Many popular diet tell us to cut into starchy and cereal products to lose weight.

It's not rare to hear someone say : "I've removed these three things from my foods and since then I've lost 10 pouds!"

What is it exactly?

1. Starchy and cereal products are stodgy. People eating it in larger quantity and prefer transformed versions instead of whole grains versions.
2. Breads, pastas and potatoes are cooked with many sources of fats which add lots of calories. For exemple baguette bread with butter or smashed potatoes with cream and butter.
3. Most of meals pre-prepared or served in "fast food" are based with starchy and cereal products. Portions are too big and foods are cooked with way too much fats. For exemple : frozen pizza, hamburger with chees and fries, poutines...

= Imbalanced foods and weight gain.

With slimming diet, removal of starchy and cereal product of your foods is balanced with vegetables and fruits. These contains less calories and favorise lost of weight. In reality, people lose weight very fast but ends by gaining it again. Remove a food group of our food is very restrictive and not realist on long therm. Consequently, people do it on a short period of time. Then, gain their old food habbits and weight lost.

The winning solution :

Decrease portions of cereal products and starchy.

Chose less transformed foods.

Increase portions of vegetables and fruits and variate recipes.

Upgrade classicals by adding leeks!