A Spo-fan recently informed me he eats all the chips he desires, and he never gains an ounce. This proves once and for all the Universe really is unfair and/or ruled by malevolent gods. I love chips, but I can’t eat any, for one chip is enough for me to gain a pound.
The gods may have blessed me with little desire for sugar, but they hit me broad side with a craving for starch. Bastards.
Bread and noodles are my nemesis. Chips, in any form, are my ultimate love object. If someone asked me “Quickly now! Which do you prefer, good sex or a bowl of chips” I would have to think about it.
When The Personal Trainer and I set up an exercise/weight loss programme, he forbade me to to eat too many carbohydrates in ‘low glycemic index form”. This is hard to do. I so miss pasta, using the bread machine, and eating that ultimate comfort food AKA Macaroni and Cheese.
I’m ashamed to report I am not doing well this season, “Just Saying No to CHO”. I find it hard to refrain from noodle dishes and things that go crunch in the night (oh! the salty bliss of pretzels!). It doesn’t help my cravings for starches go up during times of stress.
Now it is the Holiday season – ugh! How am I to dodge all the goodies? Like an alcoholic, I have to take things one day at a time.
All the same, I hope to have some sort of hot noodle dish for Christmas. I salivate at the thought.
23 comments
December 15, 2011 at 12:46 AM
Tai
What’s your daily meal included?
December 15, 2011 at 5:32 AM
Urspo
proteins, some vegetables, not much else. A little oatmeal and some yogurt (no rubbish) Oh so healthy and it is getting boring.
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December 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM
Tai
It seems unbalance. A brain work like yours might need much carbohydrate.
December 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM
Frogdancer
Ryan17 and i had fish and chips for dinner.
Sorry…
December 15, 2011 at 5:31 AM
Urspo
The food of the gods! Or, at least the demi-gods, and their votaries.
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December 15, 2011 at 2:13 AM
rg
Ha-ha! I ate a whole bag of tortilla chips with spicy queso dip yesterday and it was deeeeeeeeeeee-lish. AND, and – yesterday, I had a HUGE serving of pasta from my local restaurant yesterday! Yes – I know – shut up you skinny bitch.
December 15, 2011 at 3:23 AM
Buddy Bear
They don’t worry about carbs in Italy and there seems to be plenty of hot men about. What’s their secret?
December 15, 2011 at 4:06 AM
Will
I think in Italy the diet is much lower in fats. Other than that I don’t know because once you cross the border into Italy you’re in The Gorgeous Zone.
Doritos and Sun Chips are my undoing. I love things that crunch. I had to be so careful at the technical rehearsals that precede dress rehearsals in theater and opera productions. They tend to go on for hours and hours and can be deadly boring, however essential. The tech control table was always piled high with the chips people had bought and It was SO wonderful/awful for me!
December 15, 2011 at 6:01 AM
Birdie
Oooh, bread. Crusty, buttered bread. Or bagels. Or rolls. How could anyone live without them? I’m cursed with the carbo-cravings too. I make myself eat good food too, but my body isn’t satisfied until I get the carbs.
December 15, 2011 at 7:12 AM
Urspo
We will both join Carbs Anonymous.
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December 15, 2011 at 6:06 AM
BearToastJoe
Kettle chips with salt and cracked pepper. I’m sinking . . . . .
December 15, 2011 at 6:19 AM
tigerchanter
I’m drooling just at the thought of it all…. 😦
December 15, 2011 at 6:47 AM
Jay
Cheezey biscuits from Red Lobster. Currently my downfall. I did skip the potatoes..
December 15, 2011 at 7:12 AM
Urspo
talk about the ultimate starch-love-object !!!
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December 15, 2011 at 7:49 AM
Will J
Have you investigated making your crunchies yourself with whole grains to increase the nutritional values and glycemic indices? This might be a way to begin to separate the issues of craving and instant gratification. My experience is that whenever I make something, it slows me down and since I find some sensory satisfaction in the making it is gratified and thus keeps the craving more manageable. It also follows the Spo rule of “No rubbish!”
December 15, 2011 at 7:56 AM
domanidave
I think I ‘commented’ this once before on the subject of chips. An article in Time magazine ages ago entitled “The Engineering of a Snack Food” highlighted a term called “mouth clearance”. It means making sure that newly created snacks don’t require too much chewing, so the consumer will stuff them one after the other until the bag is emptied. Diabolical.
December 15, 2011 at 8:17 AM
Erik Rubright
I wouldn’t say I’m a lucky one who can eat anything I want. But I do. In the last year and a half I’ve changed from eating the “traditional” 3 meals a day to eating several small “meals” every couple of hours. It was difficult the first month, but after that, it seems it’s shrunk my stomach, and I lost weight without changing what really goes into my mouth. Which includes those no-nos of bread and chips. And cookies.
December 15, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Arnie Lewis Tharp
Well, I do eat all of the chips I want, and (for the first time in my life) I AM gaining weight. Lordy. This has to stop. Now, where did I put that delicious cheese bread……
December 15, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Nik_theGreek
I am quite similar. I don’t have a sweet tooth but I crave chips, feta cheese and savoury stuff… 😦
I do gain weight quite easily too…
December 15, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Ron
I may be able to eat all the Doritos chips I want but all is not perfecto in Ron’s World. I love REAL egg nog. Alas I can only drink it this one time of year (Lewes Dairy egg nog is to DIE FOR). However, when I do I can litterally feel my waist expanding…literally. Two more weeks and Lewes Dairy stops production of their decadently wonderful (1/2 cup 200 calories and 100 FAT calories) and my waist can go back to its normal 32 inches. God (or Fate) has a way of evening things out.
December 15, 2011 at 2:34 PM
Ron
Just notice a comment by Nik_theGreek. I also eat all the feta cheese I want. I liberally sprinkle it on my roasted red pepper hummus which is on a wrap for my daily lunch along with a couple of handfuls of Doritos Blazzing chips, and two cups of Panera’s roasted potato soup. DEE_LISH! Of course I wash all that down with Turkey Hill’s Diet Decaf Orange Ice Tea. It IS a good thing.
December 15, 2011 at 3:52 PM
anne marie in philly
sex or chips? SEX, baybee! work it now!
December 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM
jason
oh brother…am I ever with you on this. I have dreams (literally) of carbs.
It’s the closest thing to sex dreams I have. 🙂