livinginnyc

lol.
Yeah, if they wanted that to happen, they wouldn't make the 'bad' food taste so good. I went on a health kick back at the start of the year.... finally ditching soda got my stomach back to being flat (I rarely drank coke in the UK and that also went out the window here). Still getting judged by the parents though. Once I finally sort out the employment side of things I'm going to join a gym so I can eat without shame and/or consequences(!). As Tina Fey said - My personal trainer calls it the death spiral, I call it living the dream.

mrken30

I thought that was Giro, like Giro bank.

mrken30

i used to order doner on naan also. I was excited when a place here started selling gyros on naan. Unfortunately the guy sold the business on 3 months later, no more naan.

Pulaski

Have you misplaced your sense of humour?

SultanOfSwing

There isn't really any 'bad' food. Food is just food, it isn't inherently 'good' or 'bad' or otherwise, it's the amount of it we eat that's good or bad. If someone was really, really dedicated, they could gain 50 lbs eating nothing but broccoli if they wanted to. Actually, most of the simple carbs I eat on days where I'm not just not caring about what I eat comes from apples. I can happily eat six of those little bastards in a day and not even blink. That's (on average) 780 calories and 204g of carbs right there, from apples ! I've cut down to about 2 a day now, but sometimes I have more. I love apples.

I joined a gym too in January - caveat there, it allows you to eat more in a day before you hit your TDEE, but it won't necessarily make you lose weight, either. In fact, depending on what exercises you do, you might gain some weight as you build muscle. However, it will improve your fitness, which is a benefit above and beyond the weight loss. Even carrying around the 50+ lbs extra that I am, I can run 3 miles with relative ease when in January I could barely manage 400 yards.

Off topic there, sorry!

Pulaski

Joules are more scientifically sound.
And how exactly is love of doner kebabs on topic in the Pet Peeves thread.

SultanOfSwing

Yes, they are. Also, if I use kilograms, my weight looks smaller

I don't know. Stop making me think, it's Friday ...

mrken30

I forgot gyro is the American way of spelling giro.

livinginnyc

The last 4ish pages have been off topic! As we've discussed everything from fast food, pronunciation and parental judging. And that's just me.

Steering back -
Pet Peeve, Family members that leave the toilet seat up.

Pulaski

We have cats - so the lid is always kept down. For me seat up v seat down is irrelevant when the bigger issue is WTF don't people (like my FIL ) just close the effing lid?

mrken30

How does the cat go to the toilet if you leave the seat down. Thats unkind.

SultanOfSwing

Look at the smug face on that cat on the box.

"I'm shitting in your toilet now, bitch"

Pulaski

Before the universal "lid down" rule was implemented, we had a couple of unfortunate, and rather messy incidents to deal with. One of our kittens was lucky that he didn't drown!

livinginnyc

We have to keep the bathroom doors shut. No messy incidents to speak of - but a guarantee of one of the puppies running through with about 20 feet of toilet paper trailing behind.

mrken30

I didn't know they sold Andrex in the US