Ideas? Suggestions?

[silverthorne]

So, okay

Suggestions for:

Green, leafy veggies (or any veggies, really), for me to eat/add to my diet?

How to celebrate my birthday next Sunday? (must be budgeted and plan on a solo activity)

Should I sleep some more, or build my other bookshelf?

Save up for an iPod or a 360?

Cake or Death? (Or however that goes).

The Eagles or Queen?

Have at, guys.

Comments

[skywardprodigal.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of funny in that I'm someone who eats butter as opposed to margarine, and olive oil/coconut oil as opposed to canola/corn.

I think if oily vegetables and fruits, like olives and mangos, are God's gift to us and fat that we can eat as we like. It is important to watch out for curing methods with olives though. But yeah, if it's an oil that we have usual access to/could reproduce in your kitchen with the base fruit, a heavy bowl, and some pressure?

I think you can eat it and worry less than if you're eating fast food at McD's or Wendy's. That ish is the devil. If only it was just weird stale heavily processed fats you had to watch out for in those meals. I bet the hormones in the meat do jacked up things to your body too: thus the five pounds.

I once gained five pounds after an order of chicken wings at a bar. Never repeated that one. Eventually, I figured it was the hormones, the sodium, and the ancient oil in the fryer. My body was all, "I HATE YOU." And my friend, the stripper, who split the order with me? She gained five too.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah, I see your point. I just can't remember off hand if it's the canola thats worse, or the olive. I'm thinking though it's the canola, since that's what most restuarants, including fast food, uses in their fryers. Also, I think most recent findings do say butter is actualyl better for you than the margerine alts these days, now that folks know about transfats. It;s all the oil and addidive I think that make the margerine softer and easier to blend that does it. So, butter is the better option.

I used the Micky D's as an example, but yeah, any fast food is going to be TONS worse than anything you can cook at home. That, and even regular restuarants will over-butter and over-oil food to make it taste better. Even the 'lowfat' options have more in the way of not-so-good additives than you usually get at home.

Good point on the hormone thing.