Help me lose weight

[Eolin]

Kahlua worked for me.

Not having caffeine in my diet worked for me. Strangely enough, I didn't even notice the coke falling out of my diet. My thirst for it just faded away.

 

[Shemeska]

Yes, soda is quite hideous for you. There are a LOT of scientific studies showing that the human body has a very hard time dealing with high-fructose corn syrup in small, medium, and large quantities. It is not only linked to weight gain but the really phenominal increase in diabetes, particularly early-onset (age 12-30).

Not early-onset diabetes, but type II/adult onset diabetes. Type 1 is autoimmune, type 2 is a combination of genetics and intracellular fat that causes insulin resistance. Hence why many type II diabetics can simply lose weight and not have the same degree of problems.

High Fructose corn syrup has a little quirk in that it seems to be more easily converted into fat than other sugars by comparison, and so a massive increase of it in your diet leads to overweight people and they have a massively higher incidence rate of type II diabetes.

One curiosity of the American culinary scene is the "cheaper is better" mentality. For example, let's say a restaurant started advertising a "burger for 25 cents."

How very true *chuckle*

Though FWIW I was reading an article the other day in the Financial Times that described how a similar trend is hitting Europe now, especially Germany considering the economic slump that they're in (though regardless of economy, the trend seems ingrained over here in America that cheap = good).

 

[Shemeska]

Not having caffeine in my diet worked for me. Strangely enough, I didn't even notice the coke falling out of my diet. My thirst for it just faded away.

I don't have a thing for diet soda so much as I have a RAGING caffeine addiction. If I don't get a liter or two of caffeinated diet soda every day or a pot of coffee or a few shots of espresso I get downright surly. Right now it's about 6 shots of espresso on average a day. *chuckle*

And it's worse when I'm running a game. I'll chain drink my way through a case of diet Mt Dew or a few two liter bottles, going on to the next as soon as I finish one.

 

[Eolin]

An hour and a half ago I had a mocha thing. I havn't had this level of caffeine/sugar in, quite literally, months.

I am tweeked! My hands are shaking, and even tutoring math was difficult.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Maybe I am strange, but I dont care what is in something, as long as it tastes good. The "cardbard pizza" technique doesnt work on me either, because that is just an trendy exxageration due to it being "cool" to hate fast food places.

 

[two]

Maybe I am strange, but I dont care what is in something, as long as it tastes good. The "cardbard pizza" technique doesnt work on me either, because that is just an trendy exxageration due to it being "cool" to hate fast food places.

Help me out here --?

What is a "trendy exaggeration"? It's "cool" to hate fast food places? If so, it's the only "cool" trend in years to make nutritional and health sense!

That's awesome! I again have hope for American youth!

I'm not saying cardboard pizza doesn't taste "good" -- to a degree. I'm saying (and many other have had this experience) that as your taste buds get more refined, and you eat less high-salt high-sugar high-processed food, your enjoyment of "real" food increases greatly.

Your taste gets more complex;more demanding; more keen.

You won't be happy with "cardboard" pizza anymore, because you know how much better a quality pizza tastes. It's that simple.

It's not a snob thing, it's an education thing.

It's like your young sibling that only ever watched "Gilligan's Island" on TV and thinks that is the best entertainment ever made -- PERIOD. Ten years later, after watching vastly superior TV shows, movies, documentaries, etc. your now not-so-young sibling just can't go back and blindly enjoy "Gilligan's Island" any more (ignore camp pleasures for the moment). That's not a bad thing. It's a widening of experience. It's good.

Sure, you lose some pleasure (Gilligan's Island ain't funny anymore) but so much has been gained in return!