Don't you remember when...

Don't you remember when:

You thought that a taco salad was healthy because it had the word salad in it?

Once you saw the chicken vegetable stir fry you automatically thought that since it has vegetables in it it's okay even if it was cooked in tons of oil and made with a lot of high sodium and calorie sauce?

 You thought that fried chicken was okay to eat because there was chicken in it so it was good protein even if it was covered in bread crumbs and deep fried?

 You thought that a caramel apple was a good choice at the fair because it had a fruit?

List some of your don't you remembers! 

don't you remember when you could order pasta and a hot fudge sundae w/o feelings of guilt?

Do you remember when you thought getting a huge, sticky, sugary blueberry muffin every morning was "healthy" because it had blueberries? (Ha... that's what led to my weight gain in the first place!)

You thought your favorite hibachi Japanese restaurant was healthy because they served grilled meats and vegetables, ignoring the huge, heaping portions, the copious amounts of oil, the fried rice in butter, the sugary teriyaki sauce, and the mayo-based orange shrimp sauce that you drowned everything in? (Another one of mine...)

Great thread!

Don't you remember when you thought the fruit-filled pancakes at Denny's was a healther, lower-calorie choice than the omelette with cheese?

(By the way, just one of those racks up about 1000 calories - I nearly ripped my hair out. :P)

Don't you remember when you thought that Pop tarts were healthy because they had fruit in them, regardless of the ridiculous amount of sugar?

Don't you remember when you thought that an entire bag of heavily buttered popcorn could substitute as an entire meal?

I can't even imagine how I could stomach that.

kaptain: yes! I definitely remember the pop tarts! Who would have known that 2 of those little suckers are like 400 calories! 

ratinhat: I really remember when i thought that the blueberry muffin was healthy! How wrong was i!? 

keep up with the posts! This is fun to read because it's all true! 

Don't you remember when you and your friends would go shopping and say "What are these?" and "What does all of this mean?" when you looked at the nutrionals?

When giant bran muffins and granola were considered "diet" foods.

...when you could lose weight in high school by drinking a Sego for lunch and munching carrot sticks for a week.  Two, max.  NORMAL breakfasts and dinners made by mom, of course.

Uh, yesterday at the movies I made the kid at the concession counter laugh when I explained that the popcorn and malted milk balls were my dinner.

...when you were in high school and ate whatever you wanted and didn't gain an ounce because you were so active.

...when you had no idea what a calorie was and never looked at nutritional information

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Don't you remember by ordering a veggie pizza you somehow cancelled out the "bad" parts of the pizza

Don't you remember the real size that a bagel should be? I can't even recall what it should be

Don't you remember when a muffin was the tennis-ball-sized item that your mom baked in a muffin pan?  Not these gargantuan, sugary melon-sized fat bombs they sell in gas stations (which are sooo delicious)

Don't you remember when you thought a BK veggie burger was healthy just because it said "veggie"? (It has tons of calories from the mayo and the bun.  More than a Whopper Jr. actually.)

A BK veggie burger has 380 calories without cheese and mayonnaise, which is the same amount as a spicy chick'n crisp without mayonnaise, and it's a hell of a lot bigger.  I think it's a worthy meal and it tastes pretty good.

Don't you remember when you thought all-you-can-eat buffets were a godsend?

Dont you remember when the vending machine at your highschool was your bestfriemd?

Don'tcha remember when you could eat all you want as long as it said "lowfat" or "diet"?

and when you thought sugary cereal was good for you because it has vitamins put in it and had 9 g of whole grains? you might not, but i do =[
and everyone can agree thinking every filled-to-the-top bowl of cereal was one serving. so naive, haha.

Don't you remember when you could eat without needing to know how many calores it was first?

don't you remember the days of "what's a calorie"?

don't you remember when you thought whatever amount you chose to eat was the serving and you were taking in the cals listed? (as in, if you ate 2 poptarts, even though it says the serving size is one, it's only 200 calories. and if you filled a bowl of cereal to the top it was only 120 calories. and of course, if you chose to eat the whole bag of popcorn, it was only 20 calories, since that's what it says on the box!).

lol i definitely did that. like i could eat the whole container of ice cream and it was only 140 calories hahaha. i was so naive.

Don't you remember when fruits and veggies "didn't have calories?"

Don't you remember eating salad smothered in full fat ranch, with cheese on top? Salad not as diet food? (I'll never order a salad again if I'm not counting calories. They've been catagorized for me.)

Don't you remember laughing at people who eat steamed broccoli for dinner?

when you heard peanut butter was healthy so that means you can eat about a half a cup of it mixed with granola and chocolate chips! That's what I used to do! Man that's a whole lot of calories!

a good one is...

 

thinking your parents were weird because they were hesitant to buy chips, cookies, ice cream and let you eat these foods all the time.

you just thought they were being mean!