Watching Cooking Shows Can Make Your Fat

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  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
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    dirtyflirty30 wrote: »
    Just watch an episode of Hoarders right after. Problem solved.

    Too funny!!!!
  • Dragn77
    Dragn77 Posts: 810 Member
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    Im in the boat of watching cooking shows inspired me to cook at home more, eat out less and not eat any packaged foods...which for me, results in weight loss.

    When I lose my passion for cooking and start picking up food to eat on the fly, thats been my downfall to gaining weight, every single time.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
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    I'm actually a big fan of Food Network. I can't stand DDD, though, watching Guy Fieri gobble down food with his stupid sunglasses always hung around the back of his neck. But I do like him in GGG. I'm rarely hungry when I watch FN because I've already eaten dinner. I don't watch the plain "cooking shows" (except for Pioneer Woman, whom I adore) but love the competitions.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
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    I got fat just watchin! I did not eat a thing or prepare anything they made... I just watched and my hips got bigger.. :):):)
  • lngrunert
    lngrunert Posts: 204 Member
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    I doubt it. My family and I watch tons of cooking and food related shows together. All of us are of a healthy weight for our height.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,575 Member
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    I don't have a tv and I don't cook well so...easy for me.
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
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    I LOVE to cook, especially things from scratch. Shows like Chopped and The Kitchen and Trisha's Southern Kitchen are always clogging up my DVR. I like to get inspired and do my own twist on their ideas/creations.

    What works for me is binge watching them after I have eaten.

    Trying to watch those shows when I'm hungry or haven't eaten yet is asking for trouble. It not so much that it would make me gain the 80 lbs I have lost back, but it would make me want things just because it looks good on tv, not because I really want it.
  • Oldbitcollector
    Oldbitcollector Posts: 229 Member
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    The Food Porn channel.. uhhgg! Nothing more frustrating than to watch food being made while you are in the actual process of losing weight!

    Someone keeps putting this on at the gym. Last time I started mocking a show where the host was making the most incredible chocolate brownies with chocolate frosting. She didn't "look" like the kind of person who even eats that stuff! (Sickly skinny).
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
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    Oh, so, something else to blame. Great. I believe if you are fat, the only reason you are fat, is you. The decisions you make. That's it, that simple.
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
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    Oldbitcollector wrote: »
    The Food Porn channel.. uhhgg! Nothing more frustrating than to watch food being made while you are in the actual process of losing weight!

    Someone keeps putting this on at the gym. Last time I started mocking a show where the host was making the most incredible chocolate brownies with chocolate frosting. She didn't "look" like the kind of person who even eats that stuff! (Sickly skinny).

    You'd be surprised the poor diets of some very skinny people. A lot of the super skinnys featured on Supersized vs. Superskinny lived off of chocolate bars and energy drinks. They just didn't eat enough of it to be fat or even normal weight.
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
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    cariie wrote: »
    my gym always has foodnetwork on when i am doing cardio and it literally makes it almost like cruel and unusual punishment sometimes.

    At my gym TLC and the Food Network are on next to each other. My Strange Addiction can be a great appetite suppressant.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
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    I completely agree with the title of this thread. I'm not a night time muncher. But as soon as the new series of "my kitchen rules" (cooking competition show) starts every season it all totally goes out the window. All the delicious looking food they cook totally gives me the munchies! The show is on Monday thru Thursday, coincidentally those are the days I usually go over my calories. ...
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
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    What I learn from most cooking shows (on Food Network, anyway) is that to make a tasty dish you should be very liberal with the butter, the oil, the cheese, and the cream.

    Alton Brown is probably the only television "cook" who taught me anything more specific than that. I'm a big fan, but every recipe of his I've ever attempted ended in disaster. Though educational, he has a tendency to over-complicate very simple things, and I was kind of sad when I discovered he had like no experience as a chef prior to the creation of his show.

    I don't see DDD as a cooking show. It seems more akin to Bizarre Foods and Man vs. Food on The Travel Channel. Makes me want to travel and eat where he ate.

