Posted on 11/15/2009 6:45:13 AM PST by neverdem
Chocolate/cocoa is a distraction, and too much sweet garbage from carbhydrates in the diet is the real culprit, IMHO.
.... When they pry it from my cold, dead, gooey-chocolate-covered hands....
Excuse me.
Everyone knows that the old sayings”to much of a good thing”, were said for a reson.
When Americans and others used COMMON SENSE, everyone knew that sweets were to only be a special treat. NOT a stapple of your diet.
GEEZ.
Chocolate is not a drug. It’s one of the basic, necessary food groups.
You will take chocolate...from my cold dead fingers!
NOT a stapple of your diet.
I always knew there was a name for an apple on a stick!
GMTA!
“Chocolate is not a drug. It’s one of the basic, necessary food groups.”
Yep! Every woman knows that.
What? . . . . . What? . . . . . What?
So what are you saying?
;-)
Funny how this comes out during the healthcare takeover. Guess what they'll be taxing/regulating under 0bamacare.
Should there not have been a 3rd group - one that was given, after the normal food, a choice of normal or sweet?
With only a choice of the less nutritious sweet food, might they have eaten more to get the nutrition? (I have a little 'house mouse' now 5 yrs old. As long as he has a choice, he will pass up the 'bad' food for the 'good' stuff. He's loves Brussels Sprouts and dandelion - and salted pumpkin seeds and cashews.)
Anyway, if they're serious about discovering why someone yo-yo's, study Oprah.
Good grief. She has all the money in the world. She can/does hire the best of personal chefs - and she still can't keep the weight off more'n a week.
The people at Overeaters Anonymous have known about this stress for a long time. They just don’t have any chemical solution for it. They have to do it the hard way— by building character to resist the cycle. Unfortunately, because it’s hard, a lot of people don’t succeed in getting the better of this self-destructive pattern.
A prayer for struggling obese people might help, if you can spare it.
My son (at age 9) did a science project. We got 4 mice and built a maze for them. Two of them we fed “mouse food” (the approved stuff!) But the other two we fed junk food (Cheetos, M&Ms, etc). We let them mess around in the maze once a week. A few weeks later, we had MANY more mice in the two control groups, so got a lot more data. The amazing conclusion from the data was that the mice eating the junk food had MUCH slower times through the little maze. We actually demonstrated what this author is talking about above in “kid’s” experiment. A lot of fun, great father/son project, and some pretty amazing results. It also gave my son and I some second thoughts about junk food.
Forget the chocolate CAKE, I’m into mainlining it directly from a Hershey w/almonds bar!
“...I need a fix, cause I’m goin’ down...”
“Dad is Great!!! He gives us chocolate cake!!!”
Oh, and (/sarc) for the slow freepers.
“Save the earth. It’s the only planet with chocolate.”
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