Watching Cooking Shows Can Make Your Fat

PeachyCarol

lemurcat12 wrote: »

carrieliz81 wrote: »

I am very susceptible to wanting foods that I see on TV. Every time I watch "Friends" I want NY style pizza.

And I thought you were going to bring up that episode where Rachel put beef in the trifle. "Custard, good. Jam, good. Meat, good."

;-)

I actually find cooking shows inspire me to cook, and I enjoy playing around with food ideas to make them lower cal, so it's not typically a problem.

This is pretty much me. I read cookbooks like novels too. I don't get inspired to eat, I just get ideas for new things to try for meals and new flavor/ingredient combinations.

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ameliajane90

Cooking shows never bothered me. But at my old apartment complex's (very small) gym I used to turn on food network on the TV so that the gym would empty out faster and I'd have the place to myself so...there might be something there.

brenn24179

I have to turn the channel. Christmas time I got caught up in tv cooking channel and gained 7 lbs going to the store to get the ingredients to cook that stuff

verymissk

Cooking shows don't make me fat. My piss-poor choices make me fat. Cooking shows have taught me how to use spices and herbs to improve the taste of the balanced and fresh meals I prepare, but it's my lack of self-control that causes me to eat multiple servings.

kbmnurse

Watch an episode of My 600lb Life and you won't be tempted.

magerum

_Waffle_ wrote: »

One of the biggest triggers for me is that show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It's like everything featured on the show is 5,000 calories and I generally want all of it.

Why are you taking pictures in my kitchen?

purplemystra

I love cooking shows. I watch them all the time. I don't jump up and make them though. I'm to lazy for that. I just sit and think "I'd like to make that one day" but usually I never do. I have added some healthy cooking shows to my DVR. PBS has a show called Eating 80/20. The lady is a little boring but the recipes are good. Cooking Channel has Good Housekeeping How to drop 5 lbs. and a vegan show How to live to be 100. I'm not vegan but I like that I learn a lot about the benefits of vegetables.

Josalinn

dirtyflirty30 wrote: »

Just watch an episode of Hoarders right after. Problem solved.

or extreme cheapskates...hurl!

scorpiophoenix wrote: »

I guess I'm lucky in that I really do not like any of the current food personalities (except Alton Brown) so I don't watch any cooking shows anymore.

I love that man!

On topic however, I am too lazy to go get the ingredients or set the time aside to make the things. I like my go to recipes that I can do in my sleep, because again, LAZY!

stealthq

I like to cook anyway - the cooking shows never made me cook more than I do already. Fine Cooking, Bon Appetit, etc., do. Buying a new cookbook does, or a new kitchen appliance. Finding an interesting recipe or ingredient online does.

I'm slowly baking my way through Vintage Cakes (awesome recipes), have a batch of liege waffles in the freezer to try on my new waffle iron, am experimenting with baked oatmeal recipes with added protein powder (thanks Recipe sub-forum), and just made corned beef and cabbage (and carrots and potatoes) last night. None of it was inspired by TV food shows.

I just try to make things that freeze well and portion them out when I'm done. A cake takes 10-12 days to eat IF I eat a piece every day . If I make so much I know I won't eat it all, or it turns out to be something not to my taste, or it won't fit in my freezer, it comes in to work to get devoured.

AmyRhubarb

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »

AmyRhubarb wrote: »

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watches cooking shows and follows cooking blogs, cooks with butter and heavy cream, lost 25lbs anyway.

*Gasp* Looks like we have a special snowflake in our midst! :laugh:

That's me!

never2bstopped wrote: »

AmyRhubarb wrote: »

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watches cooking shows and follows cooking blogs, cooks with butter and heavy cream, lost 25lbs anyway.

Don't forget cream cheese and full fat cheese of all kinds!!

I will eat good food in smaller quantities before I eat flavorless food in bulk!

Always full fat (except for my plain Greek yogurt, which for some reason has 24g of protein per cup for 2%, and only 9g for full fat! ) and full flavor!!

lemurcat12

stealthq wrote: »

I like to cook anyway - the cooking shows never made me cook more than I do already. Fine Cooking, Bon Appetit, etc., do. Buying a new cookbook does, or a new kitchen appliance. Finding an interesting recipe or ingredient online does.

I'm slowly baking my way through Vintage Cakes (awesome recipes), have a batch of liege waffles in the freezer to try on my new waffle iron, am experimenting with baked oatmeal recipes with added protein powder (thanks Recipe sub-forum), and just made corned beef and cabbage (and carrots and potatoes) last night. None of it was inspired by TV food shows.

I just try to make things that freeze well and portion them out when I'm done. A cake takes 10-12 days to eat IF I eat a piece every day . If I make so much I know I won't eat it all, or it turns out to be something not to my taste, or it won't fit in my freezer, it comes in to work to get devoured.

