White bread makes you fat!!!

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Ingesting far more calories than you expend makes you fat.

Eat your white bread, just don't eat a whole loaf at a time.

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Eat your white bread, just don't eat a whole loaf at a time.

or eat it and then work it off!!!

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However, I would say that the same diet for everyone isn't always a good idea. .... Some people have borderline medical conditions that require them to eat differently ...

no one has mentioned medical conditions, that's a whole different boat.

but you take your average run-of-the-mill american fatass, put them on a 500 calorie deficient diet and have them spend quality time at the gym, pounds will be dropped.

the fact is the average fatass has a shitty lifestyle. they eat too much, excercise too little.

there is a group of people in the US who regularly eat 3000 plus calories per day including high fat foods like bacon and butter, yet they have almost no weight problems. they're called the Amish and they bust their asses doing manual labor, burning all those ingested calories.

food is fuel, not an excuse or a hobby.

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Have you ever had a weight problem?
Is your success theory based on self proven experience?

Yes. Lost 30 lbs by simply cutting the amount of food I ate, but not the types.

The poster that said you can loose weight eating only ice cream is spot on. That's why so many of these stupid diet fads are dangeous.

HEALTHY weight loss is done through calorie reduction and increased exercise.

Changing what one eats is more nutrition related, but should not be expected to be a weight loss method unless caloric intake is reduced too.

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Eat your white bread, just don't eat a whole loaf at a time.

But it will go bad if I don't eat it all

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the same diet for everyone isn't always a good idea.

Absolutely. Personal anecdote - I weighed 245 pounds when I turned 20. I weighed 165 when I turned 21, (I went from too fat to too skinny). I lost all that weight thought stress, lack of sleep, 80 hour work weeks doign manual labor jobs, and taking a full load of summer school. I actually lost it all in a span of three months.

Once I added muscle, I got up to 175-180. A healthy weight. I steadily increased weight until about 18 months ago, when I was up to 205. (Which was fine - I told myself it was okay to weigh 200 after I turned 30). Of course, I now am at 185.

Now, nothing in terms of the constituents of my diet changed. I still eat the same stuff I always ate. I just do not eat as much. I can't maintain a diet of salads and twigs. I can't handle an Atkins diet. I like my food selection.

I used to eat double cheeseburgers. Now I eat a cheaseburger. I used to eat ice cream sundaes. Now I will often have ice cream - one or two scoops. I used to eat large orders of fries. Now I rarely get the fries, and when I do, I eat a small size. No 44 ounce sodas, anymore - 12 ounce can of Pepsi will do. I found out that it will fil me up. If I finish my food and I'm still hungry, I wait 5 minutes, and I'm no longer hungry.

This fills me up nicely because I eat more slowly. It's amazing how enjoyable the act of eating is for me now that I take the time to enjoy what I eat. Turn eating a cheeseburger into a 5 minute experience. Yummy!!! Sip soda. If I need to pound fluid, I pound water. Heck, merely having good beer around limits my consumption and saving on calories.

I'm not particularly active anymore (although home improvement and the two hours nightly of horseplay with my sone has yielded dramatic effects on my physique - to where why suit size has increased).

Moderate your foods.
Moderate your intake.
Moderate your speed of food intake.
Eat small amounts throughout the day to avoid tapping into muscle mass to keep you going and to keep up your metabolism high.
Don't eat huge dinners.

If you'll note, all of these things are what happens to people who have gastric surgeries. And yet, they can be learned and practiced, and within a week your body will be used to it.

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Moderate your foods.
Moderate your intake.
Moderate your speed of food intake.
Eat small amounts throughout the day to avoid tapping into muscle mass to keep you going and to keep up your metabolism high.
Don't eat huge dinners.

All very good advice, and I should point out another contributing factor to peoples' increase in size is the increase in portion sizes over the years, specifically in restaurants, but as we come to think of that as a "normal" size we probably unconsciously reflect that portion size at home, as well.

For some people, not having to cut out certain foods works. For me, and the way my body/brain chemistry works, I trigger binge eating if I eat certain foods. It's better for me overall to avoid them altogether. I find that I can't indulge occasionally because occasionally then becomes regularly ... and regularly becomes bingeworthy. But for people who don't have the issues with food that I do, it's a good mantra.

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If you'll note, all of these things are what happens to people who have gastric surgeries. And yet, they can be learned and practiced, and within a week your body will be used to it.

I actually looked into it at one point when I was heavy enough to be a slam-dunk candidate. What stopped me was that I realized that, on the other side of surgery was drastic behavior modification, and that if I didn't modify my behavior after surgery, I could make myself very, very sick.

I figured I'd give it one last shot at behavior modification on my own, and in my case, that included a food plan. The end result is the same (125 lbs off in 18 months) and I didn't have to go through surgery. However, there are a lot of folks out there for whom the forced behavior modification that comes after surgery is the best and perhaps only option. It's not easy to change behavior, otherwise more people would do it.

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Welll duh!!!
Actually, when I used to eat white bread, pasta and pizza, my tummy wasn't very flat. Now that I eat whole grains and lots of produce, my tummy is pretty flat. White bread can definitely pack on the pounds, especially in the stomach area.

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