4hourbodygirl

After a history of gut health issues, my angle on the cheat meal is a bit different.

There are arguments for some people such as military or foreign aid workers keeping a tiny dosing of gluten in their diet once a week to maintain better tolerance to it. This is because they have limited choices for eating once deployed, and are likely in for doses of cheap, gluten-laden meals.

If you are not in that category, then my take is that you should remove gluten from your diet, completely.

If that is too hardcore, at the least I would prefer that anyone in their first 14 days of eating Slow Carb, Paleo, or DSP avoids gluten 100%.

Why 14 days? Studies have indicated it takes 10-15 days for the damage and irritation to your gut lining to be healed up following even a single DOSE of gluten.

I know what you are thinking: "But Kiwi, I want my cheat meal!"

If it is part of your plan, you can still have a cheat meal, just don't do it with bread, pasta, pastry or anything else containing gluten. This also means all breakfast cereals are OUT.

For starters you can load up on tequila, dark chocolate, full fat icecream (if you can handle the dairy), and the biggest paella you can find. I recommend you precede it with a wallop of Athletic Greens and a decent workout but you can still go pretty wild!

Trust me on this one, get those 14 days in (or more, 30 is better) and you will be in a far