OK. Worked fairly late tonight. Shook off a nasty cold and a buildup of sleep deprivation a couple weeks back. And my cupboard is largely bare. So I decided, since I've been fairly diligent at getting back into shape, that I'd treat myself to some delicious Ben & Jerry's from Wal*Mart tonight. I mean, what the Hell? I had to stop in and use their ATM anyway. And I didn't have any grocs, so why not? Then, on the way in, the smell from the strip mall Asian restaurants hit me and I decided I'd treat myself to something healthy from one of them instead. I did. And it was good. But for the remaining couple blocks home, I had ice cream on my brain. Iiiiice creeeeeeam.... Then it hit me: for various reasons I ran out of milk early in the week and haven't gotten around to picking any up. I haven't had any dairy or calcium for about 4 days. My body decided, apparently, that it needs the calcium, Vitamin D, and, yes, fat that I haven't been getting. It's funny that way. They had a thing on the Discovery Channel the other night--that Human Body show--about some guy who was lost at sea in a raft. And over time he started eating weird stuff from the fish--the eyeballs, the liver--splitting open the bones to eat the junk in between. Heart brains, the whole thing. What the show said is that these parts of the fish had exactly the nutrients he needed at the time and when he was rescued after 70 days at sea, he was in excellent health. I suspect that is the way pregnant cravings are as well. So anyway, I'll come back and maybe join the drunk thread. But first I gotta go back to the store and get some ice cream.
Indeed. This is why all those idiotic 'diets' that spring up in magazines around this time of the year simply don't work. Yes, you will lose weight quickly when you eat nothing but cucumbers for a month but then... oh my, then the body goes into starvation mode and eat everything it gets. The only thing you actually don't need to survive are carbs btw. As long as there is enough fat in your nutrition, that is.
People craving healthy food? The best tasting foods tend to be the least healthy. We've a long history of taking to junk food like dogs to anti-freeze. But by all means have yourself some ice-cream.
Containing nutrients you need is not equal to healthy food. There are vitamins in Big Macs, for example. There are also tons of trans fats that will clog up your arteries. And ice cream was made by God himself so it can't be unhealthy.
Well, technically, you don't need carbs to survive. But who the hell would want to live without them?
I my carbs... This is interesting. When I was pregnant, I didn't exactly have any cravings, but I was eating about a pound of citrus fruit a day. I assumed my body was in need of vitamin C... Plus, while before hand I was an eight cups a day tea person, when I was pregnant I couldn't even stand the smell of it...
The Wife ate lemons by the pound when The Boy was in the oven. This time around she can't stand the smell of lemons.
^ No you don't. The body can run on two kinds of fuel - fat and carbs. You only need one. The problem of obesity in the west is that people are eating unholy amounts of both, burning carbs and storing fat.
I think a lot of people think that eating carbs is 'bad'...'bad'...'bad'....which might explain why the Atkins diet did so good....for a while at least. My dad was on there, for about 3 months, and he almost landed up in the hospital numerous times because he ran out of a source for energy and fainted. Now of course, one must know the difference between 'good' carbs....and 'bad' carbs.
If he "ran out of a source of energy", he was cheating on the diet and not forcing the metabolism he needed.
I think you DO need carbs to survive. Every weightlifting book I've read says if you cut out carbs to a very low level, you can get by for awhile, but you'll feel like total shit. You lose your concentration and you get really irritable. I don't know if you'll actually DIE without carbs, but I guess the operative word here is 'survive'. You might survive, but in what state?
Did you have to quote the whole post to say that? Back to Volpone. As a general rule of thumb, don't ever go to the grocery store hungry. Case in point.
