Here I am setting here reading this while I'm eating 4 thick strips of bacon, 2 eggs over easy, hashbrowns, toast and jelly and a large glass of ice cold milk.

I'm now seeing TnDeer making it's start to becoming a straight vegan web site. Just think, in a couple years at the TnDeer/LBL campout we are setting around drinking b-12 water while there is tofu-soy steaks on the grill.

I just can't bring myself to let go of bread.

Same here! Love me some sourdough or pumpernickel.

Here I am setting here reading this while I'm eating 4 thick strips of bacon, 2 eggs over easy, hashbrowns, toast and jelly and a large glass of ice cold milk.

I'm now seeing TnDeer making it's start to becoming a straight vegan web site. Just think, in a couple years at the TnDeer/LBL campout we are setting around drinking b-12 water while there is tofu-soy steaks on the grill.

Yeah I feel your pain brother.

Wife is on a "nothing artifical" & low carb diet kick.
She is dropping lbs and feeling MUCH better after the first week of he11 so it is working.

I have tagged along and noticed after a week of eating healthy that the stuff made in Frankenstein's lab really affects you.

For example. Coffee. Never drank coffee until last fall. Now I am hooked on it but want mocha's. (yeah I know, training wheels).
If I put hershey syrup (contains high fructose corn syrup) in it, I get the shakes an hour or two later. If I put one spoon full of regular sugar and one spoonfull of baking cocoa, almost the same taste but no shakes. I can even have 2 cups with no problems.

TO get all science class on you, there are basically 2 types of carbs, simple and complex. Simple carbs will digest quickly and spike your blood sugar. Complex carbs will digest more slowly and not spike you as bad.
From what I have read, spiking your blood sugar = bad.
Most engineered foods are DESIGNED to give you a quick sugar shot which gives you a mild euphoria and feeling of satisfaction. Naturally your blood sugar spikes and then crashes making you hungry and crave more.

Start reading labels and you will freak out at the amount of "what the h*** is that?" stuff in your food.

Look up "low glycemic foods" and you will be amazed at how stuff like baked potatoes and white rice is almost like eating desert.

Name the ONE cereal that has no added sugar of any kind.

I will bet that it has one of those hidden sugars like "Rice bran juice"

I was gonna say Cheerios.

snacks are very important

they keep your metabolism elevated and that keeps your body operating as a calorie burning machine

lulls in activity or food intake slow metabolism down

with snacks, utilize a mid morning snack and a mid afternoon snack of about 150-200 calories each. And try either a protein or fruit snack.

I'll do a cheese stick for a 10am break, and sometimes a few sticks of peanut butter/celery.

Mid afternoon, a banana,cantelope wedge,lite syrup peach cup.

I saw the smart phone app thread and got me thinking. Y'all that are tryin to lose weight or "be healthier" check out this app for the iphone (not sure about android)...It's called "my fitness pal" helps you keep track of calories taken in and burned pretty neat. Once you start seeing just how many calories are in some of the food you eat it makes you change your tune pretty quick

I tried that app, one thing I noticed. Many of the caloric database is built on user contributions. My can of ravioli might be 200 calories different the one they want me to plug into my daily journal. It got frustrating.

I quit that app and went back to my notebook. Handwritten was actually faster. Plus by now, I know in my head the caloric values for most things I eat.

Think the most important of this thread is that yall get your butts up and exercise

And you can never, never, never go wrong with a slice of cantaloupe. They are so friggin good... and healthy. I could eat a whole one any time. That's why a good portion of my garden has cantaloupes (and honeydew) planted. Nothing better. I'll bring a pocket knife and eat one right in the garden sometimes.

Everyone else does it. It's hard to isolate yourself from it because it's a lifestyle for everyone around you and you are also used to it.

I had to stop going to business meeting/pot luck at church. Gain 5 lbs one night,lol

Baptists put bacon grease in everything.

Nope again.

"Ingredients: Rolled Whole Oat Flakes, Whole Wheat, Raisins (may be coated with expeller pressed canola or sunflower oil), Whole Barley, Skim Milk Powder, Roasted Hazelnuts, Malt Extract, Sliced almonds."

However, a friend who is a weight watchers instructor said alot of the breakfast/snack bars aint all that good for you.

here are a few things to help you along the way to losing weight.

1) All carbohydrates are made of Glucose molecules linked together. the simple vs. complex comes from how they are linked. for example, simple carbs may be a few glucose molecules in length with no cross liking making them easily digested 9thus the spike in blood sugar). Complex carbs may be longer chains with cross links or multiple chains cross-linked together. Cellulose is a complex carb that we cannot digest. those carbs that take longer to digest do not cause a spike in blood sugar.

2) Building on #1; when your blood sugar spikes, your body removes the sugar from your bloodstream and stores it as glycogen. It can be metabolized later if needed, but if you dont need it later it can be converted to fat and stored. In essence, a diet high in simple sugars will cause an increase in stored fat in your body.

3) Dont go long periods wihtout eating. Your body will go into "Starvation" mode after about 8 hours. When you do eat again, it will convert more of the carbs to fat for the next time your body might need it. So, in essence skipping meals can cause you to gain weight. Eat several small meals throughout the day rather than a few large meals many hours apart.

4) A calorie is a measure of energy. 1 gram of fat has 9 calories while 1 gram of carbohydrates stores only 4 calories. What it means is you must expend 2.25 times as much energy to burn 1 gram of fat than you do to burn 1 gram of carbohydrate.
If you exercise and burn more calories than you take in, you will lose weight.

5) You still need fat in your diet, about 1 tablespoon of unsaturated fat per day.

6) Overall....Eat more smaller meals high in complex carbs and low in fat (Especially saturated fat), Dont eat and go to bed, burn more calories than you take in.Lay off the big mac value meals..Each meal has 1286 calories, That is about half what you would need in a day to maintain your current weight.

7) Oh yeah, you still need protein too, and lean red meat is the best source out there.