Bread is bad for you!

beautyscientist

Eating white bread is not so different to eating sugar. As an experiment, try chewing a bit of bread for a while. After a few minutes it begins to taste sweet. The enzymes in your mouth have already got started on breaking the starch down into sugar. Your stomach finishes the job off pretty quickly.

Pasta and potatoes are pretty similar.

If you want to lose weight you pretty much have to reduce the amount of bread, pasta and spuds you eat some way or other.

GEEGEE8

Well, I am feeling a lot better for cutting down on the bread.. So far I'm just eating wholemeal pitta, 1/2 with lunch, 1/2 with dinner.

Altho on Sat night I had a big steak, handful of rustic oven chips and a couple of onion rings.. but by having half the amount I normally would I felt okay afterwards..

The worst I found for sweetness were Discovery Wraps, they taste like cake once chewed..

blue_monkey_2

I had a bread roll yesterday and by the evening I looked 6 months pregnant. Awful. And I felt like crap!! I had one Saturday and had the same thing happen so I am trying to cut out wheat for a few weeks. I often have pains in my stomach so am trying to see if I can feel better by cutting wheat out.

Only thing is, I love sandwiches and pasta so what the hell should I eat? I have my tesco shopping page open as I have an order coming in the morning but have no idea what to order to eat instead of bread. I do not honestly think I could live on salad all day every day. I eat 50/50 - as do the kids. For breakfast this morning I had porridge instead of toast but I've no idea what to have otherwise. Tonight I had a jacket spud with cheese and (oops) salad cream.

I am always so tired and decided that I'd give it a few weeks to see what happened.

So I'd be interested in hearing what other people eat when you cannot eat Wheat.

Eric_Pisch

blue_monkey wrote: »

I had a bread roll yesterday and by the evening I looked 6 months pregnant. Awful. And I felt like crap!! I had one Saturday and had the same thing happen so I am trying to cut out wheat for a few weeks. I often have pains in my stomach so am trying to see if I can feel better by cutting wheat out.

Only thing is, I love sandwiches and pasta so what the hell should I eat? I have my tesco shopping page open as I have an order coming in the morning but have no idea what to order to eat instead of bread. I do not honestly think I could live on salad all day every day. I eat 50/50 - as do the kids. For breakfast this morning I had porridge instead of toast but I've no idea what to have otherwise. Tonight I had a jacket spud with cheese and (oops) salad cream.

I am always so tired and decided that I'd give it a few weeks to see what happened.

So I'd be interested in hearing what other people eat when you cannot eat Wheat.

depends if its gluten or wheat that's inflaming your system, wheat is straight forward to avoid, gluten harder as its naturally in barley and rye as well as wheat, and you often find it in the most unsuspecting products.


there are wheat free and gluten free breads, sainsburys has a good selection

blue_monkey_2

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

depends if its gluten or wheat that's inflaming your system, wheat is straight forward to avoid, gluten harder as its naturally in barley and rye as well as wheat, and you often find it in the most unsuspecting products.


there are wheat free and gluten free breads, sainsburys has a good selection

Thanks Eric, going to get some stuff to get us by and then going shopping on Saturday so we can have a good browse.

Hubby is going to give it a try as well as even though he diets and loses weight his trousers still remain tight.

I am going to cut out wheat and see if that makes a difference. I found Oatibix last night as well and some other mueslis that do not have wheat flakes in so will get those.

Do you think it'll hurt the kids to go wheat free as well in regards to bread and pasta? I read that wheat free bread is not very nice, is this true?

Eric_Pisch

blue_monkey wrote: »

Thanks Eric, going to get some stuff to get us by and then going shopping on Saturday so we can have a good browse.

Hubby is going to give it a try as well as even though he diets and loses weight his trousers still remain tight.

I am going to cut out wheat and see if that makes a difference. I found Oatibix last night as well and some other mueslis that do not have wheat flakes in so will get those.

Do you think it'll hurt the kids to go wheat free as well in regards to bread and pasta? I read that wheat free bread is not very nice, is this true?

I can see any reason why going wheat free would do any harm, we have only been eating wheat like we do for about 10,000 years? The last time we evolved was 50-100k years ago I think.

I oatibix, as for the bread tasting different, i dont know, i stopped eating gluten so just gave it up, i guess its up to you, do you want the familiar taste or do you want to eating something that does not upset you. I suspect your palette will change very quickly

Gloomendoom

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

I can see any reason why going wheat free would do any harm, we have only been eating wheat like we do for about 10,000 years? The last time we evolved was 50-100k years ago I think.

We are evolving all the time. It isn't a staged process like when a new Dr. Who character is introduced.

Going wheat free won't do any harm as long as you have enough alternative sources of nutrition. On the other hand, it probably won't do the vast majority of people any benefit either.

NEH

Due to trying new medication i have had ot resort back to toast for breakfast as I can't tolerate milk and i don't want to have to resort to Soya milk again (expensive and not keen on the taste)

Anyway i have always found i can't tolerate brown bread or rice....

This was published recently and i am defiantely better avoiding wholewheat etc...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1228402/Eating-fibre-NOT-good-stomach.html

So i'm kinda stuck with white bread as it's the only thing that doesn't upset the balance...

melancholly

well soon there may well be a financial reason to avoid bread (which i'd find more compelling but i'm clearly a sceptic )
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10851170

Eric_Pisch

Gloomendoom wrote: »

We are evolving all the time. It isn't a staged process like when a new Dr. Who character is introduced.

Going wheat free won't do any harm as long as you have enough alternative sources of nutrition. On the other hand, it probably won't do the vast majority of people any benefit either.

of course, but in terms of changing enough to be noticeably anatomically different (apart from being taller due to increased protein) we are pretty much the same as 50,000 years ago, wheat is not a food that is essential for us