stop eating bread

I am trying to lose weight to become more healthy and I love and consume a lot of bread in a month. For the month of April 2009 I plan to not eat bread. I have already broken a day but I dont know how to prepare meals that don’t consist of bread but still fills me up so far the answer is rice.

Stottie cake with dry boiled ham, peas pudding and beetroot. A crusty baquette with hot cumberland sausage fried onions and english mustard. Whole grain brown with tuna mayonnaise a crips green salad with a cresent of crisps. Thick white, ham and cheese dipped in egg and fried until golden served with mushrooms and fresh coffee some time around 11 after a saturday lie in.

Just a few reasons why I will cut out bread, (and also why I am built like an air raid shelter).

I’m bulimic and this is the only food that really really triggers me, so I want to stop eating it- fair enough I think!

I still eat grains though, Oats and Brown Rice a few times a week, but I take care now to soak them before consuming.

So I have decided to try and cut Bread out of my Diet for a month, as a test of will-power.
Let’s see if I drop any weight:-)

thats it im giving up bread for a week
cant eat ANY till next saterday
if i do that ill buy myself a new mascara :D

A few years ago I really wanted to lose weight and I cut bread out of my diet, among other things. After a year I was doing awesome, I was at my ideal weight and feeling good! THEN- I got married. I feel like I have no self control now. Thankfully, I haven’t gained too much weight, but I know that I would be happier if I would cut this out! Bread is just one of those lines that when I cross it, I feel the need to eat all other things that I know I shouldn’t.

I’ve stuck to this for quite a while now, and although I do get a craving for bread when there’s a freshly baked loaf being sliced right in front of me, I hardly ever feel deprived for not eating it. Having lots of protein and carb cutting generally seem to have helped a lot. I have elaborated a lot more on the benefits of my new diet on the giving up sugar goal, suffice to say I feel like a different (much better) person! I am marking this one as done to make room for my next goal of giving up beer. Onwards!

Over the past hour i have become VERY addicted to 43 things. This is no bad thing, Its healthier than my myspace addiction was (cracked that one!) and there are a few things i need to change about my life, the easiest of which is going to be giving up bread. Its not that bread is particularly unhealthy, but its what I snack on all the time, my comfort food is either ham sandwiches or toast (white bread!) and i’ve decided that every time i have a bread craving Im going to eat a bowl of cereal or fruit instead. I think this wil also help me lose the extra one or two pounds that im carrying round my bum!

I’m following an anti-candida diet (for the second time – guess why I broke it last time!) and bread’s my krytonite. I’m making separate goals for my danger foods as they have such a pull over me. I’ve got to (in fact way past) the point where I can justify it as a treat any more because of the physical effects of breaking the diet for 3 or 4 days at a time after telling myself “I deserve it”. In fact, the binges on the odd glass of wine/ puddings/ other unhelpful foods often start with a single slice of bread with butter as if it’s the most innocent thing in the world! That it may be, but not for me!

So, this week I am avoiding bread in all forms. When I am tempted it will be a case of one day at a time (or even an hour!).

Edit – A week later and I am sticking to my goal! Hurray! It’s not easy sometimes (when husband is making himself toast with jam mmmmm) but I have been getting non-bread snacks in and making soup to eat. Hopefully the cravings will go soon enough.

Edit – Still going strong! My only wobble is when I go past the bakery in the supermarket, other than that, I’m finding that eating lots of protein is taking care of my bad food cravings. Hurray for meat.

Further edit – Agh! This is getting quite difficult. I saw my husband making sandwiches this morning and I was salivating heavily at the sight of the most delicious bread it seems I have ever seen IN MY LIFE. I didn’t have any, but I am SO jonesing for a slice with butter. I wouldn’t even have it toasted with jam, I’ll just take a tiny boring bit! Gosh darn it, I AM sticking with it, but this has got to be the hardest thing ever. I just keep telling myself that I am feeling better mentally, emotionally and physically than I have in the last 5 years and I can’t jsut throw the towel in. If I have one slice that will not be the end of it. My name is tigerh and I am a breadaholic. I need one of those AA (BA?) chips to remind me to stay “sober”. Are there any sponsors out there?

Edit (20th Feb) – I’m really sticking to this! Hurray! I will keep this goal open until at least the beginning of March, but I am quite confident I have cracked this (I hope I haven’t spoken too soon!), but Easter comes and Hot cross buns will be such sweet torture. Other than that, the temptation at the supermarket is ever present, but I turn my head and concentrate on looking for chicken I want to eat, or a nice steak – protein really has been a life saver for me. Otherwise, I don’t even thik about bread now. I’m concentrating on trying to cut down on the carbs (another goal), so there are other forbidden foods to yearn for now!