Will loosing bread...!

I lose quicker not eating bread but I eat it as its a quick good option plus cheap I read bread ferments in your stomach it takes a while to digest not sure if that's true but could explain slow weightloss though most will say it's simple CICO Who knows weightloss for me is slow

Well, a low-carb group is going to tell you to cut carbs, that's sort of what they do.

As to "fall off easily" - that depends on the person. If you eat more protein, you will tend to be less hungry. Also, going low-carb will tend to decrease your glycogen stores, which means your body sheds some excess water weight as well. In terms of actual fat loss, if cutting out bread helps you comply with your diet and makes it easier to sustain your deficit, it will help, but it's the deficit that actually matters. You can eat what you like, as long as you have a good calorie deficit and as long as you're not setting yourself up for malnutrition.

Ive lost 90lbs since August 2015 eating all kinds of bread

Yes white bread to i eat white bread every time we go out for breakfast and that happens alot

rankinsect wrote: »

Well, a low-carb group is going to tell you to cut carbs, that's sort of what they do.

As to "fall off easily" - that depends on the person. If you eat more protein, you will tend to be less hungry. Also, going low-carb will tend to decrease your glycogen stores, which means your body sheds some excess water weight as well. In terms of actual fat loss, if cutting out bread helps you comply with your diet and makes it easier to sustain your deficit, it will help, but it's the deficit that actually matters. You can eat what you like, as long as you have a good calorie deficit and as long as you're not setting yourself up for malnutrition.

All of this.

when someone tells me i have to eliminate X in order to Y, i walk away.

I was really excited about low carb with all the hype but after about 4 days of low carb and especially of not eating bread made me very sad. Bread is so delicious and I have discovered you do not need eliminate bread at all. I make it fit into my daily calorie allotment because bread is delicious.

I've drastically cut back on bread because it's easy for me to add lots of unneeded calories with it.

DanSTL82 wrote: »

Low carb is mostly a gimmick. It can have some benefits like making you less hungry during the day, but ultimately you'll lose generally the same amount of weight regardless of what you eat as long as you're regularly eating at a calorie deficit.

Except for those of us for whom it is a medical necessity.

Low carb=no bread...that's just how it works. If you must eat bread, you need to choose a standard diet, or perhaps work occasional bread into a moderate-carb diet.

I found removing it allows me to eat more protein and vegetables (and feel fuller for longer) bread just ends up making me hungry 30 mins later.

I tend to go easy on the bread because it's totally a trigger food for me. I buy pre-sliced boring bread and freeze it because if I buy GOOD fresh bread, I'll eat a loaf in one day. But that's the CICO thing: if I were able to control myself and not eat a whole lot in one go, it would be fine.

rankinsect wrote: »

Well, a low-carb group is going to tell you to cut carbs, that's sort of what they do.

As to "fall off easily" - that depends on the person. If you eat more protein, you will tend to be less hungry. Also, going low-carb will tend to decrease your glycogen stores, which means your body sheds some excess water weight as well. In terms of actual fat loss, if cutting out bread helps you comply with your diet and makes it easier to sustain your deficit, it will help, but it's the deficit that actually matters. You can eat what you like, as long as you have a good calorie deficit and as long as you're not setting yourself up for malnutrition.

^^This.

But also for me personally this..

MikaMojito wrote: »

I tend to go easy on the bread because it's totally a trigger food for me. I buy pre-sliced boring bread and freeze it because if I buy GOOD fresh bread, I'll eat a loaf in one day. But that's the CICO thing: if I were able to control myself and not eat a whole lot in one go, it would be fine.

rainbowbow wrote: »

In my opinion, eating "low carb" is a waste of time unless you just enjoy eating this way in general.

Low carb ONLY allows a fast initial weight loss because you lose water weight when your glycogen stores are depleted. When you start eating higher carbs you will gain all of this water weight back.

As stated unless you just enjoy eating this way, forever, i don't think it's helpful. If it involves you cutting out some of your favorite foods like bread, it doesn't sound like it's very sustainable, does it?

Calories in < Calories out, PERIOD. Eat in whatever manner you can maintain long term (while keeping the idea of general health/nutrition in mind).

The first three stanzas written above aren't exactly true. If you go so low in carbs that you enter a ketogenic state your body will convert fat to ketones and burn those rather than blood sugar (because that will be gone). It takes more energy to convert fat to ketones than to burn sugar directly, and your body produces more ketones than it needs. IE, some unused ketones will go out in urine. You will burn fat (and not just lose water weight), and it's not like some gypsy curse where if you burn 30 and have a slice of bread you'll gain it all back overnight...

However, simply "cutting bread" won't be anywhere close enough to enter a ketogenic state. You'll need to hold at less than 25 grams of carbs per day for between 3 & 4 days (2 if you're wild on the cardio), and what carbs you do get will be from salad, cruciferous vegetables, etc. IE. No more sugar, no more pasta, most fruit is out, no more starchy vegetables (potatoes, carrots, corn, etc...) And even after you're in it, you'll need to stay between 30 and 50 grams per day depending on your size.

Quite literally, that is the Atkins diet. It works, and it works realtively quickly if you stick to it (I lost 61 lbs in six months on it and kept it off after coming out for the last two years) but it isn't a whole lot of fun. However, I most certainly did not put back on 61 lbs of water weight when I quit ketosis. I put on two and simply continued with calorie counting and exercise. If you elect to try it, don't try ketosis without talking to your doctor & reading up on how to do it properly.

Her last statement is true. Even in ketosis, it all boils down to a net loss in calories. IE. You need to burn more calories than you take in to lose weight, and that's just physics. The biggest advantage of ketosis for me was appetite suppression which made that quite easy.