Why You Should Eliminate Bread From Your Diet

 

The smell of home-baked bread is ecstatic. And the taste is magnificent, almost addictive. Recently, experts have been conducting studies to explain whether eliminating bread of your diet can drastically affect your current weight. But the real question is, is it worth it?

Bread has significant nutrient value and contains vitamin B and iron. However, if you are consuming it in large amounts it is highly likely that it contributes to gain weight.

If you are wondering how much weight you’ll lose if you totally eliminate bread out of your diet, keep in mind that it depends on how much bread you are currently consuming.

If eliminating bread means just avoiding toast during breakfast, you shouldn’t expect drastic changes regarding your weight loss.

But if you have a habit of pairing your meal with bread every time you sit on the table, total elimination will result in significant reduction of calorie intake. Thus, a drastic change considering the weight loss should take part.

Hidden calories in bread

Although bread is not that ‘stuffed’ with calories, frequent consumption will surely add a significant amount of extra pounds.

If you want to calculate how much weight you’ll lose by eliminating bread of your diet, you have to know approximately how much ‘bread’ calories you insert during a meal.

For instance, white bread contains 266 calories per 100 grams or 80 calories per 30 gram-piece. On the other hand, wholegrain bread contains 247 calories per 100 grams or 74 calories per 30 gram-piece.

Losing Pounds with Ease

According to nutritionists, you’ll lessen the daily calorie intake (100 to 500) and in addition, if you are physically active 30 to 60 minutes a day, you are on the right tract to losing weight.

If you usually have a toast for breakfast, English muffin for snack, piece of white bread for lunch and another one for dinner, keep in mind that you consume 454 more calories just out of bread. That is 3,178 extra calories per week.

If you want to lose one pound per week you’ll need to reduce the bread-calorie intake for 3,500 per week, and you won’t have trouble with that if you have decided to eliminate bread.

We are talking about 3,178 fewer calories per week if no bread is included in your diet.

This is a question that is concerning the bread-lovers. Actually it’s a matter of tastes. If you can live without the taste of bread, you can easily eliminate it off your diet.

Source(s):

riseearth.com

http://www.healthfreedoms.org/why-you-should-eliminate-bread-from-your-diet/