Arw65

eat them of course... lol, I have 2 toddlers that love them. my daughters eat them like candy, I give a good bit to my parents. we eat them fresh, like an apple. of the 40 i picked on friday 2 are left, there are several more that are ready.

Baldur

Baldur does not eat seafood, actually I didn't like it even before becoming a vegetarian. Tuna salad was alright but otherwise fish would need to be battered and fried to get me to eat it, and even then it wasn't enjoyable.

The cat video was amazing, isn't it interesting how animals learn to cope with problems?
There was something there however that aggravated Baldur, and this might be a good time to bring it up as I don't think I've ever mentioned this before.
Baby talk by anyone past the early toddler stages makes my skin crawl. It always has.
One of the last nails in the coffin of my marriage with my exwife was when she started saying 'you wuv me don't chew?' during an evening of romance. It only escalated, when she saw I reacted badly. The first incident was more than 3 years into our relationship, then it became weekly, daily, eventually continuous. I started to dread even speaking with her.
That really cooled off the relationship quickly.
I explained what I thought of it, but it became an ingrained part of her personality, maybe intentionally trying to irk me, maybe some deep seated mental problem. In any case the marriage was quickly falling apart at that point.
So something like 'I can has cheezburger' makes me want to vomit a little.

OK Baldur will now step down from his soapbox, expect matthew to pop in and display some neo-infantilism any moment.

Baldur

Here at Boughbreak our first tomato of the season is just about ready to pick. We look forward to them so much.
Congratulations Arw65 on your newfound gardening prowess

Baldur

Back to polenta now,
Baldur has a terribly powerful sweet tooth and loves to snack. Being a vegetarian does not preclude someone from eating too many cookies.
Eating healthier foods for snacks seem a wise choice but the call of the bad stuff is very powerful.
Last month I filled the cookie jar here with Oreos (polenta, those are a wonderful dark chocolate sandwich cookie with an icing like filling). Incidentally Boughbreak's cookie jar is a large lifelike pottery pumpkin.
The Oreos are still sitting there untouched, this is an ongoing test of my willpower.
You would think Robert would occasionally eat a cookie, but I do not see the jar looking any emptier.

polenta

So your extra weight came from eating mostly sweet things. My husband can't stand ONE DAY without something sweet and he eats lots of sugary foods and ... you won't believe it ... he is about 59 kilos.(130pounds?) and is 1,71 meter (5'6''???)tall.
I think it's his metabolism. Can't it be that in your case it's kind of genetic. It usually is with most people. They say that throughout history men couldn't find food so easily so when they found "calories" they tried to keep them in the form of body fat. It was survival!

Dragon

I read an article that said sugary foods are actually addictive. The sugar gives a similar endorphin spike as some drugs and creates a cycle that makes you feel withdrawl when you haven't had it for a while. So if you can get past the withdrawl phase you have a much better chance of resisting them but if you have a lapse (I don't know how you go without sweet things for very long in this day and age, I certainly have a hard time with it) then you kind of have to start over again.

Dragon

Baldur, I know what you mean about baby talk, that's something I don't like about Cheezeburger's but I don't hate it enough to make me stop going to that site. I think I can kind of ignore it when it's written but when it's spoken it's like fingernails on a blackboard. We had a woman in last month with her sisters dog and she kept a contant running monologue of extremely sacchrine sweet baby talk. I was getting terribly sick of hearing about how the little shmoo shmoo was going with auntie Pam etc etc gag gag vomit vomit. I was very close to telling her she was just going to have to stop that or she'd have to leave.

I will admit to doing a little baby talk to my cats but when I find myself doing it I do try to stop and mine is actually more like the way you'd talk to a small child rather than true baby talk. I can honestly say I've never called my cat Oscar-Woscar though I do, on occasion, refer to him as my Snuggle-bug.

Baldur

I cheated and ate a tablespoonful of French Vanilla Ice Cream today.
Yeehaa!

Qsilv

Q's take on the weird-ass spelling at that website is similar. It's an in-club. (yaaawwwnnn.....)

Mind you, I'm nerdish enough to read it AND leet-speak, and I'm not against the occasional shorthand or slang or dialect transcription for flavor... but flavor is what it ought to be, like salt and pepper... you want it sprinkled ON your food, not to discover the whole damned meal is nothing but spoons piled full of the herbs and spices.

