Bread?

I've been avoiding it only because it makes me seriously crave more bread. If I have to have some kind of grain to meet my goals I use brown rice, which is really filling.

The negative is that avoiding it annoys the hell out of your friends, lol.

Bread is just a major carb source.

Nearly a year ago I stopped eating foods containing sugars and/or grains to see if I could manage my arthritis pain by diet only instead of starting Enbrel injections for pain manage. In 30 days of eating <50 grams of carbs daily my pain was managed.

Now nearly a year later still avoiding foods that contain sugars/grains the pain is still well controlled.

For the last year my macro has been 5% carbs, 15% protein and 80% fats. Because fats are so filling in my case I do not over eat the way I did when living mainly on carbs that always called for more carbs it seemed.

Like most of the people on this site will tell you, it only matters if you're hitting your goal or not. Whole grains are better than white, but bread isn't essential to a healthy diet. It's "bad" because it breaks down really quickly and raises your blood sugar really fast. Some people also say that gluten, the stuff that makes bread awesome, is bad, but that's up for debate.

Oats aren't that bad. I like to use them in cooking when a recipe calls for breadcrumbs - you can't really taste the difference and it's "healthier."

kommodevaran wrote: »

Eat bread if you like it. Up for a challenge? Name ONE food we've never been warned against!

^This

Unless a doctor is specifically giving you a reason why you should avoid it, eat it if you like it (and plan for it in your macronutrient goals) and don't eat if you don't.

I adore fresh baked bread so going "keto" will never be on my option list unless I'm dragged to it kicking and screaming for medical reasons.

And I'll second what kommodevaran says about being warned against foods..there's probably an "expert" to nay say against everything you can potentially use as a food source.

I think bread is often an easy thing to cut when cutting calories. I eat bread, but I don't eat a lot of bread. Most of time I think it's a waste of calories and carbs. I'd usually rather have pasta or rice.

For the record, I love bread. Before I started getting serious about fitness, my favorite foods were bread in all of its various fried forms:
Churros... French toast... Tortillas... jalapeno hushpuppies.............

Samm471 wrote: »

GaleHawkins wrote: »

Bread is just a major carb source.

Nearly a year ago I stopped eating foods containing sugars and/or grains to see if I could manage my arthritis pain by diet only instead of starting Enbrel injections for pain manage. In 30 days of eating <50 grams of carbs daily my pain was managed.

Now nearly a year later still avoiding foods that contain sugars/grains the pain is still well controlled.

For the last year my macro has been 5% carbs, 15% protein and 80% fats. Because fats are so filling in my case I do not over eat the way I did when living mainly on carbs that always called for more carbs it seemed.

Is that kind of like keto? It's good you've managed to control the pain it's what works best for you isn't it

Yes I have been in nutritional ketosis almost full time after I cut the carbs to under 50 grams daily AND cut out eating over 70-100 grams of protein daily since Oct 2014. Up to 50% of protein can be converted to glucose (the reason carbs are not a required in our diets) and overdoing just steak can knock me out of ketosis.

I got on this diet just to try and cut my pain. I did NOT know about keto, MFP, etc. I had read cutting out foods containing sugars and/or grains had managed pain in others so I gave it a shot.

It is a lifetime keeper for me since it worked in just 30 days and nearly a year later still is working. I have lost another 30 pounds on keto but best of all after 6 months my 40 years of life defining IBS was cured and has not returned.

Older people like me have a very hard time getting off carbs which makes keto impossible. If I had not been facing an ugly early death I do not think I could have left carbs cold turkey. I tried tapering off carbs but failed every time.

After I broke the addiction (the first two weeks were hellish) it has been really easy because there are NO cravings for carbs period. While I hold an earned OD degree there are days that keto/LCHF/etc terms sound like magic but there is strong science behind how it works. Google is how I found it.

Samm471 wrote: »

or fruit which is high in sugar

Don't worry so much about the sugar in fruit. The fiber slows the digestion process, preventing the increase in blood sugar, so it doesn't have the same effect as other sugars. On the other hand - fruit juice, which has all of its fiber removed, is like drinking soda. So if you are going to avoid anything, avoid sugary drinks. I think that's the one thing most people can agree on.