Re: I have gone full fat on everything.

[Guest guest]

This is what is so crazy-making about the diet industry. Sometimes I

wonder if they do it on purpose. There are so many conflicting

messages out there. I try not to even listen any more. No wonder I

have so much food anxiety. For a long time I wanted to do the right

thing and was very conscious of eating healthy, and hoping I would

lose weight as a consequence of that. But I could not get to the

correct information because everything contradicted itself. It

disgusts me and makes me very ANGRY!

As far as full fat goes, I eat what tastes good and what I like. I

recently tried some full fat yogurt and it was YUK! I prefer the low

fat variety. However, I could never tolerate fat free cheese. To me

it is an oxymoron, like fat free half and half. What the heck is in

THAT stuff.....? I have never really gotten into the whole fat-free

thing, I am more of a low carb girl, so I witness a troop of military

police circling whenever I get near cake and cookies ! I have been

trying to shut them up by eating plenty of cake and cookies. Not

sure if it is working or not.

>

> I have been reading a book called The Mood Cure that's theory is

that

> most of the Nations bad moods and need for anti depression medicine

> is related to the low/no fat obession most people have these days.

> Here are two articles about it

>

> http://www.preventionisbest.com/site/saturatedfat.html

>

> http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/good-news-on-

saturated-

> fat/

>

> Even after reading and wanting to believe these articles my " fat

> police " still are after me about all the fat I'm eating. Like for

> dinner I had pancakes with full butter and as much as I

> wanted........with the fat police screaming all the way. I ate two

> medium size and half of a third and then stopped because I was full.

>

> Now I do stay away from trans fats.......but who needs trans fats

> when they can have and " NEED " saturated fats. I now eat full fat

> yogurt, butter, salad dressing, ect. It's hard for me to even write

> this the opposite is so ingrained in me. Saturated fats are good

for

> me. Saturated fats are good for me. Saturated fats are good for me.

>

[Guest guest]

This is one I also have problems with. When I was actively dieting,

my kitchen was filled with fat free dairy, salad dressing, cheese and

low calorie items chocked full of chemicals. I believed that all the

chemicals were less dangerous than being fat - but eating them wasn't

making me any thinner!

Full fat cheese was one of the things I legalized right away. I like

the 2% cheese when cooking, but for eating out of hand I like the

real deal. I also brought back butter, preflavored low fat yogurts

because my diet of choice only allowed plain FF yogurt that you added

your own chemicals to, cereal and good chewy whole grain bread. What

a joy it was to eat a piece of bread that wasn't 50% air!

:-)

> >

> > I have been reading a book called The Mood Cure that's theory is

> that

> > most of the Nations bad moods and need for anti depression

medicine

> > is related to the low/no fat obession most people have these

days.

> > Here are two articles about it

> >

> > http://www.preventionisbest.com/site/saturatedfat.html

> >

> > http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/good-news-on-

> saturated-

> > fat/

> >

> > Even after reading and wanting to believe these articles my " fat

> > police " still are after me about all the fat I'm eating. Like for

> > dinner I had pancakes with full butter and as much as I

> > wanted........with the fat police screaming all the way. I ate

two

> > medium size and half of a third and then stopped because I was

full.

> >

> > Now I do stay away from trans fats.......but who needs trans fats

> > when they can have and " NEED " saturated fats. I now eat full fat

> > yogurt, butter, salad dressing, ect. It's hard for me to even

write

> > this the opposite is so ingrained in me. Saturated fats are good

> for

> > me. Saturated fats are good for me. Saturated fats are good for

me.

> >

>