Qsilv

Re the carbs --- sugar, honey, potato, rice, cereal, pasta, bread, cake, pie(crust), pudding, ice-cream etc etc ad absurdum.... my own experience is the more I eat of them, the more I crave 'em. My idea of heaven kind of involves a room temperature cube of (salted) butter and a box of sugar.... and the nap that surely follows!

Takes me about two days of nooooooo carbs to get past that gnawing yearning. Then (at the risk of sounding all New Age evangelical, which is almost as nauseating as baby-talk) I actually do feel more alert.

fwiw, my system is boringly healthy. That carbs induce sleep should be a pre-diabetic sign, but my blood sugar's middle of the charts, as is blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, thyroid and everything else.

At the end of the day, it's a bank account. Save calories, spend calories. And if you think of it as nickels and dimes, those dimes are the fats... a lot more tucked into what looks like a tinier package. But -- we NEED fats! Low fat diets wind up coercing you into eating more carbs. And the many-years-long, town-wide Framingham study shocked the daylights out of the researchers early this century.... yeah the low fat dieters reduced their heart attacks wonderfully... but the over-all death rate didn't change. Turns out they swapped cardiac arrest for strokes.

The answer, if you're trying to equal your too-low expenditures, is simply to eat balanced, but less of everything, period.

; /

Dragon

I'm always wary of any diet that tells me I have to cut something out entirely. I was highly sceptical of the no-carb/low carb diet when it says you can eat as much bacon as you want but aren't allowed fruit. Much as I love bacon I just don't think that's right. I'm with Qsilv, (and, I suspect, Baldur) simple portion control and healthy choices are what make a diet that can be effective and that you can continue eating for more than a few weeks before getting so sick of it you just give up altogether. One doesn't have to ditch carbs altogether but one can ditch the bad carbs like refined sugars in favour of healthy ones like whole grains and such.
I will say that I found it much easier to diet when I lived by myself. Not that my fella is a horrible eater or that he forces fats down my throat or anything. But back when I was single I could pretty much eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted and if I didn't feel like having more than a salad I could go for it. Cooking for 2, especially when one of them is a hungry mechanic who never really gains (darnit!), I find gets me making decisions I wouldn't have before. I know it can definitly be done, I'm just lazy about it and I have a hard time thinking of healthy meals the both of us will like that don't take hours to make and that we might still have some leftovers for lunch the next day.

polenta

Baldur, you admitted cheating. You're very honest. I would like to follow a diet that has lots of pizza, muzzarella, pasta, steak etc. If anyone knows such a diet, let me know.
In the year 3,000 we will be able to eat as much as we want. The bad news is that we won't be on the planet Earth!!!!!
BAD LUCK!!!!

Baldur

I do eat carbohydrates, just not as much as I'd like.
Sometimes it's simple to switch them out for something healthier.
The oatmeal at breakfast is healthier than a pair of buttered English muffins. Salad and a baked potato (with salsa on top) is better than a big plate of pasta with garlic bread.

Baldur

Tonight it's a huge salad of lettuce, cucumber, radishes and honeydew melon with a Greek viniagrette.
Robert's having pasta with tomato sauce and Italian sausage

Dragon

I would suspect that the oatmeal would stick with you a lot longer than english muffins anyway.

btw, the Italian sausage sounds yummy!

polenta

Baldur, I have a doubt. What's the difference between IN GOOD CONDITION and IN GOOD CONDITIONS?
I think they both exist but with a different meaning.

Dragon

If I were to say In good condition I would likely be talking about how well something was kept. A car in good condition or a person in good condition have been taken care of and look good. If I were to say Good conditions I would probably be talking about the weather being nice.

polenta

Great Dragon! Thanks for your answer.
So a house isn't in GOOD CONDITION.
It seems then that it's mostly without the S, like something well kept.
Thanks.

Baldur

A house can definitely be in good condition, as could a car, a motorcycle, an antique object that's been well cared for.
Dragon is correct.
'In good conditions' can refer to the weather being favorable, an economic market for selling stock or real estate can also be referred to as such.
People or animals are never in good condition (or good conditions).
They are 'in good shape' (physically appealing,muscular, fit) , 'in good health' (disease free, robust or never bothered by illness) or oddly enough
'well kept'. You see this last one in reference mostly to an older woman who still has a pleasing figure and remains attractive.

Baldur

I think I am giving polenta contradictory advice.
Dragon, do they say people are in good condition up there? I haven't heard that in use in the states, but then my experience is mostly New England.