I enjoy bread served as a liquid. I consume it in the evening. I am not fat. I appreciate the high calories and it's wholesome goodness.

In the mornings I prefer the opposite effect beans have. I take this in the form of a liquid as well.

i enjoy bread served as a liquid. I consume it in the evening. I am not fat. I appreciate the high calories and it's wholesome goodness.

In the mornings i prefer the opposite effect beans have. I take this in the form of a liquid as well.

Beer is also know as liquid bread. Coffee is made from beans.

Hi,
I heard it isn’t good to eat breads. I eat a lot of whole wheat bread, but I heard that bread in general puts unwanted weight on your body.

Is this true?
Does anyone know where I can find info. on this?

Also, is it bad to eat bread before going to sleep? I heard it doesn’t digest quickly (and turns to fat) because you don’t do anything active while sleeping.

Thanks for reading!

I feel bread isn't the best choice of carb. Whole wheat is the only way to go if you are going to eat it. I prefer oatmeal.

Unlike Robert, I prefer to eat any carbs I consume in the evening. I get hungry after I eat them. This way, I go to sleep rather than overeating.

If you were looking at optimized carb intake, stay as close to the original source as possible - i.e. oats, brown rice, barley, etc. Bread is processed.

The other thing to watch for is gluten or wheat allergies - this is something that many people are not aware of.

If you were to spend time eating bread while dieting, I'd probably stick w/ the non-gluten stuff like Ezekial bread.

RE: eating carbs at night - generally because they metabolize quickly you get the "zing" of a small sugar rush and then a crash.

Personally I find it hard to sleep after a carb meal. Also because they were metabolized quickly, you're going that much longer w/ nothing in your system before your next meal (breakfast

Fats, on the other hand, metabolize more slowly than carbs and you don't get the sugar rush. Further you also get another hour or two of food in your system until your next meal.

the standard approach is small meals at short intervals, based on the concept that your body metabolizes proteins, fats & carbs every 2-3 hrs.

No. Bread is NOT fattening.
Bread is one of the ESSENTIAL FOODS in a healthy weight loss plan.

Bread is one of the ESSENTIAL FOODS in a healthy weight loss plan.

No. Bread is NOT fattening.
Bread is one of the ESSENTIAL FOODS in a healthy weight loss plan.

No. Bread is NOT fattening.
Bread is one of the ESSENTIAL FOODS in a healthy weight loss plan.

During my carb up days, I routinely consume maybe 6-8 bagels and 1/4 loaf of wheat bread in a two day span. Not to mention about another pound of pasta. I'm consitantly losing bodyfat every week.

Personally I can think of ohhh so many other better sources of carb. But for anyone in this conversation, the answer is going to depend on what your goals are. I've been in contest mode for nearly 10 yrs. I consider bread to be a shitty source of carbs, but on rare occasion is a really nice treat like if I'm out at a good steak house or something. But as a staple, I don't like it. I also think many people are affected by gluten allergies and don't even know it.

Agreed. I can think of plenty more better carb sources too. But when you have to shovel in 1000 grams in 24 hours, while keeping pro and fat to a minimum... bread and pasta are a must.

I feel bread isn't the best choice of carb. Whole wheat is the only way to go if you are going to eat it. I prefer oatmeal.

Bread is a good choice of carb, its a complex carb like rice, pasta, porridge, cerals.
Junk carbs would be sweets cakes ect.
I wouldnt eat more than two slices a day.



Good tip for everyone, spicey food (especially chilli) boosts the metabolic rate by 50% for up to three hours aftr eating so get those spices on the go :]

Bread is a good choice of carb, its a complex carb like rice, pasta, porridge, cerals.
Junk carbs would be sweets cakes ect.
I wouldnt eat more than two slices a day.



Good tip for everyone, spicey food (especially chilli) boosts the metabolic rate by 50% for up to three hours aftr eating so get those spices on the go :]

Wow, you really need to do some research.
Try the google machine and read the stickies.

As a fitness instructor who specialises in nutrition im pretty confident in what i tell people, i know each slice will contain around 120 calories but the other benifits from it means i would defo put bread in my meal plans, not everyday and not more than 2 slices. also everything tastes better in a samwhich and what the point of having a diet that you dont enjoy.

Carbs are the fastest form of energy and having good glycogen stores make you have a great energy source for workout.

Good tip for everyone, spicey food (especially chilli) boosts the metabolic rate by 50% for up to three hours aftr eating so get those spices on the go :]

Brown rice should be considered a complex carb and white rice is should not.

Most breads you would find in a grocery store are not complex carbs but refined crap.

Likewise, most pastas should be considered simple not complex.

The refining process, takes what was slow digesting complex carbs and turns it into rapidly digesting carbs, devoid of it's fiber,vitamins, and minerals.

They are both excellent choices for complex carbohydrate. .

If it's a starch, it's a complex carb. Period.

All pastas, like all breads, are starches and thus complex carbs.

