carbs addict
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dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
Yeah, this is what I do.
I stopped buying the kinds of bread products that I can't stop eating and I cut down on the wheat products I do eat. One-slice sandwiches with just plain 100% whole wheat bread from the grocery. Half zucchini and half whole wheat pasta. No crackers, or only on special occasions. No pita or wheat tortillas - I'll go through the whole pack in two days. No French bread or pretzels. No wheat based cereals. Wheat products are very triggering for me.3 -
dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
thank you, i'll try it for sure, mixing is a great idea!
and the cauliflower rice never heard about it before, i think it's easy to prepare too.0 -
By the way OP, I’m not sure if you’re just using the phrase “carb addict” casually? But carbs aren’t addictive. They also are in such a wide range of food items - grains, rice, fruits, vegetables, dairy, etc... it’s hard to use such a broad term and get helpful advice. It seems you believe that overconsumption of bread with your meals is preventing you from losing weight. It’s fine to work on cutting back a calorie dense food or foods you have difficulty moderating but regularly eating and enjoying bread or other grains doesn’t make you a carb addict nor does it make it impossible to lose weight.11
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dododididada wrote: »dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
thank you, i'll try it for sure, mixing is a great idea!
and the cauliflower rice never heard about it before, i think it's easy to prepare too.
You can make your own cauliflower rice.
But you may be able to buy it ready made - here it is available in both frozen and fresh versions, ready made.
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Why don’t you try just counting calories, and not pay attention to how many carbs you eat? The body will lose weight regardless as long as you are in a deficit.6
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I live in the same culture, and yes, no meal is complete without starchy carbs. That's not an addiction, that's simply how we culturally eat. Anyone used to eating a certain way would find it hard to change if they attempt to change everything. If there is no real need to change a particular thing, why do it? Finding your own way of cutting calories will be more successful than reading about all the other diets on the internet. The people who write these articles probably don't live where you do, don't like the same foods you do, and what fills them up may not be what fills you up.
Instead of trying to cut carbs, try to eat more protein while staying within calories. If your family is anything like mine, I'm guessing you get enough fiber from vegetables and beans already and that most of your meals are home cooked, so you have an advantage there. The easiest way to cut calories for me was to reduce the amount of oil I used in cooking. You still need enough fat to be healthy, but we traditionally use too much of it so that seemed the most logical place to start cutting calories. The easiest way for me was to start roasting or shallow frying chicken and vegetables in less oil for the dishes where I used to prepare them fried in obscene amounts of oil. If you reduce the oil gradually, you won't even notice the difference.
I eat starchy carbs with every meal and I successfully lost a lot of weight because my calories are under control and I became more active in general (I walk much more than I used to). Eggs without bread don't fill me up anyway. I didn't have to cut out carbs, but I had to control the amount. Not because they're carbs, but because I needed to control my calories and I find the amount I eat just enough to help me feel full. My usual serving of bread is 70 grams (sometimes more than once a day, so anything from 70 to 210 grams a day, but the latter is rare), and my usual serving of rice is 150-200 grams cooked. I pile up on the vegetable part (molokhia for example).11 -
WinoGelato wrote: »By the way OP, I’m not sure if you’re just using the phrase “carb addict” casually? But carbs aren’t addictive. They also are in such a wide range of food items - grains, rice, fruits, vegetables, dairy, etc... it’s hard to use such a broad term and get helpful advice. It seems you believe that overconsumption of bread with your meals is preventing you from losing weight. It’s fine to work on cutting back a calorie dense food or foods you have difficulty moderating but regularly eating and enjoying bread or other grains doesn’t make you a carb addict nor does it make it impossible to lose weight.
I use the word addict because I do feel a kind of craving to bread even if I ate alot of protein, salad and feeling full, but still need to eat the last piece of meat inside a half loaf of bread.
I specify the bad habits of eating egyptian bread that contains from 250-300 calories in each loaf with every meal in my previous comments, I know that I can't cut off the carbs to zero, I want to break the craving to the bad habit of our culture, and ask for advice and help from other members, and I found some members that feel the same craving to bread and other carbs too, and I found some replacements too, the thread was very helpful for me,that's all!
I am cutting off the amount to a half loaf instead of two loafs and two brown toasts and I am still in my first week of calories-deficit diet, I am trying!2 -
paperpudding wrote: »dododididada wrote: »dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
thank you, i'll try it for sure, mixing is a great idea!
and the cauliflower rice never heard about it before, i think it's easy to prepare too.
