Bad Weight Loss Advice
June 23rd, 2010
Jenfu sends along a link to bad weight loss advice for women. Such as laugh off the pounds, or chew gum for an hour, or this:
“Try an almond stacked on top of a dried apricot — it tastes like a cookie. Really.”
Um… no. I’m not exactly a foodologist, but I’m pretty sure that this snack would taste like a nut on top of a dried piece of fruit.
Sometimes we get so inundated with this kind of ridiculous advice that we need a reality check. Yes, it’s ridiculous to drink hot lemon water instead of eating. I mean, come on! What are we, Cheerios?
“Sometimes I add a teaspoon of sand.”
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Adding vanilla to “Tab” makes it taste like regular soda! Really!
(Or maybe if you add enough vanilla the alcohol gets you tipsy enough to not to care that you’re drinking Tab?)
On the other hand, dried apricots (or mangos!) and almonds (or pecans or walnuts, etc.), are good (as in taste good). I keep some of both in a drawer at work. Of course, with the nuts, one needs to be aware of how much one is having, as they’re pretty calorific. (They also tend to be a bit expensive – if you’re near a Trader Joe’s, buy them there….)
R.
Hey I am making my own vanilla this summer for gifts this Christmas!
I like almonds, I like apricots, but I will never see the cookie!
(Apricots give me a stomach ache. Cookies don’t.)
Ah, Hollywood: land of the Master Cleanse, the coffee-and-cigarettes diet, and weekly enemas!
I was once encouraged to eat ice chips AS A SNACK. Something about burning calories by lowering my body temp.
You know, I love apricots. I love almonds. I think they taste brilliant together. Do they add up to a cookie? No. They need cookie dough to do that.
Ironically enough, I am baking apricot cookies as I read this. No almonds, though. I used actual cookie dough.
I think I’d rather make a paste out of the almond add some sugar, fill the apricot with the paste and then dip it in chocolate…
Did I mention my ex- is allergic to almonds? Maybe I need to bake/make those cookies!
:)
Rena
(And dipping in chocolate is a good plan – just make sure it’s dark chocolate! And don’t forget the red wine!)
R.
“Did all the other kids start looking like food right before you passed out?”
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I confess to inserting a walnut half into a date and going mmmmmm after eating it, but it ain’t no damn cookie.
Other bad diet advice: chew your food 100 times – if I want to drink a sandwich-shake I will do that.
Although an almond on an apricot sounds pretty good (provided it is not trying to replace a cookie)! You know what would be really awesome though? Cookies with both apricots and almonds on them.
I want dried apricots and almonds right now. That sounds like a fabulous snack, and I’m all about the snacks.
I’ve learned to hate the “eat this poor substitute for the thing you actually want!” advice. Geez, eat the thing you ACTUALLY WANT and get on with your life. When I gave myself permission to nom cookies all day, I… stopped eating the whole sleeve of cookies and started seeking out new snacks, cuz I needed some novelty. And fiber. (Hummus on multigrain crackers! Apple slices with peanut butter! Cubes of cheddar cheese with grapes! Oh, yay!)
I am a definite believer in the eat what you want when you want it philosophy. There are too many other things to think about in life to spend hours trying to dream up low calorie food ideas when there’s a great gooey chocolate cookie readily available to enjoy – yummy! And the bonus of that attitude (well said Lampdevil) is you dont eat the whole pack – just one when you want it.