Bread Is The Enemy
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I'd stop eating it as part of my daily routine and just have a piece every once in a while at a rest aunt if it's a special occasion or a place known for their amazing rolls.0
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Bread and butter. I could eat that all day long. Before I started losing weight, I was eating bread all the time. Anything bready. I had to cut the amount of bread that was in the house, and get bread that had less calories. I got to the point where I'm ok to have 2 slices of bread in a day if I want it. Sometimes I have no bread for days. But I knew I had a control problem, and I just dealt with it. I didn't try to, I just did. It's a decision you make everyday.2
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I put everything I'd eat in a sandwich or roll in a salad. Eating a hot dog salad right now. Gourmet AF.
I stopped snacking on bread by itself long before weight loss.1 -
I find any sort of "simple sugar" including simple flours like bread, drive my appetite crazy. "You can't stop at one" isn't just pringles for me. So for me, bread is the enemy, as long as I'm not eating it, I don't really miss it. But you're not alone. Bread is weird, it has some weird effects.4
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I buy Danish bread now as it's much lower in calories per slice that way I can still eat it and not think crap used 200 calories on nothing1
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I quit buying bread a few years ago, and don't miss it. I found I really didn't like it anyway, it was just a way to eat peanut butter and jelly way too much. But I do love the King's Hawaiian rolls. I don't buy them because I would eat them all within a day and then would be miserable for 2 more days.2
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I learned to eat it reasonably as I refuse to cut anything I love out of my diet.
King's Hawaiian Rolls with spinach dip... mmmmmm.
King's Hawaiian Rolls are like bacon or chocolate-delicious with anything (except each other-a Hawaiian roll bacon chocolate sandwich does not sound appealing).3 -
Someone with a binge eating disorder can have an addiction to bread plus other foods. It is best not to have it in the house. I stopped keeping butter in the house and that has stopped me from eating a lot of bread.1
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Rebecca0224 wrote: »callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »bread is not the enemy. eating too much (of anything or in general) is.
peanut butter cups though.THOSE are the enemy
that said there are low cal options for sliced bread. sara lee makes one i think and so does natures own.
I had king size Reeses stuffed with peices, yum.
yeah. ive had one of those.
To. DIE. FOR.
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You need a good reason not to pick one thing over another. If you think you are eating too much bread, the question is why: do you think you aren't getting in enough nutrients, are you going over calories, are your carbs higher than you'd like? IMO, focusing on those things and not simply eating less bread is the way to do it. Do you want to have 2-3 servings of fruit per day? That's why to eat the fruit, not that you've had too much bread. Do you need more veg, more protein?
I think structure really helps too -- are you snacking on bread unplanned between meals? Maybe consider whether grazing is working for you or leads to bad choices. Would it help to have rules (with real reasons that you understand) like one serving of bread per day, at whatever meal works best for you? Try that. If you tend to eat it at home, maybe not having it there, as others have said, would help.5 -
I love bread. bread holding together a sandwich. bread toasted with butter. hot rolls from the oven. bread soaked in warm milk. table bread at restaurants. those bready things at Red Lobster. Any bread and all bread. Hots pretzels with mustard or spicy cheese, yea, that is a bread, too. And crackers, all the crackers. I can't think of a way I don't love bread. I had to quit cold turkey. It was an addiction. I miss it. All the time. The only bright side is that since I stopped eating bread I have had zero heartburn and the bottle of tums on my desk looks at me like I have abandoned it.3
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Bread is not the enemy - but perhaps in how you SEE it. Limit your portions per day so you are within your calories - mind over matter and all that.2
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I love bread but I just realized that at some point I stopped buying it and now pretty much only eat it when I go out. I'm not sure when that happened, but I used to get through like two loaves a week and now I don't even have any in the house.1
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Prelog your food, make planned food choices not just eating what is there.
Eat bread as part of a meal. Try lower calorie or higher fiber bread.
Practice moderation. It can take awhile to change habits.
Don't buy a ton of bread. Put it away. Leave the area and get busy with other things.
Want to lose weight enough to make some changes.