You can make your own cauliflower rice.
But you may be able to buy it ready made - here it is available in both frozen and fresh versions, ready made.
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amusedmonkey wrote: »I live in the same culture, and yes, no meal is complete without starchy carbs. That's not an addiction, that's simply how we culturally eat. Anyone used to eating a certain way would find it hard to change if they attempt to change everything. If there is no real need to change a particular thing, why do it? Finding your own way of cutting calories will be more successful than reading about all the other diets on the internet. The people who write these articles probably don't live where you do, don't like the same foods you do, and what fills them up may not be what fills you up.
Instead of trying to cut carbs, try to eat more protein while staying within calories. If your family is anything like mine, I'm guessing you get enough fiber from vegetables and beans already and that most of your meals are home cooked, so you have an advantage there. The easiest way to cut calories for me was to reduce the amount of oil I used in cooking. You still need enough fat to be healthy, but we traditionally use too much of it so that seemed the most logical place to start cutting calories. The easiest way for me was to start roasting or shallow frying chicken and vegetables in less oil for the dishes where I used to prepare them fried in obscene amounts of oil. If you reduce the oil gradually, you won't even notice the difference.
I eat starchy carbs with every meal and I successfully lost a lot of weight because my calories are under control and I became more active in general (I walk much more than I used to). Eggs without bread don't fill me up anyway. I didn't have to cut out carbs, but I had to control the amount. Not because they're carbs, but because I needed to control my calories and I find the amount I eat just enough to help me feel full. My usual serving of bread is 70 grams (sometimes more than once a day, so anything from 70 to 210 grams a day, but the latter is rare), and my usual serving of rice is 150-200 grams cooked. I pile up on the vegetable part (molokhia for example).
i do the shallow oil frying for vegetables, chicken and meat already, and going to cut off most of the deep oil fried foods, i am also increasing the amount of vegetables, fruits and started to calculate calories now and trying to adapt to the new lifestyle, feeling confused, but i am trying, and i'll get a food scale to help me measure my carbs intake in bread especially and other kinds of food too!
and yes, eggs without bread don't ever fill me up
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rheddmobile wrote: »I am diabetic and have to restrict carbs. When I eat at a Syrian restaurant in my town, I have rice and pita, just less. For dipping hummus and baba ganoush I like to use slices of cucumber or radish instead of bread. I will eat half a pita instead of a whole one and put the rest of my food on a salad. Also, to lower carbs in Arabic desserts, adding less syrup, sugar, or honey and increasing the amount of nuts and seeds works for me. I am very lucky that the chef at the restaurant I go to helps me figure out how to eat a proper amount of carbs for my illness, and still enjoy his food!
Ooh baba ganoush - now thats a nice food ! Filling too !2 -
dododididada wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »dododididada wrote: »dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
thank you, i'll try it for sure, mixing is a great idea!
and the cauliflower rice never heard about it before, i think it's easy to prepare too.
You can make your own cauliflower rice.
But you may be able to buy it ready made - here it is available in both frozen and fresh versions, ready made.
where? in Egypt?
Any Safeway in CA, fresh and frozen.1 -
dododididada wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »dododididada wrote: »dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
thank you, i'll try it for sure, mixing is a great idea!
and the cauliflower rice never heard about it before, i think it's easy to prepare too.
You can make your own cauliflower rice.
But you may be able to buy it ready made - here it is available in both frozen and fresh versions, ready made.
where? in Egypt?
Any Safeway in CA, fresh and frozen.
CA means California!!
I'm from Egypt, I didn't heard about it in the stores or supermarkets!0 -
For the cauliflower, you can buy it fresh then cook it and mash it.
I have one of these rice-maker things, don't know if they sell them in Egypt, but you could do the same thing by pushing cooked cauliflower through a metal colander - a "ricer" is like a big garlic press:
https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/news/food-tool-friday-potato-ricer-is-multipurpose-marvel-0159668/
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cmriverside wrote: »For the cauliflower, you can buy it fresh then cook it and mash it.
I have one of these rice-maker things, don't know if they sell them in Egypt, but you could do the same thing by pushing cooked cauliflower through a metal colander - a "ricer" is like a big garlic press:
https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/news/food-tool-friday-potato-ricer-is-multipurpose-marvel-0159668/
Thank you, yes! we have it!
