Jim Kwik explains why bread before your meal backfires: it spikes blood sugar, then crashes around 90 minutes later, triggering cravings for dessert. Eat carbs after your main course instead, when other foods slow glucose absorption and keep you satisfied longer.
When they serve bread, when you're at a restaurant, that's the first thing people eat. They put it on the table and it's warm and there's butter. I ask them for no bread when they ask, would you like bread? Or if they bring the bread automatically, ask them no. Otherwise, I find myself throughout the entire meal saying, should I eat it? Should I not eat it?
And then you know that when you start, you can't stop. If you eat bread first thing during a meal, that's starch. So that's going to break down into glucose molecules. You're going to get a big spike at the beginning of a meal. Then about an hour, 90 minutes later, you're going to get that drop. And that drop can make you hungry and crave sweet foods. That's usually around the time time when the waiter comes over and asks if you want dessert, right? So what I do is I keep the bread for after the main dish, because if you have your carbs closer to the end of the meal, the rest of the food already in your digestive system is going to slow down the absorption of glucose.
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