In the 2006 book, "Dr. Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet," medical doctor and health columnist Peter H. Gott detailed an eating plan that involves eliminating all foods containing flour and added sugar from your menu. With these actions, you eat a nutritious low-carbohydrate diet and don't have to count calories to lose weight.
Features
When you eliminate flour and added sugar from your diet, you remove all the empty calories that your body processes quickly. Empty calories leave you feeling hungry and also tend to be added to fat storage. Instead, you'll eat nutrient-dense foods that your body digests slowly. Portion control also is important on this diet, as noted by Diets in Review. At mealtime, fill half your plate with non-starchy vegetables -- you also can add some fruit to this half of the plate. Fill another 1/4 of the plate with lean protein such as chicken, and the other 1/4 with whole grains such as brown rice.
Identification
When buying commercial products, read labels. Since no added sugar is allowed, you cannot eat foods containing honey, brown sugar, maple syrup, molasses, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose or any other types of added sugar. In addition, because no flour is allowed, that generally means no conventional forms of bread, pizza, donuts or any other foods made with flour.
Foods to Include
Although the no-sugar and no-flour diet is restrictive, many tasty foods are allowed. You may eat lean meats such as poultry and fish, low-fat dairy products, vegetables, fruits and whole grains such as brown rice, barley and quinoa, according to Diets in Review. Although added sugar is prohibited, you may eat sugar that occurs naturally in fruits and other foods. You'll also find there are ways to create foods such as breads and pizza without flour.
Specifics
Every Diet provides examples of meals on the no-sugar and no-flour diet. Breakfast might include an omelet, wholegrain cereal with milk and a peach, or a crepe with lean ham and low-fat cheese. Also have some fruit for breakfast. Lunch could be a taco salad, Greek salad or tuna salad, and dinner might consist of chicken with spinach salad and brown rice, meatballs in tomato sauce with corn polenta, or curried chicken with steamed zucchini and brown rice.
Considerations
The no-sugar and no-flour diet includes nutritious foods from all food groups, supplying vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, observes Diets in Review. It is likely to cause weight loss because it eliminates empty calories and provides more nutrition per calorie intake. Most people, however, will likely find this diet very restrictive.
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