“But there aren’t any calories in sour cream.”

rosiorama wrote: »

My step-mother emphatically believed butter did not have fat. Fat to her was only the stuff that came off of an animal. I used to get so stressed about going over for dinner because her food was served with a heavy dose of guilt.

Imagine a heavy set old lady with a thick Russian accent swearing up and down that the cream sauce had no fat in it: it’s ONLY CREAM AND BUTTER. THERE’S NO FAT!

She’d also promise there wasn’t any dessert but then after pressuring me to eat a second portion of breaded fried chicken with cream sauce over everything she’d pull out dessert and say, “This isn’t dessert, it’s just pudding!”

She’d pout if I didn’t take a bunch of cream sauce-laden leftovers home with me. My solution finally was to take the food and throw it out when I got home. It made me feel ill to eat it the first time, and I hated throwing if out, but it was either that or fight over cream sauce. Every. Week.

Crap. Did this turn into a rant? She had a bunch of crazy ideas about food. ☹️😒

I believe it was Mean Girls that taught us that butter is a carb.

I once briefly worked with a group of women who were obsessed with various fad diets. Apparently the entire office had been cycling through all of them since the mid 90s (this was in 2013). I tried to block out most things they said about nutrition but a few gems stuck in my head.

One lady claimed that you can eat anything once a week because your body forgets what that food is and takes more calories to process it.

Second coworker tried to tell me my boyfriend (now husband) couldn't be vegetarian (pescetarian but she said veg) because he was muscular and rode his bike a lot. She said he had to be "sneaking bacon" and I thought it was a mildly offensive joke but no. She thought he was eating meat secretly. She was serious.

Third woman only ate dinner. No breakfast or lunch. Now, don't get me wrong, that would probably work out fine for some people. But she whined ALL DAY about feeling sick and hungry and she said that her doctor told her if you just eat once a day it doesn't matter how many calories you have - even if that means you eat 3,000 or more calories. She swore by this. She wasn't particularly overweight but she wanted to lose weight. It was odd.

Another chick spent about $10 at McDonald's every morning on different breakfast items and then threw about 2/3 of the food away as she concocted her ideal breakfast to suit her diet plan. This included picking blueberries out of her yogurt parfait. Every day. I wanted to ask why she didn't buy the components from a store and make it herself. But when I spoke to her, she just talked to me about her diet(s). Actually I can see some MFP-ers doing this (the McDonald's part) and I sorta get it. But in the crazy dieting office it just seemed nuts.

rosiorama wrote: »

seltzermint555 wrote: »

I once briefly worked with a group of women who were obsessed with various fad diets. Apparently the entire office had been cycling through all of them since the mid 90s (this was in 2013). I tried to block out most things they said about nutrition but a few gems stuck in my head.

One lady claimed that you can eat anything once a week because your body forgets what that food is and takes more calories to process it.

Second coworker tried to tell me my boyfriend (now husband) couldn't be vegetarian (pescetarian but she said veg) because he was muscular and rode his bike a lot. She said he had to be "sneaking bacon" and I thought it was a mildly offensive joke but no. She thought he was eating meat secretly.

I WISH my body would forget! Lol

Regarding secret meat eating: On a week-end visit to Home Depot several years ago, my husband and I came across the husband of a friend of mine who was chowing down on a Big Mac meal with a giant soda in the parking lot. He looked super guilty and asked us not to tell his wife!

The wife makes lots of hippy-ish health food that are gluten free, fermented, very low sugar, and new-agey. When our group of friends have potlucks, her husband and two kids go overboard eating the sugary, gluten-ey cakes and breads and other things that she doesn’t make at home. They do this in front of their mom/wife, who gets frustrated. I imagine she’d be super disappointed by his secret MacDonalds meals, but there are worse things to keep secret I suppose.

Not accusing your husband of similar, it’s just a funny story.

That is hilarious to me, too! It reminds me of a friend who talks a BIG talk when it comes to eating & cooking super healthy, organic, etc, and then when I'm at her house her preteen son and teen daughter will "out" her by saying things like "MOM! Can I have the rest of the Doritos?" or "I think that Chick-Fil-A from earlier made me sick". Just funny!

I'd laugh if my hubs WAS sneaking meat, though. He has eaten pescetarian for about 20 years, long before I met him. If my former coworker saw the other men in his family I think she would "get it", they're all HUGE dudes, very large, heavy, and muscular like they're all in the Highland Games. He's just inclined to have that body type and the fact that he's a bit leaner than most of them is in part due to his diet (though I personally think more the overall healthy-ness of it than the fact he doesn't eat meat).

You should use olive oil for cooking, because it has less fat than butter.

Olive oil: 99.9% fat
Butter: 81% fat

From a co-worker and friend that I work out with, where she hasn't lost much weight in over 3 months.

"Blueberry Pancakes only have 80 calories in them including the butter and syrup"

"eat 6 small meals so your metabolism stays active otherwise you'll not lose anything"

"having 1 day where you eat anything you want and in any quantity resets your body for the following week" each and every week

I try to explain CICO and how I weigh my food to the gram now but to her the food database on Fitbit is king and you don't need to weigh anything.

jackslovely wrote: »

"Blueberry Pancakes only have 80 calories in them including the butter and syrup"

Oh, man! I wish!!!