Is a "No Rice" diet effective?

Hello lampar, thank you for sharing! Lucky you, you don't have much issues on weight. Just avoid getting diabetes okay!? Have a nice day!

Don't worry, eating rice is not going to get you any disease and weight gain, including diabetes. Unless you are already a diabetic, then eating rice can affect this particular ailment and cause some disruption to your blood sugar level. Trust me, nobody will ask to have diabetes, it is not up to us to decide but our organ.

Really, that good to know then. I was told that eating a lot of rice can make you diabetic. I don't know where that come from. Thanks!

Hi PointlessQuestions! Thanks for sharing. You are right about that diabetes thing, but I'm not sure if most of us can remove rice from our meal. It's the staple food here, it's cheaper than bread or pasta or any carbo alternative.

Hi allison! Well, we all know that anything in excess is bad. But that's nothing to worry since diabetes can be managed as long as we have the discipline. I have been eating rice all my life and I don't have diabetes. The key is eating moderately.

Hi All, Well rice has been a main dish for almost Asian countries and certainly it's not causing diabetes at general. If you consume them quite a lot then for sure the sugar content inside them will make you fat faster. But that also depend on your daily activities too. But if you looks carefully rice had different types too, there's a type of rice which have whole grain too and it's healthier although the price is higher than normal rice. Besides some diabetes are hereditary so you can't really blame it on the rice alone. If you does not consume rice but consuming quite a lot of sugar from other product then it's just the same risks. As kourdapya already said we must watch our life-style because most of peoples are pron to this disease because of their life-style which less healthy than it should be.

It's our staple food, nothing's really wrong if we eat it regularly. It's really difficult to avoid it, if someone's planning a "no rice diet" so I'm just gonna stick to rice

Seems like the belly fat is our common problem!

You're right about that. There are times I'd really love to have pasta or sweet potato instead of rice, but since pasta are more expensive and sweet potato are not really ideal to eat everyday (for me) I guess I should really stick with rice. Rice is cheap, a kilogram can feed a family of six, with a little "ulam" an average Filipino family will do well with it. Thanks for sharing!

Hi, where are you from?

Hi, it's nice to know. We Asians are real rice eaters

I am from India, currently living in a north-east state (w.b.), people eat rice-fish only here..

Good thing that this diet worked for you. You must have been disciplining yourself to avoid craving for rice. To me I don't think I can do that. I'm a rice eater, that's where I get all my energy for the day.

Congratulations to you then, if your plan was not to eat rice! But I love pasta too, I wish I can afford to have pasta everyday. It's almost lunch here, I'm hungry. Thanks for sharing!

Yes, me too. I can't live without rice in my meals. Some women believed that they would lose weight if they cut off or deliberately remove the rice from their meals. I'm not sure how can they do that, thinking what are they going to substitute with rice.

its all in your mind.if you can control it but if not you can still eat rice in small amounts.

Yes, i think about the same thing too. There are women I know who said that not eating rice is an effective weight loss diet, but sometimes I wonder if they really can control the urge to not to eat rice.

Yes, brown rice is healthier but it's more expensive too. I'm okay with pasta but like brown rice, is expensive as well. So I really have to stick with rice, I have no choice

I love bread too, but I don't think I can live on bread alone. My favorite brand of bread here in the Philippines are a little expensive, and those cheap bread are not really ideal substitute for rice. Brown rice are available but they're not affordable for the average income people.

I do the same thing, eating more rice at lunch then cutting back some at dinner really helped me lose the belly fat. And yes, we were raised as rice eaters by our folks since rice is a common food in our country, there's plenty of it everywhere. Thanks for sharing!

yes, it's a Filipino thing, we can't avoid it. Rice is part of our lives, I'm only thinking about those people who swear to that "no rice diet". How do they do that? I wonder, I can't do it. I need rice in my life.