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No Flour, No Sugar Diet
The No Flour, No Sugar Diet is a weight-loss program developed by medical practitioner and health columnist Dr Peter Gott. His best-selling book of the same name shows how to reduce calories in your diet by eliminating flour-based and added-sugar foods.
Basics of the Diet
Foods containing added sugar and refined flour are nutrient-poor, unlike foods containing whole grains, fruits, vegetables and legumes which are rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber. The No Flour, No Sugar Diet reduces the so-called ‘empty’ calories of refined carbohydrate-based foods, also frequently high in fat (such as pizza and donuts).
The No Flour, No Sugar lifestyle encourages selection of foods without significant sugar and refined flour content, based on interpretation of food labels. Exercise is also mentioned (half an hour a day). No counting of calories is suggested, however the book does list foods to major on and foods to avoid.
Sample Meal Plans
The No Flour, No Sugar Diet book includes meal plans for 14 days, and no less than 75 pages of recipes (in a 186-page book!). Here are a few examples from the Meal Plans section:
- Breakfast: Omelet muffin, sliced fresh strawberries
- Morning Snack: Diced cantaloupe
- Lunch: Greek salad
- Afternoon: No-sugar-added yogurt
- Dinner: Chicken breasts in Rosemary-Dijon sauce, spinach salad with tomato vinaigrette, steamed brown rice
- Breakfast: Whole-grain cereal (with no flour or added sugar), nonfat milk, fresh peach
- Morning Snack: Diced pineapple
- Lunch: Green salad with water-packed tuna, sliced tomato, shredded carrot, and no-sugar-added vinaigrette
- Afternoon: Spiced Edamame (Soy beans in the pod)
- Dinner: Meatballs in tomoto sauce and baked polenta with fresh corn
- Breakfast: Basic Crepe filled with sliced lean ham and reduced-fat cheese; sliced apple
- Morning Snack: 1 stalk celery fille with reduced-fat, no-sugar-added peanut butter
- Lunch: Taco salad with spiced prawns
- Afternoon: Spiced Edamame
- Dinner: Curry yogurt chicken, steamed or sauteed zucchini, steamed brown rice
Conclusion
Most people who eliminate from their diet foods containing refined flour and sugar will lose weight. A No Flour, No Sugar Diet works, especially if part of a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet by Peter H Gott. 186 pages, available at Amazon.
Dr Gott also has a No Flour, No Sugar Cookbook which retails for $14.99.
I started this “new way of eating” on Jan. 2, 2012. After 1 week…I got off blood pressure medicine…that I had been on for 14 years!!! My doctor is still in shock!! My cholesterol has dropped from 261 to 201. I lost 10 lbs in the first 2 weeks. I’m still on a diuretic, because my body still wants to hold fluids. ugh!! I have so much more energy!! Praising YHVH for giving me the desire to stop eating sugar and flour!!! Losing a few lbs is a bonus…but getting off BP medicine is AWESOME!!!! You can do it….
i really want to try this diet…..my best friend told me about this diet ….
I agree no bread and no sugar will help you lose lots of weight i use to do that diet before and eat whatever i wanted just no sugar and no bread and i didn’t have a problem with my clothings at all. Good and healthy diet. Be careful for those people who need sugar because of diabetes or low sugar go see a doctor.
I stuck to this diet for a month and a half last year and lost 25 pounds in that time period. I never felt hungry or deprived of what my body needed. I have three children under the age of 5 and am starting it again today attempting to lose another 10-20 pounds. This diet changed my life! The food choices and portions I eat now are because of this diet. It changed my life. I’ve lost a totall of 57 pounds in the last year. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the No Flour No Sugar diet.
I want to do this diet, but I am concerned about how to take care of my hypoglicemic problem…it usually happens before lunch time.
On May 15 this year, my husband and I teamed up. No sugar, no white flower. Only thing white in our diet was cauliflower. Hubby down 55 pounds, I am down 36 pounds. Moral? It works, we feel like a million dollars with so much energy…but dieting with a man is hard…they have a higher metabolism and I can never beat him…had to set a different goal!
Every time I go on this diet it works! This time I’ve lost 35 lbs. in 2 1/2 months. It’s hard at first but after a while you get used to it. Exercise helps but hard work is a good substitute. Don’t forget to drink a lot of water.
I have been on the no bread no sugar regime for 2 weeks, but eating cake on Sunday -4 pieces of chocolate mud cake with lashings of icing and I felt as if I hadn’t even eaten it!!! Then I had lasagne last nite and I feel yuk!! however I want to look at adding brown rice and legumes because I tend to get hungry
one sunny day I decided that i cannot live any more as a morbidly obese person.
I have been on a diet I made myself with the same concept. not from the book. just 2 simple rules no sugar no flour, or anything that contains sugar – sucrose/flour.
I do eat honey with whatever I need sweetened. In general my consumption was cut down in half naturaly just through those 2 simple rules. Mostly I am ok but sometimes I am hungry. to satisfy my hunger I eat tons of Great California pistacios and several dates.
I have lost in 4 months 38 pounds. At first [1 month] it is hard – like junkies battle their drug addiction. Every time you pass ‘the open window” another triumph for you and the lesser the chance you will fail. As I said to myself. love yourself a little and so I did – I gave this diet 2 years to lose 130-140 pounds.
One thing – the rules are strict. YOU CANNOT BEND THEM. No sugar no flour
Good luck for who ever tries it. the award and the triumph is worthwhile
Hey I tried
this diet and in lest than a month went from 190 lbs to 175 lbs it really works, but i am also working out five days a week so it helped .
the health reason for searching this out is i have a serious sugar habit and my sister has triglycerides in the thousands i was floored and im scared for her life
So, do strawberry cream cheese bagels count?
If so, I’m not doing it.
Hey guys I have been on this for one year 3 months to the day, now it’s hard at first really hard if you like AZ green tea as much as i do. When i first started i was 311 Lbs after 5 months of just removing the buns from my burgers and bread from sandwiches, I am now 241 Lbs, so I lost 71 lbs with out working out on will power alone. If no starch is hard, you can have starch in the morning only if you drink water as soon as you wake to boast your Metabolism for the rest of the day. ps never waste money on diet pills there just praying on your weakness.
I just started August 2 with no flour and no sugar. Today I am very tired . I really want to do this.I hope I don’t quit.
From tomorrow I’m beginning this diet, which will be quite a challenge for me because I’m a carb and sugar addict. No, really. But I’m going to try my hardest. I need this. This had worked in the past for me before I got hooked on sugar and carbs.
Can you eat corn tortillas?
want to lose belly fat most
Ive been on a very similar diet for 6 days well actually its a d-tox called the wild rose detox. Its no flour no sugar no dairy and no fermented foods. I just bought a kit at the GNC store. Ive lost 4 pounds so far. as soon as the d-tox is over I will try and continue with the no flour no sugar part. for most of human history humans did not eat flour as it was only invented about 9000BC. So our bodys weren’t really designed for it. Sugar is an even more recent invention available cheaply to the masses only within the last 100 years. Since flour has already been broken down by industrial processes it converts to simple carbohydrates (the bad type) extremely easily in the stomach causing insulin spikes which makes you feel hungry which makes you crave more carbs, a vicious cycle. A diet of no sugar no flour will actually make you less hungry over time.
I ate something with flour the other day and I could just taste it in my mouth as being junk..(it was pizza dough)..it was nasty..you will get used to it quick.. removing these from your diet..I have only been on the diet one week.