The Cake Is A LIE! The Cake Is A LIE!

You should have ate the cake...you know... for science.

I'm guessing your self contol won and that is a great tasting victory.

Now2 that is well power............Way to go

But... this is a triumph! I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS! :-P

I bet the cake was great, so delicious and moist.

I HATE these things. It's always one of two responses. Either you get "ooo, someones being good today!", or you get the people who say "You've earned it, just have a piece." The "you're being good" line is always from the overweight older ladies who make jokes about how they could never resist cake. My first thought is "You don't have to tell me you can't resist cake. believe me, everyone can tell."

No, I'm not being good, I'm leading a healthy lifestyle, the benefits of which completely outweigh the desire to have your cheap cake. It makes it easy to say no when I start to get nauscious from the comments.

Did I mention that I don't like these things.

Well I did not resist the cake and had a piece last night. I enjoyed every bite too.:happy:

A simple misunderstanding. But yeah, most of the guys there are in there 40's and 50's and could care less about their health. When my brother and i tell them that we are counting calories and watching our diet they laugh and tell use it's a waste of time. It gets annoying real fast. And you are right, the "being good" comments can wear you down fast. Luckily my shift was starting and i had to bail out of the room to get ready for work.

I absolutely agree with you. I went to my cousins daughters bday on Saturday and everyone was like , oh , it's just cake and actually shoved a piece in my face and set it on the table in front of me after I refused. They may as welll spoon fed me!!!!!!I did well and didn't eat it partly because i don't like whipped cream frosting. If it had been butter cream, I might have caved. I mean, good grief whatttya gotta do?????

That's part of the problem. People have NO CLUE about whats in what they eat. The other day my wife and I went to moe's. We're regulars there and know most of the people who work there. We were talking to a worker there and he agreed that moe's was off the charts on fat and carbs, but he said he didn't believe it had as many calories as the website said. This site makes you so aware of how every little thing you eat affects your daily intake, you start to see how no one else seems to understand just how many calories are in some foods.

I've actually turned a few people onto this site because when they offer I'll tell them I'm a member of a website where I enter every single thing I eat and it gets tallied up every day. Once I explain that if I eat that cake I have to not eat later to compensate they lay off.

A simple misunderstanding. But yeah, most of the guys there are in there 40's and 50's and could care less about their health. When my brother and i tell them that we are counting calories and watching our diet they laugh and tell use it's a waste of time. It gets annoying real fast. And you are right, the "being good" comments can wear you down fast. Luckily my shift was starting and i had to bail out of the room to get ready for work.

I absolutely agree with you. I went to my cousins daughters bday on Saturday and everyone was like , oh , it's just cake and actually shoved a piece in my face and set it on the table in front of me after I refused. They may as welll spoon fed me!!!!!!I did well and didn't eat it partly because i don't like whipped cream frosting. If it had been butter cream, I might have caved. I mean, good grief whatttya gotta do?????

That's part of the problem. People have NO CLUE about whats in what they eat. The other day my wife and I went to moe's. We're regulars there and know most of the people who work there. We were talking to a worker there and he agreed that moe's was off the charts on fat and carbs, but he said he didn't believe it had as many calories as the website said. This site makes you so aware of how every little thing you eat affects your daily intake, you start to see how no one else seems to understand just how many calories are in some foods.

I've actually turned a few people onto this site because when they offer I'll tell them I'm a member of a website where I enter every single thing I eat and it gets tallied up every day. Once I explain that if I eat that cake I have to not eat later to compensate they lay off.

I have a skinny friend who showed me some of her honeymoon photos last week. Before joining MFP I probably wouldn't have noticed, but the first thing I saw was what she had for breakfast. Most people would probably look at it and think it was healthy, but I was curious. I came home and looked everything up on MFP. 1800 calories! For just breakfast!!!! That seriously blew my mind.