Defeat Wheat: Your Guide to Eliminating Gluten and Losing Weight

By Brian Gansmann

Defeat Wheat: Your Guide to Eliminating Gluten and Losing Weight, is the debut book by author Brian Gansmann, better known as the Gluten Gladiator. Brian has Celiac disease and through living with this incurable condition, he has discovered a very unique way to live healthy and lose weight. Brian will show you very easy to understand techniques on how to properly eliminate gluten from your diet and be on the fast track to achieving the kind of body that only movie stars have. Brian s love of food began at a very young age, as his parents owned several restaurants and recently celebrated their 26th anniversary in business. He grew up learning to prepare, know, and love not just ordinary food, but great food. In fact, it was this early passion for wholesome cuisine that led him into the retail advertising industry. In 2008, Brian, his business partner, and a Swiss-born chef (who is a member of the American Culinary Federation) founded a successful brokerage firm that creates new items for a number of national retailers and shopping clubs. You may have even seen Brian on Nbc, Fox, Cbs, Abc, and Qvc talking about the benefits of adopting an all-natural diet. Defeat Wheat is his debut book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sakura Publishing
• Release date: Jan 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301321933

Brian Gansmann

Brian's love of food began at a very young age, as his parents owned several restaurants and recently celebrated their 26th anniversary in business. He grew up learning to prepare, know, and love not just ordinary food, but great food. In fact, it was this early passion for wholesome cuisine that led him into the retail advertising industry. In 2008, Brian, his business partner, and a Swiss-born chef (who is a member of the American Culinary Federation) founded a successful brokerage firm that creates new items for a number of national retailers and shopping clubs. You may have even seen Brian on NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, and QVC talking about the benefits of adopting an all-natural diet. His advertising tenure has also included working with the following companies: The Kroger Company, Robert Mondavi Wines, Idaho Potatoes, Hillshire Farms, Red Lobster, Sam s Club, and other well known food/beverage brands. Sometime over the course of working with these companies, Brian was appointed the Director of Marketing for Cedarlane Natural Foods, the second largest frozen organic food company in the nation. While at the helm of Cedarlane, he sold the first made-with-organic frozen line that Wal-Mart ever carried. Additionally, he worked one-on-one with Dr. Barry Sears, the author of the New York Time s Best Selling Book The Zone Diet. The Cedarlane Team and Dr. Sears advanced the development and launch of the Zone Diet frozen meals. These meals adhered to the rigorous standards set forth by Dr. Barry Sears in The Zone Diet and other books that he has written over the years. Brian eventually became the spokesperson for the entire Zone Diet frozen line, appearing with Dr. Barry Sears on several national and local mediums. Today, Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, with his lifelong partner. They have celebrated being together for over sixteen years. They are also the proud owners of two adopted dogs, Weimer, a Weimaraner, and Zoe, a Dalmatian.

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Defeat Wheat

Your Guide to Eliminating Gluten and Losing Weight

By Brian Gansmann

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Copyright © 2011 Brian Gansmann. All rights reserved.

All Rights Reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

First published by Sakura Publishing, Pennsylvania, in 2011.

Print ISBN-10: 0615522831

Print ISBN-13: 9780615522838

Cover design by Derek Vasconi and Brian Gansmann.

Cover layout by Mary Raudenbush.

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About the Author

Brian’s love of food began at a very young age, as his parents owned several restaurants and recently celebrated their 26th anniversary in business. He grew up learning to prepare, know, and love not just ordinary food, but great food. In fact, it was this early passion for wholesome cuisine that led him into the retail advertising industry. In 2008, Brian, his business partner, and a Swiss- born chef (who is a member of the American Culinary Federation) founded a successful brokerage firm that creates new items for a number of national retailers and shopping clubs. You may have even seen Brian on NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, and QVC talking about the benefits of adopting an all-natural diet. His advertising tenure has also included working with the following companies: The Kroger Company, Robert Mondavi Wines, Idaho Potatoes, Hillshire Farms, Red Lobster, Sam’s Club, and other well known food/beverage brands.

Sometime over the course of working with these companies, Brian was appointed the Director of Marketing for Cedarlane Natural Foods, the second largest frozen organic food company in the nation. While at the helm of Cedarlane, he sold the first made-with-organic frozen line that Wal-Mart ever carried. Additionally, he worked one-on-one with Dr. Barry Sears, the author of the New York Times Best Selling Book The Zone Diet. The Cedarlane Team and Dr. Sears advanced the development and launch of the Zone Diet frozen meals. These meals adhered to the rigorous standards set forth by Dr. Barry Sears in The Zone Diet and other books that he has written over the years. Brian eventually became the spokesperson for the entire Zone Diet frozen line, appearing with Dr. Barry Sears on several national and local mediums.

