i dont get it

HannahMarieMcDougald

hahaha

kimberliiw

"splenda" obviously okay,of all places to completley miss the point of anything i said this is ridiculous. im not specifically claiming this all as splenda's fault. yes it is horrible. why do you have to get so fixed on just splenda though? look past just the surface and maybe re evaluate and look things up. do some research.

I think Splenda is being brought up because that's one of the things you mentioned. The point is that doing the best you can is what's important. It's better to eat some things that may not be up to your standard to make this sustainable for life rather than to do a severely restrictive diet that will be forgotten next month. I'm 55 years old and extremely healthy and to be honest it comes across as pretty condescending for you to be judging everyone on here for what they decide to eat. I applaude everybody on here because they're evidently trying to be the healthiest they can and that includes you.

SoViLicious

Because they can and they paid for it...IDK...Free will?

Capt_Apollo

i don't give a **** if it gives me cancer. i love the artificial sweeteners.

MicMar66

Unbelievable!!! 2 Years ago my doctor told me to lose weight (check), lower my sodium and caffeine intake (check check) and start exercising more (check)...and now I find out I have been doing it all wrong!!! What have I been doing to my size-8-down-from-a-size-12-lworking-out-atleast-four-times-a-week-only-drinking-two-cups-of-coffee-a-day- body??? Oh, self, how I have wronged you! I am poisoning you with my artificial flavorings, beer and nacho's and <gasp> I had 3 french fries the other day!!!

charovnitza

Bump

peaceloveweedandveggies

Hey, seriously tho... Is that ALL you're gonna eat today?

actually ive been working all day and am about to go cook dinner thanks.

BrettPGH

How did flouride get thrown under the bus? :ohwell:

sunsnstatheart

Hey, seriously tho... Is that ALL you're gonna eat today?

^Just checked this. Seems the OP needs to get her own house in order before deciding to offend a large swath of MFP. I truly wish there was a "dislike" button.

VorJoshigan

I will try to answer the question in your rant. "how can so many people still be eating things that are known to be poisonous"

Because I enjoy it. It's as simple as that. I don't engineer my life around the idea of living 100% as healthy as I can. I just try to do the best I can while still enjoying life.

None of us are going to live forever. I want to be healthier, but there's an upper bound on that where you get diminishing returns. I have better things to do with my time. Like replying to rants on MFP. (shakes head at self)

TallGlassOfQuirky

Why do I eat Splenda? Because I like the taste of calorie-free bleached sugar chemicals, that's why.

pullipgirl

According to your diary you drink diet coke and have a lot of "added calorie" which are probably bad foods

AlsDonkBoxSquat

More healthy =/= perfectly healthy. In a perfect world, all our food would be organic and pure and lovely, but the majority of us live in an imperfect reality where we make compromises every day to try to meet our nutritional needs while staying within a budget, cooperating with friends and family, meeting the demands of a busy schedule, etc. For many people, an all-or-nothing mentality is an invitation to failure: "Well, I had a Twinkie, so now everything is ruined and I might as well just eat a whole bucket of fried chicken." For a lot of folks, being able to be more healthy without expecting 100% perfection is the only way to make a lifestyle change that will stick.

well thats because im recovering from an eating disorder but thats not the point. that is a mental illness.
so id i said in moderation i should drink because thats better then doing meth is that okay too?

Yes, it is a better choice. It IS better to drink from time to time than doing Meth......

but so if i do meth once in a while it wont kill me. so if i mess up from time to time and fall to meth it wont kill me? but it will. and so is ingesting toxic material. i put things into my body that i know i need and yeah im broke most of the time as most people are these days, and i do have to make compromises but i cant knowingly put t\anything into my body that will cause it harm.

I find it sad and a bit crazy that you just compared splenda to meth. Really...don't go there.....

ETA: Trying to back your argument by going to extremes doesn't really help you. Just saying.

I'll have to try smoking Splenda tonight. Given my poisonous diet and obvious lack of success I have nothing to lose.

Puff, puff, pass.

RoadsterGirlie

This thread has grown from 1 to 6 pages in under 10 minutes. I just want to point that out.

sunsnstatheart

How did flouride get thrown under the bus? :ohwell:

Don't you know it causes autism? Well, that and giant, fatal nose warts in penguins. True story.

UsedToBeHusky

Glass houses and all that!

Retiredmom72

So what is your point? Werevyou just trying to cause dissension ? I thought other responders were joking until I looked at YOUR food diary. Why won't you take the time to enter the FOODS that you are listing as Quick Calories? One day you had 1600+ calories and over 800 was listed as quick calories. I personally love this site, but it is members like you that must have conflict to exist. When you clean up your diary and log everything honestly, you are not an authority on any thing. What I donT get is why you think you can criticize anyone with your diary! Good luck.

3RachaelFaith3

Hey, seriously tho... Is that ALL you're gonna eat today?

^Just checked this. Seems the OP needs to get her own house in order before deciding to offend a large swath of MFP. I truly wish there was a "dislike" button.

i know right!

peaceloveweedandveggies

Didn't know there was a fluoride debate. I thought it was needed for healthy teeth. It's been added to the water I've been drinking for over 40 years, but never heard of a debate.

you have to actually look. theirs plenty of debate but your not going to find it on fox or cnn.

