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Posted 3/13/2017 1:14 AM (GMT 0)
If so, which ones? ☺️
Posted 3/13/2017 1:23 AM (GMT 0)
Lots of quinoa...lots ...recently into roasted chickpeas and casava chips as good substitutes ..also occasional brown rice
Posted 3/13/2017 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
Yes:

Quinoa, corn (is that a grain?), buckwheat, rice , oats
Posted 3/13/2017 4:49 AM (GMT 0)
Depends on want you want to try.

I had zero grains for two months. Zero. I only re-introduce corn as chips or taco shells recently.

Corn is a hot topic since GMO corn has the chemical Roundup in it and the seeds are modified by man to withstand the Roundup herbicide while everything else around it dies. Tostitos offers a non-GMO version of their chips now.

Santinas discount corn chips by Frito Lay actually say made WITH GMO on the back! - thats the first time I've seen that! They want to make GMO labeling the law, but it isn't yet, so I'm surprised they printed it on the bag already.

Although wheat gluten is the main offender, some functional theories suggest all grain are somewhat inflammatory to the gut and could be related to immune / autoimmune issues. Since that describes me, I thought Id try the Paleo diet, which meant zero grains.

My gut is better, (its great!) but since I eliminated so much , its impossible to say besides milk and gluten what made the difference. By slowly adding back, I should be able to find out. I'm in no big hurry.

http://www.paleodietfoodlist.net/2012/10/grains-are-not-paleo/
Posted 3/13/2017 5:10 AM (GMT 0)
Rice, oats, corn, some flax, barley(haven't in a few years). That's probably it. I don't like the taste of rye anymore so don't eat that at all.

I have cut back significantly on breads, but still eat saltines sometimes. I doubt I eat bread once a week.

I probably make some kind of pasta meal that lasts for a few days, but maybe once a month or less.
Posted 3/13/2017 5:17 AM (GMT 0)
Brown rice. I used to eat white but I can tell that I feel better if I stick to brown. No corn, no wheat, an occasional oat but not much.

I try to eat seaweed everyday also which is not a grain but the high iodine content will detox the other halides we have been overexposed to all of our lives (Chlorine, Flouride, and Bromine).

Bromine has been used as bread conditioner since 1972. Bread has been toxic ever since.

I used to take Flax seed oil and I probably should again.

I was doing ivermectin on a small square of saltine but switched to the pill form for ease of use.
Posted 3/13/2017 4:23 PM (GMT 0)
Quinoa, oats, occasionally rice, and the past few months I've unfortunately let grains with gluten back in, I am imagining and hoping to get back on track.
Posted 3/13/2017 4:30 PM (GMT 0)
Absolutely no corn. It is very hard to find non-GMO corn. We do sourdough bread, but we have to freeze it because we eat maybe a slice in a couple of months. Only pasta is lentil pasta. I tried black bean pasta but it was horribly gooey. Rice about every 6 months. No wheat. Sometimes a spinach tortilla for a veggie wrap.

We don't do this for any other reason than we don't want to eat those things. Just our way of life, not a diet or because of lyme.

oh, I forgot to add that there is quinoa and quinoa pasta in my pantry.
Posted 3/13/2017 4:32 PM (GMT 0)
Amaranth, quinoa, steel cut oats. I never had any problem that I know of with wheat / Gluten before I got sick. I just cut them out on recommendations to go paleo, which I just can't seem get there. So, my starchy foods are above 3 grains plus yams.
Posted 3/13/2017 11:31 PM (GMT 0)
This is such a sensitive topic for me. I used to be a body builder before Lyme. I went on a no-grain diet and lost 25 pounds (most of it muscle). It didn't help at all and now I may never get that muscle back again sad
Posted 3/14/2017 3:22 PM (GMT 0)
My LLMD said no grains during treatment. He said if I have to have something brown rice or quinoa once a week.
Posted 3/14/2017 3:45 PM (GMT 0)

Johnny_Five said...
This is such a sensitive topic for me. I used to be a body builder before Lyme. I went on a no-grain diet and lost 25 pounds (most of it muscle). It didn't help at all and now I may never get that muscle back again sad

You will get it back!!! It may take a bit after you heal, but stuff does get back to normal. Honestly it does.
Posted 3/14/2017 4:58 PM (GMT 0)
Grains? What areeee thoooooose?

edit:

Johnny, were you counting your calories? I'm on a ketogenic diet (low, low, low carb, and high fat, high protein). There's more science to it than this, but, basically, when your body's in ketosis it's running off of fats.

I don't know much the efficacy of building muscle on a ketogenic diet versus a more traditional one, but I'm fairly certain it's possible. I don't know if you've heard of a website called reddit; it's basically a giant forum, right? Well, there's a subreddit called /r/ketogains, which is dedicated to exercising for people who subscribe to a ketogenic diet.

I haven't spent much time there myself, because I'm more focused on just keeping weight on than I am building it. Though, I have started going to a gym. But, really, I just focus on getting enough calories and protein in, then let nature do the rest.

I used to be the same way, with a limited dieting, obsessing over all the things I couldn't eat, wondering how I'd survive. The weight melted away. The beginning of last year I weighed 119 lbs, which is terrible, considering I'm 25/M and 5'10. Flesh and bone. I totally understand the struggle to get the muscle back.

I'm 145 now, and have been for a few months. I eat a few lean meats, healthy fats and oils, and low carb veggies.

There's pros and cons to everything, of course. I'd like to get back to a more traditional diet too. But, I mean, if it's fungal, no grain, or whatever it is that's making you lose the carbs and thereby the calories, don't think that means you can't keep on weight and still workout.

Though, again, the goal should be to get back to something more traditional. Paleo.

I feel like this keto stuff is gonna be a big thing in the future, but I haven't done enough research on it to feel comfortable with it being my mainstay. It does keep your body fed tho, somehow.

All of this may be immaterial to you, just saying it, because I wish someone would have told me about it when I first started out.

Post Edited (NotQuiteAntonio) : 3/14/2017 11:15:43 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/14/2017 8:52 PM (GMT 0)
I pretty much cut all grains. Brown rice bread, jasmine rice (seldom), farina (love this because it goes with anything, yum). But lately I've been much more veggies than anything else.
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