http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30529791are you sure that Denmark's disability legislation protects people from being dismissed if they can't do their work?
The human rights folks have won again! In future you will be seeing more 300kg soldiers, rescue workers, professional athletes and supermodels... all protected from being sacked by disability legislation.
overweight people are already the majority in many developed countrieswat.
I'm fat :)pics or didn't happen.
I'm fat and I'm finally figuring out how for me to stay compliant on a diet.
The nutrition world is sending out all sorts of mixed signals:
Paleo: Grassfed beef/butter, non farm seafood, organic coconut oil/vegetables - if you can't do this you suck.
Frutarianism: Raw fruits only, maybe limited lettuce, maybe LITTLE avocado. All organic or off the farm - if you can't do this you suck.
"Starchavore": via Dr. John McDougall - starch lots of potatoes / rice, no fat/oils - if you can't do this you suck.
"Fat makes you fat" - "yes it does!" "no it doesn't!"
"You MUST eat Organic vegetables - if you eat non organic vegetables you will get cancer!" - "yes it does!" "no it doesn't!"
"Eating fat will give you a heart attack!" - "yes it does!" "no it doesn't!"
AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Is it any surprise people screw up their bodies/metabolisms by every camp having a bunch of 'experts' who have science to back it up?
Yay for the EU yet again!
Also, don't lead a sedantary life style. Just get up, get outside and do stuff. Not trying to preach or **** down your throat, I am just a very blunt person. Some people it can be very difficult if genetics are playing a factor, which I believe it can and does in some people.
Also, don't lead a sedantary life style. Just get up, get outside and do stuff. Not trying to preach or **** down your throat, I am just a very blunt person. Some people it can be very difficult if genetics are playing a factor, which I believe it can and does in some people.
I'm going to keep it real: Some people are sedentary and LIKE it. You are not going to change these people - and they are not going to be compliant at whatever the mainstream throws at them.
Basically someone with some STRONG nutritional and science background needs to come out and say: OK you are going to sit on your fat ass? FINE. Let's develop some sort of nutritional plan that will A) Keep you satisfied B) reduce the calories to a point that the scales needle will move while doing nothing.
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
I believe it has to do with the body going into starvation mode and then using muscle for energy instead of fat and storing as many of the calories as fat for emergency reserves.
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
I believe it has to do with the body going into starvation mode and then using muscle for energy instead of fat and storing as many of the calories as fat for emergency reserves.
Yes - I heard about losing muscle, but so what? As long as one moves around you should retain the muscle you must have. And once the weight is off you could always add it back in. In the case of sedentary person they may not need very much muscle at all.
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:I think they are coaxed into using it, but that is a very, very hard thing to do. I have a person who is very close to me that was extremely overweight - like 200lbs overweight. They had to have surgery at one point and couldn't until some of the weight was lost because of the risk of going under anesthesia. So far they lost about 100lbs with the help of a nutritionist, and it has been challenging - the surgery was also a success, it just took a while to get it done.
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
The reason that some employers (typically hospitals) won't hire smokers is due to the fact that it has been proven that smokers take more sick days and cost insurance companies more money due to long term treatments for something they choose to do.I won't believe that is the only reason. Hospitals are very special places when it comes to smoking. Hospitals have to care for patients who are hyper-sensitive to cigarette smoke, even that which is stuck in smokers clothes and lungs. A nurse that takes several short smoking breaks during the day can therefore not tend those patients.
You see the problem.. Your body was designed for running and jumping, but what do we do most of the time..
Solution:
Send all the obese people to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific, and make them survive on nothing but the native fruit and wildlife for 6 months.
Then go retrieve them from said island, and they'll be less fat.
Solution:
Send all the obese people to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific, and make them survive on nothing but the native fruit and wildlife for 6 months.
Then go retrieve them from said island, and they'll be less fat.
No, most of them would be dead. I guess that does count as less fat.. but, it's not the solution .
Solution:
Send all the obese people to a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific, and make them survive on nothing but the native fruit and wildlife for 6 months.
