The Soup Diet...

[vixenbabe]

Reading and hearing about these type of diet's just makes me sad.....

 

[MS]

" D'ya know anyone who considers ketchup a vegetable"

Hey, I got REALLY worked up a few months ago when our 14 year old came home from school and pronounced that today they learned in school that ketchup was, indeed a vegetable and that it counts as part of their "5+ a day" quota! On one level I knew he was right....tomato products are very high in lycopenes. But all that sugar and salt UGGGHHH. How can a parent compete when the schools are teaching that kind of crap?


FONZ
"After 5 years of trying to correct people's dietary mistakes,
because they ASKED me........

I gave up. It is NOT WORTH THE HASSLE.

I just nod and smile nowadays.

Mean? Maybe. But still better than getting blamed
for somebody elses mistakes.

I couldn't agree more. This is why I've retired from the diet discussion board. Between the 'fad of the week' dieters and the low-carb evangelists that have usurped the board, it's just not worth the hassle.

 

[makedah]

" D'ya know anyone who considers ketchup a vegetable"

Hey, I got REALLY worked up a few months ago when our 14 year old came home from school and pronounced that today they learned in school that ketchup was, indeed a vegetable and that it counts as part of their "5+ a day" quota! On one level I knew he was right....tomato products are very high in lycopenes. But all that sugar and salt UGGGHHH. How can a parent compete when the schools are teaching that kind of crap?

Ah yes, the famous Reagan Administration effort to get ketchup counted as a veggie for school lunch programs in 1981. It failed. So I wonder who's teaching the kid this?

 

[MS]

Well, we don't live in the US, so it won't have anything to do woth the Reagan administration!

 

[makedah]

Dang - I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing (not being able to blame it on a lame-brain policy idea, that is)!

 

[SteelWeaver]

I love soup .....

 

[SteelWeaver]

Creamy potato and leek soup.
Carrot and pumpkin soup.
Gazpacho.
Thick hearty vegetable soup.
French onion soup.
Artichoke soup.
My number one fave, creamy tomato soup.
Corn soup.
Walnut and basil soup.
Pea soup.


All eaten with large hunks of fresh nutty homemade wholemeal bread.



BTW, this diet doesn't work. I know, because at uni I lived on lentils and rice and various soups, and don't remember my weight/fat changing at all. Heh heh. I wonder if maybe I was eating MAINTENANCE CALORIES of soup, lol.

 

[SteelWeaver]

Or that tough German black bread ....


Or a nice heavy rye ....


BTW, MS - I, for one, miss you on the diet board - I know it's full of kooks and faddists, but if they never get to hear the other side of the story, they can't learn different opinions, can they?

 

[StRoNg_WoN]

People just aren't ejumacated in diet etc...

I tell people this... if you don't put ANY gas in your car, you aren't going to go too far... (i.e. no eating, or "Soup-Dieting".

However If you put efficient high octane gas in your car (Healthy food etc...) You will get better milage, and funtion better...

I try an enforce that it isn't as much the amount, as the types of foods that are eaten... (This is when speaking to overweight people that eat craploads of processed stuff all day...)

They seem to like this analogy better...

I mean think about it... if you starve, anything that you put in your mouth will be stored...

 

[MS]

This thread motivated me to make a creamy pumpkin soup last night. It's not quite finished (I'll finish making it tonight), but I'm pretty sure it will be nice all on it's own-no bread required. Yum.