[Misespimb]

This diet has been extremely "revealing" to me, insomuch as I've discovered which foods are my true weaknesses and likely underlie my weight problems. At the beginning of this diet, I thought it would be difficult to give up the sweets, especially chocolate, and assumed that it was the consumption of those foods that made me gain weight. But I am now into my fifth week of P2, and I have found that giving up the sweets has been no problem at all. I don't really even miss them. And looking back, I didn't eat a lot of them anyway because each bite made me feel guilty - yet I still seemed to blame any weight gain I experienced on whatever small sample of sweets I had eaten recently.

But I don't believe anymore that the sweets are my problem...It's the bready stuff! Each meal I'm saving my bread for last so I can savor it. When I dream of eating normal again, my plate is full of bready stuff. When I think back to when my family would go to buffets, they would all load up on the desserts and I would get a plate of buttered dinner rolls, cornbread, gingerbread, Texas toast, etc.. I could eat cereal every day. I always got Deep Dish pizza because I enjoyed the crust more than the pizza! And don't get me started on pasta! Even now as I look forward to my load days for round two, I'm thinking of all the different foods I want to indulge in - and it's not sweets - it's breads.

So, clearly after I lose all the weight I want to lose, I can't go back to being a bread-oholic. I need some help. To what substitutes can I transfer my addiction? Is there any bread out there that won't have a detrimental effect on my body? What about cereals? Are there any truly whole-grain cereals on the market? I just need some education on how to make or buy breads that aren't "bready", if that makes any sense.