Today, Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, with his lifelong partner. They have celebrated being together for over sixteen years. They are also the proud owners of two adopted dogs, Weimer, a Weimaraner, and Zoe, a Dalmatian.

Table of Contents

Foreword

The Curse of the Ancient Pyramid

Chapter 1: The Day That Changed My Life

Chapter 2: What’s Your Secret?

Chapter 3: Ruffling Feathers in the Food Industry

Chapter 4: The Preliminary Diagnosis

Chapter 5: There Will Be Blood

Chapter 6: Dude, What Happens to You When You Eat Gluten?

Chapter 7: And, The Academy Award Goes To

Chapter 8: Who Are the Celiacs in Your Neighborhood? (You Are Not Alone.)

Chapter 9: Give Blood ~ Your Benchmark Test

Chapter 10: The Basic Principle of Food Selection

Chapter 11: Frozen Food Fanatic

Chapter 12: Kitchen and Office Essentials… for a Dollar!

Chapter 13: Song of the Seven Meals

Chapter 14: Goodbye Ancient Pyramid ~ Hello, Meal-A-Mid!

Chapter 15: The Snack-A-Mid

Chapter 16: Spice Is Nice!

Chapter 17: A Dozen Ways to Prepare for the Work Week

Chapter 18: No Time to Exercise? Just Look in Front of You! (Actually, Don’t Look in Front of You!)

Chapter 19: Pruning the Ornamental Trees

Chapter 20: Something Seems Fishy! (But, That’s a Good Thing!)

Chapter 21: TWONG!! (Insert Sound Effect of a Spring Here)

Chapter 22: The Gluten Gladiator Guarantee

Chapter 23: The Start of Something New

Appendix: List of Inherently Gluten-Free Foods

Additional Sources Used for This Book

Foreword

By Robin Kline

Nothing Brian undertakes and achieves surprises me. Having known and worked with him for almost 20 years, I have been witness to, inspired by, the beneficiary of, and, ultimately, in awe of Brian’s passion—for life writ large, laughter, truth, and always seeking out a better way.

In suffering debilitating symptoms, discovering his intolerance for gluten, and being diagnosed with Celiac disease, Brian brings his razor focus to creating a new life for himself. And, since it’s Brian’s life, it is brimming with infectious energy, compassion, and upbeat good cheer.

As a registered dietitian, I applaud Brian’s dietary choices and his recommended daily eating plan. Both science and Brian’s testimony support the tempting menus he introduces. Enjoying small meals throughout the day is an approach many of us can embrace.

As a food lover and culinary professional, I am pleased that Brian focuses on an extremely satisfied palate in this eating-for-life scheme. His love of big flavors, experience in the kitchen, and understanding the demands of 21st Century lives inspire his appealing menu suggestions.

Something compelled you to pick up this book. Maybe you’re suffering similar symptoms, fighting lack of energy and intestinal distress, looking for answers. Perhaps you’re curious about how one man can turn his life around one step at a time. Or, you simply enjoy good stories about a warrior’s journey.

Always engaging, entertaining, and enlightening, Defeat Wheat offers ideas, answers, and a potential path to renewed life for many readers.

Robin Kline, MS, RD, CCP

Savvy Food Communications

September 2011

Introduction

The Curse of the Ancient Pyramid

I remember the first time I saw the food pyramid in grade school. My teacher clearly pointed out that the biggest portion of the pyramid had all of those colorful wheat-based illustrations. It seemed like all of the pyramid’s cartoon-like characters had smiles from ear to ear: a grinning waffle, a happy loaf of bread, a chuckling muffin, and even a box of cereal that was so ecstatic flakes were bursting out of the top of the box like a volcano. However, as I looked at the illustration, I believed that this was some kind of ancient pharaoh diet based on eating loads and loads of wheat with every meal.

After my teacher’s lecture about the pyramid, I went home and told my parents that I needed to eat more cereal, more bread, more pasta, more pretzels, more bagels, and more muffins. They listened to me. From that point on, my breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners were rarely prepared without some type of wheat. And for millions of Americans like me, that constant ingestion of wheat catches up with you and eventually the Curse of the Ancient Pyramid can bring your life to a screeching halt...

Chapter One

The Day That Changed My Life

It was 2008. I had just arrived in Germany on vacation and -655had picked up a Rick Steves travel book somewhere between Denver International Airport and Munich Airport. I perused the pages of this book, and in case you don’t know anything about Rick Steves he prides himself on being able to tour any country on a shoestring budget. Hence, I got the idea of doing a walking tour in Germany. It sounded great at the time, so I proceeded to go on my trek all across the Deutschland.

It was during my visit to Munich, which had been the first city on the walking tour, when something happened that would change my life forever:

I was shot.

Well, not exactly, but that’s what it felt like. I suddenly found myself on the ground in the fetal position as a result of