Does anyone else....

allwildgirl

allwildgirl

Cathlete
.... long for the days when you could eat a chocolate bar and not feel horrendous amounts of guilt for every delicious bite and then feel the urgent need to do Bootcamp twice in a row to try to counteract the inevitable damage to your hips/thighs/waistline?

.... when french fries were yummy and NOT the devil in disguise, come to steal your soul?

.... when you could eat pasta without everyone around you looking at you as if you were committing some kind of MORTAL SIN by eating *gasp* carbs!!??

*sigh*

I guess it's the price we pay for being so smokin' hot, huh? ;)
 
LOL Shelley, I was thinking this the other day while I watched my five year old niece scarf down some of that bright yellow Kraft mac and cheese without a care in the world about carbs, fat, processing...I thought, how nice to be at the point where food just tastes good...

Sparrow

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Please don't remind me. Just the thought of such things is sheer taboo for me because if I think of it then I will desire it (hershey's chocolate bar). I actually have become quite satisfied with chocolate protein bars and shakes, etc. Pasta is still good. Just choose wheat. French fries are still good baked in the oven, but sweet potatoe chips are even better.

Charlotte~~
 
Yup!!! I was thinking about this the other day. As I have always exercised, I have not always been as careful with my diet as I am now.

Somedays I wish I had always eaten better, and other days I think "what the hell am I doing this all for"? Sheesh - I'm 45 years old!

We keep this metal container in one of our kitchen cabinets that we throw loose change in. The other day I went to put my change in and lo and behold there was a stash of Snickers bars in that cabinet. Now, Snickers are my absolute favorite - I love them! I quickly dispersed them to the boys - whew! Out of sight, out of mind.

So, I continue to exercise and eat 'guilt free' foods.

**double sigh**

Tammy
 
You guys are GOOOOOOOOOD, no wonder you look so awesome! :)

My willpower isn't that good YET! Working hard on it, though....

~Marcia~
 
I want to go live in Judgment City, if you remember that movie with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. You could eat anything & everything you ever wanted w/o gaining an ounce. Sign me up for that vacation, baby!!!! (well w/o the death part please...)


"you miss 100% of the shots you never take"

Debbie
 
YES!!!!!:) x( :-( ;( }( :9

Shelley, I thought of you today. I went to the grocery store to pick up my DH's very, very, teeny, tiny birthday cake and what did I see in the bakery case? A great big 4" or 5" pumpkin cookie with gobs of caramel icing. I wanted one sooooo bad but I just walked on by.

Charlotte--you're so optimistic. I love that about you. I'm making some baked sweet potato fries one day this week.

Michele
 
Shelley, your post made me think of the movie "Groundhog Day" when Bill Murray is sitting in the diner eating a pile of every bad breakfast food and dessert imagineable without a care in the world because he is going relive the same day over and over again.

Sometimes it would be nice to go back to being naive about what is in the foods we eat!
 
I don't really long for those days because I feel so much healthier now. Still, the odd time I think WTH, I'm sick of thinking about proper food choices and getting enough exercise every single flippin' day. I remember the days, coming home from high school and having french fries almost every day as a snack. I think I used to have ice cream for breakfast too. Yikes!
Sherry
 
I don't long for those days, I'm in them. I eat chocolate whenever I want and no, I don't feel guilty about it.

Why the heck can't you eat carbs? Is the entire Italian nation deluding itself? Cutting out food groups is ridiculous. If you don't eat carbs, how are you getting through Cathe workouts?

I have never liked either English chips nor US french fries, so no problems there. Give me a baked potato anyday....or is that forbidden carbs?

Nothing is forbidden. It's a question of your attitide towards it. We are not put on this earth, I don't think, to sculpt hard bodies and forsake all enjoyment of foods.

If foods make you guilty, you have a problem to work on. Sorry but....I just can't subsrcibe to the ideas of this post, although plenty of you do and will. No offence to anybody intended. I wasted too many years of my life to eating disorders to worry about forbidden foods now.

Clare
 
Clare,

I like your attitude!! I'm Italian and I'm never ever gonna give up pasta. :9 It'd be like someone asking me to divorce my husband. I must have it. LOL! And I'm sorry, the whole wheat kind just doesn't measure up. But I try to eat a healthy, well balanced diet most of the time so when I want pasta I don't feel like I have to sacrifice the dishes I grew up with--I eat plenty of whole grains on a daily basis. The Italian diet I was raised on was veggie dense and included many whole grains like farro and barley. Desserts were usually fruit based.

Italians, actually, most Europeans, have a totally different attitude towards food and meal time. They are more relaxed and really enjoy their food and the company they share it with. Maybe we could learn something from our ancestors.

Michele
 
Oh, Clare, you should know by now not to take me so damn seriously!:)

You know what got me started on this? The fact that, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Professor Lupin gives Harry chocolate to help him recover from a Dementor attack, and how Harry just eats it, like a kid, with no thought attached to the fact that it's chocolate at all.

By the way, I eat carbs with no qualms, occasionally indulge in chocolate and often steal french fries from my daughter's plate. I don't order my own french fries because a whole order makes me feel BLECHY. And yes, that's a word, just as much as Blargh is.

So there;)
 
I will never understand why those who "can't subsrcibe to the ideas of this post" feel the need to express just that. It's just like the TV program you don't like. Change the channel and move on. Don't feel compelled to rain on everyone else's parade.



Angie
 
>I will never understand why those who "can't subsrcibe to the
>ideas of this post" feel the need to express just that. It's
>just like the TV program you don't like. Change the channel
>and move on. Don't feel compelled to rain on everyone else's
>parade.
>


People are just having a conversation, like we're all at a big party where everyone is invited, and in conversations, people have differing opinions. Now, if someone starts in with "you're stupid because you think X," I would definitely take issue with that.

Your comment almost sounds like "if you don't agree with X, stay away!" Not very conducive to a spirit of give and take.
 
>Nothing is forbidden. It's a question of your attitide
>towards it. We are not put on this earth, I don't think, to
>sculpt hard bodies and forsake all enjoyment of foods.
>

I agree, in general,with your post, but as someone who actually PREFERS the taste, texture, etc. of whole foods, I have to point out that avoiding chocolate, pastries, whatever, isn't necessarily tantamount to "forsaking all enjoyment of foods."
 
>>If foods make you guilty, you have a problem to work on.

I'm taking issue with this comment, insinuating that the poster has a "problem".

I believe what I'm saying is that if you don't have anything nice to say, please don't say anything at all. Simple as that.


Angie
 
Well I had a piece of a baking chocolate bar as I was desperate and need to go grocery shopping. It was soooo damn good even without the sugar. I think I will have another. LOL! Anyone want me to save them a piece?

Charlotte~~
 
>>>If foods make you guilty, you have a problem to work on.
>
>I'm taking issue with this comment, insinuating that the
>poster has a "problem".
>
>
I somehow missed that particular sentence (guess I should put my glasses on when I'm on the computer!)

I assume Clare meant "you" as in "people in general" or the British "one." If not, and it's directed towards a specific person, it IS a version of "you're stupid if you think X".:-(
 
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