Should I cut out bread?

kamp150

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

caribougal

It worked for me, since those are the things I tended to overeat. I replaced them with veggies. It's hard to overeat veggies. Ultimately, it comes down to staying at a calorie deficit. If you cut those things out, but then eat lots of candy that takes you over your cal goals... it won't help your weight loss.

Shock_Wave

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

No.. But eating under your maintenance calorie intake every day will... Keep it simple Calories in vs Calories out..

Acg67

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

Would depend on what you replace them with and if you have any underlying medical conditions

Yaya1976

I cut out potatoes for sure, but I didn't and won't cut out bread. I love sandwiches and I'm sorry I just can't eat one without bread. Just buy healthy bread. Sara Lee has low calorie bread. I've been buying Jewish Rye bread, it's 70 calories a slice. Taste good too

cbrrabbit25

i stopped eating white bread and i only do wheat now. i would say that it helped for me only because the white bread I was eating had a lot more calories than the wheat bread that i eat now. plus, i do it more for the sugar reduction and other health reasons.

pastryari

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MinisterTom

Bread and potatoes are some of my favorite foods. Don't cut them out completely if you like them. It will cause you to crave them, and overeat them when you try to satisfy the craving. Limit them as much as possible.

jenlarz

Maybe just replace with whole grain bread, brown rice or quinoa, and non-fried potatos

themedalist

It all depends on the person. Some people are more successful losing weight limiting breads, potatoes, and rice. Me...I lost 45 pounds in part because I regularly ate those three foods.

Shock_Wave

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Chief_Rocka

There's nothing inherently wrong with these foods, but if it helps you to reduce calories, yes.

pastryari

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Mokey41

You need to reduce calories, not food groups. If you quit eating bread and replace it with something of equal calories it isn't going to make a difference.

cwolfman13

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

No.. But eating under your maintenance calorie intake every day will... Keep it simple Calories in vs Calories out..

^^^ This!

That said, what kind of breads and rices are you eating? If you're eating white breads and white rices, I'd switch over to whole grains and brown and wild rices. This, and portion control have made a big difference for me. I'm getting a lot more fiber (especially soluble fiber) than I ever used to. In RE to potatoes, you might consider using small red potatoes to better control portions and mix in some sweet potato from time to time as well (really good for you)...and remember, skins on...that's where the nutrients are.

If you're noticing on your diary that your carbs are exceeding the recommended amount, you'd likely want to trim back...but I wouldn't cut them out all together. Rices, potatoes, and breads provide essential nutrients to the body.

Just remember serving size/portion control and be honest with your diary...and keep a calorie deficit.

Katie22222

You need to reduce calories, not food groups. If you quit eating bread and replace it with something of equal calories it isn't going to make a difference.

It does make a difference, if you replace it with something containing more nutrients, for example. Bread really is just empty carbs.

Shadowknight137

I'm allergic to bread, and hate potatoes.

Try sweet potatoes. They're awesome and very satiating.

belgerian

I mostly cut out bread from my diet I still eat my carbs thru other sources my oatmeal primary and fruits I love my oatmeal and fruits It seems to have helped me but of course so has the excersise and having a deficit. I cut it out becouse I LOVE bread. Still eat pizza everynow and then and rolls smothered in butter on the holidays. Or is it butter smothered in rolls I always forget.

zaph0d

if you cut out bread, cook an egg in the hole! delicious!

jilliew

I have mostly cut out bread, potatoes and pasta from my diet - my general rule is that I don't buy them to eat at my house, but I don't protest if someone else is cooking or if we're eating out. I just found that I could NOT eat an appropriate serving if left to my own devices, so cutting it out all together was the answer. It helps me stay within my calories and, as someone else says, I eat way more veggies and fruit as an alternative. I still cook with rice and rice noodles.

Monie_LG

I'm not sure how healthy it is to completely cut out bread, carbs are still part of a healthy diet.
However, replace bread with whole wheat and limit yourself to eating it only in the morning or for lunch, never later.
Potatoes, you can have them maybe once a week, but make them sweet potatoes, much healthier. And not fried of course!

