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Finances and food both make me very nervous. They both seem very
mysterious to me. You make a good comparison. Keeping a budget means recording every single cent you spend, and on what. Admittedly, that's much easier than figuring calories, nutrients, etc. in food, especially if you didn't prepare the food or don't have the manufacturer's info. It depends on how deeply you want to get into it, and how inconvenient or annoying or intrusive you find this effort. My nutritionist says some people balk at recording food because, they say, it sucks the joy out of eating. If I had to name the single biggest factor in my success in the WOL, it would be obsessively keeping track of what I eat on fitday.com. My WOL is based on an average of 1,500 calories daily. But I'm not a fanatic. My nutritionist wants me to question the chefs at the deli where I get most of my prepared dishes about the ingredients — whether butter or margarine, cream or whole or skim milk, lean or regular ground beef, etc. are used. I don't much care about that kind of detail, just like I don't much care whether an hour of water aerobics burns 200 calories or 300 calories. What matters is that I'm watching my portions and exercising regularly. As always, YMMV. Kasey 365/245/??? |
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ThatTWoman wrote:
Other good reasons are saving money and getting healthier food (unless you always eat at a "health food" store which was possible for me in Lubbock but not here.) Tonia, tell me if the HFS you're talking about sells baking yeast in bulk? (not the Fleishman's jars) If it did, would you let me know the name and what street it's on please? -- Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 |
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Alex wrote:
I couldn't face the rest of my life without french fries and mayonnaise. LOL. I know for many that is disgusting, but how can you go from a favorite to never having it again? a fellow traveler s Only thing is, I eat fries so seldom anymore (maybe 4 times a year?) I don't want the mayo anymore. Malt vinegar on fries is super - I'm having that Friday at the county fair! Hmmmm - small or medium? -- Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . . Laurie in Maine 207/110 60 inches of attitude! Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03 |
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"JMA" wrote in message
... It depends on how you cook, there are lots of things I just pour until it feels right. This is exactly why some of my grandmother's best recipes died along with her. She could never explain to any of us how much of anything to use or how long to do it. I sort of inherited that habit too, but I do tend to measure when possible. That's a shame. It's really important to get as many recipe directions from our older relatives as we can before they pass on. My mom was a great baker and a pretty good cook. She left me her cookbooks. Some of her favorite recipes are tucked into the pages of those books and since she passed away in 1988, I can look through those books and know she's not far away. Martha |
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:50:57 GMT, "MH"
wrote: "JMA" wrote in message ... It depends on how you cook, there are lots of things I just pour until it feels right. This is exactly why some of my grandmother's best recipes died along with her. She could never explain to any of us how much of anything to use or how long to do it. I sort of inherited that habit too, but I do tend to measure when possible. That's a shame. It's really important to get as many recipe directions from our older relatives as we can before they pass on. My mom was a great baker and a pretty good cook. She left me her cookbooks. Some of her favorite recipes are tucked into the pages of those books and since she passed away in 1988, I can look through those books and know she's not far away. Martha My mother died many years ago, but I acquired some of her cook books. My especially treasured possession is the one she put together herself when she was first married, a lot of it written by hand, and including many of the dishes she used to cook for us when I was a child. Some of them are credited by her to her own mother's cookery book. They reflect the days when people mostly used healthier basic ingredients. janice |
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"Alex" wrote in message
... I couldn't face the rest of my life without french fries and mayonnaise. LOL. I know for many that is disgusting, but how can you go from a favorite to never having it again? Nope. I visited Belgium for a couple of weeks, and not eating French fries (and chocolate) there would have been a sin! But I kept thinking about have some, but postponing it, because I really did not feel hungry enough for them. Finally, had the smallest portion available along with some curry-mayonnaise and I shared it with my girlfriend. The mayonnaise actually felt a bit nauseating, so I removed most of it from the fries. Eating half the portion felt exactly like the right amount and made me feel good and energized and ready to resume my walk (I try to visit foreign cities on my feet as much as possible). I did gain back a little weight from my trip, though I'm pretty certain it's not because of these French fries; I believe it was mostly due to the setting I was eating in. That's not the first time or last time I have a bump in my weight loss curve anyway, it happens pretty regularly. |
