Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast.

I'm John Hammond, and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi, everyone.

And in this episode, we are going to try and resuscitate a food that finds itself in the diet

crosshairs all too often these days. Bread.

And now, Megan, you like bread, right?

I love bread.

I mean, is there anything better than just breaking open, a fresh from the oven, warm, crusty on the outside, chewy on the inside baguette?

I mean, no, I don't think so.

Bread is everything, right?

And so many of us think, you know, when it comes to the new year, or maybe you try and like

the crash diet for like summertime or a reunion or whatever it might be, bread's like

the first thing to go. Yeah. It's like, you're just like, okay, bread's got to go. And,

and if I cut bread for for two weeks, three weeks a month, then I'll be fine. But like,

that's, that's extreme. Yeah, it's too extreme. But what I will say about bread is, you know, having it freshly made quality bread makes such a difference, just with anything else, you know, and I feel it in my body, for sure. Well, I think that's what we'll get into in this episode, I hope, is that, you know, look, I think I said in an earlier episode that that bread is back. And maybe, maybe, maybe I was, maybe I was overshooting it a little bit. I like it. Bread wasn't ever gone for me. But I have, I have definitely changed my relationship with bread. I've changed the way I think about bread. I've changed the bread that I choose to buy.

And that's the thing.

It's like you can keep your bread.

You can keep bread in your diet and still achieve your weight loss goals, improve your health.

You don't have to cut it out whole hog.

And quite the contrary, I would argue that if you try to eliminate bread from your diet,

that's going to come back and bite you in a bad way down the road. Like, you're going to go all a sudden, you're going to eat the whole baguette. You're just going to be like surrounded in loaves of bread. Yeah. Pillows of bread. And that's the thing. Like, I think, you know, in the face of the popularity of things like the keto diet, the continued success of the paleo diet, you know, in the face of the popularity of things like the keto diet, the continued success

of the paleo diet, you know, the assumption is that bread is one of those carbs, is one of

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