Diet advice for people who are bread addicts?

[Anonymous]

If you feel like you are a bread addict (I am, for sure), try cutting it out 100% for a few months. Don't buy it, don't get sandwiches when out, etc. Just don't. In a few months, maybe you can get it while eating out but don't have in home.

[Anonymous]

I LOVE bread. I love crackers, I love pasta, I love cake. All of that stuff.
I refuse to live without it. I'd rather be fat. Or dead.

What I try to do is make the calories worth it. Meaning that I'll skip the two pieces of meh toast that come with my brunch in favor of a tiny croissant or pastry. If I'm going to eat bread, it'll be fresh out of the oven warm and soft.
I also find that when I eat more nuts, I eat less bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to “give us this day our daily bread.” Bread has been a staple of human diets for millennia. Prisoners used to get only bread and water. You don’t get fat eating just bread.

That was before instacart, Amazon fresh, work from home. People gorge now and don’t move

The pp was spot on. The problem is not bread per se, but rather the stuff on American grocery store shelves they call bread. Real bread has been a staple of the human diet for 10,00 years.

Ezekiel bread, good.
Pepperidge farm bread, bad.
Wonder bread, very, very bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to “give us this day our daily bread.” Bread has been a staple of human diets for millennia. Prisoners used to get only bread and water. You don’t get fat eating just bread.

That “bread” is not the same as the one you buy from supermarket.
The first one probably has three ingredients and the supermarket bread I will let you count.

[Anonymous]

Huh? Everyone who carb-loads is skinny. You are too young to remember carbo-loading, but a week before your endurance event (90+ minutes of cardio) INCREASE home-baked/organic bread. Reduce sugar except in high fiber actual whole fruit. Drink whole milk to was it down. Reduce red meat/animal fat. Drink water and even veggies to AVOID constipation. Please name one charity runner, triathlete, long-distance biker, obstacle courser that isn't skinny even if supplied pizza for days. But yes, skip modern packaged preservatives/BHT/BHA/etc found in store bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh? Everyone who carb-loads is skinny. You are too young to remember carbo-loading, but a week before your endurance event (90+ minutes of cardio) INCREASE home-baked/organic bread. Reduce sugar except in high fiber actual whole fruit. Drink whole milk to was it down. Reduce red meat/animal fat. Drink water and even veggies to AVOID constipation. Please name one charity runner, triathlete, long-distance biker, obstacle courser that isn't skinny even if supplied pizza for days. But yes, skip modern packaged preservatives/BHT/BHA/etc found in store bread.

What % of people here are a charity runner, triathlete, long-distance biker, obstacle courser?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh? Everyone who carb-loads is skinny. You are too young to remember carbo-loading, but a week before your endurance event (90+ minutes of cardio) INCREASE home-baked/organic bread. Reduce sugar except in high fiber actual whole fruit. Drink whole milk to was it down. Reduce red meat/animal fat. Drink water and even veggies to AVOID constipation. Please name one charity runner, triathlete, long-distance biker, obstacle courser that isn't skinny even if supplied pizza for days. But yes, skip modern packaged preservatives/BHT/BHA/etc found in store bread.

Huh? for elite athletes maybe. Regular jerks like me who run for charity aren't carb loading, nor should we.

[Anonymous]

Don't cut off bread. Please don't become one of those cult members!
Just reduce a bit of it if it is the main calorie contributing to your weight gain.
Do an open face sandwich instead of regular. Scoop the middle out of a baguette. Don't eat it with every meal.

[Anonymous]

I can't eat wheat. You people are all nuts to deny yourself the pleasure of bread without any reason!
You are all not ok!
Ah, to eat bread once more!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh? Everyone who carb-loads is skinny. You are too young to remember carbo-loading, but a week before your endurance event (90+ minutes of cardio) INCREASE home-baked/organic bread. Reduce sugar except in high fiber actual whole fruit. Drink whole milk to was it down. Reduce red meat/animal fat. Drink water and even veggies to AVOID constipation. Please name one charity runner, triathlete, long-distance biker, obstacle courser that isn't skinny even if supplied pizza for days. But yes, skip modern packaged preservatives/BHT/BHA/etc found in store bread.

This is stupid. They aren’t skinny because they carb load, they are skinny because they are running marathons. If your main source of exercise is walking from your car into a building or to your kitchen and back-yeah, you don’t need to carb load. I don’t think anyone needs to cut out all carbs- I’m not part of that camp, but advocating for “carb loading” of someone not a serious athlete is stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Huh? for elite athletes maybe. Regular jerks like me who run for charity aren't carb loading, nor should we.

Did you try it and track your performance, hitting the wall, and fatigue? What was your time with carb loading? What was the delta from your non-carb time?

[Anonymous]

Keto. Make it so if you have a bread you will gain weight rapidly vs losing weight rapidly and it will cure you of bread. The first two weeks suck, but then you won't even want bread after that. It's liberating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keto. Make it so if you have a bread you will gain weight rapidly vs losing weight rapidly and it will cure you of bread. The first two weeks suck, but then you won't even want bread after that. It's liberating.

Do not do this. Unless you want to gain all the weight back and then some.

[Anonymous]

I am like this, so I switch to Ezekiel bread. Does not seem to interfere with weight loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Keto. Make it so if you have a bread you will gain weight rapidly vs losing weight rapidly and it will cure you of bread. The first two weeks suck, but then you won't even want bread after that. It's liberating.

Do not do this. Unless you want to gain all the weight back and then some.

Cutting out a major food groupi like carbs poses challenges long term yes. I favor reducing and cleaning up the quality of the bread as people have suggested. And again, increasing protein. And maybe fasting.