Began researching this food and drink stuff when I was a preteen. Prevention magazine was one of the mags I read that grandma subscribed to. All about health and food.
Water has zero calories. Some foods like fresh cucumbers and celery are mostly water with lots of fiber and vitamins and minerals. I love both of these and they are not typical or common foods most people that I have known eat or snack on.
I remember reading the calorie content of foods and drinks when I was a teenager and concluded it was too confusing and not eating, just starving myself was the best option.
Skipping breakfast began when I was in junior high school 8th grade or so at age 13. Worried about getting fat. However I would drink soda pop, juices which are loaded with sugar and when I craved chocolate would skip dinner and have a huge hesheys chocolate bar in place of real nutritious food.
Soda consumption continued on and became heavy when I was 19 and worked at a gas station where we sold it. My current husband was a heavy pepsi drinker (and still is).
Daily he drank at least 2 two liters a day. So every day I drank 6 or more 16 oz bottles of that stuff, switching around and trying all the flavors.
Pop has no vitamins, minerals or fiber. I did not know what it was doing to me but I felt half wired up then half dead every day. Finally when I was 23 in 1984 I began drinking black coffee in the morning so I could get up and go to school which started at noon and dropped the soda. Awake I was ...then someone showed me how to drink a whole pitcher of beer at a bar called The Roxy at 75th and Metcalf in Overland Park, Kansas. I really hated the taste and smell of beer but I learned to down it for the way it made me calm down, feel more relaxed and at ease around people. I was so very nervous and shy around people. Drinking and getting drunk made it so I could actually go up to someone and strike up a conversation, something that had previously been very difficult for me to do.
After all these years I have learned that white flour products, bread, rolls, buns, danishs, turnovers, pastries, crioissants, crackers, cakes, pie shells, noodles, macaroni, lasagna, gravy/gravies, any product made out of flour is not good for me. It is bad. It causes intestinal distress problems. Unpredictable bouts of constipation or diarrhea. Severe back pain and pain on my right side and pains in the left side of my back. One piece of bread is enough, white or wheat.
I don't buy candy often. Only cinnamon or peppermint discs and I rarely eat them. Two weeks ago i ate some laffy taffy banana flavor that the food pantry gave us and decided it is much better to just eat a banana. Why eat pure sugar with artificial flavors and colors that my tongue loves the taste of and tricks my brain into thinking I am eating fruit? Then suffer the consequences later of rotten teeth, upset stomach, more back pain and god knows what else.
I do buy dove dark chocolate and eat it when craving it. I have a lot of nuts with the chocolate.
Ice cream does not sit well with me, either. I'd rather have yogurt, real whipped cream, cream cheese with some fruit or nuts. I quit eating cool whip many years ago when I read the label and it is made of soybean oil. It tastes good but it actually more like rubber. Leave it in the freezer for a year and find out what happens to it. Sort of like what happens to the typical ice cream left in the freezer untouched unopened for months and it turns into condensed glue. Goo. And eating it makes it hard to poo poo.
I used to read tabers encyclopedia and the merck manual trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Hypoclycemia, low blood sugar, dizziness, fainting, low blood pressure. Pain in my right side (later found out it was ulcers, gastritis and duodenitis which is a lot better now). Sharp pains going down my legs into my calves and feet. Scoliosis back curvature now very severe. 50 years of arthritis.
I have had blood tests for many things. Sjogrens, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis; all negative. STD's all negative.
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