My biggest issue now is..

seltzermint555

LyndaBSS wrote: »

I must be really weird. There’s not a single thing I don’t allow myself to have. I fit everything into my calories. I have bread everyday. Same for eggs, cheese and butter. I have my favorite seafood three or four times a week.

This is the easiest weight loss I’ve ever experienced. 😋

I totally don't understand why 4 people disagreed with this. I am the same, and see no problem.

psychod787

seltzermint555 wrote: »

LyndaBSS wrote: »

I must be really weird. There’s not a single thing I don’t allow myself to have. I fit everything into my calories. I have bread everyday. Same for eggs, cheese and butter. I have my favorite seafood three or four times a week.

This is the easiest weight loss I’ve ever experienced. 😋

I totally don't understand why 4 people disagreed with this. I am the same, and see no problem.

While I agree there is nothing wrong with eating bread, in isolation, bread has a very low SI score. So, for people like me, I usually skip flour products except for the rare occasion. To each their own though.

MikePTY

cwolfman13 wrote: »

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

AndyTempest wrote: »

BREAD! It always comes back to bread for me.

I'm don't often buy chocolate and sweets, I'm more of a savoury person though obviously if they're readily available I will consume them.
Cutting sugars, crisps, constant snacking is all fine with me but I constantly crave soft bread/bread buns.

I've been told to replace them with stuff like rice cakes, special low carb style breads etc but even afterwards I still have that craving.

I was considering swapping my daily lunchtime sandwich with a cereal as they seem to somehow cure my craving for bread.

I'm just wondering, is there any point? My choices are mainly weetabix, porridge, shredded wheat. Is two servings of cereal a day too much? I can't find any articles that give me a clear answer, all I want is try and get rid of this bread addiction.

Sorry for the essay, but I appreciate any help and would love to hear your own experiences giving up bread.!

There's nothing wrong with bread. I'm having a big hung of sourdough with my chicken soup for lunch today...there's nothing wrong with that.

As to whether two servings of cereal is too much...just depends on whether or not it is prohibiting you from hitting your calorie targets and making you go over. Weight management is about calories...not bread or cereal.

I don’t think anyone’s suggesting there’s anything wrong with bread! But, certainly for me, it’s very easy to derail my adherence to my calorie limit. If it’s something that is hard to resist, as it is for me (and I suspect the OP too, then it can be a problem! I could certainly eat well over half my daily calories in a hunk of bread, without that hunk even being that big. Obviously, whether that’s an issue or not depends on individual calorie levels...as a very short older woman I have to think about bread as something to limit, which was the point of the original question.

I've been around here for 7 years...a lot of people suggest that there's something wrong with bread because carbs = the devil and bread is bad...especially if it's the white kind.

All I read was that he craves bread...I get cravings too...then I eat what I'm craving and the craving is gone. I didn't read anywhere in the OP that he can't control himself and has some bread and then goes off the rails. He's also a male...so if a hunk of bread is half of his calories, his calorie targets are way too low. the minimum for a sedentary male is 1500 calories, and that's pretty aggressive...750 calories of bread is a lot of friggin' bread.

Yes this is my take as well. Most people think that bread is bad because of "the carbs" and not actually the calorie levels. My guess is that with mention of low carb breads and asking if two serving of cereal is too much, the OP is at least partially influenced by that.

I eat bread pretty much everyday. I find it reasonably filling for the calories it provides. There's zero reason why you couldn't fit your daily lunchtime sandwich, along with a morning cereal, and even a nighttime bread, within your calorie goals. If it's a food that makes you happy, let it keep making you happy. Weight loss does not need to be accompanied by feeling miserable about it.

rainbowblu

Any foods that I have a problem with,I dont keep them in my house...Like chips or cookies.I still eat both,but I'll buy 1 cookie or one tiny bag of chips,while im out and keep it moving.
I only like fresh baked bread,So I would just go to a nice bakery 1-2 a week to get my bread fix...

CrazyMermaid1

Bread is a binge trigger for me so I avoid it