Re: Not doing well....Spaghetti

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Awesome story. I will use that one.

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Not doing well....Spaghetti

Great story, .

> My Dad has a story from his old Air Force

days that truly shows

the power of

> the mind over the body.

>

> A group of buddies (including him) were

gearing up for some

drinkin' fun.

> They took a bottle of Pepsi and gave it to a

relative new guy and

told him

> it was spiked with Everclear or something

similar. The fella got

so drunk

> he couldn't stand.

>

> It was just plain Pepsi.

>

> I've spoken with others who have done the

same, especially with

the whole

> caffeinated vs. decaffeinated coffee

bit. In my family, if I tell

them what

> is in something they flat won't eat it.

Any more, they won't

touch much of

> anything I cook simply because they KNOW it's

going to be healthy

to at

> least healthIER than anything they

make. My Dad was told to

reduce his

> sodium to around 4,000mg (1,600mg MORE than

the RDA, mind you) and

now they

> cook meals with less salt. They haven't

eliminated it, just use

less. He

> complains all the time about how his food has

no flavor and life

essentially

> stinks because of it.

>

> My average daily sodium intake is around

2,000mg. My foods are

LOADED with

> flavor -- just LOADED. I can't for the

life of me figure out what

he's

> talking about, especially since I know he's

still eating more than

that

> 4,000mg and even before he really didn't take

in THAT much more.

>

> I made up a cauliflower potato salad this

weekend and gave them a

sample of

> each batch. My Dad actually liked one

of them -- said they were

both good

> but he liked one of the recipes better than

the other. He of

course went on

> to tell me that he usually doesn't like what

I cook but this was

good stuff.

> Then they had some from a caterer and no one

ate it. The only

reason he

> was willing to try it though was that they

had previously had

cauliflower

> potato salad and liked it (ironically enough,

it was the same

caterer they

> bought the uneaten batch from).

>

> I can make things in an unhealthy fashion and

they'll still say

they don't

> like them solely because they know *I* cook

healthy. Never mind

the fact I

> made it just like they do. So in the

end, it really is all mind

over

> matter.

Reminder:

The South Beach Diet is not low-carb. Nor is it low-fat. The South Beach Diet

teaches you to rely on the right carbs and the right fats-the good ones - and

enables you to live quite happily without the bad carbs and bad fats.

For more on this Way Of Eating please read

" The South Beach Diet " by Arthur Agatston, MD. ISBN 1-57954-814-8