Then go retrieve them from said island, and they'll be less fat.
No, most of them would be dead. I guess that does count as less fat.. but, it's not the solution .
Amended solution: make it 30 days instead of 6 months.
Increases the chance of survival.
Just found a couple videos of someone who might be dead soon:
If the videos don't appear, links:
Thoughts?
No, most of them would be dead. I guess that does count as less fat.. but, it's not the solution .
Also, don't lead a sedantary life style. Just get up, get outside and do stuff. Not trying to preach or **** down your throat, I am just a very blunt person. Some people it can be very difficult if genetics are playing a factor, which I believe it can and does in some people.
I'm going to keep it real: Some people are sedentary and LIKE it. You are not going to change these people
No, most of them would be dead. I guess that does count as less fat.. but, it's not the solution .
Amended solution: make it 30 days instead of 6 months.
Increases the chance of survival.
Nonsense, these guys aren't going to be dead.
They've got like 200-600lbs of fat and water stored in their bodies. Should be enough to survive for months with minimal rainwater and just a bit of sugar (from fruits) to start the calories burning.
After they've lost that weight they will be light enough to do things like climb trees and pluck fruits.
Anyway one less fat guy is one less person taking up too much space on a 16 hour trans Pacific flight. As mean and nasty as that sounds, it is a good thing. And those people who don't think it a good thing, I'm more than happy to change seats with you on that 16 hour trans Pacific flight. Put your politically correct ass where your politically correct mouth is, and see if you still want to argue for fat being a disability and to defend fat rights.
:p
Also, don't lead a sedantary life style. Just get up, get outside and do stuff. Not trying to preach or **** down your throat, I am just a very blunt person. Some people it can be very difficult if genetics are playing a factor, which I believe it can and does in some people.
I'm going to keep it real: Some people are sedentary and LIKE it. You are not going to change these people
Then those people will likely have a much harder time losing weight and getting healthy. I like to eat foods that are really unhealthy. But if I'm trying to lose weight? Yeah, I'm gonna cut back. Because that's what I need to do. Why should getting up and moving be any different? If it were easy, people wouldn't be overweight.
This guy wants you to eat 70% fat ?Who the hell eats two sticks of butter! You are crazy, man!
so.. yea.. I've tried eating a stick of butter.. Tp4 crazy like that.. and it's good going down..
but... the 3rd bite.. is kinda hard.. and if you eat 1.5-2 sticks.. it makes you dizzy. I felt like I was being poisoned. Which scientifically is my liver is going, Ffff you, what are you doing...
Also, don't lead a sedantary life style. Just get up, get outside and do stuff. Not trying to preach or **** down your throat, I am just a very blunt person. Some people it can be very difficult if genetics are playing a factor, which I believe it can and does in some people.
I'm going to keep it real: Some people are sedentary and LIKE it. You are not going to change these people
Then those people will likely have a much harder time losing weight and getting healthy. I like to eat foods that are really unhealthy. But if I'm trying to lose weight? Yeah, I'm gonna cut back. Because that's what I need to do. Why should getting up and moving be any different? If it were easy, people wouldn't be overweight.
If I got out of my computer chair.. WTF would I do.. seriously.. WAHT... tell me..........Show Image(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/payup-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862514)
Also, don't lead a sedantary life style. Just get up, get outside and do stuff. Not trying to preach or **** down your throat, I am just a very blunt person. Some people it can be very difficult if genetics are playing a factor, which I believe it can and does in some people.
I'm going to keep it real: Some people are sedentary and LIKE it. You are not going to change these people
Then those people will likely have a much harder time losing weight and getting healthy. I like to eat foods that are really unhealthy. But if I'm trying to lose weight? Yeah, I'm gonna cut back. Because that's what I need to do. Why should getting up and moving be any different? If it were easy, people wouldn't be overweight.
If I got out of my computer chair.. WTF would I do.. seriously.. WAHT... tell me..........Show Image(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/payup-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862514)
I keep hearing the resolution and frame rates outside are insane.
