The hardest part about my new diet: Not eating bread

Like any westerner, I grew up on bread. It is a rather massive part of almost all westerner's existence and was just a staple at every meal that we had. Breakfast? Eggs bacon and bread, or cereal with toast, or even better cinnamon sugar toast. Lunch? Sandwiches Dinner: Something something something with??? you guessed it! Bread!

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bread is awesome and I love it. Unfortunately, if you are trying to lose weight like I am, there are certain things that simply have to go away and bread is one of them.

I live in Asia, so in most places bread isn't very much of a thing there right? WRONG! Bread is huge in Vietnam as one of the staple snacks that is available almost anywhere for damn near free is a sort of sub sandwich called a bahn mi

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It's an extraordinarily cheap sub sandwich and it is available everywhere day or night. They sell so many of them in a day that the bread used is going to be fresh as well. Most of them are pretty damn awesome and even though I am eating steaks and potatoes, which cost a LOT more, I still crave bread.

I find skipping certain things in life to be very easy. I've never had a sweet tooth and to this day I really don't care for cake at all, if you can believe that. On my birthday I suggest to others that they not buy me a cake and if they do I let other people eat it and don't even partake at all. I really don't care for frosting because it is too sweet in my opinion.

But bread, especially garlic bread, is the stuff dreams are made of for me.

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That's some food porn right there and if you couple that with a side of marinara I would destroy it and not share with anyone (except Nadi.)

My meals most days aren't horrible, but they are 100% bread-free. In the morning I have greek yogurt with fruit, and then a few hours later I will have a 4 egg omelette with cheese. At lunch I will order a salad from this awesome salad place we have in town and then at night I have potato of some sort with sour cream. When I am hungry I always eat. I do not starve myself.

There are a lot of reasons to not eat bread but one of the main ones is that it doesn't fill you up and there really isn't any lasting fullness provided by it and it is also almost completely devoid of any sort of nutrition. Whole wheat has some benefit, but for the most part if you are trying to lose weight skipping the bread entirely is your best bet. I have lost quite a bit already, close to 20 lbs or 9kg in 6 weeks, but man oh man do I miss me some bread.

I get one cheat day a week and normally that involves some sort of bread goodness. I start to plan what sort of bread I am going to partake in by around Tuesday.

On that note I have a date with some eggs, cheese and chopped onion coming up. I suppose this could be seen as me torturing myself but honestly, I go to the weight that I am unhappy with by always eating bread as well as many other very unhealthy things, whenever I felt like it and that has to change if I am going to be happy with that dude that I see in the mirror.

So bread... just know that I miss you terribly but I know we are just not good for one another.