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Somebody lectured me about Splenda today
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I would never lecture a stranger on what they should eat, even if I thought it was dangerous (Aspartame actually causes sharp pains in my head and can trigger my migraines with aura). Not my business to assume what happens to me will happen to them.6
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I've gotten this for YEARS. Mom always drank diet soda and so I did too. Only time I didn't was when I was preggers with my kids.
Now, I hear, "You'll lose more weight if you ditch the diet soda." I have 2 go-to responses:
1. Look them in the eye, pop open the can and drink
2. Reply, "Have you ever heard of Nunya?" When they say no, "Oh it's great! It's none ya damn business."
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Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.35
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run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
Oh? Care to elaborate?
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run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.16 -
run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...10 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...
O.M.G. Do not start with the carbz!4 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...
O.M.G. Do not start with the carbz!
I would apologize, but I'm not even sorry. :laugh:4 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...
And do glutinz. You can't forget de glutinz8 -
johnslater461 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...
And do glutinz. You can't forget de glutinz
See, that's the problem, dem carbz go straight to my glutinz...11 -
ladyreva78 wrote: »ruqayyahsmum wrote: »ladyreva78 wrote: »Poisonedpawn78 wrote: »
I swear some of these people are reading old news articles at the library from the early 1850's to get their up to date scientific information. Because pasteurization was a thing.. in 1864...Hungry_Shopgirl wrote: »Guys, as if right on cue with this thread, my dentist lectured me about dairy today. He went on and on about how we're all lactose intolerant, it's just a matter of degrees, and we shouldn't be consuming another animal's milk anyways, and its bacteria doesn't mesh with our system, evolutionarily speaking, etc.
All that to say I shouldn't consume dairy for at least a week after my dental surgery coming up. But what's one of the best things to eat for a swollen face post extraction according to the internet? Nutritionally dense, soft, delicious, cold ice cream.
I see a lot of Hagen Dass brand dairy in my near future. Yum!
I can't figure out if I want to make fun of the word 'mesh' or the that the bacteria died in pasteurization. Of course, even if it hadn't it is not harmful.
A little bit longer and these people will ACTUALLY be living 200 years behind.
We're entering a new age where food all has good or bad bacteria. Everything on your specific named diet is good for your gut, and everything else will lead to brain dysfunction because of bad gut bacteria. Except for blueberries because they're on everyone's top ten list. And ACV.
hmmmm does that mean that my Granna didn't eat enough Blueberries? I mean... if they're on everyone's top 10, then if she had eaten enough of them she wouldn't have gotten Alzheimer.
My mum must have forgotten to eat all the super foods..... diagnosed with alzhimers at 44
Ouch. My condolences. At least Granna had the good sense to wait till she was over 70.
[Comment was meant tongue-in-cheek. I know that no one choses to have that insidious disease and would not wish it on anyone. Nor would I wish it on anyone to watch them lose their loved ones to the fogs of forgetfulness.]
You would at least think her tea drinking habit would have helped but no she forgot to add acai berries
Wouldn't wish it on anyone either but you have to laugh sometimes, cryings exhausting and doesn't count as cardio
My mamas 65 now, in a care home for over 10, I've done enough crying for now14 -
run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
"Uh, pardon me, did you know the carbs in those croutons will jack up your insulin and make you store that whole salad as fat. Oh, and don't even get me started on the dressing you are reaching for"5 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »johnslater461 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...
And do glutinz. You can't forget de glutinz
See, that's the problem, dem carbz go straight to my glutinz...
My wife says my glutinz are like those of a Greek god. Not sure if Apollo or Dionysus.7 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »johnslater461 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...
And do glutinz. You can't forget de glutinz
See, that's the problem, dem carbz go straight to my glutinz...
Had an azz like a loaf of bread3 -
I almost feel sad that I've never had the experience of some idiot deciding to lecture me on my food choices because honestly I think I would just find it amusing. No random strangers ever seem to approach me with advice, it must be my resting a-hole face.13
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nutmegoreo wrote: »johnslater461 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »run4cover76 wrote: »Lol great story. Splenda isn't all that healthy. It's true.
I suppose it's useless at this point to reiterate that the OP was about someone lecturing a perfect stranger in public about their food choices, and the fact that it happened to be splenda is completely incidental to the story. I get the feeling that if this incident had happened at a salad bar and involved croutons this thread would be 20 pages shorter.
Nah, dem carbz tho...
And do glutinz. You can't forget de glutinz
See, that's the problem, dem carbz go straight to my glutinz...
If only...0 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »I almost feel sad that I've never had the experience of some idiot deciding to lecture me on my food choices because honestly I think I would just find it amusing. No random strangers ever seem to approach me with advice, it must be my resting a-hole face.
Ah, always wondered what the male of equivilent of RBI was.4 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »Hungry_Shopgirl wrote: »Guys, as if right on cue with this thread, my dentist lectured me about dairy today. He went on and on about how we're all lactose intolerant, it's just a matter of degrees, and we shouldn't be consuming another animal's milk anyways, and its bacteria doesn't mesh with our system, evolutionarily speaking, etc.
All that to say I shouldn't consume dairy for at least a week after my dental surgery coming up. But what's one of the best things to eat for a swollen face post extraction according to the internet? Nutritionally dense, soft, delicious, cold ice cream.
I see a lot of Hagen Dass brand dairy in my near future. Yum!
I would have been so tempted to say to the dentist, "Wow, the scientific method really didn't sink in during your pre-dentistry classes, did it?"
After your procedure/appointment, of course.6 -
mistypoison wrote: »I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.
TBH I don't understand the hate about getting diet coke with food. Why would I want to add more liquid calories to a large meal? What if I'd rather spend my calories on getting a bigger portion of food than on a liquid drink. Idk it kinda rubs me the wrong way.
It's the all or nothing mentality. Either a meal is "bad food" or "good food". Before I learned about calories and how the body really works, I used to roll my eyes at people who would get a diet soda with their cheeseburger and fries. I mean, you are already having a crappy lunch that's going to make you fat, why worry about the silly little soda? Of course, now I only drink diet and will get a diet soda with a higher cal fast food meal all the time, to fit my cal goal! Live and learn...10 -
And some people who have no current interest in losing weight genuinely prefer the taste of diet coke.
In my past, I too, have been guilty of wondering why someone draws the line at the beverage when eating so much. Now I wish I had drawn the line a few more places giving me less to burn back off.5
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