cloudboy -> RE: Since we're doing FAT today. (6/28/2006 3:40:52 AM)
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One thing that confirms my status as a stodgy grownup is my newfound affinity for Cottage Cheese as a snack. I must also confess to being a food label reader, and if read sugar, fat, or sky high calories leves for a particular food --- it now strikes me like a skull and bones warning. Overall, I've really changed the way I eat, and its been about a five year period of adjustement from one set of values at age 36 to a completely different set of values at age 41. Here's a small breakdown of how it went. Conversion from whole milk to 2%. Phasing out all fast food. Cutting portions but not the frequency of my meals. Dialing down on pasta and potatoes. Cuttting way back on beer, soda, and fruit drinks. Converting to diet coke (with lots of squeezed lemon.) Eating more eggs. Cutting fequency and portion sizes of all sweets / desert items. -------- None of the above represents a diet. No, each thing is an actual, permenant lifestyle change. I'm lucky too, b/c I do the food shopping and cooking of the household, so no tempting contraband makes its way into the house. Without the changes I made, I'd be overweight, regardless of how much exercise I might do. I had to make a conscious choices. Everyone has their own challenge, for sure... but IMO the real starting point is food selection. What undermines food selection? ---Eating out, not reading labels, not understanding how foods affect you, letting someone else grocery shop, and letting someone else cook for you.
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