holiday detoxes

Please stop the madness ladies. I have already seen multiple posts asking what detoxes you should be doing. NONE. Stop it. It is the holiday, and we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Stop stressing yourself, it is not as if you eat like this every day. We must all learn to be kind to our bodies and our minds, and all this guilt and shame about the food we ate is not good for our mental health. Stop it. Wake up today, go to the gym, don't eat 1000 cookies, and enjoy yourselves. Stop the food guilt already.
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  • Aviva92
    Aviva92 Posts: 2,333 Member
    edited December 2014
    instead of cookies, i'm going to have mini cupcakes. vanilla, with vanilla frosting and sprinkles.
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
    That's the spirit!! B)
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
    Speaking of spirits. I strongly suggest the holiday rum detox.

    Drink rum until detox is achieved on both ends.
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    Speaking of spirits. I strongly suggest the holiday rum detox.

    Drink rum until detox is achieved on both ends.

    I am only mad I did not think if this first.
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,411 Member
    Sing it, sister!
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    Speaking of spirits. I strongly suggest the holiday rum detox.

    Drink rum until detox is achieved on both ends.

    I'm more of a wine person myself!!! B)

  • ryanhorn
    ryanhorn Posts: 355 Member
    redheaddee wrote: »
    Please stop the madness ladies. I have already seen multiple posts asking what detoxes you should be doing. NONE. Stop it. It is the holiday, and we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Stop stressing yourself, it is not as if you eat like this every day. We must all learn to be kind to our bodies and our minds, and all this guilt and shame about the food we ate is not good for our mental health. Stop it. Wake up today, go to the gym, don't eat 1000 cookies, and enjoy yourselves. Stop the food guilt already.

    I agree! I think it's completely wrong to view food as just fuel. Food is fuel, but it's also a form of celebration, a form of comfort, a way of sharing, and a form of tradition.
  • ketorach
    ketorach Posts: 430 Member
    ryanhorn wrote: »
    redheaddee wrote: »
    Please stop the madness ladies. I have already seen multiple posts asking what detoxes you should be doing. NONE. Stop it. It is the holiday, and we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Stop stressing yourself, it is not as if you eat like this every day. We must all learn to be kind to our bodies and our minds, and all this guilt and shame about the food we ate is not good for our mental health. Stop it. Wake up today, go to the gym, don't eat 1000 cookies, and enjoy yourselves. Stop the food guilt already.

    I agree! I think it's completely wrong to view food as just fuel. Food is fuel, but it's also a form of celebration, a form of comfort, a way of sharing, and a form of tradition.
    Not for everyone. For some people, food really is just fuel. They eat to fuel their bodies, meet their nutritional needs, or achieve their fitness goals. That's not wrong. It's just not how you view it.


  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
    ryanhorn wrote: »
    redheaddee wrote: »
    Please stop the madness ladies. I have already seen multiple posts asking what detoxes you should be doing. NONE. Stop it. It is the holiday, and we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Stop stressing yourself, it is not as if you eat like this every day. We must all learn to be kind to our bodies and our minds, and all this guilt and shame about the food we ate is not good for our mental health. Stop it. Wake up today, go to the gym, don't eat 1000 cookies, and enjoy yourselves. Stop the food guilt already.

    I agree! I think it's completely wrong to view food as just fuel. Food is fuel, but it's also a form of celebration, a form of comfort, a way of sharing, and a form of tradition.

    It's art, and when I cook... I raise food to the sublime, and while people taste it I whisper, "This is how I make love to your mouth."
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    ryanhorn wrote: »
    redheaddee wrote: »
    Please stop the madness ladies. I have already seen multiple posts asking what detoxes you should be doing. NONE. Stop it. It is the holiday, and we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Stop stressing yourself, it is not as if you eat like this every day. We must all learn to be kind to our bodies and our minds, and all this guilt and shame about the food we ate is not good for our mental health. Stop it. Wake up today, go to the gym, don't eat 1000 cookies, and enjoy yourselves. Stop the food guilt already.

    I agree! I think it's completely wrong to view food as just fuel. Food is fuel, but it's also a form of celebration, a form of comfort, a way of sharing, and a form of tradition.

    It's art, and when I cook... I raise food to the sublime, and while people taste it I whisper, "This is how I make love to your mouth."

    *chuckles*
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    It's art, and when I cook... I raise food to the sublime, and while people taste it I whisper, "This is how I make love to your mouth."

    How are we not friends?? It IS art. very few of my friends understand why I am so excited about getting white dishes for Christmas. That is ok, I will annoy them with an exhausting amount of food pictures in the very near future.

    And I am stealing that line.
  • holagatita
    holagatita Posts: 1,785 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    Speaking of spirits. I strongly suggest the holiday rum detox.