I guess, something like a metallic hand presser that we mash the potato with! Will be similar to it!0 -
dododididada wrote: »In the Arab world we eat alot of carbs in every single meal, like rice, white bread, dark bread and pasta, we are simply carbs addict, even eggs we eat it with bread.
Can anyone help me how to cut off carbs from every meal and feel full at the same time because I can't fell it without eating bread with every meal!
This week on BBC2 they've started repeating the Nigel Slater cookery programme where he visits the Middle East. Last night was the Lebanon, tonight Turkey.
I am only 5 weeks into, what I hope will be, the very last time I lose weight. My first goal is 1lb a week until next August to lose 63lb and I have lost 12 of those already. After that another 3 stone will still need to go (and that will still leave me overweight but never mind)
However 'carby' type food is my weakness and trigger. All he kept going into were people's houses and small little street food places where it was bread, bread, pastry, rice, bread bread (you get the picture).
All I kept thinking was that I need to plan a 'foodie' trip to the Lebanon for 2 weeks where I can eat all of this food.
it was unbearable, I dont know how I managed to watch the same thing tonight. It was worse because he was in the North of Turkey where their speciality is filled bread, this particular house/bakery filling it with cheese and butter like a soup in a crusty bowl as he described it. I know I would have eaten the whole thing.
However in answer to your question. I have to cut these things out myself, I try to fill up on fat and protein bulked out with vegetables, warming comforting veg like tomatoes and garlic or I do allow quinoa and I also eat ryvita.
If you can manage about 3 days without it, swapping it for something else or something much less dense, then you'll start to want it less and then over time, less than that.2 -
dododididada wrote: »In the Arab world we eat alot of carbs in every single meal, like rice, white bread, dark bread and pasta, we are simply carbs addict, even eggs we eat it with bread.
Can anyone help me how to cut off carbs from every meal and feel full at the same time because I can't fell it without eating bread with every meal!
This week on BBC2 they've started repeating the Nigel Slater cookery programme where he visits the Middle East. Last night was the Lebanon, tonight Turkey.
I am only 5 weeks into, what I hope will be, the very last time I lose weight. My first goal is 1lb a week until next August to lose 63lb and I have lost 12 of those already. After that another 3 stone will still need to go (and that will still leave me overweight but never mind)
However 'carby' type food is my weakness and trigger. All he kept going into were people's houses and small little street food places where it was bread, bread, pastry, rice, bread bread (you get the picture).
All I kept thinking was that I need to plan a 'foodie' trip to the Lebanon for 2 weeks where I can eat all of this food.
it was unbearable, I dont know how I managed to watch the same thing tonight. It was worse because he was in the North of Turkey where their speciality is filled bread, this particular house/bakery filling it with cheese and butter like a soup in a crusty bowl as he described it. I know I would have eaten the whole thing.
However in answer to your question. I have to cut these things out myself, I try to fill up on fat and protein bulked out with vegetables, warming comforting veg like tomatoes and garlic or I do allow quinoa and I also eat ryvita.
If you can manage about 3 days without it, swapping it for something else or something much less dense, then you'll start to want it less and then over time, less than that.
Lol! Yes, that's my world! Made up of bread, yummy different kinds of bread, and the stuffed bread is my weakness too and also macaroni with bashamele, stuffed vegetables with rice,... and alot more!
They even made a pizza in a closed bread and it's amazing!!
I've tried the last week and I replaced it with brown toast! It was -surprisingly- full filling, especially on breakfast and dinner!
The lunch is still my weakest point, now!
Replacing the lunch carbs like rice, macaroni, pasta, .. turned out to be much harder than replacing the bread!2 -
dododididada wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »dododididada wrote: »dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
thank you, i'll try it for sure, mixing is a great idea!
and the cauliflower rice never heard about it before, i think it's easy to prepare too.
You can make your own cauliflower rice.
But you may be able to buy it ready made - here it is available in both frozen and fresh versions, ready made.
where? in Egypt?
No, in Australia. That is my 'here'
I have no idea if it is available ready made in Egypt and I did not know where you were anyway - that's why I said you MAY be able to - but worth looking in your supermarket or general stores if you are interested in trying it.
It may be there ready made.
