[metmom]

I normally eat all of them except for barley 🤢 and oats because they said oats were high in carbs, and they make you fat. So what is it? 🤷‍♀️ yea or nay on oats?

I essentially live on oatmeal because of food sensitivities.

No, oats will NOT make you fat.

What you put on them may, but plain oatmeal won't.

I lost weight when I switched from wheat to oats.

Don't know about barley, however barley is a good lower carb grain. I make beef barely soup with it and that's essentially all I use it for.

There's something about wheat though, that makes me pork up almost instantly. I am NOT gluten sensitive nor do I have celiac. Whatever it is, wheat makes me fat.

[grame]

I use barley in my vegetable soup. A favorite of all who partake.

[Buttons12]

I essentially live on oatmeal because of food sensitivities. No, oats will NOT make you fat.

Unless there's some leftover pizza, I'll take oats for breakfast. Love the taste so much, I don't put anything on them except water. No milk, fruit, or sugar, just water. Hungry after sunset -- oats! I weigh about 97 pounds, nothing to worry about when one is just 60 inches high. Fixing a bowl of oats in the microwave takes 45 seconds, another benefit :) Eggs are more nutritious but I haven't the patience in the morning. You have to keep an eye on eggs.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I have hypoglycemia (opposite of diabetes) so blood sugar is very low in the morning and only what I eat (controlled carbs) can control that. So for breakfast I regularly have eggs (omelet style) with only fresh spinach inside, and a dusting of dried basil on top (because I love the taste of basil). A couple of times a week I instead have plain oatmeal (Bob’s Red Mill whole grain rolled oats) with about a half cup of blueberries on top. That seems to satisfy the blood sugar problem and builds up to normal by 10:00. And if I don’t have time for lunch some days, I’m not hungry, and grabbing an apple will do. My downfall is loving breads and pasta at dinner time……sigh

[Go_Raiders]

Wheat makes your gut leak. Much of the toxins from your leaking gut get encapsulated in abdominal fat as a defense mechanism. The toxins not captured also contribute to systemic inflammation which damages just about every critical system in your body.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25734566/

Wheat would be banned for human consumption in any rational civilization.