Is it necessary to cut out bread when wanting to lose weight?

I eat a fair bit of bread too but try to limit it to one meal a day and i tend to avoid pasta etc. My weight loss is slow and steady around 1.3lbs a week. When i cut the bread and carbs out i was losing 2lbs a week but to me that wasnt achievable long term.

I love the freshly baked fruit and nut breads they sell at a Uk store called M & S but other than that, I do not really bother with it much. I just occasionally buy one of these walnut or fig and hazelnut batons from aforementioned store and have some of that, by itself, because it doesn't need anything added. It tastes great by itself.

estherdragonbat wrote: »

Um... your body runs on glucose. It turns bread to sugar so it can use it. Bread may not be necessary for survival, but when you say we don't need carbs of any kind, you're also eliminating fruits and vegetables. Which makes it much harder to get adequate nutrition.

And even if we don't 'need' bread, well... I didn't 'need' a new cardigan the other day, but it looked darned good on me and the price was right, so I got it anyway. I may not need bread, but it tastes darned good and if I have enough calories to enjoy a moderate amount, I'm eating it anyway.

And here I thought it was the shoes you didn't need

From my long diabetic training I learned to count carbs in every meal. I found it easier to allow myself one carb portion at every meal. That would mean picking the rice OR the bread. I'm like you. I love my bread. So often it is the bread.

Now, if I finish half a loaf in a single day, because, so good, I'll gain weight.

If you are eating bread and losing weight, you are winning and "people" and the "media" and the restaurants following trend are all wrong. Enjoy your bread. In moderation.

elizabethdzenitis wrote: »

I love bread. I'm basically the pinnacle of Opera in that one commercial. I just can't help myself with bread. And im wondering if by eating it, if it's hindering my weight loss? Are there any other foods that I could eat that would replace bread and still make food taste good? (And don't hit me with using lettuce as bread cause we all know lettuce is plain and sad. At least I think so. I've tried it and it makes me sad)

- If you can't keep yourself from over-eating it (ie you always crave more or crave it often)(and going over calories), then you might not want to keep more than a serving of it around. If it's not a trigger food that you can't stop eating and it fits your calories, then it won't hinder your weight loss.
- If it isn't very filling for you for the number of calories, and you wind up eating again sooner than you otherwise would have had the calories been spent elsewhere, then it could potentially hinder. (this varies person to person).
- Depending on your calorie allotment, it might be hard to fit in much bread while still meeting protein and fat minimums without playing tetris with your food log to pre-plan it in. (if you are short, near normal weight, and sedentary, this could be problematic).
- There is no suitable lower-calorie-density replacement. I wish there was.

Nope. As long as you are eating less than you burn, you can have bread.

flmerrin wrote: »

My health improves substantially when I stop eating grains. My A1C drops to 4.7 from about 6.0 and overall my blood chemistry improves.
Why? Bread turns to sugar.
The truth is we don't need bread or carbs of any kind, what you can't live without is protein and fats.
Don't take my word for it, research it...

Lol...you have a specific medical condition that is not applicable to the general population. I eat bread and other carbohydrates and my health is fine. Some of the healthiest populations in the world eat diets pretty high in carbohydrates...look up blue zones.

Just because you're broken doesn't mean everyone else is.