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Well Nigel is back on telly tonight and now he is in Iran. Apparently Iranians eat more bread than anywhere else in the world. 6x more than any other country.1
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paperpudding wrote: »dododididada wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »dododididada wrote: »dododididada wrote: »so you don't feel 'deprived' I'd do some 'research' on substitutions - cauliflower crust (for wraps/pizza, etc., ); cauliflower 'rice'; Keto type bread items (almond flour bread/flat breads. Egg white 'cloud bread'); shirataki noodles/spiralized veggies; quinoa instead of rice,etc.,
Fill up with lots of veggies instead too will help fill you up for sure
Thank you for your efforts, although almond flour is expensive and I can't use it every day
cauliflower maybe is an option although its taste and smell is wired
But I'll try it, and I'll search for the egg white bread because I never heard about it.
Thanks.
you can also mix all the above up. eat a small portion of real rice mixed in with cauliflower rice to add bulk. smaller portions of bread that is not as high calorie (not to say low calorie bread but some breads are more calorie dense as you metnioned earlier). not having bread with ALL meals.
thank you, i'll try it for sure, mixing is a great idea!
and the cauliflower rice never heard about it before, i think it's easy to prepare too.
You can make your own cauliflower rice.
But you may be able to buy it ready made - here it is available in both frozen and fresh versions, ready made.
where? in Egypt?
No, in Australia. That is my 'here'
I have no idea if it is available ready made in Egypt and I did not know where you were anyway - that's why I said you MAY be able to - but worth looking in your supermarket or general stores if you are interested in trying it.
It may be there ready made.
I'll try to search in a bigger city than mine!
Some guys tell me how to do it too! I'll give it a try!
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Well Nigel is back on telly tonight and now he is in Iran. Apparently Iranians eat more bread than anywhere else in the world. 6x more than any other country.
Lol, no, wait till he visits Egypt!
Egypt is the country of pharaohs, Mo Salah and bread too!
Why are you watching those kind of programs while going on a diet?
That's hilarious!
You are gonna lose control and catch the bread curse!1 -
Well Nigel is back on telly tonight and now he is in Iran. Apparently Iranians eat more bread than anywhere else in the world. 6x more than any other country.
That whole part of the world eats more bread than the rest of the world. I kind of like it because I get to eat freshly baked bread whenever I want without having to bake it myself. You basically go and buy it still hot.1 -
dododididada wrote: »Well Nigel is back on telly tonight and now he is in Iran. Apparently Iranians eat more bread than anywhere else in the world. 6x more than any other country.
Lol, no, wait till he visits Egypt!
Egypt is the country of pharaohs, Mo Salah and bread too!
Why are you watching those kind of programs while going on a diet?
That's hilarious!
You are gonna lose control and catch the bread curse!
I know its terrible. Ive been to Egypt a couple of times many years ago, it was during Ramadan one of the times and at sunset we got invited by random strangers on the street to come and eat with them. It was lovely.3 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »Well Nigel is back on telly tonight and now he is in Iran. Apparently Iranians eat more bread than anywhere else in the world. 6x more than any other country.
That whole part of the world eats more bread than the rest of the world. I kind of like it because I get to eat freshly baked bread whenever I want without having to bake it myself. You basically go and buy it still hot.
Omg I want that experience so bad!!1 -
dododididada wrote: »Well Nigel is back on telly tonight and now he is in Iran. Apparently Iranians eat more bread than anywhere else in the world. 6x more than any other country.
Lol, no, wait till he visits Egypt!
Egypt is the country of pharaohs, Mo Salah and bread too!
Why are you watching those kind of programs while going on a diet?
That's hilarious!
You are gonna lose control and catch the bread curse!
I know its terrible. Ive been to Egypt a couple of times many years ago, it was during Ramadan one of the times and at sunset we got invited by random strangers on the street to come and eat with them. It was lovely.
Yeah! The hospitality and warmness of the Egyptians is endless!1 -
lalalacroix wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »Well Nigel is back on telly tonight and now he is in Iran. Apparently Iranians eat more bread than anywhere else in the world. 6x more than any other country.
That whole part of the world eats more bread than the rest of the world. I kind of like it because I get to eat freshly baked bread whenever I want without having to bake it myself. You basically go and buy it still hot.
Omg I want that experience so bad!!
