No Flour No Sugar?

I dont have any 'normal' flour as I have coeliacs. It depends what you class as flour? And why no sugar or flour?

My friend has. She also has celiacs and she basically decided to cut anything with sugar, ate normally otherwise, and lost about 100lbs. But then in the process she also had to have major surgery because of a unrelated tumor in her abdomen so I think the pain, meds and having to basically sit for 6 months also helped shed the pounds and kept the appetite under control. Apparently having an ab muscle removed is the worst kind of surgery you have have, its a 6-12 month recovery.

I think the sugar is trickier than the flour. I'm also gluten free and my consumption of bread type products is infrequent and could be cut all together. BUT How do you really define sugar? Its in fruits, milk, rice, baking, condiments, sauces, and a plethora of hidden places without even addressing baked goods and added sugar....

Only reason to cut both is if they are negatively bothering your system. So I agree, why?

I am trying to only eat natural sugars from fruits. No added. It's not good for me, because I crave more of it after having some.
I also am trying to eat low carb, so no flour or grains for me.
I am NOT saying this is right for anyone, or telling anyone what to do, just saying yes, I am no sugar no flour and I like it that way.

To each their own.

I cut out almost all flour and added sugars about 16 mos. ago: I stopped eating pasta, cookies, bread (and rice) and stopped putting sugar in my coffee.

I'm not dogmatic: I have a richly iced chocolate cupcake every Friday at lunch and I eat two to four squares of good chocolate after some meals. But that's it.

I dropped from 205lbs to 165lbs in about six months. I've been bouncing between 160 - 175 for the past year. I'm a middle-aged man, 5'10", btw.

You may lose the weight initially, but it'll bounce right back.

It's just very hard to maintain long term weight loss when you are on such a restricted diet. If you can't eat the foods you enjoy, eventually you will reach a breaking point. You're going to crack then revert right back to old habits.

A better alternative is flexible dieting and eating the things you like in moderation.

my mom was a health nut and cut out all the flour and sugar in our diet when i was very little...i like to say some of my fine physique came from that diet

Ezekiel Bread!!!! Also no sugar is very extreme because all fruits and vegetables have sugar. Yes, you can avoid fruit but a little bit of natural sugar from vegetables or legumes never hurt. Also, there are lots of flour-less (gluten free) diet groceries available everywhere. If you really have a hard time finding anything just go to your local Trader Joe's and you are guaranteed to find something gluten-free and often low sugar/sugar-free.

All flour.. All sugar.
Its all about complex and simple carbs, flour and sugar are the simple carbs. Quick energy that causes cravings and bloat

All flours regardless of refinement are complex carbs.

"It's just very hard to maintain long term weight loss when you are on such a restricted diet. If you can't eat the foods you enjoy, eventually you will reach a breaking point. You're going to crack then revert right back to old habits." walterc7

Well, not so very hard in my experience. I really, really loved pasta, pizza and a chewy country loaf. Not to mention cookies and sweet coffee. I've become accustom to not having them.

Once every few months, I'll eat half a pizza; every few weeks, I'll eat a hamburger. Once a week, I have my cupcake. More than 16 months in, no "cracking."

The palate can be retrained.