    Drink rum until detox is achieved on both ends.

    lol best advice anyone's ever given!
  • ketorach
    ketorach Posts: 430 Member
    auntrhon66 wrote: »
    ketorach wrote: »
    ryanhorn wrote: »
    redheaddee wrote: »
    Please stop the madness ladies. I have already seen multiple posts asking what detoxes you should be doing. NONE. Stop it. It is the holiday, and we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Stop stressing yourself, it is not as if you eat like this every day. We must all learn to be kind to our bodies and our minds, and all this guilt and shame about the food we ate is not good for our mental health. Stop it. Wake up today, go to the gym, don't eat 1000 cookies, and enjoy yourselves. Stop the food guilt already.

    I agree! I think it's completely wrong to view food as just fuel. Food is fuel, but it's also a form of celebration, a form of comfort, a way of sharing, and a form of tradition.
    Not for everyone. For some people, food really is just fuel. They eat to fuel their bodies, meet their nutritional needs, or achieve their fitness goals. That's not wrong. It's just not how you view it.


    bwahahahaha...get over yourself...and stop being so smug
    WTF? Why so rude? I love food and I only eat things that I love and taste good, so you're barking up the wrong tree here.


  • Go_Mizzou99
    Go_Mizzou99 Posts: 2,628 Member
    I am doing my cold smoked turkey at the refrigerator door detox. When I get wild and crazy, I will dunk it in cold gravy...but only to accelerate the detox - not for food enjoyment.

    I only wish I had some cold pizza to eat at the refrigerator door to speed up my cold turkey detox.
  • aylajane
    aylajane Posts: 979 Member
    auntrhon66 wrote: »
    ketorach wrote: »
    ryanhorn wrote: »
    redheaddee wrote: »
    Please stop the madness ladies. I have already seen multiple posts asking what detoxes you should be doing. NONE. Stop it. It is the holiday, and we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Stop stressing yourself, it is not as if you eat like this every day. We must all learn to be kind to our bodies and our minds, and all this guilt and shame about the food we ate is not good for our mental health. Stop it. Wake up today, go to the gym, don't eat 1000 cookies, and enjoy yourselves. Stop the food guilt already.

    I agree! I think it's completely wrong to view food as just fuel. Food is fuel, but it's also a form of celebration, a form of comfort, a way of sharing, and a form of tradition.
    Not for everyone. For some people, food really is just fuel. They eat to fuel their bodies, meet their nutritional needs, or achieve their fitness goals. That's not wrong. It's just not how you view it.


    bwahahahaha...get over yourself...and stop being so smug

    I didnt see it as smug ? I am one of those people who eat because they have to. I take no pleasure in food. I do not express my love to someone by cooking them a special meal, nor do I appreciate it the way they want me to when they cook one for me. I do not crave anything. It is what it is. Some things physcially taste better than others, but I really do not care. I have no preference in foods most of the time.

    And..... I fully understand not everyone is this way. Someone above mentioned food as art - that is how I explain it... If cooking were all science, it would be easy for me. But it is about 50% art, and I have not one artistic bone in my body. I am glad some people have a hobby they enjoy. It is not mine, that is all.
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    - I am sure you do not spend your evenings organizing your hard drive simply because you enjoy it... but I do... We are different, I think that is all they were getting to. I still enjoyed reading this thread even though it does not really apply to me :)
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    - Cheers.
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
    Alayajane there actually IS science to cooking...read "what Einstein told his cook: kitchen science explained"
    =)
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
    I am doing my cold smoked turkey at the refrigerator door detox. When I get wild and crazy, I will dunk it in cold gravy...but only to accelerate the detox - not for food enjoyment.

    I only wish I had some cold pizza to eat at the refrigerator door to speed up my cold turkey detox.
    Detox: you are doing it right.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
    aylajane wrote: »
    ...If cooking were all science...
    Then what is it? Magic?

    Is it safe to assuming you've never heard of the term food science? Cooking is very much science that is so core to our survival that it is accessible to all, even if they don't understand the processes they are using.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
    I'm going to do a cookie detox right now. If any are left. Otherwise I'll choose the pie/cheesecake detox.
  • aylajane
    aylajane Posts: 979 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    aylajane wrote: »
    ...If cooking were all science...
    Then what is it? Magic?

    Is it safe to assuming you've never heard of the term food science? Cooking is very much science that is so core to our survival that it is accessible to all, even if they don't understand the processes they are using.

    No, there is some art involved :) And I am happy to leave it to people who find it easy - just like I leave the power grids to the people who understand them... I have no issues using the results of their labor, and I have no issues using the results of other people's cooking without doing it myself ! So lots of precooked, fabricated foods for me!
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    Haha - I wasnt trying to start a serious argument. Just pointing that someone who disagrees or offers another motive or viewpoint to a topic is not necessarily being smug because it is something some people find difficult but they do not. No worries, I have no issue with anyone on here believing anything you want! ANd I fully believe cooking is easy for most of you, so you think it is easy for everyone. I find building computers very easy, and could do it in my sleep. Guessing not everyone thinks the same and probably at least a few people think it is pretty difficult.... :D We are all selectively intelligent...