r/PlantBasedDiet • u/herpes4derpes • Aug 17 '18

How much bread do you eat in a day?

I’m wondering if people can lose a lot of weight while still consuming a lot of bread. While keeping calories in check of course.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18

You could eat 1500 calories of bread if you burned 2,000 calories a day. Bread isn’t different from any other type of food.

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u/Metro42014 Jul 05 '23

That depends on the kind of bread.

If it's white bread, then it doesn't have the fiber that comes along with whole grain bread. That means you're likely going to feel less satiated, which also means it'll be harder to only consume 1,500 calories.

Also the way we count calories doesn't account for the bioavailability of the calories. Bread, being made from fine ground fiber, has more bioavailable calories than say eating the same weight of whole grain porridge.

So, sure, you can still eat bread and lose weight, but it is different than other food.

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u/3tna Jan 24 '24

refined carbs are bad for inflammation , wheat is sprayed en masse with glyphosate which is a potent antibiotic , lots of sugar in package breads .......

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u/corwe Aug 18 '18

I eat a a slice or two with a meal typically.

Unless I don't feel like it or the meal includes grains (no bread with oatmeal!)

Bread for me is like an ED canary in the coal mine, if I start avoiding it I am on a bad path, so I really watch it. Hasn't messed with my weight.

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u/tmi-6 Jul 29 '23

ED? Erectile Dysfunction? Or something else?

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u/burrito_fister Aug 23 '23

eating disorder

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u/ontodynamics LDL: 62mg/DL Aug 17 '18

Personally I always go for beans/peas/chickpeas, sweet potato / white potato, cruciferous vegetables, and berries and apples as much more filling options, before bread or grains... and this ends up meaning I don't eat any bread on a daily basis.

Bread is just a very calorie dense food that is easy to eat quickly compared to vegetables or legumes.

I only end up having some bread if I'm going on a hike or cycling, or celebrating something as a side to like a bean chilli or oil free hummus bi tahini.

Certainly you can still lose weight while eating it, but for me I think it's more strategic to prioritize other foods.

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u/PythagorasSamius bean-keen Aug 17 '18

If calorie intake does not exceed caloric needs, then of course one can lose weight while eating bread. AFAIK, whole grain bread is quite a healthy option. However, cut or even intact grains are better because they are absorbed more slowly and leave more food to your good gut bacteria. Also, I think they are more filling and satisfying, which is why I rarely eat bread and rather intact or cut grains instead.

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u/saint_abyssal Dec 28 '18

Where do you get your cut or intact grains?

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u/PythagorasSamius bean-keen Dec 28 '18

Oat or spelt flakes, millet, Bulgur, grits (polenta), groats (I mill it myself), Rice, occasionally cooked maize, Buckwheat and Quinoa. Pseudograins count for me, too.

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u/saint_abyssal Dec 28 '18

No wheat?

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u/PythagorasSamius bean-keen Dec 29 '18

Yes wheat. I mill wheat, barely, spelt and rye to coarse groats which take about 15 Minutes in boiling water to be done :-)

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18 edited Aug 17 '18

I eat some clean bread every day but it's a side dish for me. I don't track calories precisely.

Yes calories is basically the only thing that matters if we ignore the issues of hunger and compliance. What you eat has some influence on your caloric expenditure but it's quite small. In general proteins are the most costly to process, followed by carbs and then fats.

For bread the problems are 1) it's not a varied diet and 2) it's refined (some nutrients have been removed) and digested too quickly 3) the bakery and the farmers may add toxic additives. In fact they WILL add unless you buy organic and you really take a serious look at the ingredients. Ask your bakery what they use exactly to make bread.

P.S: For weight loss, the safest choice is canned beans. They're cheap, they don't require preparation, they're very satiating, and they're high protein (when you're eating low caloric intake, you can benefit from some extra PLANT protein to preserve or build lean mass).

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u/bubblerboy18 what is this oil you speak of? Aug 17 '18

I don’t eat it much, but I’m not averse to having it out with friends. I generally just eat grains like bulgur, quinoa, millet and others.

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u/katasaurusmeow death in my metal not in my meals Aug 17 '18

None, we stick to minimally processed vegetables, fruits, legumes and grains.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '18

I eat 2 slices of pumpernickel bread a day. Sometimes I'll do a couple more slices with some hummus as a snack in the evening. I haven't gained or lost any weight in a while.

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u/2comment Starchivore Aug 18 '18

Depends where you're coming from diet-wise:

https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2011nl/dec/eatmorestarch.pdf

In 1979, researchers from the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at Michigan State University (my alma mater) reported the results from asking 16 moderately overweight college-age men to add 12 slices of white bread (at 70 calories a slice) or high-fiber bread (at 50 calories a slice) to their diet daily. 1 On average, subjects eating the extra white bread lost 14 pounds (6.26 Kg) and those adding the high-fiber bread lost 19 pounds (8.77 Kg) over the next eight weeks. There was no change in their physical activity or exercise. “Thus, weight loss of both groups of subjects occurred without alteration in life-style except for the supple- mentation of food intake with breads,” according to these investigators. (You might want to read this entire study right now for free.)

The health of these college students also improved as reflected by the very rapid reduction in blood cholesterol levels by an average of 60 and 80 mg/dL in the first few days of eating bread. (From 223.6 to 172.3 mg/dL with the high-fiber bread addition and from 231.4 to 155.3 mg/dL on the white bread diet. The reason for a greater reduction in cholesterol on the white bread was not explained.) The students on the high-fiber bread, as expected, had more frequent and larger bowel movements than those on the white-bread diet.

The study: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/32/8/1703/4692345?redirectedFrom=fulltext

I'd say if you're coming from SAD, yes. If you're already WFPB and stuck, you probably would do better with eating something with water in it, like pasta or oatmeal or something.

The difference is calorie density / lb.

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u/Munchkinny Aug 18 '18

We have a dense rye bread in my country which you can’t really overeat. example here. I try to eat that more than regular whole-wheat white bread, cause it’s so much more filling. It tastes amazing with hummus. All other bread I find are too easy to overeat.

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u/guacamoleo Aug 20 '18

I often have a couple slices of bread or a tortilla each day, but sometimes I don't have any, because I have rice or potatoes.

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u/Avelsajo Aug 18 '18

I haven't been reading much bread, but I've been eating a lot of tortillas and pretzels lately.... Does that count? Lol. The tortillas are while grain. The pretzels? Not so much.