Lol, We have this experience 24/71 -
dododididada wrote: »staticsplit wrote: »dododididada wrote: »staticsplit wrote: »You don't need to go keto to lose weight. It's very hard for most people to sustain that long-term, so then once you eat carbs again the weight can creep back.
Carbs aren't a bad habit--most people eat like 40-50% of their calories from carbs. It's fine. To lose weight you need to eat less calories than you consume. So instead of rice and bread, maybe just choose one and then load up with more veggies and protein. Weigh your food with a scale and look at nutrition information. If it's homemade food, calculate calories through the recipe builder. Experiment and see if complex carbs like sweet potatoes or wholemeal bread keeps you fuller longer. It's good to have a decent macro split (carbs/fat/protein) to keep you satisfied and nourished, but you could literally eat nothing but potatoes and lose weight as long as you're in a calorie deficit. You'd just probably not feel all that great.
yes, it's true, keto is very hard especially for a beginner like me, i'll search for a dark bread or a whole grain bread as it contains less calories than the normal white bread.
it turned out to be not a bad habit after all, as you guys all said, thank you so much.
Dark/whole grain bread doesn't often have less calories, it just has more fibre and sometimes protein so it tends to keep you fuller.
I searched now and I found that the Egyptian bread contains 250-300 calories while other kinds of breads like toast contains 70-80 calories, it's a big difference.
I didn't know that, I thought it was only 150 calories, I'm shocked.
It depends on how big the bread is. If you compare a tiny slice of toast with a big flat bread, then yes, the toast will have less calories as it's smaller. Some bread in the Arab world is also made with oil, which adds a lot of calories.1 -
rheddmobile wrote: »I am diabetic and have to restrict carbs. When I eat at a Syrian restaurant in my town, I have rice and pita, just less. For dipping hummus and baba ganoush I like to use slices of cucumber or radish instead of bread. I will eat half a pita instead of a whole one and put the rest of my food on a salad. Also, to lower carbs in Arabic desserts, adding less syrup, sugar, or honey and increasing the amount of nuts and seeds works for me. I am very lucky that the chef at the restaurant I go to helps me figure out how to eat a proper amount of carbs for my illness, and still enjoy his food!
Oh man! Now I want to be back in the Middle East where I lived for a while and eat ALL the lovely food again. There at least I found the food fairly heavy in protein and fats, like hummus, salads with lots of oil, foul medames, labneh. And lots of fresh fish
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dododididada wrote: »staticsplit wrote: »dododididada wrote: »staticsplit wrote: »You don't need to go keto to lose weight. It's very hard for most people to sustain that long-term, so then once you eat carbs again the weight can creep back.
Carbs aren't a bad habit--most people eat like 40-50% of their calories from carbs. It's fine. To lose weight you need to eat less calories than you consume. So instead of rice and bread, maybe just choose one and then load up with more veggies and protein. Weigh your food with a scale and look at nutrition information. If it's homemade food, calculate calories through the recipe builder. Experiment and see if complex carbs like sweet potatoes or wholemeal bread keeps you fuller longer. It's good to have a decent macro split (carbs/fat/protein) to keep you satisfied and nourished, but you could literally eat nothing but potatoes and lose weight as long as you're in a calorie deficit. You'd just probably not feel all that great.
yes, it's true, keto is very hard especially for a beginner like me, i'll search for a dark bread or a whole grain bread as it contains less calories than the normal white bread.
it turned out to be not a bad habit after all, as you guys all said, thank you so much.
Dark/whole grain bread doesn't often have less calories, it just has more fibre and sometimes protein so it tends to keep you fuller.
I searched now and I found that the Egyptian bread contains 250-300 calories while other kinds of breads like toast contains 70-80 calories, it's a big difference.
I didn't know that, I thought it was only 150 calories, I'm shocked.
It depends on how big the bread is. If you compare a tiny slice of toast with a big flat bread, then yes, the toast will have less calories as it's smaller. Some bread in the Arab world is also made with oil, which adds a lot of calories.
You are correct. Gram per gram the calories are comparable for most kinds of bread. That's why I usually eat by weight. Around 70 grams of bread is just right for my usual meals. That's about 180 calories, half a round of our typical flatbread, 2 thick slices of loaf bread, or about 1 slice of Russian Borodinsky rye bread (it's dense so it weighs more). All unflavored breads I ever had ranged between 170 and 190 calories for that portion, which isn't that big of a difference.1 -
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