Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 Hi folks: Did the all-you-can-eat-chinese food thing last night. One might think this is incompatible with CR, but perhaps it isn't. I weighed myself before I went and after I got back. I put on 4 1/2 pounds. But of course not much of that will be absorbed. I really don't know how many calories I consumed. But my share was eight dishes of healthy stuff. I am guessing it was 3000 calories. Combining that with the 500 calories I had consumed earlier in the day, my daily calorie total was 3500. Assuming I am burning off about 2200 calories a day (based on the lower estimates I have seen) that means I had a net gain of 1300 for the day. About one third of a pound of weight. Since I have been consuming about 1700 calories a day lately it will take less than three days, at that rate, to work off that excess. A few days ago I weighed 164 pounds - at the bottom of my five pound range. This morning I weighed 169 - at the top of the range. When I first hit 163 I will assume my real weight is 165 and will then raise my calorie intake to stabilize at that weight for a few months. It will be interesting to see how many calories it will take. Rodney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 We often eat Chinese but now avoid the " all you can eat " places. We eat moderately and take doggie bags home. We also order in and then take several days to eat it all. One trick is to leave the sauces on the plate (the sauces contain all the oils, sugars, etc). Also roll anything that looks greasy on a paper napkin to absorb excess grease. And avoid frieds, including and especially the fried noodles they bring with soups. We recently found a wonderful place that does not use MSG and will cook to your liking. We ordered in and asked them to cook with no or as little oil as possible. The food was delicious. In fact my non-CRONIE, Chinese- food - loving husband liked their food even better than the other places. More and more restaurants are doing this. It pays to ask . on 3/20/2004 9:01 AM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote: > Hi folks: > > Did the all-you-can-eat-chinese food thing last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 I find Chinese restaurants are the few places I can eat safely. I order the Buddha plate usually - steamed veggies and steamed rice - no sauce - no meat. One place has a large soup, with no sodium I can taste (<50 mg per oz). When I first tried Chinese (1954), the food was very mild and tasteless, but to sell more food they had to add the MSG, salt, and the multitude of fried stuff. It's remarkable that the taste of fried stuff is basically fried wheat flour. It's everywhere, even fried ice cream. Why don't they just fry the flour and forget what goes inside? Come to think of it, that's "chips" at the fish place. Makes Mac's french fries look healthy to me. BTW, the ideal egg roll is what's known here as a "spring roll", in some places, not cooked. Rolled in a soy or kelp wrapper. I do essentially the same thing at home using corn tortillas. Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: Francesca Skelton Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [ ] All-You-Can-Eat-Chinese We often eat Chinese but now avoid the "all you can eat" places. We eatmoderately and take doggie bags home. We also order in and then takeseveral days to eat it all.One trick is to leave the sauces on the plate (the sauces contain all theoils, sugars, etc). Also roll anything that looks greasy on a paper napkinto absorb excess grease. And avoid frieds, including and especially thefried noodles they bring with soups.We recently found a wonderful place that does not use MSG and will cook toyour liking. We ordered in and asked them to cook with no or as little oilas possible. The food was delicious. In fact my non-CRONIE, Chinese- food -loving husband liked their food even better than the other places. More andmore restaurants are doing this. It pays to ask . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 Any fish? Albert CD, et al: Fish consumption and risk of sudden cardiac death, JAMA 279:23-28, 1998 ----- Original Message ----- From: Rodney Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 8:01 AM Subject: [ ] All-You-Can-Eat-Chinese Hi folks:Did the all-you-can-eat-chinese food thing last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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