okay, better new diet...

On 4/30/2004 12:43 PM, Crafting Mom wrote:

People in the past have told me, with the air of someone waiting for my jaw
to drop, "Oh well for those calories I could have had *four* salads! ".
Well, tough. I don't want four salads, I want my *one* salad that tastes
exactly the way I want it to taste and feels the way I want it to feel :-)
grin

CM

Well, there is certainly something to be said for having what you want!

--
jmk in NC

"rosie" wrote in message
...



"Jessica Simpson" wrote in message
news:J_qkc.3079$J71.439439@attbi_s03...
: How about this: A diet wherein you can eat anything you want, as
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

long as you first drink a half-gallon of water and eat a full head of
^^^^^
lettuce, 10
: carrots, and 10 apples? That's 1370 calories and you would be
stuffed to the
: gills!!!!
:
:


what???????????????????????
no chocolate?


Under "her" plan, it would be OK to eat all the chocolate you want if you
drink the water and eat the lettuce, carrots and apples first.

I still smell troll on "Jessica Simpson".

Tonia
221/184/130

I still smell troll on "Jessica Simpson".

Tonia
221/184/130


Agreed.

coop

"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
...
Heh, true. I suppose it's the "more bang for your buck", theory. Sure
you
could eat tons and tons of heads of cabbage, and have volume coming out of
your ears until you're ready to throw up, and still have "less calories".

And it's perfectly possible to have your stomach so full with fibers and
water you want to vomit *and* still be hungry. That's extremelly
unpleasant... Some people seem not to make the difference between a
distanded stomach and satiety... After several high volume low cal diets, I
guess you're actually conditioned not to make the difference, which is why
things get ugly when you stop the miracle diet and go back to normal food
which you will eat until you fill your stomach.

"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
...

My version of "more bang for your buck" is getting exactly what I want,
and
budgeting the calories accordingly. I am not after getting "more plates
full". I'll accept the fact that 1 tablespoon of real olive oil on my
salad is indeed 120 calories, but I *love* it, it's tasty, and it sticks
with me due to it being a slow-digesting fat. And yes, I make room for it
in my diet.

People in the past have told me, with the air of someone waiting for my
jaw
to drop, "Oh well for those calories I could have had *four* salads! ".
Well, tough. I don't want four salads, I want my *one* salad that tastes
exactly the way I want it to taste and feels the way I want it to feel :-)
grin


Plus, a tablespoon of real olive oil actually goes a long way on a salad. I
mix real olive oil into Maple Grove Farms carb free/fat free balsamic
vinaigrette because it's a flavorful commercial dressing with no sugar. I
know I could make my own, but they never come out as good.

Jenn

I presume your suggestion isn't a serious one, but I can't make sense
of your calorie calculation at all. Water - 0 calories, 10 carrots
(say 900g) = 220 calories, 10 average apples = 500, lettuce
negligible, but say 30 calories. Total 750. How you make this come
to 1370 is beyond me.
janice


On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:44:41 GMT, "Jessica Simpson"
wrote:

How about this: A diet wherein you can eat anything you want, as long as
you first drink a half-gallon of water and eat a full head of lettuce, 10
carrots, and 10 apples? That's 1370 calories and you would be stuffed to the
gills!!!!

On Sat, 01 May 2004 14:53:10 +0100, (janice) wrote:

I presume your suggestion isn't a serious one, but I can't make sense
of your calorie calculation at all. Water - 0 calories, 10 carrots
(say 900g) = 220 calories, 10 average apples = 500, lettuce
negligible, but say 30 calories. Total 750. How you make this come
to 1370 is beyond me.
janice


Hmm... In my database, an average apple is 80 calories, for 800
calories. And 100g of carrots is 43 calories, so 900g (I've no idea
how much 10 carrots might actually weigh) would be 387. This would
get you to 1187, plus the lettuce. I still wouldn't think it would
add up to the OP's total, but it's closer. I wonder why your data is
different than mine.

Chris

On Sat, 01 May 2004 14:33:45 GMT, Chris Braun
wrote:

On Sat, 01 May 2004 14:53:10 +0100, (janice) wrote:

I presume your suggestion isn't a serious one, but I can't make sense
of your calorie calculation at all. Water - 0 calories, 10 carrots
(say 900g) = 220 calories, 10 average apples = 500, lettuce
negligible, but say 30 calories. Total 750. How you make this come
to 1370 is beyond me.
janice


Hmm... In my database, an average apple is 80 calories, for 800
calories. And 100g of carrots is 43 calories, so 900g (I've no idea
how much 10 carrots might actually weigh) would be 387. This would
get you to 1187, plus the lettuce. I still wouldn't think it would
add up to the OP's total, but it's closer. I wonder why your data is
different than mine.

Chris


As you say, Chris, hmmmm.....

When I first started learning about calories years ago, I think an
average eating apple was said to be 40, but more up to date
information I've seen in several places indicates around 50. As for
carrots, I put a bag of 10 reasonably large ones on the scale to
arrive at 900g.
I calculated these at around 25 calories per 100g. This also ties in
with the 6 calories an ounce I remember learning years ago.
I've never thought about the calories in lettuce. I once met a woman
in an eating disorders group who was so food-obsessed she weighed her
lettuce - that struck me as scary.

The database I use for calorie info is www.weightlossresources.co.uk
I tried looking at fitday, but I don't get on with it very well as we
don't use cups as a unit of measurement here, and the food is
expressed in American ways which I don't understand very well
(probably just laziness on my part).

janice

Ignoramus26050 wrote:

In article , janice wrote:
I presume your suggestion isn't a serious one, but I can't make sense
of your calorie calculation at all. Water - 0 calories, 10 carrots
(say 900g) = 220 calories, 10 average apples = 500, lettuce
negligible, but say 30 calories. Total 750. How you make this come
to 1370 is beyond me.

Last time I checked, an apple was about 90 calories.

Depends on the size, by weight, of the apple.

According to the USDA Nutrient Database
1 large apple (3 1/4" diameter, approx 2 per pound) has 110 calories
1 medium apple (2 3/4" diameter, approx 3 per pound - 138g) has 72 calories
1 small apple (2.5" diameter, approx 4 per pound - 106g) has 55 calories

So to have about 9 calories *per* apple, you'd have to have something
between the medium and large apple.

At any rate, I couldn't eat that many apples per day without a tremendous
blood sugar fog.

--
The post you just read, unless otherwise noted, is strictly my opinion
and experience. Please interpret accordingly.

Crafting Mom wrote:

Ignoramus26050 wrote:

In article , janice wrote:
I presume your suggestion isn't a serious one, but I can't make sense
of your calorie calculation at all. Water - 0 calories, 10 carrots
(say 900g) = 220 calories, 10 average apples = 500, lettuce
negligible, but say 30 calories. Total 750. How you make this come
to 1370 is beyond me.

Last time I checked, an apple was about 90 calories.

Depends on the size, by weight, of the apple.

According to the USDA Nutrient Database
1 large apple (3 1/4" diameter, approx 2 per pound) has 110 calories
1 medium apple (2 3/4" diameter, approx 3 per pound - 138g) has 72
calories 1 small apple (2.5" diameter, approx 4 per pound - 106g) has 55
calories

So to have about 9 calories *per* apple, you'd have to have something

..... erm make that 90

between the medium and large apple.

At any rate, I couldn't eat that many apples per day without a tremendous
blood sugar fog.


--
The post you just read, unless otherwise noted, is strictly my opinion
and experience. Please interpret accordingly.