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I Wish I Knew How to LOSE You--The Weight Loss Thread (check first post)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 20, 2013, 09:59:01 pm ---Thanks for all those suggestions, Katharine. Some of them sound pretty high-toned (smoked salmon, asparagus wrapped in prosciutto). I'm afraid a hard-boiled egg might be more my speed. ;D
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My grocery store sells packages of smoked salmon (both the hot-smoked, flaky kind and the cold-smoked kind, like lox). A pack of chunks of hot-smoked, around $13, lasts me about a week. It's about as difficult to serve oneself as a bowl of cereal.
My son went out today and grabbed bagels and lox, so my dinner is going to be a salad with lox, onions, chopped eggs and capers in a vinaigrette. Maybe sprinkled with some pumpkin seeds for crunch. Dessert: fresh raspberries. If I had avocado or chopped bacon, I'd add those, but I don't.
--- Quote ---Actually, since I asked my question--and this speaks to what I quoted from your post--I'm not so sure fat isn't a concern for me, because I have a strong family history of heart disease.
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Well, journalist Gary Taubes, my low-carb guru, says there's scientific evidence that fat, even saturated fat, does not cause heart disease. But I couldn't really follow the science, so I can't describe it or vouch for it. With a little googling, you could probably find the explanation. Something about making the LDL molecules bigger or ... ???
I could, however, follow the science of why low-carb diets help you lose weight. I probably can't do it justice writing it here, but at least I understood it as I was reading.
--- Quote ---I'm glad to know my scotch passes muster. I'll just switch to water as a mixer--which is how I drink it at home--instead of soda, which is how I ordinarily order it in a bar.
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Soda as in sparkling water is fine! No carbs, no calories -- can't go wrong on any diet. But soda as in what we Minnesodans call "pop" -- Coke, 7Up -- has carbs unless it's diet. And if it is, I still think it's bad for you. But I'm assuming you wouldn't wreck good scotch with that.
Scotch with either club soda or water is good for you! ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
Oi! Today was bad. ...
Whoever provided the "coffee hour" after church actually had hotdogs and sauerkraut. It wasn't really possible to eat the hotdog without a bun: No plates. :( At least that was lunch.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 20, 2013, 10:34:49 pm ---My son went out today and grabbed bagels and lox, so my dinner is going to be a salad with lox, onions, chopped eggs and capers in a vinaigrette. Maybe sprinkled with some pumpkin seeds for crunch. Dessert: fresh raspberries. If I had avocado or chopped bacon, I'd add those, but I don't.
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That sounds pretty good! :D
--- Quote ---Well, journalist Gary Taubes, my low-carb guru, says there's scientific evidence that fat, even saturated fat, does not cause heart disease. But I couldn't really follow the science, so I can't describe it or vouch for it. With a little googling, you could probably find the explanation. Something about making the LDL molecules bigger or ... ???
I could, however, follow the science of why low-carb diets help you lose weight. I probably can't do it justice writing it here, but at least I understood it as I was reading.
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I'm sure it's not too easy to follow, if correct. "LDL" (low-density lipoprotein) is actually the "bad cholesterol." That always seems counter-intuitive to me--you'd think "low" would be "good"--but it's actually "HDL" (high-density lipoprotein) that's the "good cholesterol."
For myself, I can only say that my dad was always quite the meat eater--I'm sure I remember him even trying a high-protein diet to lose weight when I was a kid, and that's got to be long before Atkins--and he had a quintuple bypass at age 62. :-\
--- Quote ---Soda as in sparkling water is fine! No carbs, no calories -- can't go wrong on any diet. But soda as in what we Minnesodans call "pop" -- Coke, 7Up -- has carbs unless it's diet. And if it is, I still think it's bad for you. But I'm assuming you wouldn't wreck good scotch with that.
Scotch with either club soda or water is good for you! ;D
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"Minnesodans"? ;D Sounds like someone is unconsciously craving a Dr. Pepper. ... ;D
Sorry. ... ::)
I have no idea what constitutes club soda. I just know I tried to drink some once and it was awful. :P
I wouldn't even wreck bad scotch by putting Coke in it, though I once had an absent-minded bartender do that; he pushed the wrong button on the "gun." Needless to say, he made me another drink immediately.
But, yes, I knew already that scotch is good for you! ;D
"Making white men dance since 1494," they say. ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 21, 2013, 03:40:49 pm ---For myself, I can only say that my dad was always quite the meat eater--I'm sure I remember him even trying a high-protein diet to lose weight when I was a kid, and that's got to be long before Atkins--and he had a quintuple bypass at age 62. :-\
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Well, that's a bad genetic precedent.
--- Quote ---"Minnesodans"? ;D Sounds like someone is unconsciously craving a Dr. Pepper. ... ;D
Sorry. ... ::)
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Not unconsciously -- it was a deliberate pun. But actually, I hate Dr Pepper (no period in the company brand, BTW), and pretty much all other sugary soft drinks.
--- Quote ---I have no idea what constitutes club soda. I just know I tried to drink some once and it was awful. :P
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Club soda is carbonated water.
--- Quote ---I wouldn't even wreck bad scotch by putting Coke in it, though I once had an absent-minded bartender do that; he pushed the wrong button on the "gun."
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:P
Jeff Wrangler:
I didn't gain any weight back over the weekend. Yay! :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 22, 2013, 09:09:57 am ---I didn't gain any weight back over the weekend. Yay! :D
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And I seem to be managing to not gain it back this week, too. :)
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