I'm going to miss out on hitting my protein goal or other tasty foods if I eat a lot of bread. I also won't feel full for long. 1 serving of bread is fine most days. A whole loaf of bread is not.3 -
Rebecca0224 wrote: »callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »bread is not the enemy. eating too much (of anything or in general) is.
peanut butter cups though.THOSE are the enemy
that said there are low cal options for sliced bread. sara lee makes one i think and so does natures own.
I had king size Reeses stuffed with peices, yum.
I found these disappointing. Big Cups? F yeah. Pieces? Bring 'em on. Together? Meh.
OK, back to your regularly scheduled programming.4 -
Yup! I Love it and I eat it as much as I can... as long as it fits my macros
Bread is good for the soul.... 1 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »Yeah bread is my weakness. Especially homemade with butter.
I deliberately left my expensive Bosch bread mixer behind in a move because when I made it, I would eat a half a loaf at a time with butter.2 -
BetterThanBest wrote: »I've always known this, but today at work, I had a conversation with myself and finally admitted that I have a REAL PROBLEM. I'm addicted to bread. The conversation went like this...
Self1:"You don't need those tasty kings hawaiin rolls."
Self2:"They're only 100 calories a piece. Go ahead, have two."
Self1:" So what! There is fruit right beside it, go for the fruit! You already ate a half loaf of bread from longhorn steakhouse today!"
Self2:"Get the fruit and the rolls, that way it balances out."
Self1:"Wowwwww, the lies you tell yourself just so you can have bread. You should be ashamed!"
Needless to say, I ate both and I know it doesn't "balance out" but I have a real problem. I am ADDICTED to bread. Does anyone have any advice for me to help curb this problem? Anyone else have the same addiction? I know for a fact that I'd be much more successful on my weight loss journey if I had more control over the bread problem. I'm on the verge of just cutting it out all together because I can't seem to set limits. Please help me.
-Bread Lover
Some people are moderators, some are abstainers http://gretchenrubin.com/happiness_project/2012/10/back-by-popular-demand-are-you-an-abstainer-or-a-moderator/
If you need to abstain, abstain. I moderate some foods and abstain from ones that trigger me, because it's just not worth the misery, having them in the house calling me to eat them.
I have problems with bread make from flour, but can eat bread made from sprouted grain, from brands like Food for Life or Alvarado St Bakery. This is usually in the freezer section, near the bagels. Yes, it's more expensive, but I accommodate for that by eating less of it.4 -
I learned to eat it reasonably as I refuse to cut anything I love out of my diet.
King's Hawaiian Rolls with spinach dip... mmmmmm.
King's Hawaiian Rolls are like bacon or chocolate-delicious with anything (except each other-a Hawaiian roll bacon chocolate sandwich does not sound appealing).
I've never understood the whole King's Hawaiian Rolls thing, but chocolate covered bacon is delicious!
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kshama2001 wrote: »BetterThanBest wrote: »I've always known this, but today at work, I had a conversation with myself and finally admitted that I have a REAL PROBLEM. I'm addicted to bread. The conversation went like this...
Self1:"You don't need those tasty kings hawaiin rolls."
Self2:"They're only 100 calories a piece. Go ahead, have two."
Self1:" So what! There is fruit right beside it, go for the fruit! You already ate a half loaf of bread from longhorn steakhouse today!"
Self2:"Get the fruit and the rolls, that way it balances out."
Self1:"Wowwwww, the lies you tell yourself just so you can have bread. You should be ashamed!"
Needless to say, I ate both and I know it doesn't "balance out" but I have a real problem. I am ADDICTED to bread. Does anyone have any advice for me to help curb this problem? Anyone else have the same addiction? I know for a fact that I'd be much more successful on my weight loss journey if I had more control over the bread problem. I'm on the verge of just cutting it out all together because I can't seem to set limits. Please help me.
-Bread Lover
Some people are moderators, some are abstainers http://gretchenrubin.com/happiness_project/2012/10/back-by-popular-demand-are-you-an-abstainer-or-a-moderator/
The quiz isn't there anymore, but I always find this distinction bizarre, since I'd bet almost everyone is an abstainer about some stuff, a moderator about other stuff.
We don't yet know if this has anything to do with OP's issues -- what I saw in the dialogue quoted is that she doesn't really have a reason in her own mind to prefer fruit to bread other than a vague idea that she shouldn't have too much bread in a day. Whether you are moderating or abstaining you need to have a strong reason that you believe in.3
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