let other people decide what to call you.

How about NOPE, dude.

Now I have to also make a pitch for peanut butter on the (filled with natural sugar) bananas that grow in my yard too.

A peanut butter and banana sandwich is the best. Elvis was right. (Though I don't fry mine.) Good with a little granola sprinkled on there, too.

It's funny that irked me so much, because I've lost a lot of my passion for the Disability Name Game, in favor of "Oh, God, let's just pick one." But people have a way of reminding you how these debates get started in the first place. Sorry about Needy!Dad, Teppy.

This person is apparently eating keto/paleo/low-carb for weight loss, so she's decided that all sugar is bad, even sugar that occurs naturally in fruit.

Ah, the crazycakes version of keto/paleo/low-carb evangelists. I've been on a enthusiastically-recommended-by-my-doctor version of keto to help with my chronic pain and brain fog, and it works for me. But I'm "still allowed" fruit and the occasional sugary thing. ION, diet evangelists of any type are weird and offputting.)

(Keto has been very successful for my issues, but YMMV, and my insane stress levels have been throwing things out of whack.)

For anybody who is tracking what they eat for whatever reason, the size of an apple can be a bit problematic insofar as a really big apple can hold as many as 4 servings. The problematic part comes when certain people cannot fathom that a small apple weighing 100ish grams does not have the same amount of calories that a big-ass apple weighing in at 249ish grams. I have in fact gotten the response, "I don't think like that. It's an apple. It's good for you," when attempting to explain this to coworkers preparing a meal for a person supported who was under doctor's and guardian's orders to lose weight (who in spite of my efforts at designing a delicious, satisfying healthy menu was not losing weight because other staff were not following the menu.) Which brings us back to, cut the damn thing in half if it's too big for you.

I definitely get that -- even though it's full of fiber and nutrients and general yumminess, a large apple is still more calories (and, in fact, more sugar) than a medium or small apple. I can see where the lack of precision would make planning/sticking to a meal plan difficult.

Among the many words and phrases that give me mental hyperventilation, "meal plan" is near the top. I have strange food issues.

I went crazycakes paleo a decade or so ago. It worked amazing, I lost weight fast. But I don't think I can do it again. I was too strict.

The only thing I want to say to "strict paleo" people now is, your paleolithic ancestors didn't rice cauliflower, and if you ain't eating bugs, it ain't paleo.

Mmm, crickets.

Paleo: If it's slow enough to catch, it's on the menu.

You cannot tell me our paleo ancestors weren't eating honey (banned under paleo) or any kind of high-calorie food they could get their hands on.

And any berries and fruit they could get their hands on.