Breadless Diet?

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I second this. I have never felt better in my life, even when I was thin before. My husband and I are new people! Editing to add that yes, lunch meat is full of junk. Hormel does make some "natural" stuff that you could check out. I don't remember it being completely ideal, but certainly better than the alternatives.

I was forced to give up bread, b/c of gluten. I don't miss it much. (I found gluten-free bread to be nasty) In turn there is no point in deli meats for me (loaded w/ salt & preservatives anyway) I never go hungry. I eat a lot of fruits & vegetables & dairy (which I don't have a problem with).Most bread is a lot of empty calories. It can be done. Good luck

Sounds like a good plan to me. Bread really doesn't seem to have much value in my diet except as a comfort food. I don't eat much of it anymore

I'm on a ketogenic diet. <10gr a day carbs I try. Feel amazing and havent looked this good in years, and with intermittent fasting I feel much more alert and active before my eating window.

Anyways, things get so easy once your body adjusts to things. You become less hungry, more alert and aware of things. A v low carb diet really made a HUGE difference to me. Fat melts off if you couple it with some weight lifting. I built muscle and lost loads of bf in just two months on this diet.

Bread and pizza were my favourite food. No more, and the few times I try eating it out nowadays I start craving for my meat. Get your body to adjust to things you want it to adjust to, at first it will be difficult but things get much easier past the first slope. Progress will keep you going.

I'm on a ketogenic diet. <10gr a day carbs I try. Feel amazing and havent looked this good in years, and with intermittent fasting I feel much more alert and active before my eating window.

Anyways, things get so easy once your body adjusts to things. You become less hungry, more alert and aware of things. A v low carb diet really made a HUGE difference to me. Fat melts off if you couple it with some weight lifting. I built muscle and lost loads of bf in just two months on this diet.

Bread and pizza were my favourite food. No more, and the few times I try eating it out nowadays I start craving for my meat. Get your body to adjust to things you want it to adjust to, at first it will be difficult but things get much easier past the first slope. Progress will keep you going.

Amen to all that.

Cut way back on sugar (or anything that metabolises down to glucose, i.e. carbs) and you won't crave the junk.

Plus you get to appreciate the natural sweetness in something like a Bell Pepper. Bonus

As for bread (and grains in general) not only are they not useful to me nutritionally or from a fat loss perspective but they are potentially harmful to my health in general.

Check out leaky gut syndrome and auto-immune diseases, grains just don't help whether you have been diagnosed with an intolerance or not. "Healthy Whole Grains" they ain't.

Give up the simple carbs, sugar, starches, grains, flour. Bread only makes you want more bread that makes you want more bread.... After three horrible days, you'll feel completely detached from wanting any starches. Then you just gotta eat protein.

There's a lot of truth to the assertion that highly-processed grains are not good for the body because they are high in glycemic index and glycemic load. You can eat things like crackers and high-glycemic breads and potato chips and not feel full because they increase blood sugar too quickly and are digested too quickly--hence you are hungry again and can't get enough.

Some considerations, however:

1. Not all carbs are created equal, and not all breads are created equal. Pumpernickel, whole-grain breads, fettucine are all relatively low in glycemic load (GL) vs. those baguettes you mentioned which are much higher. Whole grains are also good sources of iron, magnesium and dietary fiber. But: you have to be careful and check the package, because a lot of "wheat" breads are not whole grains and have had the nutrients extracted (gotta love the American food-processing industry) and include added sugar such as in the form of corn syrup.

2. Substituting whole-grain breads with corn tortillas will probably carry no glycemic benefit--the whole-grain bread is somewhat lower in glycemic load (although corn tortillas are by themselves relatively low in GL). If you substitute, however, a whole-wheat tortilla for white bread, that comparatively is a larger benefit. You can find information on glycemic loads of different foods here:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Glycemic_index_and_glycemic_load_for_100_foods.htm

2. To the primal dieters, the Unfrozen Cavemen Clan, realize you are (a) eating a meal plan formulated in the Paleolithic era when the average lifespan was 35 years old (b) depriving yourself of vitamins and minerals found in whole grains and fruits and dairy, such as calcium and A, B and C vitamins. Yeah you're losing weight, probably fast, because you're filled on protein and probably your body is malnourished .... If you want your hair and teeth to resemble that which existed in caveman times, go for it. And by the way, we have no scientific evidence that a Paleo diet is good for anybody long-term because they all died in their 30s from bashing each other's skulls with stones and crude, sharp objects. And not only does the diet lack peer review, bu there are also ethical considerations in eating a diet so dependent on protein, including from cattle, which takes vast amounts of land and energy resources.

3. As for people with gluten issues, they have to eliminate whole grains. Everyone else, however, does not, and by eliminating whole grains you miss out on some nutritional benefit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/gluten-free-diet_b_907027.html

Latest research on low-GL/GI diets vs. Atkins is here:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/which-diet-works/

Lastly, before eliminating grains, are you pre-diabetic, show signs of it, and how much are you working out? I'm at a tradeoff between wanting to lose some belly fat (and having a history of diabetes in my family) so something like no-bread would help for a week or two, vs. wanting the low-GL breads or grains and fruit at least to fuel long workouts and provide nutrition. I do note that the no-bread, phase 1 of the South Beach Diet lasts only two weeks after which the cardiologist who invented it has the sense to feed people whole grains and fruits and allow them wine (which slows digestion).

Generally, you're right on the money about the baguettes, though there are shades of differences with breads and carbs. And I think you also have to think about where you are in terms of health and what you're doing in terms of workouts before ditching good forms of carbs such as whole grains.