Captain_Tightpants

The question isn't should you but could you... for the rest of your life?

If the answer is no, then don't. Lose weight by eating in a fashion that you will be able to maintain forever, or you'll just put it all right back on again plus extra.

love22step

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

It's suggested you eat them in limited quantities. However, limiting those foods may be even more helpful in preventing heart disease and diabetes. High glycemic foods, such as white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, convert to sugar when consumed. The basic guidance is: Don't eat white foods. You want to predominately consume low-glycemic foods. You can search the internet for lists of low-glycemic and high-glycemic foods. Good luck!

lizziebeth1028

If there are no medical reasons for cutting out bread I would say NO. Your profile says you're 18 year old male with 35 pounds to lose - set a sensible calorie goal, eat a healthy well balanced diet with lot's of protein, fresh fruits and veggie and work out like a beast..you'll do fine!

Jacwhite22

I cut the crust off of the bread because my kids don't like it.

tigersword

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

It's suggested you eat them in limited quantities. However, limiting those foods may be even more helpful in preventing heart disease and diabetes. High glycemic foods, such as white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, convert to sugar when consumed. The basic guidance is: Don't eat white foods. You want to predominately consume low-glycemic foods. You can search the internet for lists of low-glycemic and high-glycemic foods. Good luck!

Ugh. The glycemic index means NOTHING. Low glycemic foods convert to sugar when consumed just like high glycemic foods do. ALL carbs are sugar. Also, consuming sugar does NOT cause diabetes, stop spreading lies.

rufflestx

Kind of lengthy, but "bottom line - - This is not the wheat your great-grandmother used to bake her bread. It is FrankenWheat -- a scientifically engineered food product developed in the last 50 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/wheat-gluten_b_1274872.html

love22step

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

It's suggested you eat them in limited quantities. However, limiting those foods may be even more helpful in preventing heart disease and diabetes. High glycemic foods, such as white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, convert to sugar when consumed. The basic guidance is: Don't eat white foods. You want to predominately consume low-glycemic foods. You can search the internet for lists of low-glycemic and high-glycemic foods. Good luck!

Ugh. The glycemic index means NOTHING. Low glycemic foods convert to sugar when consumed just like high glycemic foods do. ALL carbs are sugar. Also, consuming sugar does NOT cause diabetes, stop spreading lies.

Tiger, I hope you're not a doctor, but, if you are, you probably need to work on your bedside manner. Where do you get your information that all carbs are the same and equally benign? I didn't say sugar causes diabetes. I still stand by my belief that choosing healthier carbs (such as fruits) and limiting junk carbs (such as chocolate bars) aid in the prevention of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

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Kind of lengthy, but "bottom line - - This is not the wheat your great-grandmother used to bake her bread. It is FrankenWheat -- a scientifically engineered food product developed in the last 50 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/wheat-gluten_b_1274872.html
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It's almost impossible to get away from the GMO foods. Some countries are banning them. I've been planting heritage, non-GMO seeds, but I recently heard GMO pollens in the air are contaminating foods grown from heritage seeds.

love22step

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

It's suggested you eat them in limited quantities. However, limiting those foods may be even more helpful in preventing heart disease and diabetes. High glycemic foods, such as white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, convert to sugar when consumed. The basic guidance is: Don't eat white foods. You want to predominately consume low-glycemic foods. You can search the internet for lists of low-glycemic and high-glycemic foods. Good luck!

Ugh. The glycemic index means NOTHING. Low glycemic foods convert to sugar when consumed just like high glycemic foods do. ALL carbs are sugar. Also, consuming sugar does NOT cause diabetes, stop spreading lies.

