Conference pasta::flex

    Shannon
    
    I have to admit that sweets are my weakness too.  This valentines day
    was the worst.  My wife knows I love chocolate covered cherrys so she
    gave me a big heart with nothing but, a small box of a different type
    and a box of cherry jubilee thins from Andes.  Sigh  These cherry
    jubilees have 13 grams of fat per 8 and there are 4 servings. 
    sigh....I might just pig out eat them all today and stop worrying about
    the bloody things.
    
    What do you think, is it better to eat the whole thing in one shot or
    space it out?
    
    Brian
    Brian

    Brian,,,
    
    Been there--done that....
    
    I had a box of 8 truffles during xmas.  I demo'd the box in 2 days!
    The thought of keeping them longer made it feel like it would
    take that much longer to get them out of my system,,, so I decided
    to put myself out of my misery.
    
    The box had a mix of dark choc, milk choc and white choc, with
    chocolate centers...  

Another vote for chocolate.  And it seems that there's always an occasion to be
celibrated using chocolate.  Currently it's girl scout cookie season.  Thin
mints are my specality; the way I eat them, they come two servings per box.

                           Roak

    Ahh Roak
    
    I hate to admit it, but you hit my second weakness, cookies and milk,
    actually just homemade chocolate chip cookies with a quart of ice cold
    skim milk. Thats heaven.  The good thing about this weakness is if I
    never make them, I don't have to eat them right!!!
    
    Shannon  I always wondered if you eat an excess of fat in one day, I
    mean really an excess like 180 grams do you just pass the bulk off or
    does it immediately turn to fat?  I mean a bing like that is it worse
    to do this once in a great while like valentines day or do you
    metabolize the fat and negate its effect if strung out over time in
    small increments say 13 grams a shot?  work with me here do I finish
    off this box of cherry jubilees now or keep eating 8 each day?
    
    
    
    Brian

    Brian, I don't know...  Isn't it kinda the same as turkey day?
    Think of all that food and how much everyone consumes.  We might
    have to work a little harder to take of the quick gain. but heck,
    we survive.  :)   
    If it would make you feel any better, I'll gladly stop by and
    help you eat the jubilees.  I'll be in the Littleton area tomorrow
    anyways...    That way you'll only be eatting have of those 
    nasty lil fat grams...   :)

Re: <<< Note 1317.4 by DELNI::OTA >>>

Hardly scientific, but it has appeared in the past that I gain less weight if I
just put down hundreds of grams of fat in one sitting vs. spreading out the fat
intake over days or weeks.

My taste buds certainly like it better!

                            Roak

  I was just thinking about how I let my healthy diet slip last night
  when I had a bowl of chocolate fudge ice cream with chocolate sauce on top.
  So, I though I'd go over to the Flex conference where everyone is concerned
  about their health and that would pump me up so that I would have the courage
  to refuse the goodies around our house. So, the first thing I read is about 
  all the decadent foods that everyone craves. 

  I have to admit, I have a soft spot in my heart for cookies and ice cream,
  especially when dark chocolate is included in the mix.

  Now, reading this has made me hungry and all I have in my office is a 
  bag of rice cakes...

	Keith

    Anything with peanuts:  Roasted peanuts, Spanish Peanuts, Peanut
    Butter, Peanut Brittle...
    
    -Andy

you people are so cruel! anyhting to torture me! chocolate 1st, CHEEZE second,
then pizza (loaded), then beer, and did I mention chocolate?

reg.

    It's funny how you never hear of someone saying...TOFU...Gawd I love
    TOFU!!!
    
    It is most important to have our "treats" once in a while.  Think of'em
    as rewards for your hard training all week.  Indulge in control!
    
    	Jay

    OK, I'll be the one and only to say TOFU!  But, I'm a vegetarian, so it
    really is one of my favorites. You can make cheesecake out of it,
    lasagna, chocolate mousse, it's really amazing! But that's not really
    what you want to hear...
    However, my really absolute favorite is chocolate. Godiva. I'm not
    going to eat Nestle or Hershey. Yuck. If I'm going to eat it, it
    is going to be the good stuff.  Godivas have only 11 grams of fat per
    serving, and a serving is a generous 3 pieces!  They are very rich, and
    3 seems to be more than enough for me.  So, 11 grams of fat isn't
    really a whole lot of decadence.  Not when you are a veg, anyway. I
    have trouble putting fat INTO my diet.  
    Fat turns to fat, no two ways about it.  If you eat it slowly, over the
    course of a couple of days, or if you eat it all in one sitting it
    doesn't really matter.  You have to yank it out of storage and convert
    it, regardless of how many days it takes you to put it INTO storage. I
    think psychologically it's easier to just eat it all and be done with
    it. If you space it out, you may be tempted to let it become a habit,
    and replenish the supply. 
    However, have any of you tried the Snackwell's chocolate yogurt? If you
    need a fix, but don't need the fat, try it! It just might tame that
    chocolate beast. And it's got protein : )
    Sarah 

    For me it's got to be beer !!!!  I love it !!!!
    
    
    or chocolate......
    
