[brytlea]

Well, one thing I discovered, recently is I have an issue with wheat (maybe gluten, maybe not) and I have been eating other things instead. I have lost a lot of weight this year, but not thru diet, because of a medication I have had to take for something else. If I stay away from wheat (and I stay away from sugar anyway and try to not eat refined things as a rule) and I feel much better when I do that. Occasionally I find it creeping back into my diet (since it is the BASE of the American diet) and find I start having problems again.
Hang in there. Skinny people say, Oh, you’re just fat because you eat too much and are lazy. Well, it’s not really that simple, but you will never convince them, because I guess for them it is. My answer to them is....whatever. Chin up.

[Marty62]

My friend ( is a truth teller) says I don’t look fat. But I feel fat. Big differrence.
The scale ofcourse tells the truth.

I always think that people that say Americans EAT to much, don’t have a clue. I eat one (1) meal a day.
My Doc says I shouldn’t do that due to being too hungry when I do it. Not true. I eat a normal portion.
So it has to be something else. I’m thinking it is not how much I eat but WHAT I eat. I am a purist as far as food is concerned.(no processed, never add salt, that kind of thing)

So I am going to give the proteins a chance to work.
Hope this is the answer.

[grey_whiskers]

Regarding wheat, you might want to read up on celiac disease (wheat intolerance, the body mistakes the gluten protein in the wheat for a foreign invader and so it attacks the villi in the small intestine by mistake).

Cheers!