Gave in to bread

joolieb1

Really felt healthier and losing weight again after being stuck. But then I gave into bread again, one slice at a time and stopped counting calories lying to myself I could do this! Several pounds crept back on but my spare tyre is back, seems like bread is my biggest enemy in feeling good. Why is it so hard to just relax and eat sensibly, I have a compulsion to make bad choices. Still, here we go, today is a new day, no bread at breakfast time, went for a 5k run and determined to be focussed! Julie

Deena_Bean

1/2 the battle is recognizing where you're failures are - the other 1/2 is fixing them. So onward with that, fix it up. It's a new month today, make a goal and stick with it! You can do it

dulcitonia

Today is a new day!!!

Sunny_Bunny_

I always wonder if trying to keep calories low while eating low carb creates a potential issue for being able to resist these kinds of temptations. ???
I definitely did low calorie in the beginning and for a long time, only recently changing my mindset about it. I was able to hold firm the whole time, but I seriously ate a lot of fat too... Maybe another way to stay strong against temptation?
Plus I developed a way of seeing high carb foods as "not food". Which I probably credit the most. But if I were hungry, I don't know if that would've worked as well..

GaleHawkins

@joolieb1 the only thing that worked for me was just to leave sugar and all forms of grain cold turkey 1.5 years ago to kill my physical craving for carbs.

I took the approach of @Sunny_Bunny_ to a new level I guess. Mentally I came to see most carbs as toxic which was factual in my case.

In the end it was the deprived factor. I came to no longer feeling deprived without most carbs because I saw carbs as depriving me of both longevity and quality of life.

That was when I realized the way I eat was 100% mental so I have 100% control of what I put in my mouth. That was not what I did for my first 63 years and paid a huge price in many ways.

ladipoet

OP, why not make yourself some LCHF friendly bread so that if you can't resist the temptation of bread, then at least you will have something that you can safely eat that will not derail all your hard work and weight loss efforts while at the same time allowing you to indulge in what feels like a treat...? Seems like a win-win to me!

http://lowcarbediem.com/low-carb-soul-bread-recipes/