Unhealthy Foods & Realizing You Were Eating Them

December 15, 2003

These posts about meals we used to eat (before WW) that were horribly

unhealthy has gotten me to thinking. I used to eat without abandon,

and then I would wonder why I was gaining weight. I felt I ate like a

normal person--yea, a normal NFL linebacker.

I would go to this country buffet we have here once every week or so

(it's called Brown's Country Kitchen) and have fried catfish, french

fries, mashed potatoes with gravy, fried corn on the cob, mac &

cheese, rolls with butter, and about three desserts on top of all

that! Hello, arteries, are you calling?

I would go to Outback about once a month and have the appetizer with

french fries covered in cheese and bacon, then a salad with bread,

then the Alice Springs Chicken, and possibly a dessert. Oh my GAWD!

At my favorite mexican place (we ate there every friday): tons of

cheese dip, salsa, and chips. Then, two enchiladas, two tacos, rice,

and beans. Plus a couple margaritas.

One of my favorite things to do on a Saturday night was eat a pint of

Ben & Jerry's Cherry . Not the low fat yogurt kind, either.

It's over 20 points for the pint! I used to have it after dinner.

How did I ever get all that food in my tummy? Eating that way now

would make me barf. I go to these places still, but I eat reasonably

and count my points.

I have a friend that I saw at a Christmas party this past weekend, he

is about 30-40 pounds overweight, but he was telling us how he just

got his cholestoral checked and it was 302, and had been as high as

320 on one occasion! He's under 35. I asked him what he was going to

do and he said " I'll go on a diet, but I'm living it up until after

the holidays! " I think that is a lot of people's plan. This party was

given by a friend of mine that goes to WW with me. He had invited

everyone and announced it was going to be a " healthy " meal. He made a

wonderful low-point chicken casserole with wild rice. The others of

us each brought a side dish (I made a 3 point per serving sweet

potato casserole), another brought salad. The friend with the

cholesteral problem, he brought a spinach dish with heavy cream and

two kinds of fat-laden cheese in it. It was just so sad. He didn't

even see the irony.

April

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