I don't get the "don't eat bread"

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

Yeah, I only eat multigrain bread, as well. I've never been much of a bread person, and almost never ate white bread, anyway, so it's not a huge source of temptation for me. It takes me more than a month to go through a loaf of toast bread.

[crosswind 134]

I once lost all the weight I am attempting to lose now on a lowcarb diet. I was a lowcarb size eight but over the years it seemed I was getting more and more anxious -- anxiety problems, mood stuff, that seemed to be fixed by carbs. I'd put the weight back on and go into an UTTER PANIC. I've been on the verge of quitting jobs so I could stay home and starve and do crunches. For a few years I could go back on lc and lose whatever...five, ten, twenty pounds.

But then I married a vegetarian who liked to eat in restaurants and was constantly going on and on about how my diet was so unhealthy. This caused me to go quite batty and start hoarding food and going to the drugstore to buy licorice and swedish fish and suddenly nothing worked -- not lowcarb, not vegan, not raw food...nothing. I could drop twenty pounds on anything I tried but I just was not getting down there where I wanted to be. Plus I was obsessed. By the time our marriage ended I had decided to Just Be Fat. Other people are fat, I can be fat, it's not a freakin CRIME you know.

Ahem.

Anyway,. Point is, I think lowcarb works -- I know it does, but I think it's unhealthy for me personally to get too into food given my psychopathic backgound with all of it. However I have to say that in my first week experimentation with solids, certain breads seem to go down and certain of them DO NOT. I ate three weight watchers mini pizzas ( not a whole serving) last night. They're mostly bread, kind of a soft doughy kind. These things started punching the hell out of my esophagus all the way down, then came back up to complain a second time before kicking my ass again. It was miserable and suddenly the whole concept of doughy minipzzas seemed...unappetizing. Maybe for the rest of my life.

I don't have a problem with bread. I will so totally eat it. But I'm kind of finding that as the days pass I'm getting less interested in that and more interested in cottage cheese and mozzarella, and thinly sliced turkey. I have not seen a surgeon yet recommend a low carb diet but it seems like you might end up on one regardless.

[So Cal Kurt 32]

I didn't have or have ever a bread restriction from the Dr but soft bread or anything doughy caused discomfort. As the months have passed, I was finally able to tolerate it around 7 months out. I could always handle toast or crackers, it was just soft breads that gave me a problem.

[crosswind 134]

I didn't have or have ever a bread restriction from the Dr but soft bread or anything doughy caused discomfort. As the months have passed, I was finally able to tolerate it around 7 months out. I could always handle toast or crackers, it was just soft breads that gave me a problem.

Yep. I'm starting to get a clue that I'm the same way. Mini Bagels on sale at the store today. So *small*, I could use one for a napkin ring. Sixty calories. *Half* is 30, which is what I ate, jurassically, and got my ass kicked again.

I don't think I can eat it. Not choosing to eat bread is pretty pure and righteous, not being able to is another thing. I'm not sure if that's a blessing or a curse.

[MuffinsMom 5]

I find that eating carbs (in the form of breads, Pasta, rice, potatoes, not those found in vegs and fruit) slows down my weight loss - even when I'm within my calorie limit. I went thru a phase where I wanted grilled cheese sandwiches, and had probably 4-5 over the course of a couple weeks, always accounting for the calories in my food log. Weight loss slowed down. Another time I decided that 100 calorie snack packs would fit into my food plan, again staying within my calorie limit, and again the weight loss slowed to a crawl. So while I can tolerate these things, I don't eat much at all. Strange how this process teaches us so much about our bodies and what they respond to, even though I had 60 years to learn and never did until now!

[Thomas CPA 496]

I find white bread and tortillas make me throw up. Wheat for some reason stays down. I suspect just need to toast white bread more

[Rainydayz 27]

I believe docs tell their patients no bread because for so many it can be a trigger food and instead of explaining all that to them they just say NO bread. My nut said I could have it after 6 weeks but I choose not to. I feel better when I don't eat carbs.

I used to be all anti low-carb before this surgery. I thought it was stupid and who ever naturally eats that way anyway? Aren't people meant to eat grains and fruit? But then I actually did it after surgery just because after the Protein I could not fit any carbs. And you know what? The need or cravings for them went away. I like that. I like feeling free from a food that previously "controlled" me. I like being at the restaurant and passing up the bread basket. It makes me feel powerful and in control. And a lot of the bread available to use nowadays is so processed and refined that it doesn't resemble what our ancestors ate anyway. I don't like the crunchy whole wheat bread so I just don't do bread.

There is no "gold standard" because what works best for one person may not work for the next person. Each doc and nut recommend what they have seen to be successful or what they have been taught and there are many different schools of thought on nutrition. We have to take the responsibility to learn what is good for us. But if you follow your docs advice then you are giving yourself a better chance at success. Then after you've lost the weight you can figure out what works for you best.

If you can manage bread and it doesn't cause you any problems then go for it. You may be one of the few very lucky ones that can eat it all. I'm not.

[StephS3 7]

I used to be all anti low-carb before this surgery. I thought it was stupid and who ever naturally eats that way anyway? Aren't people meant to eat grains and fruit? But then I actually did it after surgery just because after the Protein I could not fit any carbs. And you know what? The need or cravings for them went away. I like that. I like feeling free from a food that previously "controlled" me. I like being at the restaurant and passing up the bread basket. It makes me feel powerful and in control."

I LOVE this!!! Really speaks to me. Thanks

[Thomas CPA 496]

Don't give up on carbs entirely. When you exercise you burn carbs first so you may want to eat some toast before working out else you may do damage to muscle. Check with your doctor and if you havd one personal trainer

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

I found these little miniature sandwich thins. They are perfect. They are sliced really thin and the little round is very small.

I bought them and they are in my freezer but I have gotten out of the habit to make sandwiches now.

[DoOver 17]

Actually, for me, bread is a great example of how I've changed. I still eat some bread. When I do eat it, I eat only food for Life bread and 1/2 slice as toast with my morning egg. It's a very good bread. 1/2 slice is 40 calories, Fiber and 2 grams of Protein. It's what I'm trying to do with all of my food. I am picking better, regardless of cost. With eating so little I can buy what's best for me.

Last week I was craving something "sweet". I don't really care for sweet sweets so, to me, something like pumpkin pie is "sweet". So I went tothe store and bought a small pie. I cut 1/4 of it out, took the rest to my neighbor who has 3 kids. Over two evenings I ate only the pumpkin part, no dough. It was wonderful. And that was it.

I really like living this way.