I’ve decided this whole month of March (maybe longer🤞🏽!) I’m going to quit any and all forms of any types of bread, has any one else ever tried this? And how did you feel?
I am allowing “Xtreme tortilla wraps” for replacing of bread, so small lie (Bc that’s a form of bread I think..lol but yeah)… Any back feed of personal thoughts ..?
If you like bread, I would recommend that you still eat it at least once a month because otherwise you may crave it enough to binge it eventually. If that’s not your case, though, then fantastic.
I generally don’t eat any type of bread or tortilla either. No white flour and no whole wheat (the fiber in whole wheat is such a small amount that it doesn’t make much difference to me). My carbs come from whole foods like beans. I also make banana bread with coconut flour twice a month, which is so delicious and highly nutritious.
That being said, eventually I can’t help it but feel the need to eat bread because let’s face it, it’s freaking delicious and no amount of replacements is going to be as good as actual bread (unless you actually just don’t like bread). So I’ll allow it every two weeks or once a month or something, just to tell myself that I can have this food and I’m not cutting it out for the rest of my life. Helps a ton with keeping cravings at bay.
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Cutting entire groups of foods [that you actually like] and deeming them as “bad and absolutely can’t have for the rest of my life” is a recipe for binging and fad diets that will not be sustainable.
An experiment for a month sounds good, though. But longer than that will likely become a disaster.
I haven’t eaten bread, grains, or any high carb food since the end of July ‘21 and have been fine. In fact, I feel much better. I do worse if I give in and have “just one piece,” which turns into a major backsliding event. My husband gave up grains and sugar for one month and lost 20 pounds. I lost 8, of course. He did have more to lose and has way more muscles than I ever will!
I’ve been cutting back on refined carbs, and this was a fun treat I had on the weekend to fill that bread-shaped hole: https://sofreshnsogreen.com/recipes/life-changing-dark-chocolate-chunk-banana-bread-paleo-refined-sugar-free/