Just Stop Eating Bread!

That’s easier said than done. I know, because there’s a pizza in my fridge I’m starting to jones on, and it’s only nine a.m.

Shoshana Kaufman
6 min readSep 15, 2022
Photo by Wesual Click on Unsplash

As a species, humans tend to see solutions to their own problems as possible solutions for the whole world's problems. I’m as guilty of this as anyone. I know that I am healthier when I don’t eat bread or any kind of starch. I glow with health and energy when I confine my diet to protein, healthy fats, vegetables, and fruit. I once did this for three months and I looked and felt amazing. I have not been able to replicate that experience in the four years since that magical time.

As you can imagine, I think that humanity as a whole should eat a whole lot less bread. I mean, it works for me, right?

So I’m not gonna preach. I’m just gonna plead. Like I do with myself every morning when I get up and long to eat something full of starch or sugar.

As Eckhart Tolle might ask, when I am talking to or pleading with myself, who am I speaking to? And he would probably add, if there are two of me, maybe one of them isn’t real.

I know. Mind officially blown.

At least mine was when I first read The Power Of Now. But the unreal part of me often gets the upper hand. When she makes…

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Shoshana Kaufman

Mother, grandmother, teacher, wife, food lover, spiritual searcher.