I am so sick of going out to eat and getting ripped off by how much bread these restaurants put in a meal, at the expense of all the real food (mostly meat) that they could be supplying. It’s a joke. If you are starting to eat in this way, more towards a ketogenic diet or carnivore diet, and say you get some take-out or delivery, take notice at how little substance and actual food (not bread) is given to you. It’s very, very little by comparison. Most of these wraps, hoagies, and sandwiches are almost all bread.
I ordered a couple of things recently from local restaurants and forgot to say hold the bread. One of them was a tuna hoagie. Well, needless to say, the hoagie (or sub, or hero, depending on where you’re from) was like 75% bread and 25% tuna, maybe worse. Fast food places make a killing doing this kind of thing. The Big Mac, for instance, is mostly bread, and the burger patty is actually pretty thin. Bread is so cheap that it can almost be used as a filler, and as a coverup for the fact that you’re not getting enough meat or vegetables or whatever else is supposed to be in the meal you just ordered.
Ketogenic Diet or Not, Bread is Still Garbage
Besides being a big waste of money and a scam that restaurant owners employ, you should know if you’ve been reading my blog that bread and all grains are not healthy, and should not even really be consumed at all. Whether you’re eating a ketogenic diet or not, sugar and grains are the two biggest problems in the American diet, followed by Omega 6 fatty acids. If you live a fasting-focused lifestyle, with some intermittent dry fasts, cut out the bread and sugar, limit your Omega 6 fats, and get in a little exercise each day, and you definitely will see results in time. These results will be losing weight and body fat, reduced inflammation, less pain (or no pain) in your joints, better skin, better digestion, and more.
Obviously, eating out is not ideal. Cooking is preferable just because you have more control over the quality of the ingredients of what you’re eating. But if you must eat out, and you are not hurting for money, then I’d say spend the extra money and get two or three of something, such as a burger, rather than order one without bread and find out it’s not much food at all. You will leave the place hungry, especially if you’ve been doing intermittent dry fasting and OMAD (One Meal A Day). To avoid eating bread, think of it like the poison that it is. It will put weight on you and cause inflammation in your body, and you simply don’t need it or want it to survive.
One final note: Dr. Mercola published a great blog post today on intermittent fasting. Check it out at the following link: https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/06/03/not-so-fast-whats-the-deal-with-intermittent-fasting.aspx
