This is where the determined get going and start taking that weight off.
We’re prepared. I have half a salmon in the fridge.
We have blueberries.
We’re going on the ‘grizzly bear diet’. We always lose weight fast on that: big serving of salmon, nice serving of green veggies, blueberry dessert with a little low-carb ice cream. Oddly enough it doesn’t to give the bears a great figure. but we lose on it.
Particularly we try not to ignore temporary weight gain after an Indulgence. We weigh, find out our problem, and do something Else for meals until we’ve shed whatever we gained. This is HOW we don’t regain the weight we lose.
Wuz fun, though!
The somewhat sad thing is that I’m losing my taste for chocolate. It often upsets my stomach and doesn’t taste all that good, even the better chocolate.
WE ended up with the strawberries because we toured Costco the day before Valentine’s. They were good quality. But we went through beset with offers of chocolate on every hand.
The last poor soul assigned to hand out goodies had—wait for it—sections of sardines.
No. We didn’t think so, either.
Ah, mon petit chou, les sardines pour toi, des morceaux* — aie, aie! Ow, ow, ouch, hey! Oof, don’t do that! Ow, I’ll be good! Uncle!
* No, I don’t recall if this is the proper spelling. Morseaux? Morselles? Morcelles? Morceaux? … Cognate to morsels.
I don’t remember the last time I had sardines, it’s been that long. Not that I have anything against them, only that I never think of them. We used to have them in the pantry all the time when I was a kid. :shrugs: Why? I’m not sure.
I still remember seeing the word written on the bottom of one used tin and being old enough to know that “NORGE” meant they were imported from Norway. I’m not sure how old I was then; some time in elementary school.
Some happy dolphin, seal, or penguin couple are doubtless miffed they missed the sardines. 😉
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That dinner the other day sounded great. Then again, I bought salmon last week and haven’t fixed it yet. Alas, no blueberries on hand. That and a salad with a little vinaigrette sound very nice.
OK, I’ll confess. At the store today, I bought (impulse) a BBQ roasted turkey leg and some baked beans from the Kroger deli. I was good. I didn’t eat it all in one sitting. I had no idea I was in the mood for those, but they were wonderful. — I did buy good, healthy other food: veggies, fruit, salad, etc. — But on the other hand, I bought ingredients for a banana pudding and then (perhaps fortunately) forgot to get bananas. Next week, then.
Les sardines au chocolate. Appetizer? Or dessert?
Appetizer. It would have to be a very dark/high cocoa content chocolate, drizzled lightly over a sardine that had been patted dry, artfully arranged atop a bibb lettuce leaf. 😉
Actually sardines on toast -and run under the broiler with lashings of lemon juice and parsley has been one of my pet quick suppers for years. I particularly like the smoked ones that are packed in water rather than oil.
I love sardines on toast. Also sardine and onion sandwiches. Water pack is definitely the best and forget the ones with mustard, ketchup, etc. Just plain sardine.
Ce sont des morceaux. Merci, Google Traduceur.
Now I may have to get some sardines, next grocery trip. On toast with lemon, parsley, and lettuce sounds…hmm, unusual.
I would think dark chocolate, as WoW said, for a dessert treatment.
Huh, I could see atevi or especially hani doing something like that. — Llyene fruits de mer à la hani?
I would actually expect chocolate to be dangerous to at least the cat-like hani. And there are all those atevi alkaloids just waiting to kill poor Bren; are there common human foods similarly dangerous to his hosts? (I vaguely recall their pizza was green and not made with tomatoes, but not why this was so.)
it was green because there was an embargo on canned goods from the island, so they couldn’t get tomato sauce. Once the embargo was lifted, the sauces became the traditional red.
Tuna is about as fishy as I get, although smoked salmon is yum. Marine arthropods on the other hand, as in crabs, and I’m not sure whether shrimp are crustaceans or not, but them, too.
Yes, I believe so.
Ditto, yes, shrimp are crustaceans.
Thought you and Jane would appreciate this:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/14/sports/olympics/mens-figure-skating.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
Salt! It’s water retention. Seems like most everything you mention has a pretty good load of hidden salt. Do you check your blood pressure too?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Here’s a sample nachos plus platter with beef:
http://www.dietfacts.com/html/nutrition-facts/generic-nachos-plus-platter-beef-30347.htm
Note 149% of the daily allowance of sodium, for that one dish.
Certainly. I can’t imagine anyone putting on 5# of solid weight in one sitting, anything more than, ummm, “transiently”. 😉 The conversion process from food to glucose to glycogen to fat in that sort of amount can’t run that fast. I’ll bet a dose or two of diuretic [hydrochlorothiazide, ask me how I know 😉 ] would cut that down “toot sweet”.
Geez – that’s 23 PP+ (Weight Watchers Points Plus). And the daily allowance for someone with not that much to lose is 26!!
Yep, salt is killer on that.
If your sodium/potassium balance gets out of kilter, no good things happen. 😉 And we don’t use much salt: a little on the morning eggs and veggies, some in the spice mix for meat, but nothing really salty.
I’m now down to a mere 2.5 pounds I need to shed to get back to ordinary.
While they say water weight is water weight, it does play some part in fat acquisition, I’m sure: ie, it ain’t ‘dehydrated fat’ that’s going onto those hips. So some of it might try to park, but it’s getting evicted.
Uh-huh. Right, you exercised off 2.5# in 24hrs? Sure, you did! 😉 I’ll bet your body was craving salt, you got that meal and it hoarded it, but of course had to keep it disolved in something like an isotonic solution.
I’m on a diuretic, and I can murder a bag of chips and dip without even thinking about it. If I did think about it, of course, …
I can be salt-sensitive, and I found if I’m going to have a salty meal, I make sure I get a banana at some point that day and the potassium seems to be enough to keep the water weight at a minimum.
Yep. That was the easy part.
And don’t think about that, Paul. That bag should not win.
I find curiously enough that dietary sins take 2-3 days to solidly manifest unless it’s water weight in the most part. So there’s (for me) a bit of a lag between crime and punishment!