Posted on 04/30/2008 7:24:45 AM PDT by 14erClimb
Protein craving to balance the sugar? I usually go for something salty for balance...and eventually crash from a confused metabolism.
The nannies would find something else to take away.
You’re a better woman than I, then, Morgana! That stuff makes my eyes water and my hair curl, LOL. And that’s just from smelling it!! Never been brave enough to actually *taste* it!! ;-)
It’s too much work for most people (myself included) to have to focus so much energy on food intake. And for me, it helps my blood sugar when I have 3 meals and 3 healthy snacks in between—otherwise all I can think about is WHEN IS MY NEXT MEAL?!?! ;-)
I also lost about 20 pounds or so without really trying (and no additional exercise than what I normally do throughout the day, like housework)once I took the HFCS out of my diet. Of course now I’ve gained some of that back since I am pg with twins, but even so, I’ve only gained about 15 lbs or so (7 months along now)—my OB is very happy with that! And again, without devoting hours a day to what I am eating and the portion sizes! :-) All anecdotal, but it’s working for me.
Congrats to you on your weight loss achievement, and prayers for continued easy maintenance for you as well! :-)
That burger is making my mouth water!
“A dearth of diabetes and other diseases would save billions of dollars more”
Yep. And a decade later our health costs would rise by multi-billions because those who didn’t die quick deaths from the relative cheap diseases would be around long enough to contract the really expensive wasting conditions.
What if no one were a sanctimonious, self-righteous nanny-state pinhead? Think of all the money we’d save if no one spent public funding on sticking their noses into other people’s lives for the “common good”! Why, we’d have enough to purchase every man, woman, and child in America a new revolver and enough ammo to clear out the local Temperance Society, with enough left over for a big, juicy, charcoal-broiled burger and a beer.
Some people might need to be that extreme, but it’s not universal. I dropped 65 pounds over the course of about 16 months and have kept it off for years just with a simple eat less exercise more. I eliminated nothing I simply cut back on EVERYTHING. I still eat my Doritos, I still eat my ice cream, I drink non-diet soda, there’s just less of it all.
I think one has to figure out if they’re a food addict or just not particularly fond of self control. If you’re a food addict then you probably do need that kind of extreme diet, if you’re just not fond of self control then GET fond of it. If I tried a diet like you outline I’d burn out in 2 weeks and abandon the project, that diet cuts out most of my favorite things, like bread and beer. And I believer very strongly in exceptions, that’s what the gym is for, burn off your exceptions. I exceptioned every week, Monday nights I hang out with friends with all the beer and snack chips that implies in modern America, I labeled Monday nights “no diet Mondays”, eat and drink whatever I want and don’t worry about it. Yeah Tuesday morning on the scale can be a little irritating, but I just discipline up and move on.
I’m not saying your method is wrong, it worked for you so obviously it’s not wrong. I’m just putting forth for folks thinking of losing weight that it doesn’t have to be this hard core a diet. On the other side it could be even more hard core, one of my co-workers went on a diet and exercise program that makes your look positively gluttonous, and boy did he fry off the pounds. Of course just hearing about his program made me weak with hunger and desperate for Doritos and Twinkies.
People need to know themselves and figure out what will work best for them, if you can actually stick to a diet like that bravo go forth and lose weight, if you can’t though that doesn’t mean you’re destined to be overweight for ever, just temper the diet with what you can do. I forget the math but the average Americans annual weight gain actually only works out to a couple hundred calories a day, so it really doesn’t take much change to reverse that trend.
Oh heck yes it would exist! Toss the bun and you can eat those all day without getting fat. Just make sure you skip the fries and soda and have a salad and water instead.
I love Baconators. (Hold the mayo. Yuck!)
FWI -— Warren Jeffs forbid obesity amongst his followers.
“so I avoid it like the plaque!”
plaque = plague
Actually sugar is a source of plaque on the teeth.
I don’t think the problem is HFCS so much, as it is the addition of large quantities of sugar (fructose in the case of HFCS) to products that shouldn’t really need them. For example, why should pasta or pizza sauce contain added sugar? Tomatoes should be sweet enough for a sauce all on their own.
My brother won one of those on the radio once by answering some trivia question during his afternoon commute. He called to tell me about it right after, and I’m not sure what we laughed over more, the fact that he had won that giant silly burger or that he’d actually remembered that Arsenio’s band was called The Posse.
good list of foods without it? it seems everything but the bare basics has high fructose syrup and soy.
What if no one was an A—hole? If I ruled the world, I would fulfill that dream first.
Excellent :)
Actually, sugar is CHEAPER than HFCS on the world market. American domestic sugar is more expensive than the majority of the world's sugar, and more expensive than HFCS. This is why most American products are made with HFCS.
Congress has protected domestic sugar for years with high tariffs.
I avoid products with HFCS out of suspicion.
People view sugar as “poison”. It’s all about artificial low-cal substitutes. No one thinks about the confusion in the body with these pretend ingredients.
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