Whenever I tried to explain the basic principles he be all "No, that can't be. Just not eating should do it, so I'm skipping breakfast!"
My dad is like that. He truly believes that eating as little as possible is the only way to lose weight. He's a 160-lb man, and he thinks 1200 calories/day might be too much for him. I've tried to explain the whole thing where if you don't eat enough, your body thinks it's starving (because, you know, IT IS), and therefore hangs onto every last calorie. And the part where you need to fuel your body so that it can continue to, you know, EXIST.
Fortunately his willpower is weaker than the grip with which he clings to his insane notions, and he eats way more than 1200 calories/day. He has one hell of a sweet tooth.
Ignoring all the healthy eating talk for a moment
I just discovered that a) today is ice cream day here, and b) they had the ice cream shipped in from Graeters.
Mebbe I'll look at Fitday tomorrow.
they had the ice cream shipped in from Graeters.
WOOT!!!! What flavors??? Eat the chip flavors. And then move on to the non-chip flavors. Eat it all. Especially if they included pumpkin.
Iiiiik! You kill the coffee!
Nah, just turns it into a cafe au lait.
You know what I discovered once? Putting cream in your coffee is one thing, and milk entirely another. Cream has a sell-by date like, months later than when you buy it; milk lives for ten days and then curdles your coffee. Surprise!
For the slacktivist among us, cream is a defense against death by curdled milk.
WOOT!!!! What flavors??? Eat the chip flavors. And then move on to the non-chip flavors. Eat it all. Especially if they included pumpkin.
I only got to peek for a second, but I know they have black raspberry chip.
Want the pumpkin though too.
I'm not even about it being healthy. I'm about knowing what it is you're putting in your mouth, not just guessing, if you have a goal.
I eat like crap, but certain sorts of crap. Crap aligned with my goals crap, or crap that I
know
is going against what I want to achieve. But that's because I know a simple from a complex carb, and the like.
Nah, just turns it into a cafe au lait.
Okay, "just" maming it then.
I just discovered that a) today is ice cream day here, and b) they had the ice cream shipped in from Graeters.
OH YUM.
I'm not even about it being healthy. I'm about knowing what it is you're putting in your mouth, not just guessing, if you have a goal.
EXACTLY. I'm never surprised with what my weight is doing. Even when I'm eating a ton of crap, it's not like I don't know what I'm doing.
Although I have to say, I was really surprised with how few calories the early Atkins plan had, once I put in in fitday, because I was eating so much fat (relatively) and was so satisfied. I was also eating more vegetables than I tend to on my own, since I will literally eat nothing but white food all day, left to my own devices.
I'm not even about it being healthy. I'm about knowing what it is you're putting in your mouth, not just guessing, if you have a goal.
ita is me.
My eating habits suck, but they suck in ways I'm both aware of and willing to live with.
