It is the world's oldest sin - well, one of the oldest anyway.

I like eating, and I like eating well, and a lot.

And I like foods which are evil . Anything with high cholesterol, sugar, salt, baked, fried, grilled, and the list goes on. Fast food - yes. Pizza - yes. Burgers - yes. Ice-cream. Chocolate. Everything bad. *sigh* My diet is nearly opposite of what's recommended by health gurus. In terms of content, quantity and frequency.

Oh, I've tried the health foods before... drank carrot/beet juice for a few weeks - it tasted so ... flat and one-dimensional.

I guess that compensates for me not smoking, drinking, gambling or doing anything else of that nature.

 

I find that I am less interested in eating. I have been eating less due to my work schedule. Plus I am actually losing weight.

 

Take a page out of the South Beach diet...cut WAY back on sugars and sugar-producing foods like potatoes and pasta...it'll help you lose weight.

MR

 

I would rather die fat and happy than skinny and hungry

 

I always hear people talking about food that's good for you. I say if I put it in my mouth and it tastes good - good for me!

"From this day on, if I take excellent care of myself, one day I'll get very sick and die" - Rodney Dangerfield

 

Dieting is as much a state of mind as it is a physical act.
If you don’t like the taste of healthy food, your correct it going to be tuff to
be successful. Treat it like beer, they say you must acquire a taste for it also.
It is not easy, just try to stay with it. Yes eating is enjoyable.

 

55 years of eating what you like is better than 75 eating like a damn rabit.

 

Hmmm.... a beer diet, hadn't heard of that.

 

I am in total agreement there.

 

WELL........not quiet what I was thinking.........

 

My problem is that I have had 38 years of eating what the hell I wanted and now I am paying for it. I need to lose a few pounds and it is very hard. It isn't really a health issue, but I want to be able to run and play with my kids-and grandkids, someday. I'm trying to eat healthier 5 days a week and relax the diet for the weekend. We'll see if that'll help.

 

Thats my problem to. I just had my 5th knee surgery and have been trying to shed a few of the extra pounds to make whats left of my knees last longer. But it is hard to change a lifetimes worth of eating habits, especialy when your stuck sitting on your backside for another 5 weeks.

 

I am one of those that eat what they want when they want. Greasy chili cheeseburger, the more fat the better the taste.
Three nights last Sept. I thought I had the heartburn and took antiacids and some aspirin and went to sleep. I got up about 1:30 am with my chest and back hurting very bad and quietly told my wife that I thought I needed to go to the emergency room. She knows me and knows when I go that something is rong.
I had 1 artery completely blocked and 2 more almost completely blocked.
My Cholestoral was off the scale, that is all they would tell me, other than I "had" had a heart attack.
The doctors put a stint in the completely blocked artery and gave me lots of blood thinner in an IV.
Now I have changed my diet, 3 months after the heart attack my cholestoral was at 158 and now I have lost a total of 20 pounds. My wife has learned to cook other foods and we cut out salt and anything with cholestoral, well maby just a little.
If I stop eating so much I would lose more weight.
I did stop smoking 15 years ago and every time a new nurse or doc would listen to my lungs they would comment about how good it was that I don't smoke.
I don't mean to sound like I am preaching but when you can make the choice to live or die yourself, it puts a different light in your heart.
I still have to take medicine every day but I guess it beats the alternitave.
I did break down and get a chili cheesburger last month while the wife was away and it went through me like a freight train.

 

Bring on the cow & pig !!!!! Heck with it also bring on some frys too.

 

Chugalug ,

Thank you for the story, and I am truly glad to see that you are OK.
That's a warning to us all.

My value system is on trial.