Are we dieting ?

[chet]

I was just wonderin' if da members are collectively on a diet.  ???  Seems as though there hasn't been as much discusion of food lately. Don't get me wrong I'm not whinin' because I ain't heard da word Grits lately.  ;D

[Roxie]

Yep    
I get about two days into it though, and remember that someone once asked me if I knew how many women on the Titantic skipped dessert because they were watching their figure.   :D

[Bro. Noble]

Roxie,

I'm with you  8)

My wife's always telling me I can't eat that because of my blood pressure,  and I can't eat that because of my blood sugar,  and I cant eat something else cause I'm too fat.  I tell her if I was to skip all that good food and then get hit by a car,  I'd really be pithed :D :D

[old3dogg]

Im gonna fry some 1/2 pound burgers on the grill today!
Little brother said something about bringing some fresh trout over.
Wash it all down with ice cold beer while we watch the race on tv that I put out on the deck.
No diet here my friend! ;D

[Part_Timer]

I figure if I cut more trees,  haul more logs,  cut more lumber, and stack more boards I won't worry about what I'm eating.  I'd like to see my doctor keep up for 4 hours much less the weekend 

[old3dogg]

Wife brought back some Florida sweet corn on the cobb so I guess Im gonna roast that on the grill also! 8)

[Engineer]

I'm usually on a see-food diet - I see food, I eat it.

What's the point of dieting anyway?  I work hard, I'm an outdoors kind of person, yeah I'm overweight, but so what?  I don't wanna spend my life eating lo-fat/lo-carb/lo-cholesterol/lo-calorie, low TASTE crap, only to live another five years and regret all of them.  No way.

I wanna enjoy my meals - all of the grilled, smoked, sauteed, fried, and even the healthy stuff.  I love to cook and love to eat, and if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, all the dieting in the world won't have helped me, and I won't regret my last meal.

Julia Child was famous for saying "Eat EVERYTHING, in MODERATION."  That's gospel.

J

[isawlogs]

Just had me some fresh from the bird eggs and some fresh from the tree syrrup .....  Now I'm thinking of getting more syrup for desert ....  ;D   maple syrup and fresh bread and butter .... Really good for tha cholastérol   ;D

[Norm]

Howd you know!  I've been on one for over a month now, first time I've been under 200lbs for a long time. Been losing an average of 2lbs a week.

I'm eating a little more chicken and seafood but giving up things like a stick of butter on my baked potato.  ;D

[chet]

Howd you know! I've been on one for over a month now, first time I've been under 200lbs for a long time. Been losing an average of 2lbs a week.

I'm eating a little more chicken and seafood but giving up things like a stick of butter on my baked potato. ;D

Norm,
Yur a stronger man than me.   ;)   Taters are a staple of my diet, and ya can't eat taters without lots of butter.   

[beenthere]

Engineer
Follow Julia's recommendation, just stay away from in front of the bus   ;D

[hiya]

I have heard that if you eat only whats good for you, exerise like you should, do everything just right, when you die the Dr. wouldn't know what to put the cause of death from on the death certificate. (sp?)
Richard
ps meat ( chicken and deer) and taters is the only way to go 8) 8)

[Ernie]

For years I had a yellowed old newpaper article stuck on the fridge door.  It was a study done in Finland over quite a long period of time and involving thousands of men.  The men were broken into two groups.  The first ate sensibly???? drank little alcohol,  got plenty of exercise and quit smoking.  The second ate, drank and smoked what ever and whenever they wanted and only exercised if they felt like it.

Virtually all of the first group died well before any of the second group.

Must have been the stress of giving up their normal lifestyle.

Enough said?

My mother's parents were Finnish so I felt it was quite pertinent

Ernie

[Norm]

Aint no way I could give up taters!  Now I try to use less than a stick of butter on em but still slather it on. ;D

When that low carb diet was going around there wasn't a chance I could go on it. I grew up in a meat and potatoes family and still crave it today. One of the things that has helped is to eat lots of veggies to fill myself up with but still have to have taters or rice also. Patty has a book with the calories of everything and it has been surprising what is low cal and what isn't. I love dairy products but was shocked by how many calories cream and butter have in em.

[Patty]

Yea, I'm the one on the diet (which always puts me in a foul mood) and Norm is the one losing the weight. It just is not fair. Like a fool I told everybody that when I turned 50 I'd be slim & trim.  : Geesh, me & my big mouth. I totally blew it off until after Christmas, then it was after the anniversary, and then I ran out of excuses; and now I'm in a tizz about getting the weight off.

Norm has been great about the whole thing. He has altered his cooking to make the meals much lower in calories for me. Bless his heart. And I have been walking 2 miles to work & back everyday; and working my fool head off on the weekends. Something's got to give pretty soon.  :D

[Stump Jumper]

so chet ya still got them grits with ff signatures or did imiss the hand off :

[chet]

so chet ya still got them grits with ff signatures or did imiss the hand off :

Still got um. But I know I can pawn them off on some unsuspecting soul this summer. 

[asy]

Hey Patty!

I have a surefire way to make you feel trim, taut and terriffic!

Come over here and stand next to me...    :D :D :D

That'll make ya feel Trim AND Taut...  And we're both already terrific!!!  hehe

asy :D

[Paschale]

I'm on a diet...I do that low-carb thing from time to time.  It really works, but man, it can be a pain sometimes. :  Now that grilling season is here, though, it's the diet for me, and really helps to shed the pounds.  But I got too much of a sweet tooth to stay on it forever... :

[WH_Conley]

When ya get back from the store with the stuff that is low calorie, low fat, low cholesterol take it out of the package and eat the package, tastes better. :D :D

[Engineer]

Well, to heck with dieting, we have decided to spend the tax refund on a side of beef and a whole pig.  Freezer stuffing!

Easiest time of year to diet (if ya got to) is later in the summer when the fresh veggies are coming in and the farmer's markets are full.  My kids have been known to obtain entire meals just by going outside and sitting in the garden, eating tomatoes, spinach greens, carrots, etc.  I applaud their enjoyment of it, but I always feel that there's gotta be meat & starch in my meals. 

Unless it's ice cream.   :D

[tnlogger]

now i am real picky about my diet. I eat 3 meals a day big breakfast plenty of grease and grits
lunch meat and taters and supper all i can eat of the same but with plenty of pie or cake  ;D

[sawguy21]

Somebody tells me it is low colesterol poly unsaturated whatever I don't want it. I can't stand to eat at my sister's place because she is obsessed with it. I eat what I like but in moderation. Well. some things in moderation :D

[jjmk98k]

Yeah, i am on a diet, this winter was hard and cold, packed on too many pound eating GRITS and Uncle sam wants me to loose some of them!

Funny thing, i stand 5'10" weigh 200# with a stocky build, but according to Air Force standards, I am 20# too heavy.... geez if I weighted 180 I'd look silly proportionally!

[Patty]

Asy, You crack me up!  :D Of course we are both terrific, and beautiful too!

I just want to wear some of my clothes again. I am too cheap to buy new ones, and I'm tired of wearing hand-me-downs from my sons and from Norm.  :

The low carb thing pretty much sucks as far as I'm concerned. Just lower my calorie intake & raise my excersize level, and it should work. OK, so you know I'm kidding there, too. I've been trying to lower the calorie thing, but after my beer, cookies and ice cream, I don't have any calories left!  :D