This guy wants you to eat 70% fat ?Who the hell eats two sticks of butter! You are crazy, man!
so.. yea.. I've tried eating a stick of butter.. Tp4 crazy like that.. and it's good going down..
but... the 3rd bite.. is kinda hard.. and if you eat 1.5-2 sticks.. it makes you dizzy. I felt like I was being poisoned. Which scientifically is my liver is going, Ffff you, what are you doing...
This guy wants you to eat 70% fat ?Who the hell eats two sticks of butter! You are crazy, man!
so.. yea.. I've tried eating a stick of butter.. Tp4 crazy like that.. and it's good going down..
but... the 3rd bite.. is kinda hard.. and if you eat 1.5-2 sticks.. it makes you dizzy. I felt like I was being poisoned. Which scientifically is my liver is going, Ffff you, what are you doing...
Congrats for becoming number one gh troll na.
Congrats for becoming number one gh troll na.
Not enough "lah" in this post.Amended solution: make it 30 days instead of 6 months.
Increases the chance of survival.
Nonsense, these guys aren't going to be dead.
They've got like 200-600lbs of fat and water stored in their bodies. Should be enough to survive for months with minimal rainwater and just a bit of sugar (from fruits) to start the calories burning.
After they've lost that weight they will be light enough to do things like climb trees and pluck fruits.
Anyway one less fat guy is one less person taking up too much space on a 16 hour trans Pacific flight. As mean and nasty as that sounds, it is a good thing. And those people who don't think it a good thing, I'm more than happy to change seats with you on that 16 hour trans Pacific flight. Put your politically correct ass where your politically correct mouth is, and see if you still want to argue for fat being a disability and to defend fat rights.
:p
Not enough "lah" in this post.No, most of them would be dead. I guess that does count as less fat.. but, it's not the solution .
Amended solution: make it 30 days instead of 6 months.
Increases the chance of survival.
Nonsense, these guys aren't going to be dead.
They've got like 200-600lbs of fat and water stored in their bodies. Should be enough to survive for months with minimal rainwater and just a bit of sugar (from fruits) to start the calories burning.
After they've lost that weight they will be light enough to do things like climb trees and pluck fruits.
Anyway one less fat guy is one less person taking up too much space on a 16 hour trans Pacific flight. As mean and nasty as that sounds, it is a good thing. And those people who don't think it a good thing, I'm more than happy to change seats with you on that 16 hour trans Pacific flight. Put your politically correct ass where your politically correct mouth is, and see if you still want to argue for fat being a disability and to defend fat rights.
:p
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:Well, here's a real life testimonial. 5 months ago I changed the way I eat completely and I log everything into myfitnesspal. I was fat. Still am. But I'm down 70 pounds so far.
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
Big applause for discipline. And if you're ok after losing 70 lbs and still call yourself fat (which I presume you have done the necessary research on) then you probably started out pretty bad and had a really tough uphill climb on to lose weight.Yea. I used to hate stepping on a scale because I didn't want to see the number even myself. But now I'm pretty comfortable letting that old number out and embracing my new one. I was 6 foot 2 inches and 314 pounds. I'm now 244 pounds and plan on dropping another 30-40 pounds.
I suppose the biggest reason why fatties everywhere are disrespected, is really because they often place an unfair burden on limited resources (eg social services, take up space, crowd others out, etc) while the signs of their indulgence are obvious to all.
I mean, who wouldn't like to feast all day? If I had infinite food at no financial cost, and no consequences eg ability to make all excess calories vanish into a black hole, I too would be eating nonstop.
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:Well, here's a real life testimonial. 5 months ago I changed the way I eat completely and I log everything into myfitnesspal. I was fat. Still am. But I'm down 70 pounds so far.
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
You asked why calories matter if you hit your nutritional needs like carbs/fat/protein. Well, those three categories are the most important and they work based on percentages for each meal. For me it's 50% carbs, 30% fat and 20% protein. This is what having a "balanced diet" is. You can eat all day every day and consume massive amounts of calories and still hit the proper percentages for a "balanced diet". But you'll gain a ton of weight if you do that.