Tiger, I hope you're not a doctor, but, if you are, you probably need to work on your bedside manner. Where do you get your information that all carbs are the same and equally benign? I didn't say sugar causes diabetes. I still stand by my belief that choosing healthier carbs (such as fruits) and limiting junk carbs (such as chocolate bars) aid in the prevention of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

Kind of lengthy, but "bottom line - - This is not the wheat your great-grandmother used to bake her bread. It is FrankenWheat -- a scientifically engineered food product developed in the last 50 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/wheat-gluten_b_1274872.html

It's almost impossible to get away from the GMO foods. Some countries are banning them. I've been planting heritage, non-GMO seeds, but I recently heard GMO pollens in the air are contaminating foods grown from heritage seeds.

txlissa62

I make sourdough bread weekly. I have a slice at breakfast for toast, and two slices at lunch in a sandwich. I've been doing this every day since April, and have been steadily losing weight.

However, along with my toast in the morning, I have Egg Beaters for protein. I have the toasted bread with homemade jam only, no butter. (I'd rather save those calories for something else.)

For my lunch sandwich, I have some Boar's Head No Salt Added turkey breast and some light mayo. I also have an orange or a couple clementines.

I usually limit my starches at dinner time, frequently not having any at all. I usually just have a protein and one or more vegetables. Sometimes I'll make a dish with rice or fingerling potatoes, but not every day. I will say that I have found that I have more success if I snack on nuts and/or fruit in the evening, rather than carbs.

tigersword

If I cut out bread,rice, and potatoes, will it help me with my weight loss?

It's suggested you eat them in limited quantities. However, limiting those foods may be even more helpful in preventing heart disease and diabetes. High glycemic foods, such as white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, convert to sugar when consumed. The basic guidance is: Don't eat white foods. You want to predominately consume low-glycemic foods. You can search the internet for lists of low-glycemic and high-glycemic foods. Good luck!

Ugh. The glycemic index means NOTHING. Low glycemic foods convert to sugar when consumed just like high glycemic foods do. ALL carbs are sugar. Also, consuming sugar does NOT cause diabetes, stop spreading lies.

Tiger, I hope you're not a doctor, but, if you are, you probably need to work on your bedside manner. Where do you get your information that all carbs are the same and equally benign? I didn't say sugar causes diabetes. I still stand by my belief that choosing healthier carbs (such as fruits) and limiting junk carbs (such as chocolate bars) aid in the prevention of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

The source of the sugar makes no difference to your body. Sucrose, glucose, and fructose in a chocolate bar are identical to sucrose, glucose and fructose in an apple. In fact, the human digestive system doesn't recognize "apple" or "chocolate bar." I only recognizes the individual molecular components that foods are made of. The best way to prevent heart disease and diabetes is to not be obese. The best way to not be obese is to not over consume calories. Food choice is totally irrelevant to that end. People can very easily eat a chocolate bar and maintain a healthy weight, and people can very easily overeat fruit and become obese. Your argument is a straw man that seeks to blame one specific nutrient, completely missing the forest for the trees.

Kind of lengthy, but "bottom line - - This is not the wheat your great-grandmother used to bake her bread. It is FrankenWheat -- a scientifically engineered food product developed in the last 50 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/wheat-gluten_b_1274872.html

It's almost impossible to get away from the GMO foods. Some countries are banning them. I've been planting heritage, non-GMO seeds, but I recently heard GMO pollens in the air are contaminating foods grown from heritage seeds.

As for the "FrankenWheat" comment, that's also a straw man, as you can literally insert just about any natural food you can think of into that sentence and have it be true. Chickens have been scientifically engineered over the last 50 years to be completely different animals. Pigs have been completely reengineered over the last 75 years and would be almost unrecognizable to someone who grew up at the turn of the 20th century. Same with cows, apples, pears, nuts, carrots, beans, grapes, cucumbers, lettuces, cauliflower (the white color is 100% unnatural, and is a completely man made phenomenon,) avocados (all Hass avocados are genetic clones of a single tree from the 1930's,) the list can go on indefinitely. It's just a bunch of fear mongering cleverly worded to sound believable enough to sell books. These same types of arguments were used in the 80's to demonize fat. Once science proved that wrong, they moved on to carbs and sugar. Once that's proved wrong they'll probably move on to protein (there are already several myths about the dangers of eating "too much" protein, of course, never does it actually say what "too much" is, just like these "evil sugar" myths.)