Hungry2

I can not close my eyes to sleep tonight except I enter a follow up post to the previous one. In the prior post, I spoke about hunger and what drives it. I offered a light discussion on food chemistry. Although, I believe our taste buds can signal to us what's missing and drive us to keep eating until the need is met; yet something more pervasive can be the cause of our hunger. People with known or unknown gluten intolerance have complained of this unyielding hunger. I acknowledge this as I too have an intolerance to gluten. For the past two and a half years I have followed a gluten free diet that set me free from my hungry demon. But recently I was ready to abandon the strict diet in order to be more social among friends eating as they ate (pizza, breads, desserts). As I compromised my diet in another way filling up on canned baked beans, and adding non gluten free mayo and mustard to make egg, tuna, or chicken salad. My hungry demon returned with a vengeance. Yesterday I ate two pints of white rice, one serving of black beans, two servings of cookies (gluten free), an orange and six pieces of green mint candy all in one setting. To burn the excess calories I did an intensive bike ride later that day. I felt exonerated. Reading the G Free Diet A Gluten Free Survival Guide by Elisabeth Hasseleck, strengthened my resolve to continue to fight the good fight. Link to www.gfreeDIET.com