So you still need to know how many calories your body will burn at rest. This is called the basal metabolic rate. Any calories burned from cardio or other exercise need to be added to this BMR number and then you have to eat less than that to lose weight. But not too much less or your body kind of panics thinking its starving and begins to store fat it thinks it needs and eats away your muscle. It's your bodies way of prioritizing I guess. So even tho there is a bunch of stored energy as fat, the body looks at that as kind of a supplementary source rather than a primary source for those days where you don't eat quite enough.
My suggested calorie consumption before any exercise is 1700 a day to maintain a 2 pound per week weight loss. That 1700 will get lower and lower as I get lighter (I started at something like 2500 calories a day). On the flip side, if I don't eat more than 1200 a day, I get a warning that my body might shift into the dreaded "starvation mode".
Hopefully this answers your question.
Also if anyone is interested in knowing what foods I cut out, here it is. Cutting all this stuff out is not necessary in most cases but I do it anyway. It's very hard and it works very well (for me).
-No dairy
-No bread, pasta, or grains
-No caffeine
-No added salt
-No processed foods of any kind
-No sugar that isn't natural in fruits etc. So no junk food, period.
-And only eat red meat on occasion.
I get my calcium and other vitamins in other ways.
No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:Well, here's a real life testimonial. 5 months ago I changed the way I eat completely and I log everything into myfitnesspal. I was fat. Still am. But I'm down 70 pounds so far.
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
You asked why calories matter if you hit your nutritional needs like carbs/fat/protein. Well, those three categories are the most important and they work based on percentages for each meal. For me it's 50% carbs, 30% fat and 20% protein. This is what having a "balanced diet" is. You can eat all day every day and consume massive amounts of calories and still hit the proper percentages for a "balanced diet". But you'll gain a ton of weight if you do that.
So you still need to know how many calories your body will burn at rest. This is called the basal metabolic rate. Any calories burned from cardio or other exercise need to be added to this BMR number and then you have to eat less than that to lose weight. But not too much less or your body kind of panics thinking its starving and begins to store fat it thinks it needs and eats away your muscle. It's your bodies way of prioritizing I guess. So even tho there is a bunch of stored energy as fat, the body looks at that as kind of a supplementary source rather than a primary source for those days where you don't eat quite enough.
My suggested calorie consumption before any exercise is 1700 a day to maintain a 2 pound per week weight loss. That 1700 will get lower and lower as I get lighter (I started at something like 2500 calories a day). On the flip side, if I don't eat more than 1200 a day, I get a warning that my body might shift into the dreaded "starvation mode".
Hopefully this answers your question.
Also if anyone is interested in knowing what foods I cut out, here it is. Cutting all this stuff out is not necessary in most cases but I do it anyway. It's very hard and it works very well (for me).
-No dairy
-No bread, pasta, or grains
-No caffeine
-No added salt
-No processed foods of any kind
-No sugar that isn't natural in fruits etc. So no junk food, period.
-And only eat red meat on occasion.
I get my calcium and other vitamins in other ways.
I am fat because I cannot afford healthier food. If you need an explanation for this reasoning, you have obviously never lived at or below the poverty line and are talking out of your ass.
Anyone who hasn't lived off of $1< meals on a daily basis for months/years at a time has no stake in this conversation because they don't a lick about what they speak.
I beg to differ with you here noisyturtle. It does take much more effort but it can actually be cheaper to eat healthy than not. It might not taste as good but it can be done. I personally grew up below the poverty line due to my mom working as a custodian and my dad not working for about 6 or 7 years due to a broken neck (same break as Christopher Reeves). It did involve eating a lot of wild game such as deer, fish, ducks, and that sort. But we always had food on the table and was a fairly balanced diet. May not have always been the best tasting my I am still very proud of my parents for being able to keep the lights on and food on our table during that time.
There was times where we did eat roadkill. That is totally free meat. The couple times we did my dad watched the deer get hit so he just pulled off the road and cleaned it where it lay, and salvaged what meat was still good. All tasted the same on the table as well.
