Yes! the fast food/ restaurant dreams KILL me!!!!! (I have been put on warning that I have started grinding my teeth IN MY SLEEP cuz it's such fun pretending I get to eat all I want to in my dreams ((Is this how I got fat???? and surely THAT burns calories!!!))).

I have cravings for crazy things- polish dill pickles and really sharp sharp cheddar cheese. together. I have been called a food freak before, I like to think it's just a spot of genius. When I was on my way to getting fat, I would convince myself that I must be craving something because my body was lacking in some nutrient, and thusly I should accept my cravings as my body telling me what I should eat to be healthy. Oy! It is much harder to have common sense. Takes so much more effort!

I have been on the meatless food for awhile (I was a vegetarian in my youth). Now I am finally getting my man to go for SOME of it. quorn has really really good fake chicken nuggets (I cannot, will not call them wings, they do not have any bones and certainly do not resemble the glorious wings of my non-dieting days!!!I do wish they would try to call them something that wouldn't leave the meat eaters saying huh? that doesn't taste anything like ......!) and I used to be in heaven with the boca polish sausages. Oh, and I love morninstar farms grillers! but I have learned since going back to meat, however, that the leanest of lean meats sometimes has less cals and fat than the fake stuff, for instance the lean jenne-o turkey bacon has 35 cals, compared to morningstar farms bacon which has 50cals, which my kitty certainly enjoys stealing more of (though for the record, she does eat asparagus!) it always pays to read the fine print on this one.

"Fine Print" now there's something to rant about!!!

Why is the nurtrional info generally the smallest print on the package??

Why are laundering directions also on small print labels sewn somewhere inside a garment??

Why do medicines come with more small print than the label can hold, so it has to be on an insert, which means less room for the medication??

Etc, etc, etc........   Now, where are my bifocals????

Is it just ME, or do the rest of you torture yourself watching cooking shows on the Food Network? (And what can I say? Top Chef is one of my favorite shows!)

I'd like to see two cooks side by side, one making a high-fat, high calorie version of some fabulous dish, and the other making a lower-fat, lower calorie version of the SAME fabulous dish .... wouldn't THAT be a nifty show?

"......... to dream..... the impossible dream .............."

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=^..^=  MOLLY (a rant a day keeps the grouchies away!)

Yikes!!! Mr Softee...I can hear that darn tune a mile away, I swear!!

Anyone remember the Galloping Gourmet?? Always with a glass of wine in hand, lots of "clarified" butter and cream??? Well -  now he does heart healthy cooking shows...and he's sober!!

Yes, it's time for "ASK MOLLY YOUR DIET QUESTIONS!"

Question:  How much water should I be drinking each day?

Answer: Fill your bathtub with water. (For heaven's sakes, make sure its clean first. And keep the dogs and cats away from it, ok?) Now, see all that water in the tub? You don't need to drink QUITE that much. (Though, some days, it feels like it, doesn't it?) Feel better now?  Unless you are a really tiny, water-logged, skinny person, you probably need to be drinking more water than you are now -- whatever that is. Start with a goal of drinking a glass or two more than you usually are, then spend the next four hours on the Internet looking up various recommendations of how much water you "should" be drinking. I was just one one website that wants ME to drink 15 glasses a day.... You probably don't need THAT much.

Disclaimer: Use your common sense and take all advice received on Internet forums with a grain of salt. Wait, salt is bad and causes water retention, hence the need to hydrate and drink MORE water. Uh oh. Seriously, this is a fun thread ... seek professional medical advice from a professional medical person.

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=^..^=  MOLLY (drink more water than you have been)

If I drank anywhere NEAR 16-20 glasses of water a day, I am afraid I'd need to move my computer into the bathroom!

Hmmm..... how much fiber am I supposed to get every day?

I need a checklist for all the diet-related things I am supposed to be doing!!!!

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=^..^=  MOLLY (one rant burns at least 5 calories!)

*bump*

I love this thread!  I wish it were still stickied!!

The CC "Powers that Be" had this thread stickied for a little while, and then they "unstickied" it .... I assume that they have decided to only "sticky" threads for a while. (That is just my guess, though.)

I have to admit, though, that getting "un-stickied" is sort of like getting "un-invited" to the Prom, huh?

Or "un-chosen" for the dodgeball team .....

Anyway ... gooood morning, everyone! Got any exciting weekend plans? How are the diets going? Do you take weekends off? (oooo..... doesn't THAT sound tempting?)

MOLLY

Hehehe...remember when folks started putting phones in the bathroom...imagine, computers now!!!

Plans for the weekend are still in the shop...literally! The RV needed some work, and won't be done before Tues

Guess I'll just have to do some housework...yuk!

Well, it is 10:30pm on Friday night, and (as best as I can tell), I've gone over my daily calorie goal by about 200 calories. I still have a deficit, though, and this is the only time this week I have gone over.  But, I did have some Prime Rib, bread with butter, and fresh pasta .... so at least it was on YUMMY stuff, right?

Who'd have thought that I'd be paying this much attention to adding and subtracting and fractions? MATH! eeeeeeeeek!

We went grocery shopping tonight and I bought some Kashi oatmeal and three different flavors of Kashi cereal. I seem to be on a Kashi kick.

How many calories do I burn when I open my VISA bill and freak out over the balance? I couldn't find THAT on the activity log!

MOLLY, BY GOLLY