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I Love bread... I'm a big sandwich person

Keep eating your sandwiches, just add sides of fruits and veggies. If it's hard to save calories, try eating the sandwiches open faced.

I Love bread... I'm a big sandwich person

So have some, just make sure it's in moderation and it fits your macros. Perhaps instead of having a massive sandwich with normal bread, you could have some luxury flavoured bread and have less of it. that's what I've been doing with my fave foods, quality over quantity. Like chocolate, pre mfp I'd never have bought lindt chocolate as my go to chocolate cause of the expense. But now I eat so little of it it's a lot more affordable. I'd rather not waste my calories on an inferior chocolate lol.

I Love bread... I'm a big sandwich person

I feel your pain, I've had to cut out bread because I've got no willpower with it! This also means I've cut out butter too. I do make wholewheat chapatis and flatbreads sometimes which aren't quite so bad (because I only make enough for 1 serving rather than having a loaf to deal with). It has got easier and I don't crave it any more, something I never thought I'd say.

Try making your own breads. It's fun, burns calories and provides the type of flexibility you aren't likely to see in the shop (in terms of flavours AND calorie content). Suggested Ingredients to use:

- Quinoa flour (this is pricey but really bumps the protein content up so you won't want as much due to satiety),
- Oat fibre and glucomannan: these are more like bulk ingredients that have next to no calories, fill you up and because of their high water absorption abilities, require very little in a recipe (I'm talking less than 30g for the oat fibre and no more than 6g for the glucomannan!! I kid you not).
- Maybe try using buckwheat and rice flour too.
- (And obviously the good old fashioned wholewheat flour... but as a coeliac I can't really comment on that as an ingredient).
- Nut-based flours are becoming more popular now too (search Paleo pizzas)
- Cailflower and potato pizza... seriously peep: it's like a cross between a pizza and hash brown!!!!!!

I suppose my key here, is high fibre, high protein. Yes, I know it requires playing around with ingredients and recipes but it's the best way to find a recipe that you like specifically and my god when you find it, you will be making them all the time!

Also, play around with vegetables. You can make a seriously amazing chocolate mouse with avocado and cocoa powder (raw type) - I know it sounds strange - I thought so too - but then I tried it and was blown away.

My only other advice to to generally cut down on your high sugar and salt content and get used to having less. Your taste buds will change and then foods naturally low is these things will taste all the nicer.

Anyway, I hope that helps.

Yes, you can eat mayo or light mayo. As long as you have logged it and it fits your daily targets, its not a problem.

I Love bread... I'm a big sandwich person

Nothing wrong with bread . Every sandwich i do now i pad out with loads of veg and salad and stuff so i need to have less of the higher calorie fillings... so for example if i'm having tuna mayo I'll use less mayo, put some horseradish sauce in there and pad the rest out with tiny bits of chopped celery/red onion/tomatoes/whatever i have handy and actually think it tastes better that way, and more satisfying. If you're in the UK we have 'sandwich thins' which are like thinner ready pre-cut sandwiches that are only 100 calories. Dunno if there's a similar thing in other countries...

You can eat bread.... and pasta..... and rice and other carbs.

I have not cut out ANY carbs at all - I just eat them in moderation rather than piggin out.... and I have lost nearly 5 stone and kept it off for a year....

Stop blaming the carbs, they are not the evil that so many say they are!

Here is a cut 'n' pasta of an approach that is more sustainable in the long run, hope it helps OP.

*http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/817188-iifym

IIFYM is a philosophy about food selection with the belief that body composition changes are primarily a function of nutrient intake and energy balance rather than a function of individual food sources.


When practicing IIFYM, it is recommended that you choose mostly whole and nutrient dense foods to comprise the majority of your intake. Fresh vegetables, fruits, meats, fish, etc, and at the same time, leaving some room for a discretionary intake. A common and very reasonable recommendation would be about 80/20. That is to say, that if you've got a calorie target of 2500, you'd eat approximately 2000 calories of whole and nutrient dense foods with a calorie bank of 500 to eat whatever you would like while still hitting your calorie and macronutrient targets by end of day

What IIFYM is not:

1) It is not eating cake and chips all day.
2) It is not disregarding micronutrients and fiber and general intelligence with regards to food choice.
3) It is not a specific macro setting. There is a website out there that has the IIFYM label that includes a calorie calculation tool and unfortunately several people on MFP believe that doing "IIFYM" means eating those specific macros. This is false

Enjoy anything in moderation. I refused to quit eating what I enjoy. Just track your calories and that will help to keep your quantity down. Bacon, BBQ, Bourbon, Cheesecake, Pasta, Butter, Beer, etc all is fine in moderation.

If you are on a diet where you aren't enjoying the food, then you are on a wrong diet.

I have a strict "don't cut out any foods I enjoy' policy.

If you are on a diet where you aren't enjoying the food, then you are on a wrong diet.