[tyweir]

> Thinness is not an issue, since sugar is not off limits.

Paleo eating excludes refined sugars completely, and asks you to reduce fruit. Meat and veg, nuts and seeds, some fruit, no grains, no dairy.

> A week won't do it on the diet change,

Totally agree here. And switching from a traditional high-carb, low-fat diet to paleo leads to 2 or 3 weeks of feeling like crap. We're 5 weeks into our Paleo Challenge at the gym I own, and most people are feeling like a million bucks. We do our best to impress upon them that the first 2-3 weeks will be difficult.

[jerf]

I did a low-carb diet long before I knew I had celiac, but it still affected me (and in fact I was frustrated when the low-carb promise of energy did not materialize; in hindsight I now know it was because it was dominated by the celiac-induced problems). The problem is that a low-carb dieter may not feel bad about having small quantities of wheat in their diet (very lightly breaded meats, or any of the other numerous otherwise-fairly-low-carb items that have a fine dusting of flour in them), and it only takes small quantities to still be affected.

I eat to manage my glycemic index now, but I unfortunately can't honestly split what is that part and what is getting off of gluten, I just know both have proved necessary to me. But of the two, for someone with celiac getting off the gluten is by far the more important.