Will not eating bread help me to lose weight?

Bread, bread rolls, pitas and other bread products can provide you with nutrients like B vitamins and iron. But, consumed in high amounts, bread may supply you with more calories than what your body needs. This could lead to weight gain.
The amount of weight you can lose by avoiding eating bread depends on how much bread you currently eat. Just eliminating your morning slice of toast won't help much, but if eating less bread leads to a significant calorie reduction in your daily diet, then this approach may help you to lose weight.
To calculate how much weight you can lose by avoiding bread, you'll need to know approximately how many calories you consume from bread each day. White bread contains 266 calories per hundred gram serving or 80 calories per 30-gram slice, while a hundred grams of whole-wheat bread contains 247 calories and a 30-gram slice contains 74 calories.

A 57-gram English muffin provides 134 calories and a 60-gram white pita has 165 calories.
If you are overweight, decreasing your calorie intake by 1 500 calories daily, as well as being physically active for 30 - 60 minutes daily, is a good start towards losing weight, advises University of Hawaii nutritionists Drs. Alan Titchenal and Joannie Dobbs.

If you typically eat a slice of bread with breakfast, an English muffin as a mid-morning snack, a pita at lunch and another slice of bread with dinner, you're consuming around 454 calories daily or 3 178 calories weekly from bread.
If you are very overweight, you can safely lose up to one kilogram every week by cutting 3 500 calories from your usual weekly calorie requirement and burning another 3 500 calories weekly through exercise.

Carbohydrate-rich foods help your body produce glucose, which provides energy for your body and brain.

If you cut bread completely from your diet, you may need to increase your intake of healthy carbohydrates. In addition to fruits and vegetables, grains are a rich source of carbohydrates. You should be eating only whole-grain products, such as brown rice, oatmeal and muesli rather than refined-grain products like white rice, non-whole-grain pasta and pastries.

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