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ptypopsicl
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| "Organic" doesn't always mean "good for you." Some organic breads and pastas contain twice the calories and three or four times the fat of their non-organic counterparts! |
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backer
Joined: 31 May 2006
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I always thought nuts were diet food.People always recomended fruits,veg.whole grain,lean meat and nuts.then I started to read the fat content and wow.Turns out they are not a diet food at all.Im very glad that the label requirements are so strick today,I learned alot from reading lables.
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PepperPatti
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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The craziest gotcha for me was this diet book that focused on the high protein/low carb plan. It said if you were having trouble losing you could jump start your program by eating mostly high fat / protiein content food. So, I ate Pate', brie cheese, macadamia nuts, and all kinds of high fat foods. The result was I gained 5 pounds 
It was then and there that I realized enough of the crazy diets. Slow and steady - eat less and exercise more - it's really quite a simple formula 
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atwistedlime
Joined: 06 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Chicken Sandwiches
I went out to eat at a restaurant while I was out and about. I was looking at the menu and choose a chicken sandwich. Expecting a chicken sandwich to be better then a big juicy burger. There wasn't a picture on the menu and I was not thinking when I ordered. When it arrived it was fried. I am not one to send food back that I have ordered and so I stripped away the bun and decided to go ahead and eat as much as I could without the breading. The chicken in the middle was pretty bland so I gave up and ate about half of it with the breading. I got home and went to the nutritional information website for the restaurant to discover it was 1100 Calories and 70 grams of fat. I almost cried. I ordered it without the mayo and skipped the bun but I still figured it had to be about an 800 Calorie meal. *sigh* Sadly the Juicy burger I passed up was only 800 Calories 55 grams of fat INCLUDING the bun.
Fool me once shame on you... fool me twice shame on me...
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Raisy
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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wow, this is a great topic. I am already learning so much from this thread. I never had a diet plan before. So to tell the truth, I don't even know about any GOTCHA's. and I am guessing I am not the only one. So I guess I will just lean back and enjoy the topic and hopefully I will learn some usefull info's.
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AbFabDiva
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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tuna salad always seemed like a good choice but with the mayo and salt for seasoning it was quite scary
my alternative
cranberry tuna
small can of tuna
2 tb spoons of whole berry cranberry sauce (get the natural with no added sugar)
1/3 of a small onion chopped
3 tb spoons of light mayo
pepper for seasoning
i love it and eat it without any bread or crackers
:hint i try not to drain the tuna too much so that i dont need the extra mayo to keep it moist and not dry:
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