Has anyone given up bread pasta and potatoes?

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I dont really like pasta and dont eat it that frequently. Bread, I like bread, and would probably eat it more, but I like REAL fresh baked bread. Too much of a pain to stop at the store every other day for it just for some good bread. Potatoes?

I love me some GIANT Russet potatoes. Like everyone else has said on here. I dont eat 1lb of potatoes a day. Maybe a couple a week. What I HAVE stopped eating are potato chips and french fries. Which you could argue are.....or are not potatoes ;-)

Yes, I have but not for weight loss reasons. I have digestive issues so I'm just working with my doctor and natureopath to try to figure things out. I eat brown rice and pasta made from brown rice. I had a bun that was gluten free once for a burger but didn't like it so I'm back to bunless burgers. I feel a kagillion times better and surprisingly don't really miss it (well there was 1 time my husband made home made fries, I almost took his eyeballs out, I think it was the smell though).

I haven't given up ANYTHING that I love. Instead of white bread or pasta and regular potatoes, I tend to eat multigrain bread and pasta and sweet potatoes or red potatoes. I limit my starchy carbs and I only eat them early in the day (before 3 p.m.) So far, this has worked out great for me. I was a total carb-aholic and don't really crave them at all anymore. I actually had regular russett potatoes the other day and didn't even care for them that much and I don't care much for white bread, either.

Good Luck to you You'll find something that works for you and keeps you happy and healthy!!

Yes, I've almost entirely given up pasta and bread. If you read up on the way we've genetically modified wheat in the last 50 years (the vast majority of wheat grown today was created through mutating the plant by use of a toxin so deadly that if you were to ingest that toxin directly, they would advise against anyone offering you aid because it would kill the rescuer). Add the way that big business processes these foods (improving their shelf-life by sucking virtually all of the natural nutrition out of it) and you end up discovering that they are not nutritionally dense foods. In fact, they're pretty nutritionally vacuous and what nutrition they have is largely added *back* into them from other sources (some of those sources being non-food based and kind of gross). Then add their ability to cause blood-sugar spikes and there just seem to be better food options available that give you more benefit for your calories.

I eat carbs, I just try to choose the healthier ones.

When I was diagnosed with type 2 diabeties my dr. said potatoes only as a very special treat. I haven't had any since, along with white rice or white flour or white sugar.

I do eat carbs but I get them from fruits and veggies. That said when I did this it was all about controlling my glucose levels. Once I did this, and I actually increase the good fats and protein in my diet to keep from getting so hungry, I learned that almost all my snacking were carb based. When I stopped eating the carbs I stopped snacking so much. If I did snack it was on nuts and I became satisfied much more quickly and for a longer period of time. My weightloss is based strickly on cutting out the white carbs, that is the only thing I have dilegently tracted.

I rarely crave any of it and I was quite the sweet baby before my life style change. I wanted sugar after every meal. Mints were my excuse to complete a meal.

For me it really has made a huge impact on my weight and that wasn't even the initial focus for my lifestyle change. Each of us are individuals and we need to decide what works for us. For me, I don't tolerate the refined carbs well at all and it is much easier to obstain because I can't take just one.

I don't eat white potatoes (could eat sweet potatoes, but I'm not a fan, except occasional baked fries). I eat bread and pasta, but only whole grain. I also eat brown rice.

Three of my four favorite food groups (add rice)!?!?! How could I possibly just give them up? That would be a far too restrictive diet for me and I am fairly certain it would not last. I have learned, however, to use portion control, scales and to seek out addition options for spending my daily calorie allotment, i.e. lots of veggies added in, checking labels for calorie counts (along with sodium content) and re-inventing my most loved recipes in a much lower calorie option. Plain potatoes are not that high in calorie content and, if eaten with skins, are a great source of potassium.

It is not hard to stick with once we take them out of our diet for a few days. The carb-heavy foods impact our metabolism in many ways including regulation of blood-sugar cycles, leptin resistance (which leaves us feeling hungry) and with the increase of insulin resistance that we are seeing, uptake of the unused carbs as fat as the body can't process them.
Not taking carbs out of the diet can hinder weight loss in many ways. Give going without a try and see if it works for you!

So if your body can't "process something" whatever "process" means, you store it as fat? How do you store it as fat if you can't process it? Again, define just in laymans terms the difference between process and digestion?

And leptin resistance occurs mostly from over eating and under exercising, like insulin resistance. To bastardize and vilify a whole 1/3 of the caloric macro nutrient families is sophomoric at best.

Plus carbs can be used to manipulate leptin in favorable manners when dieting to keep the metabolism from slowing down more than it already real.

I think youve read too many internet blogs/gurus or found the guru youtube channels.

Sure low carb approaches can be beneficial but it's about the total amounts consumed and the USUAL obesity of the person involved.