So, today is Friday but let me tell you about Sunday to start with.
On Sunday I was so motivated for my Monday good healthy eating lifestyle to begin again. Man, I am so fat now I can’t even stand myself. Ok, I don’t mind myself but to look at? Yuck! So, I made my stand to get back on the healthy eating thingo and get these kilos off.
The strange thing is, went back to eating and drinking like the old days but didn’t put on too much weight. I shant talk numbers but considering what I was putting into my body, I thought I would have put on heaps more.
So anyway, Monday came and man I was good! Ate healthy, didn’t drink alcohol when I got home and had a semi ok sleep. Tuesday I woke very unwell and didn’t go to work but still, maintained a very good diet and then it happened…….
I returned to work on Thursday feeling much better and still looking after myself when there it was. On my desk, glowing like two angels were two loaves of bread. Now, it shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise to me because I had been informed that my daughters grandmother had sent some into my work with her oldest son. (long story, will go there another day perhaps). So, I knew there were two loaves on my desk and I knew they were a new style of gluten free and I even knew that my daughter loved it. She had to phone me after 10pm one night to tell me!
So, I am looking at these two loaves of bread and they look like normal bread. I mean, they were high and fluffy and soft and even smelt like bread. If you have ever tried gluten free bricks, I mean bread, you will know that
· they do not look like loaves of bread
· they do not taste like loaves of bread
· they are not cheap like loaves of bread
· they need to be frozen ten minutes after you buy it
· they are not light like loaves of bread (bricks)
· very few people like gluten free brick bread.
Seriously, I have struggled to find a gluten free bread or bread like product that I could love. There is one baguette that I like but for $10.00 for a pack of two, well, need a second income for that kinda money.
Back to the bread on my desk. I straight away grabbed a slice out of the loaf (I was confused because it was so soft) and took a bite, Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaalleluia, Haaaaaaaaaalleluiah! Halleluiah, Halleluiah! It is bread! Like real bread. It tastes and smells and looks like real bread but it is gluten free!!! At lunch time, I put a tin of tuna straight from the tin after I had strained it, onto the bread and it was amazing. No butter or mayo needed. With gluten free bread I have had to soak it in butter for two days to moisten the bread so I could swallow it. This bread needs none of that!
Then I went home and for dinner I had taken out a frozen container of cauliflower soup. Yep, I toasted up two of these amazing slices of bread and I almost forgot to eat the soup!
What has all of this got to do with my journey to skinnidom? Don’t you get it? Bread is back in my life! We had broken up so long ago and I hadn’t thought of bread in quite some time but its back. How do I leave it again? Do I have the strength? The determination? How does one leave a lovely off white slice of bread with flecks of golden gluten free grains? How does one not turn their head at the smell of said bread? Will I ever be able to have soup again without thinking of bread?
THE ANSWER IS NO! No, I can’t leave bread again. I want to hold and gently squeeze it. Bury my face into the softness of its belly and inhale the lovely, bready smell. (I have been reading 50 shades of Grey so please excuse me). I want to feel the butter drip down my chin and I bite into a golden, crisp piece of toasted bread and giggle as I wipe the butter off my chin.
Ok, this might seem a bit over board for some but I am sure there are those of you out there who have broken up with bread before. Those who have suffered the heartache and disappointment when seeing bread with others. Seeing people putting their hands on bread and not treating it with the respect it deserves. It is disgusting! How can these people do that to bread? They don’t understand the devastation of breaking up with a bread and not being able to hold it again, to kiss and stroke bread.
Right, I really like this bread ok and if any of you are touching your chin in remembrance of the dripping butter from a piece of toast or if you are remembering that perfect, handsome, sexy ham sandwich from years ago, keep an eye on your supermarket shelves. In about five weeks, you too maybe feeling the delight and happiness I am feeling right now.
The point of my blog today, there is a chance I may remain a fatty boomba for the rest of my life now that bread is back. But if it is not a wheat product, there is no gluten in it, is it possible it could make me skinny? To help you all find out the answer to this question, I shall test it for you ok? I shall continue to eat this bread and see what happens.
Stay tuned