Which, sometimes (read: carbups) is exactly what you want.

Simple carbs are sugars, such as glucose (dextrose).

Complex carbs are glucose polymers - that is to say, starches. Oatmeal, white or brown rice, white or whole wheat (bread, pasta), white or sweet potatoes, cornmeal, cornstarch - all are complex carbs.

My only issue with grain-foods is gluten. Some of us have trouble with gluten. I'm one of 'em.

They are both excellent choices for complex carbohydrate.

If it's a starch, it's a complex carb. Period.

All pastas, like all breads, are starches and thus complex carbs.

Which, sometimes (read: carbups) is exactly what you want.

Simple carbs are sugars, such as glucose (dextrose).

Complex carbs are glucose polymers - that is to say, starches. Oatmeal, white or brown rice, white or whole wheat (bread, pasta), white or sweet potatoes, cornmeal, cornstarch - all are complex carbs.

My only issue with grain-foods is gluten. Some of us have trouble with gluten. I'm one of 'em.

Brown rice should be considered a complex carb and white rice is should not.
Most breads you would find in a grocery store are not complex carbs but refined crap.
Likewise, most pastas should be considered simple not complex.

This reason you mention, that it is not as filling as brown, is precisely the reason I prefer it for carbups. It's just too damned unpleasant to shovel in 600g of carb from brown rice in one day.

Also, it clears my system faster - when I'm looking to get back into ketosis after a carbup, or even after something like a preworkout carb-meal, I want something that get into my blood stream, does the job, and gets out. Usually I'll go directly to straight dextrose for this purpose. Next best for me is white rice. Slower carb choices can take too long to clear my system to be useful for this application.

Keep in mind, I think of carbohydrate as an ergogenic aid and occasional recreational cheat. I look to meat, vegetables, nuts and berrries for my nutritional needs.

Even the most nutrient-dense carb-choice pales when compared with vegetables and meat. I'm pretty sure you'll find very few bodybuilders who are looking to grain foods to form the bulk of their nutrition. Unless this is you, your choice of white vs brown rice is pretty much a matter of personal preference, and of course, application.

It's all about how the whole picture turns out, not the individual food choice. You have to look at diet as a whole, and in context.

That may have been what you meant, but that wasn't what you wrote:
Peace.

Out of curiosity, what exactly is the nutritional difference between white and brown rice?

(for the record, I prefer the taste of brown rice, but I eat so little of it anyway, and it takes so damned long to cook, I rarely bother)

Let me put it another way - how much brown rice do you eat daily?

It's not just the rice. It's all the refined foods in your diet.

See, that's my point exactly.

It's not just the white rice.

It's your entire intake of all foods.

If your diet provides you with what you require, and you still have the calories to spend, it won't matter AT ALL if you consume these extras from white or from brown.

If you're a fitness instructor, then I feel sorry for your clients.

Brown rice should be considered a complex carb and white rice is should not.
Most breads you would find in a grocery store are not complex carbs but refined crap.
Likewise, most pastas should be considered simple not complex.

The refining process, takes what was slow digesting complex carbs and turns it into rapidly digesting carbs, devoid of it's fiber,vitamins, and minerals. The fact that you didn't make this basic distinction in your advice shows your ignorance in the subject.

Yes, I agree. But to classify these refined foods as good carbs as was her original statement is incorrect. These are carbs yes, and yes a little top romen isn't going to hurt you as long as you can take the calories/sodium, but then again a little candy isn't going to kill you either, but lets not pretend it's healthy.

GoodNite

A simple carb = sugar

A Complex carb = Starch

this is BASIC bioligy.
Don't patrionise me i have a exercise, nutrition and health sciences degree and i know what i am talking about.

Don't patrionise me i have a exercise, nutrition and health sciences degree and i know what i am talking about.

Good tip for everyone, spicey food (especially chilli) boosts the metabolic rate by 50% for up to three hours aftr eating so get those spices on the go :]

I know it's galling to think of, but white rice is a good carb and fruit juice is, under most circumstances, a "bad" carb.

The difference comes from fructose. Fructose interferes with the normal satiety pattern that follows carbohydrate ingestion.

White rice, because it degrades into glucose, is thus a good carb. Fruit juice, because it is composed of various sugars, many of release fructose upon digestion, is a bad carb.

I have a LOT more to say on this if you're interested, but white rice is an excellent choice of peri-workout carbohydrate. It's generally non-allergenic, it is mostly glucose polymers, palatable, easy to prepare, and effective.

A simple carb = sugar

A Complex carb = Starch

this is BASIC bioligy.
Don't patrionise me i have a exercise, nutrition and health sciences degree and i know what i am talking about.

And yet you misspell 'biology' and 'patronize'. Maybe english wasn't part of the curriculum.

I will pay you in sweaty man-hugs if you can show me one iota of evidence that eating chili can increase my metabolism by 50% for 3 hours. And I give the best sweaty man-hugs around.

I require vids of said sweaty man-hugs.