If only giving up one for weight loss: bread or sugar?

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Anonymous wrote:All of the above. Sugar, bread, alcohol ..... It all adds up.

Bread contains a shocking amount of calories and salt. Two pieces of commercial bread is already like 100-200 calories. 10% of DV in cals just for the bread of a sandwich alone. Sugar is in everything. Yogurts, cereals, dressings.....everything is soaked with sugar.

Alcohol is a no brainier, and for me the biggest contributor to weight gain. Alcohol messes up your metabolism. Each drink is a ton of calories. Let's be honest, people rarely have just one drink. Drinking sessions pack tons of cals on. And then your inhibitions ae lowered and you tend to eat garbage food with it or high fat, high salt, high cal snacks and dinner with booze. Cutting out booze is easily the best thing I've ever done for weight loss.

I don't think that 10% of your calories from the bread in a sandwich is a big deal if you are eating that sandwich as a meal.

The mistake is that 2000 calories is just a guideline. Millions of people in fact don't need 2000 calories per day to maintain weight. That means 200 calories from bread alone can be even more than 10% DV. Blowing that many cals alone on bread is a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Bread is sugar (ie carbohydrates). So, you need to cut out both. Eat protein and low carb veggies instead.

Don't listen to this "low carb" moron OP. They're stuck in 1997. Eat all the whole fruit you want, no matter how many carbs they have. The fiber and water is incredibly good for you. And fiber is "a carb."

Another low carb moron here. Laughing at this post.

Yup laughing at this loser. I lost 35 pounds on low carb. And have kept it off for 2 years.

I have lost 70 lbs while eating carbs and have kept it off for 5 years so far. No carb BS is a fad.

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I hate this but sugar and booze, my two fav food groups.

The only thing that makes it not my favorite food is that I feel SO MUCH better and have lost 20 freaking pounds since the summer.

For context, I would say I'm almost to no booze (transparently I enjoy a light gummy in the evenings now while I watch my programs after bedtime) but I drank margs when I was in Mexico last week. So not no drinks ever, but I went down from four a weekend (casual drinking friday and sat) which I thought wasn't much so didn't think would matter. But here I am down to the weight I was in my 20s.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bread is sugar (ie carbohydrates). So, you need to cut out both. Eat protein and low carb veggies instead.

Don't listen to this "low carb" moron OP. They're stuck in 1997. Eat all the whole fruit you want, no matter how many carbs they have. The fiber and water is incredibly good for you. And fiber is "a carb."

Another low carb moron here. Laughing at this post.

Yup laughing at this loser. I lost 35 pounds on low carb. And have kept it off for 2 years.

I have lost 70 lbs while eating carbs and have kept it off for 5 years so far. No carb BS is a fad.

the original pp said "low carb moron." low carb is not no carb. you are the exception to the norm and must have been way overeating if you lost 70 pounds. congrats to you. but the best way to lose weight is through a low carb/high protein portion controlled diet.

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OP, I lost and have kept off 35 pounds.

Start with cutting sugar cold turkey. If you eat a lot of it, you will have withdrawal. It's poison.

Wait a few weeks and see what the scale does. Once you get used to basically no sugar and you stop losing weight, then scale back bread, pasta, and rice. I did this and it did wonders. My skin glows, I lost weight, I feel great. An occasional sandwhich or serving of pasta is ok. But not more than one serving a day, ideally just a few times a week.

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Calories. You give up calories not entire food groups.

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Anonymous wrote:Calories. You give up calories not entire food groups.

Exactly!

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Just know your own body and appetite. For some people, a slice of bread can help with fullness or an apple and banana is a good chunk of the meal. Those things just don’t fill me up and I could eat an entire loaf of bread - so for me I have to limit my carbs and rarely indulge in bread or pasta.

Sugar is another trigger for me and causes me to lose my mind and eat the entire package of whatever the item is. It’s a no go for me.

Low carb, high protein for this perimenopausal PCOS woman. I’ve lost 30 pounds and kept it off for two years. I feel great!

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Anonymous wrote:Just know your own body and appetite. For some people, a slice of bread can help with fullness or an apple and banana is a good chunk of the meal. Those things just don’t fill me up and I could eat an entire loaf of bread - so for me I have to limit my carbs and rarely indulge in bread or pasta.

Sugar is another trigger for me and causes me to lose my mind and eat the entire package of whatever the item is. It’s a no go for me.

Low carb, high protein for this perimenopausal PCOS woman. I’ve lost 30 pounds and kept it off for two years. I feel great!

+1 My idea of a good time is a loaf of sourdough to toast and butter and sprinkle with sea salt or shaved parmesan and tabasco. You can eat a lot because it isn’t filling. I just don’t buy it. I have never understood the women of my mother’s generation who have a PIECE of toast for breakfast.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone see a difference giving up alcohol (wine)?

Yes. I made one and only one change to my diet in the last 2 years — I stopped drinking alcohol (75% wine and 25% cocktails).

I dropped 35 lbs as a result.

How often did you drink? I only have a few glasses a week so I don’t see that making an impact

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Anonymous wrote:I hate this but sugar and booze, my two fav food groups.

The only thing that makes it not my favorite food is that I feel SO MUCH better and have lost 20 freaking pounds since the summer.

For context, I would say I'm almost to no booze (transparently I enjoy a light gummy in the evenings now while I watch my programs after bedtime) but I drank margs when I was in Mexico last week. So not no drinks ever, but I went down from four a weekend (casual drinking friday and sat) which I thought wasn't much so didn't think would matter. But here I am down to the weight I was in my 20s.

Thanks! that’s helpful. this is me

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Anonymous wrote:Just know your own body and appetite. For some people, a slice of bread can help with fullness or an apple and banana is a good chunk of the meal. Those things just don’t fill me up and I could eat an entire loaf of bread - so for me I have to limit my carbs and rarely indulge in bread or pasta.

Sugar is another trigger for me and causes me to lose my mind and eat the entire package of whatever the item is. It’s a no go for me.

Low carb, high protein for this perimenopausal PCOS woman. I’ve lost 30 pounds and kept it off for two years. I feel great!

Sometimes I forget that with diet and nutrition it’s so important to consider individual differences! Not so much because of how bodies work but because of how brains work, although both matter. Thanks for the reminder.

I eat a lot of carbs, relatively speaking, but the vast majority are complex carbs like potatoes, steel cut oats, fruit, sweet potatoes, etc. I need these to feel satiated. The need is probably a mental thing but I’m happy with my body and my health.

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Anonymous wrote:Sugar. I mean who eats that much bread lol?

Let's see..French, Italians, Russians. Also known for being slender.

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"Bread" is sort of a cop-out...if you cut out gluten, you'd probably see a big drop (no beer, no pasta, no bread, no easily-obtainable baked goods, no breaded foods). While there are more GF junk food swaps available now than even a few years ago, most are not good (read: not worth the calories, IMO). If you cut out gluten, you're going to by default eat more whole foods and less refined carbs, and will probably see results.

You could also consider cutting dairy, which also tends to go hand and hand with much of the sugar in our diets.

Just cutting sugar by itself (as in, no sweets) is likely to be unsustainable in terms of cravings and also not give you the results you're looking for - although of course, cutting out added/hidden sugars is worthwhile in general (like those in some pasta sauces, breads, yogurts, etc.).

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Doesn’t almost all bread include sugar