I am fat because I cannot afford healthier food. If you need an explanation for this reasoning, you have obviously never lived at or below the poverty line and are talking out of your ass./
Anyone who hasn't lived off of $1< meals on a daily basis for months/years at a time has no stake in this conversation because they don't a lick about what they speak.
I am fat because I cannot afford healthier food. If you need an explanation for this reasoning, you have obviously never lived at or below the poverty line and are talking out of your ass./
Anyone who hasn't lived off of $1< meals on a daily basis for months/years at a time has no stake in this conversation because they don't a lick about what they speak.
When I was in the US, my food budget was $100-150 a month (including the weekly meal outside) and I ate quite well in the urban US for several years. I treated friends and guests too on that very modest budget.
I don't think you actually know what you are talking about noisyturtle. I am quite aware of how much raw food materials cost in the urban US in the late 1990s. The mandatory carbos are/ were actually very cheap, if you chose ordinary rice in sacks (not instant-heat boxes like how white people like their rice) and Mexican/ South American beans in the bags rather than Green Giant's canned garbanzos. Chinese noodles (the dried kind) were also quite cheap; under $2 you could get enough for six or eight meals. Seaweed, also ultra cheap. I loved seaweed.
The vegetables were even cheaper. Since most Americans don't eat fresh veggies without spending extra money on fatty mayo, I won't go into this further. There is a big cognition gap - more than one American has shouted/ exclaimed at me for eating veggies without some garnish.
The spices I bought from the Indian grocer lasted a long time. The dhal - I could never finish it. $2.50 for 5 lbs lasts you over a year.
For fruits, I liked to buy from the Mexican or Asian grocers. They tend to have connections with other Mexicans and Asian farmers and are cheap and fresh. I avoided the expensive fruits like avocados and bought grapes only when in season, because grape prices vary a lot.
Tomatoes could be uber expensive or uber cheap depending on whether you chose to do to Harris Teeter or buy from Jose. You can get one big bag from Jose, a few somewhat bruised, for the price of ONE tomato from Harris Teeter. I'm sure most white liberals buy from HT or Whole Foods and imagine that the prices reflect reality.
Meat, buy minced meats rather than top class steak and choice cuts. In my time in the USA I don't remember eating any steak apart from salisbury steak, and even then I bought only when on discount (there are always discounts). I did not eat meat everyday. Fish, maybe twice a week depending on what was on discount.
Pizza, ice cream, and other processed foods? Didn't eat them much. Too expensive and too unhealthy. I bought tofu whenever possible, and one tray could last me three days. And no pop/ soda. Don't even mention alcoholic substances. I never purchased any.
Most of the human race lives off $1 meals. I live now in an island of prosperity surrounded by an archipelago of poverty - and nearly everyone is skinny in Indonesia/ Philippines. Most people would prefer to eat more meat - but as things are now, they are not exactly suffering hunger pangs at night or some major forms of malnutrition. Billions of people do fine on $1 meals.
Most of the human race talks out of their asses except you, it seems.
The nutrition world is sending out all sorts of mixed signals:
Is it any surprise people screw up their bodies/metabolisms by every camp having a bunch of 'experts' who have science to back it up?
Heres a typical day for me.No one could ever answer the following to my satisfaction:Well, here's a real life testimonial. 5 months ago I changed the way I eat completely and I log everything into myfitnesspal. I was fat. Still am. But I'm down 70 pounds so far.
If you are fat, and I mean - someone who has over 50lbs to lose: if you cover all your minimum vitamin/mineral/fat/carb/fiber/protein requirements - why do calories matter? Sure you may need 500-750 cals a day for immediate energy, but you have all this FAT! :) In that scenario your body should be coaxed into using it. That's the whole point of fat in the first place.
But I agree no sympathy - and definitely jacked up insurance rates + higher food taxes for those who don't want to change and become a burden on society.
You asked why calories matter if you hit your nutritional needs like carbs/fat/protein. Well, those three categories are the most important and they work based on percentages for each meal. For me it's 50% carbs, 30% fat and 20% protein. This is what having a "balanced diet" is. You can eat all day every day and consume massive amounts of calories and still hit the proper percentages for a "balanced diet". But you'll gain a ton of weight if you do that.