Excellent dessert cookbooks are more my trigger food than any actual food. I normally am too lazy to be bothered baking (I don't tend to have sugar and flour at home, let alone any baking specific things, and more importantly I'm super lazy and baking requires following recipes much more than I like--I'm a "what seems like it would taste good together" kind of good who works by inspiration, not recipe, and am even, a tiny bit, sympathetic to the traditional Top Chef "but I don't do desserts"--to bring up another cooking show). But if I start reading through a really good baking book I start wanting to try making all sorts of things, and then once I make them I have to eat them because of course they will go bad so quickly. Bad, bad, bad. So I haven't sought out any new baking recipes at all since starting this, but instead just stuck to my tried and true ones. (For some reason I don't like any of the baking related TV shows, and none of the sweet recipes on the others are especially inspiring too me--I get more focused on savory.)

You seem like you have a much more sensible attitude toward balancing baking and eating, and freezing my creations is really something I should try.

Oh, well, relying on my laziness and just staying away from the baking books is also working so far. ;-)

Gidzmo

spacequiztime wrote: »

I was flipping channels and stopped on the Food Network for a few seconds once. A hand came out the TV and forced me to eat one million bad calories.

ROFLOL!

3dogsrunning

CrabNebula wrote: »

I pretty much only watch Chopped and Cutthroat Kitchen. Almost none of the dishes they make are things that I would want to eat.

It was Chopped that inspired my warm bacon cheddar dip. The guy didn't actually make that but when he first described what he was making I imagined that type of a dip. And then I wanted some.

CrabNebula

kbmnurse wrote: »

Watch an episode of My 600lb Life and you won't be tempted.

Or a few Simply Sara (Junklovers) cooking vids on YT. Dat potato salad and iced coffee...and then she almost died recently from a condition no doubt exasperated by her morbid obesity.

JPW1990

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

I don't think we can blame the TV shows. Surely that blame must be shared with Pinterest.

Yep. Once I got over my boredom eating habits, it doesn't matter what I'm watching on tv (except maybe Fear Factor - best appetite suppressant ever broadcast). Pinterest, otoh... I must have 20 variations of stuffed peppers saved, and every time I see a new one, better stop at the store while I'm out.

techgal128

I saw a commercial about Pillsbury biscuits and literally went out JUST to buy biscuits. I'm the type of person commercials are made for.

dlm4mom

Not me!! I fantasize about Tom Collocio and it makes me ENJOY the show and motivates me in case he is ever looking for a fan bride. 8 pounds in one month and I have no plan to stop

neanderthin

Yes, TV is correlated to fatness for sure.

jennifershoo

_John_ wrote: »

<insert inappropriate Paula Deen meme here>

Snort

jennifershoo

Not really no. I hate cooking, so I won't go out of my way to make what they make on TV. Also, most of the time, it looks disgusting.
Cupcake wars though.....

teagirlmedium

I stopped watching cooking shows for a long time when I realized I would eat a lot of food while I was watching them. I realized that even if I had eaten before I started watching cooking shows or food shows I would still get hungry while watching them. It is like when I would go to the movie and smell popcorn while watching a movie and then start to want popcorn. I would watch the cooking shows, see food and want food. I would want more food every time another episode came on. So I stopped watching the food channel. I have also noticed this happens when I watch the shopping network and any show that has to do with cleaning, organizing, exercising, dieting, vacationing, house/apartment hunting, budgeting, hoarding, gambling, singing and dancing that I can see on T.V. or when I look up random videos on YouTube.

DataSeven

I watch Diners, Drive in's and Dives while on the elliptical. Don't judge me. It's kind of like vicariously having these awful-for-you foods, but only Guy Fiereri gets the calorie consequences.

NewMeSM75

I watch cooking shows daily. Does it make me fat? Nope. I make me fat. I enjoy learning new recipes but doesn't mean I have to cook them and eat it all...

urloved33

I really enjoy watching the cooking shows...especially Master Chef and Master Chef Jr...I learn tons but it does not cause me to overeat or eat things that are not really healthy for me.

mkakids

I love to watch cooking shows....but yes, they make me hungry! So I avoid them (mostly) now.

Amitysk

I love cooking shows! They have never really made me want to eat more, but they have definitely inspired many recipes and methods I never would have tried. I usually have Food Network going in the background throughout the day (I work from home right now).

lauracups

I watch it while on the elliptical, no lie...for me seeing all that food doesn't make me hungry it makes me want to work out more...then maybe try a recipe or two for the family

ShandaLeaS

I watch food network every time I work out....it motivates me to keep going LOL

Building_Bulk

I love the food channel. Gives me ideas for things I can make.