The No Flour and No Sugar Diet
One of the simplest and easy to follow diets out there is the No Flour, No Sugar Diet. The logic behind it is very basic. The foods that are usually high calorie and lower on actual nutrition are the ones with a high content of these two ingredients. By cutting them out of your eating pattern, weight loss is almost always going to follow.
This diet is recommended by Dr. Peter Gott, the newspaper health columnist. With his No Flour, No Sugar Diet, he does not emphasize counting calories specifically, but he does suggest foods to include more plentifully and which foods to limit. Also mentioned in conjunction with the diet is getting one half hour of exercise per day.
Dr. Gott’s book on the No Flour, No Sugar Diet suggests specific meal plans to cover 14 days and a multitude of tasty recipes that avoid flour and sugar. He gives instructions on how to read food labels and what to look for when selecting your dietary needs. The diet is easy to understand and doesn’t require buying expensive food plans or attending meetings. Among the foods to avoid are wheat flour, corn flour and white flour. For a replacement to the avoided flours, use whole grains, barley, oats, corn tortillas or rice flour. Rice pasta is allowed.
To avoid sugar, read your labels. You want to avoid honey, molasses, maple, cane or beet sugars, fructose syrup, cane juice, glucose and sucrose. If these are in the preparation of a food product, keep it off of your shopping list. As a substitute for sugar and to stay on the diet without feeling deprived, use artificial sweeteners or eat some fresh fruit.
Keep the diet balanced by including whole grains, dairy, vegetables, fruit and meat. Do not exclude any food groups and keep your portions limited and healthy. This will ensure your nutrition level is optimal and keep the longevity of the diet feasible. Exercising regularly is recommended to obtain and maintain your health.
The No Flour, No Sugar Diet won’t promise overnight rapid weight loss. Dr. Gott advises slow steady weight loss at a rate of about a pound a week. If you use this diet as a lifestyle dietary change, you should be able to maintain a healthy weight over time. The diet is similar to the low carbohydrate diet but is more simplified. In general, we do know that avoiding refined flour and sugar are important, but it’s tought to do that at all times, however, if you can just do it the majority of the time, this makes a world of difference in your ease of weight loss and maintenance.
