Remember my friend whose suggestion got me thinking about doing this walk to and from school? She's an ideas gal. She (although I cannot BELIEVE this) struggled with her weight in the 15 years since I saw her last (I've only re-connected with her since moving back to my childhood town this year.) In a recent magazine article she wrote, she confessed that her doctor looked at her and said "the O word."
At first I thought the doctor was suggesting a more exciting time in bed. It does, after all, burn calories.
But she was, in fact, referring to the word "obesity." And I couldn't believe it. She looked great when I saw her 15 years ago, and looks the same today! I'm thinking this is a girl with some weight-loss suggestions!
One of the steps in her action plan was to limit herself to 2 slices of bread a day. Ack! I knew that people say that overindulging in bread is their main pitfall, but I've always been a bit "pooh-pooh" about that.
Then I started to realise how many slices of bread I was eating each day. My word. Two slices a day was worth a try.
I started trying to limit myself to 2 or 3 slices of bread. And I sometimes did okay with that.
Now that is not my only Bread Problem. Until I left home to go to Uni at 17, I had hardly ever tasted white bread. I remember gagging on its soft white slipperiness once when I was about 8, because I'd only ever eaten wholemeal bread. I was proud of that! Boo to white bread: sometimes I call it "duck food" and sometimes I call it "colon packing." Now that I've married a man who responded to a similar not-white-bread-eating upbringing by eating heaps of it to make up for lost time, that's all I eat! Why? Gurk!
What if, I thought, what if I bought myself an expensive loaf of something very grainy, very filling and very healthy, stored it in the freezer, and ate 2 slices of it a day?
Now THAT was a great idea. Frozen bread is great in the toaster, and frozen bread is fantastic for sandwiches. And look at this! When my poor family is eating this for lunch:
I am eating THIS!
2 comments:
I love white bread. I LOVE it. I will give up anything if I can keep having cheese sandwiches on fresh white bread.
Oh wait, that's probably not helping... :D
You don't have to do what I'm doing with the bread thing - feel free to keep having your sandwiches (ooh they sound yummy!)
It's just working for me, that's all, and doesn't have to be anyone else's plan :)
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