    Honestly though, food shows of any type are only interesting to me when I'm hungry already. If I've just eaten, I'm not that interested in watching food porn. I could watch Bizarre Foods, though. That show doesn't really make me want to eat what he's eating.





  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    edited November 2015
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    Just the commercials are starting to get to me now. I was doing just fine last night and I wasn't even hungry and then a commercial came on that featured chefs making ribs and other greasy yummy things. I was hungry within 5 minutes. My current commercial that gets me is the one for Pei Wei where they chefs are cooking orange chicken.


  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
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    Watching Triple D right now and want EVERYTHING! However these shows don't make me eat any more..I just go make my normal dinner whenever I get hungry. I do occasionally try out the featured restaurants though... Lol
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,626 Member
    edited November 2015
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    I've loved cooking shows since The Frugal Gourmet. Alton Brown is still the best of the bunch, but I'll watch Kelsey Nixon, Bobby Flay, Sunny Anderson or the Simply Baking show if they're making something I want to see.

    Cupcake Wars and Cutthroat Kitchen are fun once in a while.

    The Great British Bakeoff is the only reality show I've ever liked and I LOVE it. I can't wait for next week when we see who wins this season.

    I love to bake. Well, love and hate. I'm so picky about everything being perfect that it's a chore sometimes, but I still do it because I'm very pleased when I've made pretty food that tastes good. I've worked my way through most of the big American baking books (substituting and improving things as I remake them) and am working my way through a British one now. Sadly, I can't eat the stuff, so I can't improve it, but it's still fun. :)

    They don't make me fat, but if you made the stuff those people make often, you'd get fat for sure.
  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
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    knitapeace wrote: »
    Saturday mornings, no one else is awake, there's nothing decent on TV so I turn on Food Network and there's that damn Pioneer Woman making food for cowboys and ranch hands. And I end up wanting the biggest, butteriest bacon egg and cheese sandwich on the planet. Man, I'll be glad when Finding Bigfoot comes back so I can watch some mindless TV that makes me LOSE my appetite instead of the other way around.


    I really like her too and for all the recipes I've tried by foodnetwork chefs hers and the barefoot contessa are the only recipes that are truly good (in my opinion).

    I just don't know how the pioneer women stays slim although I think she's good at hiding a few extra pounds with the flowy shirts she wears. Still, I think I'd weigh 300 pounds cooking and eating her recipes on a regular basis.

    I like diners drive ins and dives. Esp. If he's visiting an area I'm familiar with.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,302 Member
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    3dogsrunning wrote: »
    The last time I watched the Food Network while on my bike trainer I ended up making a warm bacon cheddar dip.
    Before that it was a Guinness beef stew (very disappointing).
    I understand this thread is from March and people doing multi sports probably train and do other things but making a warm bacon cheddar dip WHILE on a bike trainer?!? Pics or it didn't happen!
  • ejbronte
    ejbronte Posts: 867 Member
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    I'm very grateful to a lot of cooking shows: when my mother was well, the kitchen was her domain; when she and my dad got sick, she had to give up the kitchen to me; in addition, both parents were on salt-restrictive diets. I knew nothing about cooking. BUT: on Sunday afternoons, PBS would run a slew of cooking shows: Yen Can Cook ("Nice and golden-brown!"); America's Test Kitchen; Lidia Bastianich (known in our house as "the Italian Lady"); Ming. Pepin bossing around his daughter or being dominated by the immortal Julia Child. Secrets of the CIA. Jacques Torres. Both parents and I sat there and took notes all Sunday afternoons. As far as I know, none of us gained weight watching, but we all three learned a lot. I don't so much follow the recipes and take cues from them all.

    Alton Brown is a favorite: I like his sense of humor (and snark - I'm a Brooklynite: I can take it!) and his scientific approach.
  • BLifts38
    BLifts38 Posts: 248 Member
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    In the weirdest way, watching the food network helped me when I initially lost all my weight. Besides sports, it would be the only thing I would watch on tv. I wasn't eating the horrible (but delicious) foods that I previously ate, so by watching them being made, I still felt involved somehow. Weird, but it definitely helped more than it harmed me.

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