No, i get the studies from my wife, the Yale educated Phd in Biology, and they've concluded there are no negative health impacts of fluoride in water. Which studies are you talking about? Again, you are making the claims, you show the evidence.

well good thing i live right down from yale. so what about how some places are trying to get it passed to put lithium in our water. what about that then? got another witty comback or are people going to learn how to grow up and have a debate without taking something personally.

amili045

thats exactly what most people trying to do but its really not motivating what you just said... Your focus should be your own growth and improvement. If you find it so easy to buy expensive products like coconut sugar or stevia then go for it or if you feel its easy for you to go without and go it the Suzanne Somers way then go for it. But obviously if it was so easy... we wouldnt all be here so try not to sound so judgemental.

nfrewin

but its just crazy how people dont realize that its bad, but justify that its not as bad as something else there for its acceptable. if your not fully committed why even bother?

So, basically, if we aren't going to be perfect than we shouldn't try to improve our health?

That is quite possibly the stupidest logic I've ever heard.

^^This!!
Any improvement is better than no improvement

MallorieGreiner

Because sometimes, I want to have a huge piece of motha effing chocolate cake with the worst additives ever, that's why.

UsedToBeHusky

Didn't know there was a fluoride debate. I thought it was needed for healthy teeth. It's been added to the water I've been drinking for over 40 years, but never heard of a debate.

you have to actually look. theirs plenty of debate but your not going to find it on fox or cnn.

No, i get the studies from my wife, the Yale educated Phd in Biology, and they've concluded there are no negative health impacts of fluoride in water. Which studies are you talking about? Again, you are making the claims, you show the evidence.

well good thing i live right down from yale. so what about how some places are trying to get it passed to put lithium in our water. what about that then? got another witty comback or are people going to learn how to grow up and have a debate without taking something personally.

I would debate you if you had some legitimate points instead of scare-mongering!

PikaKnight

Fluroride, splenda..this and that will kill you, etc. *sigh*

Everyone who breathes air dies. Everyone who drinks water dies.

So should we stop breathing and drinking water too?

You need to stop being all obsessive about what everyone else is doing and nit-picking and being a fanatic about "healthy food" and live your life. Seriously - relax and enjoy it because if food doesn't get you...a bus might...or air...or water....never know...there could be some alien mutant microscopic bug thingies that are infiltrating us and harvesting our molecular parts without us knowing.... :P

BlueObsidian

Didn't know there was a fluoride debate. I thought it was needed for healthy teeth. It's been added to the water I've been drinking for over 40 years, but never heard of a debate.

you have to actually look. theirs plenty of debate but your not going to find it on fox or cnn.

No, i get the studies from my wife, the Yale educated Phd in Biology, and they've concluded there are no negative health impacts of fluoride in water. Which studies are you talking about? Again, you are making the claims, you show the evidence.

well good thing i live right down from yale. so what about how some places are trying to get it passed to put lithium in our water. what about that then? got another witty comback or are people going to learn how to grow up and have a debate without taking something personally.

And once again you fail to show any peer-reviewed studies. I take that to mean that you have NO legitimate scientific studies to back up your claims?

LittleMiss_WillLoseIt

I've been ingesting these supposed "poisons" the entire time I have used this site. Strangely, I haven't had a bit of trouble losing. What I want to know is why is there always someone who thinks that it's okay to condemn others for what they are eating. What I put in my mouth has NO impact on you and since it really ISN'T the cause of ALL my problems since I have managed to lose 90+ lbs, then your little mini-rant just sounds like you are being judgmental!

roselover58

but its just crazy how people dont realize that its bad, but justify that its not as bad as something else there for its acceptable. if your not fully committed why even bother?

baby steps. To some, to fully commit is overwhelming.

Also - the media, as well as the government tends to give mixed messages to the public. What is bad today was not considered bad last week/month/year/decade. As some have previously stated, moderation is the key. Are grains bad for you? Yes, when you eat it at every meal. In a 'perfect' world, one would not eat grain. Very hard to do in this world. Is milk bad for you? Yes, but it is everywhere, and it toted to being good (we are the only mammals out there who drink milk after being weaned, and we drink other species' milk).

I could go on, but suffice it to say, moderation in everything. Stay away from stuff you don't like/makes you sick, and let the others figure it out on their own. Each journey is separate.

MidwestAngel

I've been ingesting these supposed "poisons" the entire time I have used this site. Strangely, I haven't had a bit of trouble losing. What I want to know is why is there always someone who thinks that it's okay to condemn others for what they are eating. What I put in my mouth has NO impact on you and since it really ISN'T the cause of ALL my problems since I have managed to lose 90+ lbs, then your little mini-rant just sounds like you are being judgmental!

I ♥ you

Ramberta

How about you worry about your own journey and others will worry about theirs.

You could have plucked the words from my own head exactly to the point!

ubermensch13

Didn't know there was a fluoride debate. I thought it was needed for healthy teeth. It's been added to the water I've been drinking for over 40 years, but never heard of a debate.

you have to actually look. theirs plenty of debate but your not going to find it on fox or cnn.

No, i get the studies from my wife, the Yale educated Phd in Biology, and they've concluded there are no negative health impacts of fluoride in water. Which studies are you talking about? Again, you are making the claims, you show the evidence.

well good thing i live right down from yale. so what about how some places are trying to get it passed to put lithium in our water. what about that then? got another witty comback or are people going to learn how to grow up and have a debate without taking something personally.

I'm trying to have the debate, but you continue to claim all this evidence as to the harms of "unnatural" foods, and yet you have not provided one peer reviewed study. What does living in New Haven, Ct have anything to do with the expert testimony of someone with a Phd in biology?