RaquelCasul

"Because we've always done it" or "because we built our society on it" or "because it's tradition" are not, alone, good reasons to do absolutely anything. You need something else; circumstances change. Western society was built on pillage, slavery, and rape, and no one suggests continuing those traditions. You are…

Depends. If it's your sister or best friend, who is also your bridesmaid, and who will collapse if they breathe in too much, then, yes, that would be a severe act of aggression. If it's a distant cousin's plus one, and you had no reasonable way of knowing, then no.

Please stop putting words in my mouth. Words have unnecessary calories.

I disagree with your calculations. Vegetarian is covered by the vegan option, and so is lactose-free. It's difficult to combine paleo and vegan, but fairly easy to combine paleo and gluten/nut-free. Since I have a friend who's vegetarian and gluten-free, I'd just go with two separate dishes; one vegan, one paleo, both nut…

Serving someone a meal which does not include every single item they regularly eat is absolutely not the same as serving someone a meal made with items which they have a moral or physical objection to eating.

I think you misread my post. That's not really an accurate summary.

Yeah, I'm fairly sure this blogger was in the same boat as you. She wasn't expecting any of her guests to have allergies or issues, so it just wasn't a huge priority to cater for them. Not so very different worlds, though.:) A lot of my veggie/vegan friends overlap with my friends in the LGBTQ community.

Ha! At least you're fair about it.:)

Thinking about it, I was picturing specifically the weddings I'd be/have been invited to, which were typically very small groups of close friends. It would be very out-of-character for them to ignore veganism or celiac disease, since most of them are one of the other! I guess I wouldn't be hurt at the wedding of someone…

How interesting. Would you serve non-kosher food to a Jewish person, or non-Halal meat to a practicing Muslim? Or is it just non-religious beliefs/decisions that are ignored?

I'd agree that it's a higher priority to cater for an allergy. There's a huge difference between potentially killing someone and just letting them go hungry for a few hours (though, normally, there's a side dish or two, particularly if the catering is buffet style). Though I do still think that the latter is quite rude, if…

This is always such an interesting assumption. I'm not sure why meat-eaters think they're not catered for when they're served perfectly edible food that doesn't contain specific ingredients they like, or why they think it's comparable to serving food containing ingredients that other people can't eat.

Yeah, the cabbage soup/atkins thing was a joke.:)

What makes you think that? Most people are physically capable of eating vegan, celiac, or nut-free food, while people with allergies are not physically capable of eating whatever they're allergic to. I'm using 'cater' to mean 'serve food that is edible', not 'serve their favourite ingredients'.

I agreed that being overweight correlates with health problems, and that health problems can be caused by bad habits which also result in being overweight. What I was objecting to was the idea that being thin is automatically better in every single way than being overweight, regardless of any other issues or actions. It is…

My tattoos are in places that are hidden by default, so the work thing has never come up for me. That's not WHY I got them in those places, just a side effect. I hate the body-policing "YOU MUST JUSTIFY YOUR BODY ART TO ME" attitude. Like, "oh, it's okay if it's your kids names/birthdays" or "it's okay if it's meaningful"…

If, as you specified, the overweight man eats healthily while the lighter man eats junk food then, yes, it is completely possible.

It depends on a lot of factors, but, in many cases, it will be the heavier person. Having a high weight alone is not bad for your health. It can be a factor in conditions which are bad for your health, and can be correlated with poor habits which aren't good for you, but being overweight alone is not a bad thing, and you…

Not sure if it's practical for your budget or location, but Graze are a company that will send you a box of healthy snacks once a week, for about £3-4 per box. They tend to be fruit and nut based, with some good quality chocolate in a few, and they're all vegetarian. Might be worth a look; have a search for graze.co.uk.…

Drink water, rather than taking in liquid calories. Fill up on salad. Go for items with more veggies than starchy carbs, don't eat too much of anything deep fried, and have fun.:)

Age: 24 Height: 5'7 Start Weight: 140lbs Current Weight: 140lbs Goal Weight: 125lbs

Soya yoghurt with fresh berries. A mixture of muesli & porridge made with soya milk (I generally throw some frozen berries on there as well; it's going to be microwaved, and those frozen berries keep forever). Pancakes can easily be under 300 calories if you're careful with the portion size. My favourite recipe is 1/3 cup…

FaerieCae, I personally would either count that as a lightly active life style, and not log it, or, depending on other activities, class your lifestyle as sedentary, and then log the cleaning as extra exercise.

That's just under a pound a week, which is a perfectly healthy amount to lose for someone who isn't seriously obese.