Cashin in on America's glutony

“I went on a diet this spring in support of my wife's high cholesterol. Mine's fine. I work out like crazy but have been steadily gaining weight for years. So on this diet I discovered an amazing thing - if you eat a lot of donuts, french fries and ice cream you get fat no matter how much you exercise! I lost 15 lbs in a month. My knees thank me when I run and I have abdominals for the first time in years. But it occurred to me that if you eat like a regular American you get fat. If you don't want to be fat, you have to adopt abnormal eating habits because most of us have bad eating habits and MOST OF US ARE FAT!”

“Armed with the revelation that most of us eat too much, I spent everything I have so my wife could have her own restaurant to run. It opened today. Lots of cheap entrees, pancakes and bacon all day and 9 different deserts!

I'm not sure how much longer I'll be seeing abs in the mirror. And I'm not sure what my wife is going to do about her cholesterol. There's probably some drug........”

“Dude, just don't eat that junk. Don't buy it or have it at home and make sure you excercise everytime you treat yourself to something good (potato chips, bacon, ice cream....yuuuummm). Hope the restaurant is a sucess!”

“Ummm...good to see you posting again, Toejam. But what the heck are you talking about? Did you really open a restaurant? Are you just joking around? I like a good "local joint". But they also need to offer healthy options, so I can pig out on fries or eat salad, depending on my mood.

In my area, people are very body and fitness concious. Then you go out further west towards the heartland, and you see a lot of VERY overweight people. Since my husband and I tend to be chubby, I try to develop the more healthy options into family favorites, like fajitas, tacos made from ground turkey, and baked goods made with vegetables and whole grains. This is so different from the cooking that I grew up with, but much more like the cooking that my grandmother who lived on a farm, grew up with. So we need to go back in time to less food processing, plus add ingredients that are heart healthy, like olive oil.

But if you want to get rich, serve burgers, fries and donuts to the public!”

“.'But it occurred to me that if you eat like a regular American you get fat. If you don't want to be fat, you have to adopt abnormal eating habits because most of us have bad eating habits and MOST OF US ARE FAT!'
toejam

Very true!

'So on this diet I discovered an amazing thing - if you eat a lot of donuts, french fries and ice cream you get fat no matter how much you exercise!'
toejam

Not necessarily true. The catch is between the word, 'lot,' and the phase, 'how much you exercise.' In general, if you eat it and don't burn it, you will sit on it. I have had a tremendous weight problem for years, up and down 50 to 100 pounds. I, finally, have been able to maintain my weight level for 20 months within a few pounds. The key for me is a lot of activity, including plenty of exercise. But my diet is atrocious, chocolate covered peanut butter cups, donuts, hard candy, ice cream, etc. In the mountains while backpacking, I have a diet that is painless, healthy and works. I have always lost weight, 30 to 70 pounds each trip of 2 to 4 months. This fall, Aug.-Oct., I plan to lose my last 25 pounds of blubber, and then maintain my weight level.! Also, I will finish my article, Losing Myself in the Smokies, Introduction, and have it published. My bp-ing menu, etc. will be included in the article.”

“This is the deal. Most of us grew up eating alot of food at each meal, the reason for this was that our fathers had jobs that were physically demanding, and when we were kids, we ran around outside like little maniacs.
Now, we spend the majority of our day setting on our behinds (either at work or at home), but we still continue to eat like we are using up 4000 calories per day. The advances in labor saving devices has reduced our need for calorie intake, and most of us have not adjusted.
Now, these next comments are just speculation on my part. First, we reward or comfort ourselves for every little thing with food. Second, we accept the fact that people are going to be fat, and project that acceptance onto ourselves. Third, we can't afford to buy anything else so why don't we go out to eat!!
All of that said, where the heck is that cheap breakfast buffet, I'm having a rough morning and need to comfort myself.”

“You don’t exercise to lose weight. You exercise to get your body to lose the fat and keep the muscle. A weight loss diet without exercise will result in the loss of both fat and lean mass. With exercise your body gets the message that you need the muscle and it keeps it around. One of the toughest exercises I do is rowing on a concept II machine. 2500 meters drains me but only burn the equivalent of one normal size candy bar. Professional bicycle racers doing 90 to 150 miles a day burn 6 to 8 thousand calories a day, but do you have 5 to 8 hours to exercise each day?”

“Yup, you are all right, the quantities have to be cut back as you get older because you don't spend as much time running around and doing sports, even if you are a fairly active person.”

“This is why Homer Simpson is an American icon.

Who the hell needs six kinds of pork products for breakfast?

Its that lumberjack/woodhick diet in a couch potato world.

While you college boys, and some of my homeys too, were workin' on that gut and piloting a swivel chair, I was sweatin' and stompin' on the job.
AND I have scrupulously avoided BAD food.......saaaaaay, hal-e-loooo-yah!
There is still time for redemption brothers and sisters!

Listen to Brother nowslimmer......before its too late!

Here's a suggestion;
Don't consume anything that you see or hear advertised.

History teachers and booze.......very interesting.”

“We did open a restaurant. And folks on this side of Cowtown don't care nothin bout no healty lifestyle! It's too hot to go outdoors for most people half of the year. Therefore the highest-profit item on the menu is a scoop of ice cream on that dessert. We do have a salad bar.

Another thing I learned on the diet is that junk food (carbs & sugar) produces cravings for more of the same. That's what I'm fighting now that the weight is down. Also the feasting we do socially is more than I have time to burn off exercising. Like Tahoe said, we'll go out to eat for any reason and all the local places serve way too much food.

Any way I don't mean to be demeaning cause I'm just like everybody else. My home town has boomed into a D/FW bedroom community and I'm just riding the wave!”

“Hope you have real onion rings on that menu!”

“people have demonized certain foods.... whether it be fat, sugar, carbs whatever. A healthy diet takes a healthy balance. Super-sizing anything (except maybe broccoli/cauliflower) is a bad idea”

“Supersizing broccoli and cauliflower will give you supersized gas. Beano rules!”