Posts by pompey

May I hazard a guess that the so-called "expert" offering their opinion on your breakfast was a relative or friend, and their opinion was not asked for in the first place?  If so, I understand you completely!  My mom once told me I should consider giving up carrots because they are "high in sugar" and maybe that would "help me."  I looked her dead in the face and said, "Giving up carrots will 'help me', huh?  So I should eat a candy bar instead?  Would that be better for me?"  (Yes, I was rude but by that point in the conversation I was well beyond annoyed with her and her opinions on my eating habits.)

Sure, some plant foods have more sugars/carbs than others, and it's true some people's bodies react to those foods more than other people's bodies.  But if you have figured out what works for you, other people should butt out of your diet. 

I like green tea, but I have to be careful because my iron tends to be a little low, and green tea blocks iron absorption.  (Found that one out the hard way!) 

My favorite herbal tea now is hibiscus/rose hip tea -- it's never marketed that way, of course, but I look at the ingredient list first and the "flavor" second.  (Celestial Seasonings' "Zinger" teas always have hibiscus, and Bigelow Red Raspberry is more hibiscus and rose hip than raspberry.) 

The new design makes it even harder for me to track my calori intake and expenditure, thank you.  It's especially annoying to no longer have a baseline of calories expended by simply living -- which was a motivation for me to get my butt moving.  This "calories left" BS will have me gaining weight when I really need to lose it. 

I'm looking to lose about 100 also.  My biggest challenge is not letting 1 bad decision snowball into fifty bad decisions. 

i.e., buying a little, 1-oz bag of chips at work.  And then saying, "oh, I screwed up with the chips so I may as well eat this ginormous cookie too" when what I should do is say, "ok, my afternoon snack is about the same number of calories as the chips.  Skip the snack for today."   

Do an immediate U-turn back into good habits.

Thanks for the replies! 

Frankly, I'll be over the moon to be under 150 -- the lowest I've ever been as an adult is 154.  But I'll keep an eye on the obsessiveness the lower I go.

My god, yeah! 

Rachael's ideas of "healthy" and "cheap" never fail to amuse and infuriate me.  Her idea of making a more budget-friendly osso bucco was to use ground veal instead of whole veal cutlets.   *headdesk*

And then by claiming her goulash was healthy because it had tomatoes (which are a vegetable, doncha know) and that would clearly make up for all the butter, oil, and fatty meat in it. 

Cadbury eggs, oh yes! 

And then jelly beans. 

And every year my mom buys my brother and me our own Sayklly's fudge egg.  Something like 8 servings per egg and easily over 100 calories per serving.

Ah, comes the dawn. 

If your mom "went out of her way" to find someone to approve her for this ridiculously extreme diet then I can understand why she doesn't want to listen to reason. 

VLC diets are really, really tough to stick to so hopefully she won't be able to stick to it for very long.  If she does, though, she should consult a REAL doctor.

Honestly? 

Plain yellow mustard.  I've never really liked spicy or brown or dijon mustards (shrugs sheepishly)