Is Whole Wheat Bread Preventing You From Losing Weight?

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People often think they are doing themselves a healthy favor by switching from white bread to whole wheat bread. Although this can be a better option than white, whole wheat bread may actually be preventing you from losing unwanted weight.

I’m not a big fan of bread or bread type products. Actually, I think most people would feel a thousand times better if they stopped eating so much bread every day. Toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, big bread basket at dinner…we could feed a small village with the amount of bread I see some people consuming in one day.

Should You Never Eat Whole Wheat Bread Again?

No, I’m not saying you should never have bread again. Hey, its life, you gotta enjoy it a little don’t ya? What I am saying is that 4-5 servings of bread type products every day is making thousands of people gain weight, preventing them from losing their unwanted weight and worst of all, contributing to the increase in diseases like Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease.

Fact: I don’t eat much bread. I’ve come to enjoy the other delicious foods I eat each day so much that I don’t miss the lack of bread in my meal plans.

How is Whole Wheat Bread Preventing You From Losing Weight?

In a nutshell, highly processed whole wheat bread contains too much sugar. In addition to that problem the processing removes most of the good nutrients that were in the grains fo wheat in the first place.

Here are a few “bread free” strategies to incorporate into your meal plans and how you can lower your own bread intake each day:

1. When you think of breakfast, don’t automatically think toast, bagels, or rolls. A couple of hard boiled eggs over sliced tomatoes is delicious. You can also make a quick batch of oatmeal and add walnuts and berries. How about cottage cheese and pineapple? Bread free breakfast options are endless.

2. Pack snack foods and take them with you to work. I can throw natural peanut butter, raw almonds, dried fruit (no sugar added), an apple or banana and baby carrots in a bag and be out the door in under two minutes.

Slap some peanut butter on an apple and munch away on that instead of joining the weight gainers club devouring the break room donuts.

3. Don’t depend on sandwiches as lunch every day. How about some salmon, broccoli and brown rice? It’s easy to throw those ingredients together and their great for you. How about leftover chicken from last night and a sweet potato?

4. Make “the bread basket” a once-in-while experience. You really don’t need to be serving a bread basket for dinner at home if you are offering healthy carbohydrate choices like salad, cooked vegetables, brown rice, millet, or quinoa.

5. Don’t think that eating store bought “100% Whole Wheat” bread is any better than eating white bread. They still used refined flour (it just hasn’t been bleached) and is a huge contributor to weight gain. I could go on and on about this but I have covered all the details about how detrimental wheat products are to your weight loss efforts in Chapter 9 of my The Diet Solutions Program.

Start thinking outside the “bread box” for healthy alternatives to your daily bread intake. What one thing can you do today to get started?

About the Author:

Isabel De Los Rios is a certified nutritionist and exercise specialist who has already helped over 25,000 people all over the world lose incredible amounts of weight, regain their health and permanently change their lives.

She is the creator of The Diet Solutions Program and the Owner of New Body – Center for Fitness and Nutrition in New Jersey.

Isabel has become the #1 “go to girl” when it comes to Fat Burning Nutrition by several of the most popular fitness professionals around the globe. Isabel’s cutting edge and completely different approach to nutrition is what sets her apart from all the rest.

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