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On 31 Aug 2004 01:29:22 GMT, SnugBear wrote:
Alex wrote: I couldn't face the rest of my life without french fries and mayonnaise. LOL. I know for many that is disgusting, but how can you go from a favorite to never having it again? a fellow traveler s Only thing is, I eat fries so seldom anymore (maybe 4 times a year?) I don't want the mayo anymore. Malt vinegar on fries is super - I'm having that Friday at the county fair! Hmmmm - small or medium? LOL! Nowadays I go for the small. My mom was from Holland so I grew up eating FF & mayo. And I know what you mean about rarely having fries. They are all but gone from my WOL, but when I want them, I do have them. The thing is I just don't want them like I used to! Of course I found out yesterday I'll be visiting my dad in CT next month and there is no way I'm letting the chance pass me by for a hot lobster roll and fries at my favorite shoreline shack. It's been about 4 years now...mmmm! :-) The fair -- not Fryeburg? I think that one comes a little later in Sept, right? I was there a few years back during a drive from CO to Portland. I really love Maine! Don't think I could hang with the winter though. At the time I thought about buying and moving there, but everyone we met thought we were nuts to leave CO, even the postman who came into the breakfast place. We were enjoying our breakfast and chatting with the owner, when the postman looks at us and says "You're form CO?" We said yes & he said he couldn't wait to get back, and had put in for a transfer. He said the winters were killing him. That about did in my thoughts of moving. But the people and energy there is really incredible!! You are very lucky! Ally 212/157/140 |
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I like fitday.com a lot too. I'm thinking about buying their PC
version, but apparently the custom foods and data that I've entered on their website doesn't exprot to the PC version. So I'm weighing whether it is more important to have the extra options and tracking allowed by the PC version, or whether the portability of being able to access my data from any computer and not having to hassle with re-entering all my foods and such is more important. Alex wrote in message . .. On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:50:39 -0400, jmk wrote: janice wrote: It can be counter-productive though. I treat journalling with a great deal of caution, because it has many times caused me to abandon my WOE (and the journal) altogether and binge, just because I have to enter one slip up to "spoil" the "clean" record. All psychological, of course, but very real nevertheless. I hear you there Janice. For me, I just made a rule that being "bad" was not writing it down. It has nothing to do with what I eat and everythign to do with being honest with myself. I journal everything that goes in my mouth on fitday, and it's great because it makes me second guess choices. However, I don't have any concept of "good" and "bad". I released that as soon as I had my epiphany and decided to embark on a new WOL. I mean, I have favorite, fatty, calorie laden foods. I can't eat them all the time, of course, and when I *do* eat them it must be in moderation. I couldn't face the rest of my life without french fries and mayonnaise. LOL. I know for many that is disgusting, but how can you go from a favorite to never having it again? That was part of releasing "good" food and "bad" food. Of course I eat mostly very healthfully, but when I want those fries once a month, I have them. The difference; instead of half a bag of Ore Ida Steak fries I eat 8 fries and a tiny bit of mayo rather than 2 tablespoons. Ugh. Freaks me out just to read that over, and I wondered why I was fat? Riiiiight.... Ally 212/158/140 |
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alice wrote:
I like fitday.com a lot too. I'm thinking about buying their PC version, but apparently the custom foods and data that I've entered on their website doesn't exprot to the PC version. So I'm weighing whether it is more important to have the extra options and tracking allowed by the PC version, or whether the portability of being able to access my data from any computer and not having to hassle with re-entering all my foods and such is more important. I like the part where I can come back to it months later and it's all set to go. I drop in and journal for a few days maybe three or four times a year and I change computers every year or so, so the convenience of their server is worth it to me. Dally, currently journalling |
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