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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?
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scotchandrhinestones wrote: »My unpopular opinion is that the super-skinny look is incredibly lovely and elegant, and does not require an eating disorder to achieve.
Also:
1. CICO rules everything. Some foods make you more likely to eat more calories, so they're more dangerous. Some have more salt, so you hold on to water longer, which temporarily deceives the scale. But in the end, it's CICO.
2. You can safely go under 1200 calories a day frequently, keep losing weight, and feel perfectly fine.
Good luck with that.
Why would anyone even want to do that? I aim to eat as much as I can and still lose. For me, that's a lot more than 1200. I would feel awful at 1200 - and I am that often talked-about little old lady who is fairly small and I do have a sedentary lifestyle. I just like keeping my hair and nails, and healthy skin and sanity. And being able to stay awake for 16 hours a day, and get my chores done without snapping at everyone I see.
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scotchandrhinestones wrote: »My unpopular opinion is that the super-skinny look is incredibly lovely and elegant, and does not require an eating disorder to achieve.
Also:
1. CICO rules everything. Some foods make you more likely to eat more calories, so they're more dangerous. Some have more salt, so you hold on to water longer, which temporarily deceives the scale. But in the end, it's CICO.
2. You can safely go under 1200 calories a day frequently, keep losing weight, and feel perfectly fine.
"Feeling perfectly fine" is a fairly vague statement, IMO. Do you mean people can frequently eat less than 1,200 a day while losing weight and still consistently meet their nutritional needs? And when you say "you" do you mean everyone . . . because I feel included in the statement when you write "you," but I find it hard to imagine how I could do well on less than 1,200 a day.2 -
scotchandrhinestones wrote: »My unpopular opinion is that the super-skinny look is incredibly lovely and elegant, and does not require an eating disorder to achieve.
Also:
1. CICO rules everything. Some foods make you more likely to eat more calories, so they're more dangerous. Some have more salt, so you hold on to water longer, which temporarily deceives the scale. But in the end, it's CICO.
2. You can safely go under 1200 calories a day frequently, keep losing weight, and feel perfectly fine.
no I can't go under 1200 a day frequently...I actually get weak, dizzy and sick if I do it for more than 1 day...at 1 day it's iffy to be honest...and then trying to workout...yah okay...
the super skinny look is not achievable for me actually...not with my height etc.5 -
I miss this thread. Aren't there any more regional holiday foods to discuss?0
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ANYONE WHO GIVES FRUITCAKE SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT.
Anyone who disagrees with this should also be lined up and shot.
We do not need a fruitcake culture. Those things are evil.6 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »
ANYONE WHO GIVES FRUITCAKE SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT.
Anyone who disagrees with this should also be lined up and shot.
We do not need a fruitcake culture. Those things are evil.
See, I *like* fruitcake. But I realize I'm the exception so I'll make it for myself and not try to foist my lifestyle on other people.5 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »
ANYONE WHO GIVES FRUITCAKE SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT.
Anyone who disagrees with this should also be lined up and shot.
We do not need a fruitcake culture. Those things are evil.
See, I *like* fruitcake. But I realize I'm the exception so I'll make it for myself and not try to foist my lifestyle on other people.
Unless it was when I was too small to remember, I've never tasted fruitcake. I don't like the look, smell or general idea of it so I've never been inclined to try it.0 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »
ANYONE WHO GIVES FRUITCAKE SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT.
Anyone who disagrees with this should also be lined up and shot.
We do not need a fruitcake culture. Those things are evil.
what about gumdrop cake?????0 -
I like Cream Cheese Frosting Sugar Cookies With Festive Sugar Sprinkles Culture.5
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I've never tasted fruitcake either. I won one as a kid playing bingo at a holiday party (it was an adults and kids bingo thing) and everyone joked about it and it was clear to me it was supposed to not be desirable, and I just never have since then.1
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Tacklewasher wrote: »
ANYONE WHO GIVES FRUITCAKE SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT.
Anyone who disagrees with this should also be lined up and shot.
We do not need a fruitcake culture. Those things are evil.
what about gumdrop cake?????
I'd never heard of that before and I just looked it up. It looks amazing!
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gumdrops are nasty3
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »gumdrops are nasty
anything that has that 'gummy bear' texture us nasty!
As is fruit cake!1 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »
ANYONE WHO GIVES FRUITCAKE SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT.
Anyone who disagrees with this should also be lined up and shot.
We do not need a fruitcake culture. Those things are evil.
I like fruit cake! One of the very few ways I enjoy alcohol. It's soaking in it as we speak, I can't wait for Christmas to finally have a piece!3 -
So far, @janejellyroll and @amusedmonkey are the one's volunteering to be shot. @sezxystef is borderline, only because I've never heard of the damn thing but I'm sure it's nasty.
I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS FRUITCAKE CULTURE!6 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »
ANYONE WHO GIVES FRUITCAKE SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT.
Anyone who disagrees with this should also be lined up and shot.
We do not need a fruitcake culture. Those things are evil.
I like fruit cake! One of the very few ways I enjoy alcohol. It's soaking in it as we speak, I can't wait for Christmas to finally have a piece!