So you still need to know how many calories your body will burn at rest. This is called the basal metabolic rate. Any calories burned from cardio or other exercise need to be added to this BMR number and then you have to eat less than that to lose weight. But not too much less or your body kind of panics thinking its starving and begins to store fat it thinks it needs and eats away your muscle. It's your bodies way of prioritizing I guess. So even tho there is a bunch of stored energy as fat, the body looks at that as kind of a supplementary source rather than a primary source for those days where you don't eat quite enough.
My suggested calorie consumption before any exercise is 1700 a day to maintain a 2 pound per week weight loss. That 1700 will get lower and lower as I get lighter (I started at something like 2500 calories a day). On the flip side, if I don't eat more than 1200 a day, I get a warning that my body might shift into the dreaded "starvation mode".
Hopefully this answers your question.
Also if anyone is interested in knowing what foods I cut out, here it is. Cutting all this stuff out is not necessary in most cases but I do it anyway. It's very hard and it works very well (for me).
-No dairy
-No bread, pasta, or grains
-No caffeine
-No added salt
-No processed foods of any kind
-No sugar that isn't natural in fruits etc. So no junk food, period.
-And only eat red meat on occasion.
I get my calcium and other vitamins in other ways.
Can you give some ideas of what specifically you eat during the day and how much?
I don�t understand why Americans take the skin off chicken (and likewise avoid eating cartilage, tendons, fat, organ meat, bone marrow, etc.); the non-muscle parts of animals have all kinds of stuff in them that the human body will put to good use, which it�s hard to make up from just vegetable sources. Most places in the world people eat tripe, pigs feet, fish heads, cow brain, blood sausage, etc. etc., but many Americans won�t eat anything but boneless skinless chicken breasts and steaks with the fat cut out. (Or they eat all the other animal parts, but only when they�ve been turned into hot dogs.)
Anyhow, chicken skin is delicious and perfectly healthy to eat: much better than filling up on bread, noodles, rice, mashed potatoes, &c. or (the more common alternative) cookies, chips, and sugarwater.
I�d recommend everyone (especially if cooking for 2+ people) learn to process a whole plucked chicken. It�s pretty easy, there are all kinds of tasty bits on there, and whole chickens sell for much cheaper than the ones that have already been broken down into parts.
Well, here's a real life testimonial. 5 months ago I changed the way I eat completely and I log everything into myfitnesspal. I was fat. Still am. But I'm down 70 pounds so far.
I’m not a huge fan of some organs, and tend to let someone who prefers them have them. But it seems crazy that people (for instance) refuse to even try the tripe/tendons/etc. in Vietnamese phở, or are horrified to eat chicken or pig feet. Few of my American friends will even take a bite of a brain taco (by the way, a couple brain tacos are delicious, but I recommend against getting a whole brain burrito, it’s just too rich), and you can forget about getting people to try fried insects (but shrimp and lobsters are just fine apparently).
This guy wants you to eat 70% fat ?
so.. yea.. I've tried eating a stick of butter.. Tp4 crazy like that.. and it's good going down..
but... the 3rd bite.. is kinda hard.. and if you eat 1.5-2 sticks.. it makes you dizzy. I felt like I was being poisoned. Which scientifically is my liver is going, Ffff you, what are you doing...
I’m not a huge fan of some organs, and tend to let someone who prefers them have them. But it seems crazy that people (for instance) refuse to even try the tripe/tendons/etc. in Vietnamese phở, or are horrified to eat chicken or pig feet. Few of my American friends will even take a bite of a brain taco (by the way, a couple brain tacos are delicious, but I recommend against getting a whole brain burrito, it’s just too rich), and you can forget about getting people to try fried insects (though headless shrimp and lobsters are just fine apparently; by the way, throw those shrimp heads in a stir fry or soup; even if you don’t want to eat the shrimp heads, they add great flavor to whatever they’re cooked with).