    
    
    
    or curries........
    
    
    
    
    
    or kebabs...........
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    or chinese............
    
    
    
    
    
    
    or pizzas............
    
    
    
    
    This is too much, I need some junk food !!!!
    
    
    
    							Scott

	For me it's got to be beer especially on weekends, also I'm a Coca Cola
addict, I can't seem to get a taste for diet soda. 10 or 12 glasses of soda a
day is a lot of empty calories. After March 1st it's diet soda only, hope i can
last.

				Rich...

    I've got a friend who owns a few portable burger trailers, and when he
    used to work in them he drank at least 3 or 4 litres of Coke a day !!!
    
    He doesn't need to get up early in the morning, so his girlfriend 
    brings him his breakfast in bed EVERY day,........2 cans of Coke and
    a few Marlboro lights !!!!!
    
    
    What a life !!!!
    
    
    
    							Scott

    Rich,
    10-12 DIET cokes a day is NOT what you want to do. Aspartame in that
    quantity has a, um, how shall we say 'laxative' effect ; )
    Sarah

    RE: What a life!
    
    	Ya..although it probably won't last that long...if he keeps it up!
    
    	   Jay

not too mention that aspartame has a side effect in some people: too much will 
cause one to crave more regular sweets, so it may be purpose defeatful.  10-12 
glasses a day???  seriously, rich- do more water! it's better for you.

i forgot one more: fluffernutters!!!!!

reg.

    Spandix on well built women.:)

    Count me in for any dairy product, especially CHEESE!!  Unlike most, I
    don't crave anything sweet, including chocolate.  Weird huh?  But it's
    hard to eat the tuna without the mayo and the turkey sandwich with no
    cheese is impossible.  With my love for cheese (and that's exactly what
    it is, LOVE!) comes the constant craving of PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Hi my name is Eric, and I'm a severe cheese addict.

    
    You are not alone Eric,  I don't like sweets either, but I do like
    cheese alot!
    
    However, my greatest weakness is B E E R! (must be the german in me...)
    
    I do eat alot of veggies and fruit, drink water and milk.  I don't
    have the healthiest diet, but I think it is pretty good.  But I am a
    sucker for beer.  You'd never know it though to look at me, 6'3",
    185/190lbs.   I've been wearing 32x36 jeans since highschool.  I am 
    now 32.  My wife-to-be (getting married in May) laughs at me and tells
    me she gains weight just watching me eat and drink.  8^)
    
    helge.  

    Oh, yeah.  Forgot that one.  Far above and beyond all, my weakness is
    beer.  I think I've actually blocked it out of my mind that it actually
    is a weakness.  And it's not light beer either.  I have to have beer of
    the Sam Adams, Pete's Wicked, Bass variety.  At least 300 calories
    each, gotta be.  And after a night of about ten or so, let's see
    that's...
    
    Nevermind, I don't wanna think about it!!!
    
    Eric

    
    Cheese is my big down fall.  I love it.  Espcially on French Fries!  If
    I see a Cheese dip, I have to have it, I have NO will power when it
    comes to Cheese.
    
    Lou

    
    Yup, cheese.  Mix it with a good Chili (and my wife makes a killer
    chili), some of those Frito dip-sized corn chips, and goodbye to all
    the effort expended on 300+ crunches.  White-sauce Italian dishes
    probably come a close second.  Homemade spaghetti would be third (not
    too bad, but too much goes a looong way).  Being on the road has had
    advantages over the past 5 years; they only serve you SO much at the
    restaurants!
    
    Started a new job 3/10, so I get to fight with home cooking and few
    limits at home.  I guess I'll have to start using the measuring cups
    for portions again, walking my a** off AND doing the crunches.  Looks
    like the 4AM wake-up just got a little earlier...
    
    bob

well, just be blunt about it. yukyukyuk. sure you've heard it, tired of it, 
bought the shirt- but ya gotta admit it: tough last name [not to mention how 
much mine gets screwed with.

i'm only rambling cuz you mentioned [gag] white [urrp] cream [spew] sauces! tell
'im Sarah and Lou: what do even thinking of those do to me? now everyone knows 
how to mess with me.

reg.

    Mine would be Kryptonite!   [^;=
    
    	Jay

    
    Reg, to paraphrase Charlie Brown, "Auuuuuugh!!!!"  No, it won't be the
    first, nor the last, but at least you didn't spell it incorrectly...
    
    Messing with folks seems to have become SOP for me.  So far this week,
    I've managed to get at least two folks laughing so hard that we were
    worried about them stroking-out (funny, I don't usually see people turn
    THAT color).  Yeah, I admit, a different type of "messing folks up..."
    
    bob