I don’t know about you ladies, but I have to watch my weight. Hence the spinning obsession and the fact that I rarely, if ever, eat bread or pasta. Scoff if you must but I recall a few years ago, before the no-carbs craze, going on some kind of pasta jag and I blimped out like a goddamned puffer fish. I figured out what was up, cut out the pasta and the bread, and the pounds slipped off.
So this weekend, I did something very naughty. I bought a loaf of fresh-baked whole-wheat bread Saturday morning from the new bakery down the street. And it’s all I ate ALL DAY LONG. Breakfast? Bread and apricot jam. Lunch? Bread and peanut butter. Dinner? Bread and more peanut butter, with another piece with jam — strawberry this time!! — for dessert. All accompanied by cold glasses of milk.
I don’t mind saying that it was one of the best culinary days I’ve had in recent memory.
Too bad I’ll have to wait another year or so to do it again.
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May 20, 2008 at 11:47 am
I dont approve of this at all. Bread is the best thing ever. Our own civilization was born from bread! It’s delicious with butter! It’s delicious with cheese! It’s delicious on its own!
I love Bread.
May 20, 2008 at 11:48 am
I love bread. For breakfast today, I had scrambled eggs on whole wheat bread. I have sandwiches for lunch most days. About once a week I get a croissant with my coffee. And I eat a lot of pasta, too. Should I cut back? Most likely. But I can’t. I love carbs too, too much.
May 20, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I don’t believe in making ANY food groups off limits, if the universe didn’t want me to eat it then it wouldn’t taste so damn good.
Moderation and balance, that’s the key. I eat bread in moderation, too bad my chocolate and beer habit is waaayyyyy out of balance though.
May 20, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I’m with you, Trix. I haven’t bought a whole loaf of bread in quite some time, but I have gone on bread benders like yours. When I do, I go to this market that has a bakery in house and buy their sunflower whole wheat. Yes, it is as fantastic as it sounds. Whole sunflower seeds baked into the crust of a fluffy, tanned bread.
It’s so unfair how the good-tasting stuff is also the stuff that makes us The Chubs. I think Kadinsky might be right though, maybe because it tastes so good, we eat more than we are supposed to? Balancing out simple carbs with hefty protein portions is always key, too.
May 20, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I feel you, Trix. The ONLY way I can lose weight is my kicking almost all carbs out. Seriously. I didn’t eat bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, sugar, certain fruits, alcohol, etc for YEARS. I was the size I wanted to be, and I never had to wake up and dread going to the closet and finding some pants fit too snugly.
Sometimes I miss it, but DAMN, is looking “good” really worth depriving yourself such enjoyment? You only live once, and life is short, such as.
May 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I think that biscuitdoughjones asks a good question here: is looking “good” worth not eating bread?
Not eating carbs made me skinnier than I had ever been, but I find that when I cut a food group out entirely, I obsess over it. I fetishize the bread. My head is full of bread porn.
May 20, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Bread porn ….. mmmmmmmmm …. I am getting hot and bothered just thinking about it.
May 20, 2008 at 2:51 pm
p.s. And Campanita, look at your avatar — it actually looks horny.
May 20, 2008 at 3:37 pm
@ineffable.me.
completely agree. My friend tries to argue with me that bread is bad for you, I call bullshit on her every time. I eat carbs like it’s my freaking job, nothing can cheer you up like fresh pan caliente with warm butter or almond and chocolate croissants witha big pot of coffee.
hence my obession with the gym. We’re married.
May 20, 2008 at 4:07 pm
My avatar is thinking of hot baguettes!
May 20, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I would give up my beloved Scotch before I would forsake bread. The world will just have to love me, or hate me, with the resulting 20 extra pounds!
May 20, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I could give up bread…but if you take away my pasta or beer, I will cut a bitch.
May 21, 2008 at 12:15 am
I like the food.
May 21, 2008 at 12:15 am
the pictures to the food are so nice.
May 21, 2008 at 1:44 am
I love carbs. I could give a fuck what I look like when the ‘tabolism starts slowing down, because I want my sandwiches.
May 21, 2008 at 5:35 am
Carbs are beautiful. Used to love living life to the fullest – literally – in a sneaky sort of way, all very pasta, all very illicit. But then, discovering a new friend, the threadmill, my affair with the cracker is out in the open and ok! Can tell you there is nothing that beats sitting down to a soft capers sauce, broad pasta and veal after an hour on the sleek thing.
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May 21, 2008 at 8:45 am
I like whole-wheat bread. But anyway, I can have some other delicious ones. You have a nice site. I am new here :)
May 21, 2008 at 9:53 am
Welcome bread lady! Cute haircut!
May 23, 2008 at 8:53 pm
My MIL bought me a breadmaker last year. Is there anything better than a house that smells like fresh-baked bread (other than eating said bread)? No, there is not.
I could probably stand to drop a few, but fuck it. You only go around once; might as well go around shit-faced (and full).
May 24, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I heart bread, almost as much as I heart you bitches.. That is all.
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June 3, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I did the same thing the other day with some honey I bought at the farmer’s market. Honey is good on everything, man.