I stopped eating wheat two years ago (no relapse since then). I’ve found that the following technique makes the switch tremendously easier:
Eat a cup of whipping cream before meals.
Explanation: the easiest way to make wheat-craving go away is to already consume enough calories without wheat; I suspect that much of wheat-craving is the result of overestimating the caloric value of a wheat-free diet. Also, low-carbers often has to push themselves to eat slightly more than what they’d otherwise eat because they tend to be more sated than what is common among high-carb people. Moreover, a barrier to major diet change is that time expenditure on food preparation and purchase will inevitably go up for a while after a change. People with scarce free time fall back to old diet patterns because they often find themselves urgently needing calories and grab whatever is most convenient.
Whipping cream is cheap, very dense in high-quality calories, contains almost no health-controversial nutrients, it is very filling, packed in easily measurable and quantifiable units, reasonably palatable (especially if you make an effort to seek out the tastiest available one) and requires zero preparation. Three 175 g cups of 20% fat whipping cream is roughly 1000 calories, which could easily crowd out wheat urges. Even if you dislike the idea of eating whipping cream by the spoon in the long term, it is perfectly able to help you bridge the critical newly wheat-free period, in which period you gradually grow accustomed enough to your new diet so that you can eat diet-compliant sophisticated foods without a significant hit on free time.
A tip, in case anyone is trying to implement this and finding it hard: Try adding a bit of cream to a glass of soda, preferably soda from a can or freshly opened bottle for the carbonation. The result is a variant on an egg cream soda, and may be useful in terms of getting used to the flavor and texture of the cream. (I’ve only tried this with fruit sodas, mostly cherry flavored; I expect it’s similarly tasty using root beer or cola if one likes those.)
I stopped eating wheat two years ago (no relapse since then). I’ve found that the following technique makes the switch tremendously easier:
Eat a cup of whipping cream before meals.
Explanation: the easiest way to make wheat-craving go away is to already consume enough calories without wheat; I suspect that much of wheat-craving is the result of overestimating the caloric value of a wheat-free diet. Also, low-carbers often has to push themselves to eat slightly more than what they’d otherwise eat because they tend to be more sated than what is common among high-carb people. Moreover, a barrier to major diet change is that time expenditure on food preparation and purchase will inevitably go up for a while after a change. People with scarce free time fall back to old diet patterns because they often find themselves urgently needing calories and grab whatever is most convenient.
Whipping cream is cheap, very dense in high-quality calories, contains almost no health-controversial nutrients, it is very filling, packed in easily measurable and quantifiable units, reasonably palatable (especially if you make an effort to seek out the tastiest available one) and requires zero preparation. Three 175 g cups of 20% fat whipping cream is roughly 1000 calories, which could easily crowd out wheat urges. Even if you dislike the idea of eating whipping cream by the spoon in the long term, it is perfectly able to help you bridge the critical newly wheat-free period, in which period you gradually grow accustomed enough to your new diet so that you can eat diet-compliant sophisticated foods without a significant hit on free time.
A tip, in case anyone is trying to implement this and finding it hard: Try adding a bit of cream to a glass of soda, preferably soda from a can or freshly opened bottle for the carbonation. The result is a variant on an egg cream soda, and may be useful in terms of getting used to the flavor and texture of the cream. (I’ve only tried this with fruit sodas, mostly cherry flavored; I expect it’s similarly tasty using root beer or cola if one likes those.)