I like it too, homemade and soaked in rum and brandy. REALLY spendy on calories though so just a Christmas food. I used to make little loaves as gifts but wouldn't now since it seems to be the most reviled holiday food in recent history.1 -
I was in the Army... it was mid January 1992 - Ft. Devens, MA. Cold cold cold snow and black ice everywhere. I was sitting in my barracks room thinking if I wanted to risk breaking something and taking a walk to the post Bowling Alley or maybe the Enlisted Club for some food. I was starving and I had missed dinner at the chow hall.
Then I remembered that my Grandma had sent me a a fruitcake for Christmas. It was still sitting in my wall locker, neatly wrapped in cellophane. Well, hunger won out and I took a nibble. Hmmm.... not so bad. Took a bite.... hey, not bad at all! I ate the entire thing. I don't know if it was just hunger or what, but it was delicious.
I haven't eaten one since. So, my current opinion might not be so generous.
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There was this one fruit cake that my father ordered one time way back in the day from Swiss Colony Farms (does anyone else remember them?) that had dried fruit instead of candied, and the batter was light instead of dark, and the fruit was tropical. There wasn't booze involved either.
It was really tasty, and probably not what anyone who is really into fruitcake (like my Nan was) would call an actual fruitcake.
I've never had actual fruitcake. My mother loved it. I took one look at those green candied fruits in it and noped right out of even trying it. And I was the type of kid who would try anything.0 -
The Vatta's War series (sci-fi series) by Elizabeth Moon has a fruitcake subplot. All sworn enemies of fruitcake would really appreciate it.3
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HeliumIsNoble wrote: »The Vatta's War series (sci-fi series) by Elizabeth Moon has a fruitcake subplot. All sworn enemies of fruitcake would really appreciate it.
I would take those fruitcakes any day. I might even eat some.0 -
My husband claims that UK fruitcake has a layer of marzipan and a layer of royal icing. That seems a bit much for something that is already so rich...?0
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Well, it could certainly pay off.astronaught wrote: »HeliumIsNoble wrote: »The Vatta's War series (sci-fi series) by Elizabeth Moon has a fruitcake subplot. All sworn enemies of fruitcake would really appreciate it.
I would take those fruitcakes any day. I might even eat some.My husband claims that UK fruitcake has a layer of marzipan and a layer of royal icing. That seems a bit much for something that is already so rich...?
They can do, but I think something has been lost in translation. Marzipan and royal icing is typical of Christmas fruit cake or a traditional wedding fruit cake. If you can't smother a fruit cake in marzipan and royal icing for your wedding, when can you?
They're not coated with marzipan and royal icing as standard. Or at least they weren't, in the days when you had to wait until Easter to buy Easter eggs, and mince pies weren't for sale until December. Now, possibly all bets may be off.
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Probably lost in context. Ah yes, he probably did mean Christmas fruitcake. He wasn't thinking about fruitcake at other times of year.
And we didn't smother a fruit cake in marzipan and royal icing for our wedding
1) the bugger hates marzipan
2) we had a layered white cake/cream/raspberry jam cake with buttercream instead - a "prinzess" cake without the marzipan0 -
I like fruitcake *ducks*
I believe it is a traditional wedding cake because it holds up so well.0 -
I mostly like fruitcake, but if one wants it to be really decadent-good, it's important that it omit those ucky commercial fake-dyed candied fruit in favor of homemade actual candied delicious fruit. And lovingly bathe it in alcohol for weeks, of course.
I don't really understand why @Tacklewasher wants to shoot those of us who so generously and selflessly volunteered for the Fruitcake Disposal Squad, though. 4 -
I mostly like fruitcake, but if one wants it to be really decadent-good, it's important that it omit those ucky commercial fake-dyed candied fruit in favor of homemade actual candied delicious fruit. And lovingly bathe it in alcohol for weeks, of course.
I don't really understand why @Tacklewasher wants to shoot those of us who so generously and selflessly volunteered for the Fruitcake Disposal Squad, though.
My mum's fruitcake is so alcoholic you wouldn't want to drive after it haha. So good.2 -
Roman soldiers would bring fruitcake with them on campaign, like we do energy bars. I make my own, just naturally dried fruits, nuts, spices, and good dark rum. Dense enough to stop a bullet from any hater.8
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I don't really understand why @Tacklewasher wants to shoot those of us who so generously and selflessly volunteered for the Fruitcake Disposal Squad, though.
I thought this was the "unpopular" thread!
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »There was this one fruit cake that my father ordered one time way back in the day from Swiss Colony Farms (does anyone else remember them?) that had dried fruit instead of candied, and the batter was light instead of dark, and the fruit was tropical. There wasn't booze involved either.
It was really tasty, and probably not what anyone who is really into fruitcake (like my Nan was) would call an actual fruitcake.
I've never had actual fruitcake. My mother loved it. I took one look at those green candied fruits in it and noped right out of even trying it. And I was the type of kid who would try anything.
Wait, fruitcake has candied fruits? I didn't know that. Maybe I'm talking about something different? We make it with dried fruits soaked in some kind of spirit for a few days (Disaronno this time), the cake batter is baked on low heat for 3 hours, then the same alcohol is poured on the cake and it "marinades" for a month in foil, brushed occasionally with more alcohol. I don't usually like alcohol, but "edible alcohol" is quite alright. Easter bread has candied fruits, but I never thought of it as fruitcake (has yeast). Interesting. That one is very tasty, too. I don't understand the hate for either kind.
ETA: just asked mom and it does include candied cherries in the dried fruit mix, so yes, we must be talking about the same thing. Still love it, don't care what anyone says.4
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