eggs

No offense to the peeps concerned with how chickens are treated (because I don't care how chickens are treated), but as an FYI in regards to free range eggs, those eggs are higher in CLA, which is a good thing.

You're normally a pretty funny dude, but I don't really find animal cruelty anything other than offensive. I'm fine with people eating meat, but being on top of the food chain doesn't give us the right to do what those slaughterhouses do. So easy on the apathy there bud

Just an honest opinion. When i buy chicken or eggs, that aspect doesn't even enter my mind. What my point was, even if you don't care, as in my case, there is still a perk to buying free range chicken, eggs and even beef. CLA has been shown to specifically reduce stomach fat, which I find really interesting.

Touche. It's really easy to detach yourself from the fact that the 6-pack of chicken you're about to buy were once animals. We're pretty sheltered from the industry.

I'm down with losing stomach fat.

Just an honest opinion. When i buy chicken or eggs, that aspect doesn't even enter my mind. What my point was, even if you don't care, as in my case, there is still a perk to buying free range chicken, eggs and even beef. CLA has been shown to specifically reduce stomach fat, which I find really interesting.

Touche. It's really easy to detach yourself from the fact that the 6-pack of chicken you're about to buy were once animals. We're pretty sheltered from the industry.

I'm down with losing stomach fat.

Sheltered? Not me. As a kid I remember raising chickens. My parents killing them for dinner...being scared to death of the rooster...I even had a chicken as a pet until he drowned in the pool. All that doesn't keep me away from KFC, but the oozy..queasy feeling after does.

I think also in terms of my mentality toward food, one of my biggest lessons has been learning that throwing away food is not always a bad thing. I no longer feel bad throwing crap in the garbage that I used to throw in my stomach just because I didn't want it to "go to waste."

Thanks! This is a good way to think of it. My problem is with leftovers - either cleaning my plate or putting away the rest of a dish even though I'm never going to use it.

There is a great book by Linda Spangle called the 100 Days of Weight Loss that tries to re-teach us to leave food on our plate and to stop over feeding our bodies.

It is such a battle to NOT eat everything. It even applies to stop from eating an entire bag of chips.

It is such a battle to NOT eat everything. It even applies to stop from eating an entire bag of chips.

Its ingrained in us from our first spoonfuls of baby food. What parents here have not encouraged an empty plate with our children.

Clearing your plate is a lifetime habit that will take a while to break. I'm putting far less on my plate but I'm still having a problem leaving any even when I know I'm full. I tend to eat my meals off a side plate now, so even if I do clear my plate its only a matter of an extra mouthful these days!

Eggs get a bum wrap for sure. They are very nutritional, including the yolks. They are a good source of protien, etc. I eat about 6 to 8 eggs a week.

And I love egg beaters too because they are very nutriential also and less calories than eggs. Egg beaters also are good for quick meals in the evenings. I can do a nice omelet loaded with veggies and add a little cheese and be under 200 calories.

I have never had a cholestrol issue, even at my heaviest weight. I use to do egg diets and still never had a chosleral issues. So I say it depends on your genetics. Also not sure cutting back on eggs will lower cholestrol for those who have high cholestral.

I have hens, so I eat a whole egg or two everyday and my cholesterol isn't high, nor has it changed in two years. I also eat beef and lamb. Some articles I've read claim that high cholesterol may be more hereditary than not. I don't know--- I just know what affects my own health issues, and I believe it has more to do with a balanced diet every day.

My grandma ate eggs every day for breakfast for almost 88 years - shes still alive and happy and healthy. She has never been overweight, and she has never had any high cholesterol, high BP etc. I figure that if you are eating an (organic -soley my opinion) egg or two a day, and dont have high cholesterol, who cares?! There are SO many processed foods out there. That being said I've never picked up a box of egg beaters and looked at the nutritional value, but my boyfriends grandpa has made them for me once or twice and they were spongy. In my opinion people have been eating eggs, food out of their gardens, and meat off their farms for years, and to me that seems to be the heathiest way to go. If you can spare if in your calories for the day I say an egg or two wont hurt. They're excellant for you, a great source of protien, and keep you full for a long time!

My grandma ate eggs every day for breakfast for almost 88 years - shes still alive and happy and healthy. She has never been overweight, and she has never had any high cholesterol, high BP etc. I figure that if you are eating an (organic -soley my opinion) egg or two a day, and dont have high cholesterol, who cares?! There are SO many processed foods out there. That being said I've never picked up a box of egg beaters and looked at the nutritional value, but my boyfriends grandpa has made them for me once or twice and they were spongy. In my opinion people have been eating eggs, food out of their gardens, and meat off their farms for years, and to me that seems to be the heathiest way to go. If you can spare if in your calories for the day I say an egg or two wont hurt. They're excellant for you, a great source of protien, and keep you full for a long time!

Hear Hear!