I am having a huge hard time getting over snacking on white bread. It's on my counter ONLY because my boyfriend makes sandwiches with it for his lunches. I'm really trying to avoid it, but I've been doing long assignments at home and I get desk munchies. It's seriously just a stupid bad habit, but I could use help beating it.


I'm sure I'm not the only one struggling with discipline today. How about a thread for our weaknesses and advice and tips to beat them here

We keep our bread in the back of a cupboard so I have to pass by other healthier options before I reach for it! Good Luck!

Maybe get a bread box to hide it in? Or tape a note to the bag reminding yourself that there are healthier options? Maybe you could put a healthy snack on the counter next to the bread?

Me weakness is motivation. Food is not my weakness when i'm on a diet. I am committed to eating well all the time because i love good healthy food except when i'm not on a diet.

Iknow the only way to fix my motivation is by forcing myself to do stuff. But its so painful and i resist it.

As to the bread, remove the bread from the counter. I think when you are studying, its normal to want to eat carb foods like white bread. Make yourself a decent sandwich using whole grain bread of good quality. Put salad vegies in your sandwich and no mayonnaise or stuff like that.

In your salad sandwich put as many of the following as you can:
grated carrot
lettuce
tomato
cucumber
onion if you like it
capsicum
mushroom
sprouts
and if you still want more on it, put some avocado or a slice of meat, preferably unprocessed meat.

TAke your sandwich and sit in the sun to eat it with a glass of water. Eat it Away from your desk. Enjoy your sandwich, then go back to work. Take a glass of water with you.

I have recently discovered rye crackers (95% rye) on my quest to find a better option to low quality/low nutrition commercial breads.

The brand I buy has 30 calories per cracker (and 1.8 g fiber), it is really satisfying and have read that has a lower glycemic index than wheat.

I don't know where you are but you may find them e.g. under the Swedish brand WASA. Rye is a popular grain in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

Bread can be a weakness for me too. What's worse? I bake bread!!!!

I simply have a hard time stopping myself from eating more bread if I even allow myself a little. It's one of those foods I simply cannot have in moderation, so I try to avoid it all together. So, I feel ya!

You just have to be tough with yourself for a little while. I used to LOVE LOVE LOVE bread. I would eat at least 6-8 slices of white bread a day. When I started out here, I cut it out completely. It drove me MENTAL for the first month or so. Then one day, during that time of the month, I was cranky, unmotivated and undisciplined, and I thought "Who cares! Im gonna have me some vegemite on toast!" So I made it, but I felt guilty because I had gone so well, so I only ate 2 of the 4 pieces I had cooked. Thank God I stopped at 2 pieces. After not eating bread or anything like it for over a month, my body cant process it anymore. And when I say cant process it anymore, what I mean to say is I ended up at the chemist getting some little *things* you put in to make you be able to poo again. So after that, I have found its really not worth the pain. Opt for something like rice crackers or seaweed snacks, something like that. Goodluck!

It's not the bread that's the problem, it's the "desk munchies". I get jonesing for a snack when I study, too, because it helps break up the monotony. If you're hungry have a meal or snack. If you're not hungry then don't eat. You can do this. Just recognize that a craving is only a craving- it can't "make you" get up and eat something. Just sit with it and it will pass.

You could try making pots of tea instead. In college I got a ceramic teapot that holds ~4 cups, and I'd go through many, many pots a day, especially with papers. Get different tasty flavors and you can change it up.

I get desk munchies too! I used to have a desk on my office filled with sweets and treats and whatever unhealthy thing I could find! now that desk is empty I just found that the only way to avoid eating them was to not having them around...