Cutting bad foods

J72FIT

faern wrote: »

I cut out all processed carbs! I now only have rice. Also, for everyone commenting how bread is fine; it is if it's wholemeal/wholegrain, but your body doesn't know what to do with most breads. I've also cut out dairy products, and mostly substitute sweets for berries and banana nice cream. Psulemon is totally right, cutting out calories from drinks is the best step. Drinking tea, rather than coffee, has also cleared up my skin!
Basically, if its processed, drunk, or oil/sugar/fat, don't eat it.
Expect for wine..... wine doesn't count.

There is so much wrong with this I don't even no where to begin. OP please ignore faern's post...

WinoGelato

faern wrote: »

I cut out all processed carbs! I now only have rice. Also, for everyone commenting how bread is fine; it is if it's wholemeal/wholegrain, but your body doesn't know what to do with most breads. I've also cut out dairy products, and mostly substitute sweets for berries and banana nice cream. Psulemon is totally right, cutting out calories from drinks is the best step. Drinking tea, rather than coffee, has also cleared up my skin!
Basically, if its processed, drunk, or oil/sugar/fat, don't eat it.
Expect for wine..... wine doesn't count.

Those are a lot of completely arbitrary rules that don't make a lot of sense and are not necessary for most people.

I have over 40 years of eating bread experience and I'm pretty sure my body knows what to do with it.

Pretty much every food is processed in some way so I'm not sure how I'm going to cut out processed foods, especially things like Greek yogurt which I find tasty and has a lot of health benefits but is definitely processed.

Oil, sugar, fat... Nothing wrong with these in moderation. Your body needs fat to function it is a key macronutrient...

To the OP, as others have pointed out. You can eat all the foods you enjoy and as long as you're in a calorie deficit you will lose weight. You may find some foods aren't worth "spending" the calories on in the same way that I just can't always justify spending money on a pair of expensive new boots, but if you use MFP they way it is designed, tracking your calories accurately, you will quickly start to see which ones are worth it and which may need to be cut out, or saved up for... Just like boots!

stevencloser

J72FIT wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

J72FIT wrote: »

MommyL2015 wrote: »

Also, for everyone commenting how bread is fine; it is if it's wholemeal/wholegrainbut your body doesn't know what to do with most breads.

Can you elaborate? My body digests it. How wouldn't it "know" what to do with it? I can see if you have celiac disease or are gluten intolerant you might have issues, but for someone who doesn't have issues with food, how would bread be a problem? And what makes whole grain bread different in terms of what our bodies do with it?

Yeah this kind of nonsense just baffles me. It's just bread...

Precisely. I really don't understand this notion that your body is constantly confused by different sorts of foods (made up, in the case of bread, of basically flour and water and salt and yeast). In fact, the issue (such as it is) with more refined flour-based products and other lower fiber carbs (and fats) is that they are SO easy to digest and it happens fast, so for some this either leads to a blood sugar spike (largely due to underlying problems) or simply leaves them hungry more quickly, and of course you get a bit less of a burn from digestion and absorb a higher percentage of the total calories (both pretty small effects).

In other words, your body finds it almost too easy to know what to do and, more accurately, can do it with little effort. If we couldn't digest it or your body couldn't figure out what to do with it you wouldn't be able to get fat from it. Gaining fat, when in a calorie surplus, is the body doing what it is supposed to do.

If our bodies were too confused to handle certain foods our species would have become extinct long ago...

This, along with "If your body didn't know how to digest a food, you'd lose weight, not gain fat." should be in a huge banner on top of every page in MFP.

MommyMeggo

My body knows exactly what to do with bread....and everything else I eat.
Our bodies are smart, yes, but not so much that they become, for lack of a better word, confused.

That makes me LOL picturing myself eating a breadstick.
Then my organs start spewing out a bunch of question marks asking each other "WTF are we supposed to do with this?"

kate2004rock

dbanks80 wrote: »

ellieliam9796 wrote: »

So for the past 2weeks I have removed bread from my diet competely and have replace it with ryvitas. So far in 2 weeks I have lost 1.5 pounds with no exercise. Does anyone know any other foods you could remove out of your deit to help lose weight?

Didn't you see Oprah's commercial you can have bread!!!!


Oprah said it so it must be true!!!

Except she doesn't seem to look any skinnier. I'd like to see her before and afters!

arabianhorselover

Personally I'm tired of hearing about Oprah and her diets. A lifetime of diets, and no long-term effects.