Our culture associates anything gross looking as being gross. And it's only "gross looking" because we were told that growing up and our parents also. I'm victim to it. It's too bad too cuz I'm sure most of it is delicious. I just can't stomach it because of these instilled believes. My mind is more powerful than my taste buds and stomach apparently. And I don't see that changing for me.I’m not a huge fan of some organs, and tend to let someone who prefers them have them. But it seems crazy that people (for instance) refuse to even try the tripe/tendons/etc. in Vietnamese phở, or are horrified to eat chicken or pig feet. Few of my American friends will even take a bite of a brain taco (by the way, a couple brain tacos are delicious, but I recommend against getting a whole brain burrito, it’s just too rich), and you can forget about getting people to try fried insects (though headless shrimp and lobsters are just fine apparently; by the way, throw those shrimp heads in a stir fry or soup; even if you don’t want to eat the shrimp heads, they add great flavor to whatever they’re cooked with).
I had a turkey gizzard for the first time a few weeks ago, and it tasted just like regular turkey. We freak out about where the food comes from for some reason. It's a bit silly to me, since I assume most of it tastes just fine. But oh well.
Our culture associates anything gross looking as being gross. And it's only "gross looking" because we were told that growing up and our parents also. I'm victim to it. It's too bad too cuz I'm sure most of it is delicious. I just can't stomach it because of these instilled believes. My mind is more powerful than my taste buds and stomach apparently. And I don't see that changing for me.I’m not a huge fan of some organs, and tend to let someone who prefers them have them. But it seems crazy that people (for instance) refuse to even try the tripe/tendons/etc. in Vietnamese phở, or are horrified to eat chicken or pig feet. Few of my American friends will even take a bite of a brain taco (by the way, a couple brain tacos are delicious, but I recommend against getting a whole brain burrito, it’s just too rich), and you can forget about getting people to try fried insects (though headless shrimp and lobsters are just fine apparently; by the way, throw those shrimp heads in a stir fry or soup; even if you don’t want to eat the shrimp heads, they add great flavor to whatever they’re cooked with).
I had a turkey gizzard for the first time a few weeks ago, and it tasted just like regular turkey. We freak out about where the food comes from for some reason. It's a bit silly to me, since I assume most of it tastes just fine. But oh well.
Our culture associates anything gross looking as being gross. And it's only "gross looking" because we were told that growing up and our parents also. I'm victim to it. It's too bad too cuz I'm sure most of it is delicious. I just can't stomach it because of these instilled believes. My mind is more powerful than my taste buds and stomach apparently. And I don't see that changing for me.I’m not a huge fan of some organs, and tend to let someone who prefers them have them. But it seems crazy that people (for instance) refuse to even try the tripe/tendons/etc. in Vietnamese phở, or are horrified to eat chicken or pig feet. Few of my American friends will even take a bite of a brain taco (by the way, a couple brain tacos are delicious, but I recommend against getting a whole brain burrito, it’s just too rich), and you can forget about getting people to try fried insects (though headless shrimp and lobsters are just fine apparently; by the way, throw those shrimp heads in a stir fry or soup; even if you don’t want to eat the shrimp heads, they add great flavor to whatever they’re cooked with).
I had a turkey gizzard for the first time a few weeks ago, and it tasted just like regular turkey. We freak out about where the food comes from for some reason. It's a bit silly to me, since I assume most of it tastes just fine. But oh well.
Oh, I'm completely the same way, I didn't mean to come off as not suffering from that. But after trying a few things recently that I didn't like *purely because of looks* (guacamole, for starters), I've realized that it's dumb and have taken a completely different approach. Mind over matter, YM!
I have had foods where the taste was great but the texture almost made me puke. I mean hit my gag reflex and ad to hold back dry heaves. The worst one here was they type of sushi with raw fish/shrimp sitting on top a ball of sticky rice. The flavor was amazing but the sticky rice almost make me puke. Swordfish is awesome eating as well.That’s what “sushi” is: raw fish sitting on a blob of vinegar rice. The part you couldn’t handle was the rice part, or the fish? The rice in sushi doesn’t seem particularly unusual to me, so it’s kinda surprising that it would elicit a gag reflex. Perhaps you’d prefer sashimi, which is just the sliced raw fish by itself.
