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scales, however, don&#8217;t show a lot of meaningful change. I&#8217;m starting to think carbohydrates are more addictive than wheat, since if I remove one with my diet I just add more of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is one positive change that I didn&#8217;t anticipate. My skin has never looked better. I&#8217;m starting to think I might have been wrong about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/personal\/acne-dealing-with-nasty-pimples\/\">my acne<\/a>. Could it be a simple wheat allergy? Or is there another variable at play here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My &#8220;cheat meal&#8221; is coming up, and I feel somewhat bad about doing it. I want to push myself further and see what happens after a completely uninterrupted 30 days. 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