eating too much white rice

Honey, I feel your pain! I'm a HUGE fan of rice! Some things I've tried (with varying success):
Mix the brown and white rice about 50/50. It cuts down on the nuttyness of the brown, while cutting some cals from the white. You can do this with wild rice as well. There are TONS of other rices out there as well: there's a green chinese bamboo rice that I LOVE but it's difficult to find. Or sweet black Thai rice, which I buy at my local Amish bulk food market.
Barley! I love barley, and have been eating a lot of it instead of rice. I treat it the same way: butter, soy sauce, salsa, whatever I fancy that day.
Orzo pasta: It's a similar texture to white rice, and you can get it in whole grain.
Mix the rice with lentils or black beans. Since they're high in fiber and protein, they fill you up faster. One of my favorite too-lazy-to-cook meals is rice and black beans. Throw it in the rice cooker and it's done in 30 with no more input from me

Hope this helps!

Cauliflower rice. I gave of starch a while ago. No bread, pasta, grains, sugar etc... cauliflower rice is my savior. I can make it in just a few minutes in my Vitamix. I mix it with spinach and grass fed butter. Yum. Or use it anywhere you would normally use rice.

Youtube has a ton of videos on how to make it.

i eat a lot of white rice daily up to 3 cups, i know it is way too much, could u please give me any other option, i dont like brown rice , need to stop sabotaging myself with white rice please help

What's wrong with white rice? Are you over your calories or carbs? Are you diabetic? If not then stop worrying about it.

Rice pudding

Cream of rice

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Cauliflower rice. I gave of starch a while ago. No bread, pasta, grains, sugar etc... cauliflower rice is my savior. I can make it in just a few minutes in my Vitamix. I mix it with spinach and grass fed butter. Yum. Or use it anywhere you would normally use rice.

Youtube has a ton of videos on how to make it.

But... cauliflower isn't rice.




Or pizza.

Cauliflower rice. I gave of starch a while ago. No bread, pasta, grains, sugar etc... cauliflower rice is my savior. I can make it in just a few minutes in my Vitamix. I mix it with spinach and grass fed butter. Yum. Or use it anywhere you would normally use rice.

Youtube has a ton of videos on how to make it.

But... cauliflower isn't rice.




Or pizza.

Or beer.

Right? I ... I don't know what to do with this information...

Cauliflower rice. I gave of starch a while ago. No bread, pasta, grains, sugar etc... cauliflower rice is my savior. I can make it in just a few minutes in my Vitamix. I mix it with spinach and grass fed butter. Yum. Or use it anywhere you would normally use rice.

Youtube has a ton of videos on how to make it.

But... cauliflower isn't rice.




Or pizza.

Or beer.

Or mashed potatoes or cookies. :sick:

Coming from a traditional Asian family, I eat rice with almost everything. I've learned to cut down on it by pairing it with other foods that are very filling.

When I'm really craving rice, sometimes I'll just mix it with a bit of soy sauce and some sliced bananas. It sounds weird, but it's good. Since you have the savory taste coming from the soy sauce and the sweetness coming from the bananas, I'm usually not tempted to binge on a dessert after.

Paring rice with soup/broth is a good idea too, but it doesn't fill you up for long. What it does do, though, is lessen the amount of rice you consume by filling the rest of your stomach up with liquid.

Another trick I do is I'll put a very little amount of rice in my bowl, and before I get up to go for seconds/thirds/fourths, I'll have little breaks in between just so my "fullness" could set in. This keeps me from overeating.

How are you eating 3 cups of rice? That's a ton of rice. I eat about a half cup in a meal?

How are you eating 3 cups of rice? That's a ton of rice. I eat about a half cup in a meal?

I used to eat an entire pot of rice by myself for dinner... 6 cups maybe?... often. It's not that hard if you are a compulsive/binge eater/carbaholic like I was.

I was a big white rice eater!! but, I decided it was one of those things that I was willing to give up in order to get healthy. I've switched to a quick cooking brown rice and don't mind it ... it's still not good old white rice ... but I keep reminding myself that white rice is just garbage and I don't want to be putting garbage in my body :-)

i eat a lot of white rice daily up to 3 cups, i know it is way too much, could u please give me any other option, i dont like brown rice , need to stop sabotaging myself with white rice please help

What's wrong with white rice? Are you over your calories or carbs? Are you diabetic? If not then stop worrying about it.

^This.

yay to polenta and quinoa! If you aren't gluten sensitive, try tabouli or couscous for some variety. Are you just looking for something to substitute the rice? I'm gluten sensitive, so all of my bread / pasta has some kind of rice derivative. I gained a TON of weight when I started putting gluten free substitutions in for wheat. Rice has way more calories for the same quantity of food. Much higher on the GI too. Quinoa works great warm with stir fry or lentil, or chilled with cucumber, tomatoes, feta, and a little olive oil, mint, and lime juice. I usually have that in a tub all summer. I was never really a fan of white rice, overall, aside from rice crispy treats and fried rice.