conniewilkins56 wrote: »

Folgers is the best coffee in your cup!….

eeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Baaaaaaaaaaaarffffffffffffffffffffffff!

I have a new friend who has lured me back to the world of coffee (been ??? 25 years or so with no coffee)...he is really tickled with having discovered Lavazza - and one sale - and now has ??? 20? 30? pounds in his freezer - the only thing in his freezer...lol

I get a perfect machiatto (? sp) made with oat milk a couple times a week and the girl gets liver treats when we stop by to visit during our eastward walks. Nice meeting people on your walking route who are good people who make you special drinks!

Black coffee since I was 18. Of course back then it was enjoyed with several cigarettes. It was the 60s so that was pretty tame for the time. Gave up the smokes long ago but stayed with the coffee.

and they keep insisting I upgrade the android app! forced me to do it after I had checked out of the bug race for 2 years and now we're back at it!

Happy that you’re doing so well Alexandra. Hope the restart of diet and exercise goes smoothly too!

Congratulations, Alexandra!!!!!

Feeling better today, which is good as I have a lot of prep work to do.

So strange. My experience is exactly the opposite. No cola or soda drinks ever before noon. Just couldn’t start the day with cold sodas. Never was a big soda drinker anyway and haven’t had one in many, many years. The artificial sweeteners just began causing gut issues. So it’s pretty much black coffee, teas, or water for me.

The taramosalata that was mentioned in the other thread sparked a memory from my past, from my first year at university.

I vowed to go home at the end of my first year slim and fit (thus proving that my mom was the one really to blame for my obesity because of her sub-optimal catering!)

Inspired by Susie Orbach's Fat Is A Feminist Issue, I determined to eat intuitively, with an emphasis on unprocessed, vegetarian, natural foods. I became obsessive about making food from scratch, so every morning before class I got up at the crack of dawn to make a granary loaf and a batch of fresh pasta. Every sunday I made a kilo of houmous and a big pan of pesto.

My house-share was the other side of the city from the University, in an area with a large Turkish and Greek community. Literally next door there was an amazing (and dirt cheap) delicatessen, which sold freshly made taramosalata, tahini and the most amazing green, peppery olive oil. I bought a kilo of taramosalata every week, and took my 500ml olive oil bottle and my tahini jar to be refilled about once a fortnight.

Oh, and to be extra-healthy, I drank a two litre carton of orange juice every day. No water/tea/coffee etc....just orange juice.

Breakfast was bread and organic peanut butter. Lunch was bread and either taramosalata or houmous. Dinner was invariably pasta with pesto. All washed down with OJ.

At the end of the first year, I'd gained 30kg (66lbs), despite cycling over 4000kms between home and campus.

Mom wasn't impressed.

Oh the days Garfield!

And it's not as if I didn't know WHAT a calorie was, I had even found mom's little calorie count booklet format tables back in high school.

But healthy, right?

So for years I drank regular not diet Coke to avoid aspartame! And to counterbalance the bad saturated fats I liberally added olive oil to salad and veggies and anywhere else! And, of course, I said no to crappy white bread (which I like but not so much that I would eat a whole loaf) and chose healthy rye loafs from Costco (or baguettes). Take a guess as to whether even the rye would make it to the second day! (Baguettes are obviously single serve--that's well known😉)

Yup. Dog walks did not help me control my weight! 😹😹😹

B-b-b-but they said the Mediterranean diet was healthy! 😆😆😆

I learned that year that you definitely can’t outrun (or out-cycle) your fork! 🚴🐷🚴🐷