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Originally Posted by Elli
That's a ton of eggs, wow. I would say one a day would probably be a good limit. How about having scrambled eggs for breakie twice a week (but still 3 eggs per portion) and then a fried egg on the weekend? The other days you can have a yogurt smoothie with fruit or a whole grain cereal like oats or granola?
There's nothing wrong with oil based dressings. Those are the healthy ones. The cream-based ones are the dressings with too much fat and thickeners. I would avoid all the bottled stuff as a general rule, though. When you make a salad, just mix up in a jar some olive oil, balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, and an herb like parsley. Throw in a spot of sugar and some poppy seeds if you like. Shake it up and apply to your salad! It keeps in the fridge for about a week, just reshake before you use it again.
Sugar is lovely in small quantities. It's a key ingredient in most baking. It's healthier in the long run than the synthetic replacements like Splenda or SweetnLow. I think they key is to avoid eating products that include unneccessary sugars. ie: don't reach for a full-sugar soda, have water or tea or coffee instead. If you really need a sugar hit, pour a glass of REAL juice and feast on the natural sugars.
This leads me to a rant of mine: cheat foods. You know that cookies don't fit in your diet. What makes people think that replacing one ingredient (like sugar with splenda) will suddenly make cookies ok? It's far better to go get a nice bakery-fresh cookie and ENJOY IT than to snack on those cardboardy "diet friendly" 100calorie cookies that serve absolutely no purpose. The point is to focus on REAL ingredients that you can use in your own kitchen. Nothing you can't pronounce or can only find in a lab.
Hope that helps!
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Excellent post
. That does help.
(What I really need is a wife lol, women know this stuff. My friend's wife gives me good advice
)
Excellent advice on the salad dressing. I was doing that a bit at one time. Good way to get a lil olive oil and vinegar. I didnt like the basalmic but the red wine vinegar is a winner.
Agreed, as I said creamy blue cheese (and lots of it
) got me off on the wrong foot way back in my mid 20's.
Ok fair enough on sugar. Agreed. It is certainly better than corn syrup. But buying gratuitous candies like black jacks and laffy tafffy is prob not ok for someone who binges.
I also told myself THREE pieces of candy a day is ok. But then I sleepwalk if I dont eat like 10 before bed. Seriously.
Homemade chocolate chip cookies are GREAT. I was less fat then too. Maybe baking a bit is ok. Phil, do you eat homemade choc chippers? lol
I bet not
Laffy taffy?
Remember as a kid eating Karo corn syrup on pancakes? Great. How did I do that? Oh yeah I went out and ran around all day
Anyhow, I cook everything from scratch incl some baking. Altho I can make choc chippers, I know the ingr for a homemade recipe by heart
something says they will not allow weight loss BUT I hear ya about keeping it real is most important.
And IF you buy ONE cookie buy a good one and enjoy it. Quality over quantity for sure.
for a rare female poster in a thread of mine