What can I eat to curb the insatiable hunger??

[red and lulu]

I recently cut wheat out of my diet because, well, it hurts me. I went gluten-free about 4 years ago and only started eating it again when I was pregnant (dd is one). Like the first time I stopped eating wheat I am so hungry ALL THE TIME. I am eating lots of other carbs (brown rice, potato, quinoa, etc.) but I am just hungry constantly. I don't feel satisfied at all after eating. Its been suggested I may want to eat a little fish but I'm not really comfortable with that. But I need something.... any suggestions, recommendations?

[clovergirl]

More good fats, maybe? And definitely up your protein, especially the purest form of protein it is that you eat (for me that would be eggs). Remember that if it was really recent, the hungry feeling could be part of the detox process.
I hope it passes soon, mama.

[Sayward]

You might be experiencing actual withdrawal, as people with intolerances often become 'addicted' to their problem food.

My suggestion would be one of two routes:

Maybe you want the nutrients you were getting from wheat, in which case I'd eat a ton of popcorn covered in nutritional yeast.

You may just want that feeling of 'heavy satiety' that bread products provide, in which case I'd up the good fats (nut butter on fruit, avocado with corn chips, olive oil on sweet potatoes, etc)

I've been wheat (grain actually) free for a few months now and I feel GREAT.

Luck!

[somegirl99]

Legumes, avocados, nuts.

[Koalamom]

Originally Posted by Sayward

You might be experiencing actual withdrawal, as people with intolerances often become 'addicted' to their problem food.

My suggestion would be one of two routes:

Maybe you want the nutrients you were getting from wheat, in which case I'd eat a ton of popcorn covered in nutritional yeast.

You may just want that feeling of 'heavy satiety' that bread products provide, in which case I'd up the good fats (nut butter on fruit, avocado with corn chips, olive oil on sweet potatoes, etc)

I've been wheat (grain actually) free for a few months now and I feel GREAT.

Luck!

How are you vegan and grain free? I need to know. I am trying to be grain free as it makes me feel terrible, but I am having a hard time with it.

[cristeen]

More fats. Fat triggers satiety. But, like a pp mentioned, you may be detoxing. The hungries are a common reaction, and can take up to a week to pass when you start cutting carb sources like wheat.

[Sayward]

Originally Posted by bluebirdmama1

How are you vegan and grain free? I need to know. I am trying to be grain free as it makes me feel terrible, but I am having a hard time with it.

You know, I kind of can't believe it myself! If I actually thought about it before I did it I'm sure I would have thought it would be too hard, but instead I just did it (fighting candida) without question and it felt so damn good I've kept it going for over 2 months now. Don't plan on ever stopping! =)

I do have a few concessions - I eat quinoa and buckwheat because these are technically seeds and I do not react to them like I do to other grains, and I occasionally eat corn (very occasionally, never more than once a week)

So what I DO eat:

Breakfast is almost always a green smoothie with fruit, greens, alt milk yogurt, nuts or seeds, and sups like spirulina, chlorella, nutritional yeast, hemp protein, etc. If I'm not super hungry I'll just have a protein drink (protein powder in water/water kefir). Other breakfasts could be raw 'buckwheaties' (sprouted dehydrated buckwheat) with fresh fruit, or just fruit, or carrots/celery with nut butter.

Lunch is often a big ass salad with nuts/seeds for protein, or a nice bowl of beans if I'm feeling like something heartier. Just beans + salt + nutritional yeast is sooo yummy to me! Or I'll make up a wakame seaweed salad in sesame oil and lemon juice with cucumber and avocado. I work from home so I'll often have 2-3 'mini lunches' instead of one big one. So like a plate of raw sliced veggies with olive oil and balsamic, then some cut veggies with hummus or other beany dip, then alt milk yogurt homemade) with blueberries and flax seeds and walnuts (my current fave, so good!)

Dinners, well, all kinds of stuff! I love roasting veggies with garlic and olive oil. We always have a big green salad with plenty of other raw veggies, including avocado for the awesome healthy fats (and adds feeling of satiety). I'll make pasta for my husband and eat zucchini noodles myself. I'll make a big stirfry and skip the rice I make for my husband and just double up on the veggies/protein (you can also serve stirfry over quinoa). I make tons of curries - thai coconut curry, curried veggie soups (carrot, potato, cauliflower, etc), curried lentil dishes, cold curry salad (quinoa, lentil, or beans), dal, etc. I make a quinoa and black bean salad that's sooo good. I make a lot of mexican inspired food. My husband will eat it with tortillas or corn chips and I put it in a large cabbage leaf! I could go on . . . =D

All my desserts are raw desserts, which are sooooo good and naturally grain free (I'm also sugar free)

I draw a lot of inspiration from raw food recipes. I don't generally try to replace baked goods - none of this coconut flour/almond meal stuff. I just eat delicious, whole plant foods in abundance and with a focus on diversity. It's awesome!

[Koalamom]

WOW mama! You have me in awe! Please come to my house and cook for me.

How do you make raw buckwheat sprouts? Interesting you talk about buckwheat not being a grain, I made buckwheat pancakes the oter day for breakfast and normally I feel like crap afterwards, but this time I felt great. Must have been because I was grain free.

What alternate milk yogurt do you use?

I am loving curries, as I just made my first lentil Dal and it was amazing.

(sorry red lulu to hijack your thread)