Everyday Systems

Agreed! I can't stand having food pushed on me. I find it very curious that the food pushers in my life are also hyper-critical of people who are overweight, even if they are overweight themselves. Self-hatred? Crabs in a bucket? IDK.

I'm here! I'm here! Ready to begin again (again).

"I am fond of saying that I carry a perfectly adequate snack shop right on my body, spread over arms, waist, hips and thighs. I've got a long way to go before any danger of exhausting it!"

That made me laugh out loud! "I am my own vending machine."

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/healthy-snacks-unhealthy-lifestyle

"The celebration of snackification, healthy or not, obscures the fact that we are now sustaining ourselves in bitesize, individual moments instead of shared, bigger meals."

The impact of snacking on weight wasn't a feature of the ...

No S dieters have the good sense not to starve themselves until they faint from hunger! On another message board I follow, one Whole 30 person was bragging about fasting for five days. Seriously? That's the ticket to health?

This absolutely happens. I find that after eating too much sugary, salty, refined food I not only feel terrible but I can't focus and think straight.

Extreme dieting leads to impaired driving.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dieting-driver ... d=61598840

Cannabis is used to help people regain their appetite in the case of chemotherapy and wasting diseases. I doubt it would be helpful for weight loss when it's used to help people keep weight on.

https://www.newsweek.com/campaign-organ ... cam-785493

Whenever someone starts with the "it's full of chemicals!" argument I take it with a huge grain of sodium chloride and wash it down with a big glass of dihydrogen monoxide.

This is a little off-topic, but it reminded me of a pet peeve I have about Facebook (in addition to people hawking supplements) - the promotion of useless if not downright dangerous diet and health advice. Another pet peeve of mine is using Facebook to bully people suffering from illness; for ...

Or glass of chocolate Milk. you can feel the nutrients going right to tired muscles like an IV, lol.


I read an excellent book recently, "The First 20 Minutes" (so titled because you get the most benefit from the first 20 minutes of exercise). It recommended chocolate milk as a post-workout ...

I've noticed that advertisers are great at sending false signals - such as ultra-thin models slamming down 1,500 calorie fast-food meals (implying that the "beautiful people" eat that stuff and stay thin so you can too).

Not food related, but as a woman "of a certain age" it really annoys me when ...

What an excellent article!

I think this started with "That guy who ate all the potatoes" - http://www.potatoes.com/files/9313/4885/1811/That_Guy_Who_Ate_All_THe_Potatoes_Cookbook.pdf

The head of the Washington State Potato Growers Association wanted to counter all the "carbs are evil" and "potatoes are unhealthy" rhetoric ...

I'll join you. I'm tired of gaining and losing the same 15 pounds over and over again, and I want to make peace with food. I grew up in a family that definitely believed "food is love", yet mercilessly made fun of overweight people (behind their backs, of course). I started my first diet when I was ...

Agreed! There's truly hungry, as in feeling hunger pangs, and then there's "I'm tired and I need sugar to pick me up" hungry, "I'm stressed out and I need comfort food" hungry, etc. etc. "Jonesing" is a great term to describe cravings. I also like "hangry" - so hungry that one's blood sugar is low ...

She definitely talks about learned behavior and why we do what we do as far as food is concerned. It's humbling to know that I have so much in common with Pavlov's dogs!

Hi All! I don't know if this series, "Eating Psychology with Betty," is broadcast on PBS nationwide. I've found it very interesting. I watched Episode 102 today, which deals with eating triggers. It explained a lot!

http://www.azpbs.org/eating/

Reminds me that "Gluttony" is still one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

I'm so tired of all the diet fads and cults out there that I found this article to be a breath of fresh air. Sometimes I'm tempted, when someone tells me they only eat "Paleo", to say "Oh, you live on acorns and grubs?" Excuse me ...

Hi Bonnie! Thanks for the links - they look very interesting. I wasn't able to access the programs in Arizona, so I'll look for them on YouTube.

I already know that I'm an emotional eater. I went through a breakup this week, so I have LOTS of red on my HabitCal! Maybe these articles/programs will ...

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Interesting article - http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutriti ... ar-BBg6BfR

I love the term "agnostic healthy eating"!

I'm in! I'm in charge of the holiday baking this year, so this will really work out my willpower muscles.

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Very interesting stuff. Oolala, I wonder if lower butter consumption earlier in the 20th century was related to its cost. The graph showing the correlation of lower food prices with obesity doesn't break it down by type of food, but I suspect butter and sugar were relatively more expensive compared ...

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That would work for me - I was actually thinking about going for 5:00 a.m. on Sunday. My significant other likes to either go out or have a special meal in with a nice dessert on Friday and Saturday nights, hence the mod. No use following a plan of moderation so rigidly that it disrupts domestic ...

Hello all! I've been following this board for, like, forever. I've finally reached the point where I'm ready to commit. I've battled eating disorders since middle school (fortunately, not horribly serious). However, I've reached the age where my metabolism is no longer bailing me out and my binges ...

I've tried Artic Zero - it's as expensive as super-premium ice cream and quite tasteless. I'd rather have a small scoop of the real thing and abandon "our national sense of gluttony!"