Wheat and Flour Addiction
Wheat and Flour - bread, pastries, pasta, cookies, crackers, etc... - is often
a unique area of addiction for many people; and it deserves a dedicated approach.
First, do not try to address your wheat/flour addiction until you transition to eating
mostly Real Food and mostly twice a day.
People who try to give up wheat/flour first usually have too hard of a time.
Once you make a switch to eating mostly Real Food and can easily eat twice a day,
try stopping eating all wheat/flour, one day at a time.
Some people will do best by eating almost zero-carbs - just eating meat, cheese,
vegetables - eating even more of it. Eating starches or other carbs may
trigger their wheat/flour addiction.
But some people will do best by adding
extra starches, beans, and salads with olive oil.
If you can figure out some combination of food that works, then just keep going
and keep dialing it in until you have a good idea as to what you need to eat
to not crave wheat/flour.
At this point bring your carbs down to under 150 (ideally under 100) grams of carbs a day,
but do it without wheat/flour.
Long-term, if you can go for say half-a-week with no wheat/flour, and have some
quality white bread, pasta, etc on some days, that may be a very good balance
between what you need to eat and what you want to eat.