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Giving Up Bread - Help!
Master Ozzy
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I want to give up bread. Does anyone have any ideas on things to eat instead? Or has anyone done this themselves?
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Ale, on the other hand...................................
what I do if I am cutting out having bread
I buy Icerberg lettuces and remove the stem and central core
Then you can begin by peeling off a few outer leaves together
Use these like a tortilla wrap
to fold around all your chosen fillings
You feel as though you are having a substantially filled and varied wrap
you can even use pretty hot fillings
the choices are endless
good luck with[ out ] it
No not unless you have a problem such as coeliac disease. If you stop eating bread and as a result eat less calories then yes you will lose weight but the same thing would happen if you stopped eating the calories elsewhere.
If you think you may have coeliac disease then that is a serious illness and you should see you doctor, similarly if you think you have an allergy to wheat/gluten though that is less serious. Most probably you have just been reading someone's opinion written with little or no evidence to support that opinion, you can get almost any opinion on the web and most sites can sound convincing.
When I cut out bread I tend to replace it with ryvita, but next time I will try the lettuce, thanks.
However, I have managed to cut back. I almost never buy a loaf of bread these days and if I do fancy some sandwiches I'll try to have them as a wrap.
Nope, never done it before, I LOVE BREAD...What i did was substitute regular bread for brown bread, think its called whole grain, its MUCH healther, for me the difference in the taste isnt very noticable
I've been eating wholemeal bread for years. It's still bread though.
Anyway, i'm going to stop eating it from tomorrow. I don't think it should be too difficult. I'm going to do what the poster in this thread mentioned about sandwhich fillings in lettuce indtead of bread for sandwhiches. Also going to take big salads to work with lots of meat, cottage cheese. I think I should be fine.
I work from home now but when I was eating salads at work I found the best way was to take all of the bits and pieces separately rather than making it at home otherwise it goes all limp. As long as you have fridge at work then bags of salad leaves, cold meats and cheeses should be enough to last a few days and works out far cheaper than a supermarket sandwich each day.
and ........ Master Ozzy
so you can lose weight by eating just bread, someone told me you can't, but it is not recommended.
A slice of toast is about 100-150 calories (depending on the type of bread what you have on top of it). If you are only consuming 400-600 calories a day then you are sure to lose a lot of weight regardless of what it is.
That is true, that is one way to lose weight, but as i said, not recommended.
This doesn't include the loaves I was getting through when 'snacking' at various times of the day.
OP, you probably enjoy the feeling of being full all the time. The trouble is the weight you're putting on, that you can't seem to shift by going to the gym several times a week.
What you need to do is eat more proteins and nutrients. If you get enough of these you won't crave bread. Don't confuse this with eating lettuce and salad. These are foods you won't enjoy and which will lead you to back to your old habits. Eat light meats like chicken and fish. Supplement your food with beetroot, garlic and an assortment of beans (black eye peas, kidney beans etc). Cook with olive oil, not sunflower oil. Try pasta instead of rice. A few weeks of this and you'll notice the difference.
The low carb/keto/celiac websites are full of ideas for going bread free. It can be done! Good luck!
Bread is a carb - so is rice and potatoes, there's also rice cakes as someone mentioned. Gram flour makes very decent pancakes. The lettuce leaf is an excellent taco shell substitute
for snacks instead of potato crisp, I make cheese or peperoni crisps.
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I had 2 lettuce wraps this morning
with carved ham salad cream tomato cucumber and Thai sweet chilli sauce
I find a carrot dunked in houmous is a good [ lower calorie ] snack
or celery stalks with houmous or philli cheese / or peanut butter
or slices of cucumber dunked into salad cream and or mint sauce
Cottage cheese mixed up with wedges of tomato celery & cucumber & squidge of Salad cream