Beware of Big, Fat Bread

The other day I had to buy a different brand of bread because they were out of the stuff I normally buy. When I went to put that bread in the toaster, it would not fit without some serious squishing. How ridiculous is that? So for giggles, the next time I bought my normal loaf of bread, I compared nutrition labels.

The gigantic "healthy" whole grain, whole wheat and oat bread contained 110 calories per slice. My normal whole wheat and honey bread contained just 70 calories per slice. This got me thinking. 40 extra calories per slice times two slices per day equals a whopping 80 extra calories per day. That's an extra 28,800 calories per year or the equivalent of 11.5 pounds of weight I might have blindly gained just by eating a different brand of bread.

But that's not all! I also realized that the big bread had a lot more room for fixins. More fixins like mayo, pbj and butter equals several hundred more calories per sandwich. You know, it only takes consuming 2,500 extra calories to gain one pound.

The way things were adding up, if I didn't switch bread or cut my sandwiches in half, then I was going to gain over a pound a month. Yieks!

The moral of the story is two-fold, always beware of big, fat bread loaded with creepy, sneaky calories and always, always, always read those nutrition labels.