While I have tried my share of different meats such as beaver, duck, goose, deer, bison, racoon, moose, and pheasent along with others, most I just don't care for the taste of. Now smoked turkey and chicken gizzards and hearts are amazing. I really don't like liver though. Just can't stand the taste along with the texture. I have had foods where the taste was great but the texture almost made me puke. I mean hit my gag reflex and ad to hold back dry heaves. The worst one here was they type of sushi with raw fish/shrimp sitting on top a ball of sticky rice. The flavor was amazing but the sticky rice almost make me puke. Swordfish is awesome eating as well.
I am OK with a lot of the non-muscle meats, but tripe (aka chitterlings aka chit'lin's - I am from the South) has a texture that really does stimulate my gag reflex. And I don't get the kidneys thing either - they always taste of urine to me.
I am OK with a lot of the non-muscle meats, but tripe (aka chitterlings aka chit'lin's - I am from the South) has a texture that really does stimulate my gag reflex. And I don't get the kidneys thing either - they always taste of urine to me.
LOVE tripe - in tacos EXTRA crispy - tastes like bacon :)
I am OK with a lot of the non-muscle meats, but tripe (aka chitterlings aka chit'lin's - I am from the South) has a texture that really does stimulate my gag reflex.I hear you. I can eat a medium sized bowl of menudo (beef tripe soup), no problem, but if I try to eat a large bowl of menudo, about 2/3 of the way through I’ve definitely had enough.
I have had foods where the taste was great but the texture almost made me puke. I mean hit my gag reflex and ad to hold back dry heaves. The worst one here was they type of sushi with raw fish/shrimp sitting on top a ball of sticky rice. The flavor was amazing but the sticky rice almost make me puke. Swordfish is awesome eating as well.That’s what “sushi” is: raw fish sitting on a blob of vinegar rice. The part you couldn’t handle was the rice part, or the fish? The rice in sushi doesn’t seem particularly unusual to me, so it’s kinda surprising that it would elicit a gag reflex. Perhaps you’d prefer sashimi, which is just the sliced raw fish by itself.
I have had foods where the taste was great but the texture almost made me puke. I mean hit my gag reflex and ad to hold back dry heaves. The worst one here was they type of sushi with raw fish/shrimp sitting on top a ball of sticky rice. The flavor was amazing but the sticky rice almost make me puke. Swordfish is awesome eating as well.That’s what “sushi” is: raw fish sitting on a blob of vinegar rice. The part you couldn’t handle was the rice part, or the fish? The rice in sushi doesn’t seem particularly unusual to me, so it’s kinda surprising that it would elicit a gag reflex. Perhaps you’d prefer sashimi, which is just the sliced raw fish by itself.
Thank you for the clarification on the difference. It was the rice that got me. The stuff I had was extremely stickey. It is hard to describe but it all stuck together and was very starchy. The flavor of the fish was excellent though.
I have had foods where the taste was great but the texture almost made me puke. I mean hit my gag reflex and ad to hold back dry heaves. The worst one here was they type of sushi with raw fish/shrimp sitting on top a ball of sticky rice. The flavor was amazing but the sticky rice almost make me puke. Swordfish is awesome eating as well.That’s what “sushi” is: raw fish sitting on a blob of vinegar rice. The part you couldn’t handle was the rice part, or the fish? The rice in sushi doesn’t seem particularly unusual to me, so it’s kinda surprising that it would elicit a gag reflex. Perhaps you’d prefer sashimi, which is just the sliced raw fish by itself.
Thank you for the clarification on the difference. It was the rice that got me. The stuff I had was extremely stickey. It is hard to describe but it all stuck together and was very starchy. The flavor of the fish was excellent though.
jeebus.
you're ridiculously far inland to be eating sushi. if you've never had sushi in a pacific coastal city with a large asian population, you've essentially been eating dogfood. i am not surprised if you just had subpar rice.