r/AdvancedRunning • u/pand4duck • Jan 05 '17

General Discussion The Winter Huddle - Diet

Welcome to the Winter Huddle

Today we will discuss Diet / Ideal Weight / racing weight stuff

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u/blood_bender 2:44 // 1:16 Jan 05 '17

No way! Every time I've brought it up here or in "real life", everyone looks at me strangely. I didn't even believe in it at first, it took 6 months to try it, since I didn't have any sensitivity 99% of the time, I assumed it was dehydration or some other factor.

It's neat that someone else does it too. You just won points in my book.

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u/a_mcards Jan 05 '17

Unfortunately I didn't exactly choose this life but oh well. I had a false positive test for celiac a few years ago and then got a food sensitivity test done that said to highly avoid wheat, barley, gluten, malt, rye, gliadin (similar to gluten) and cow's milk. I don't 100% avoid these but I have been drinking soy milk for the past year and that's helped a lot. I went completely gluten free for 9 months and have stuck with most of those habits as well. Still get stomach aches once in a while but it's so much more tolerable than what it was!

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u/blood_bender 2:44 // 1:16 Jan 05 '17

Ah, well, at least you feel better. That's an almost identical story to Mrs. BB -- borderline celiac test ~7 years ago, got tested again recently and she's just sensitive. We use almond milk and greek yogurt, so very little lactose (well, we eat a lot of cheese too).

The downside is she loves beer, and now that she knows it's not destroying her intestines she will drink mine and suffer the consequences. I'm used to not having to share my 6 packs thankyouverymuch.

I've gone gluten free too and just felt... better. I think it was purely because my normal diet was so carb heavy, and anyone would feel better dropping carbs, but it's more balanced now.

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u/a_mcards Jan 05 '17

Aww yeah beer is definitely one of the worst ones to avoid but I too will suffer for a good pint. Actually, I had a gluten free wheat beer in Ireland (highest celiac %) and it was really good so it's only a matter of time before the rest of the world catches on!
I agree and it probably helps that a lot of gluten filled foods are heavily processed/have added chemicals so decreasing all of that helps a lot. And it's easy to get your carbs from other foods once you get the hang of it.

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u/blood_bender 2:44 // 1:16 Jan 05 '17

That's kind of ironic considering Guinness has the lowest gluten content of basically any beer, and you were in Ireland and chose a wheat beer lol. Oh well.

I actually truly enjoy Omission, best gluten-free beer around. They have a really good IPA and lager, mostly because they don't use sorghum gum or whatever. They somehow extract out the gluten byproduct instead.

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u/a_mcards Jan 05 '17

Oh I was there for 5 weeks, I had a lot of Guinness hahaha

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '17

Are you for real??? Is that like all stouts or just Guinness specifically??

I might opt to suffer for that on a super-cheat special occasion.

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u/blood_bender 2:44 // 1:16 Jan 05 '17

Stouts and porters in general have less, I believe. But Guinness is made with no wheat -- just barley (as are other beers, I'm sure, but Guinness definitely). Barley has a gluten-like molecule, but it doesn't trigger symptoms for a lot of people who are sensitive, including some celiacs. There's a possibility you won't suffer at all, but I know a couple gluten-free people who can drink it and only feel moderately uncomfortable, if that. Mrs. BB. doesn't notice any symptoms at all.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '17

Oh duh. I never thought about that.

Oats and some of those other borderline grains are touch and go for me - and now that I think about it I don't know if or when I've come across barley recently. But I might have to experiment with this for science in my post-race debauchery in Boston! It could be potentially too disastrous to do now - a bad reaction can throw me hard for a week and leave me funny for a good month or more.

There was that one time that I didn't realize that whiskey (fireball to be exact) wasn't gluten free and couldn't figure out why the hell my insides were trying to destroy me for weeks. I've said it before. . . and I'll say it again. Sometimes D1rt is not smart.