Rest Stop - Truth About Bread

My second visit with the Dr.'s office this week was Thursday.  Normal routine.  Can't believe I have been on this journey for eleven weeks.

Just wanted to add a post for an article I recently read.  It has to do with "The Truth About Bread."  Bread is one of my big down falls.  I used to stop at the store in the afternoon for one reason or another.  If the french bread had just come out of the oven I would buy a loaf and on occasion two loaves.  Vick and I would polish off a loaf of hot french bread that night with dinner.  Several times, when she was with me, we would be into it before we got home.  I would usually eat between two thirds and three quarters of the the loaf.  Vick has said I could go through two loaves of bread and a jar of peanut butter in a week and sad to say it is true.  During this journey I have had virtually no bread or gluten of any kind.  When this journey is over I will eat bread and pasta and such again, only with a whole lot more control and not as often.

The link for the article is:   http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-about-bread-and-diet?ecd=wnl_wlw_061513&ctr=wnl-wlw-061513_ld-stry&mb=   It comes from the Web MD site.

I spent some time tonight talking with the wife of a good friend of mine and we ended up talking about weight loss.  I wish I could help him and a couple of other friends make the commitment to lose some weight but as this cartoon says and as I agree "The will power has to come from within."  Tonight my daughter got mad at my son in law for the amount he ate and he got defensive.  Vick says I used to be like that and I told her the only thing pointing out how much somebody is eating does is push the person being reminded about how much they are eating into eating in private or eating to excess right in front of the person trying to help them and basically saying I will do what I want and nobody is going to tell me what or how much to eat.  I know it is not a very good practice but nobody likes to be told to quit eating so much, especially by a skinny person. I can tell my friends to watch what they eat because as I remind them, this comes from one fat person to another.  My mom says I need to be careful because I am like the ex-smoker or ex-drinker and I can be harder on these guys than I realize, but as I tell her, what price can you put on your health or life?  Enough preaching for tonight.