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Are you addicted to salt or sugar ?

Love em both. Remember when foods, especially French fries were fried in lard ? Salt and animal fat.. Best of both worlds.
 
I never did anymore than watch the food go down, till my thyroid took a dump on me. That happened right after I had my gallbladder removed a few years ago. I went from 190 to 230. I got it straighten out a month ago and now I'm 220. I now watch everything that I eat and now realize that my days of eating anything are long gone. I will get back to at least 195, I was never meant to weigh this much. I now have a specialist for every part of my body and everyone is on the same page and I do a 45 minute, 3 mile walk every day.
 
Salt and butter on corn on the cob, and potatoes, including fries. Four or five full-sugar sodas (or really fructose , I suppose) a day, so yeah, salt and sugar addict.
I'm lucky or have good genes, I guess. I still eat like an unsupervised eight year old.
 
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Hey-O said:
I never did anymore than watch the food go down, till my thyroid took a dump on me. That happened right after I had my gallbladder removed a few years ago. I went from 190 to 230. I got it straighten out a month ago and now I'm 220. I now watch everything that I eat and now realize that my days of eating anything are long gone. I will get back to at least 195, I was never meant to weigh this much. I now have a specialist for every part of my body and everyone is on the same page and I do a 45 minute, 3 mile walk every day.
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Exercise seems to be the only thing that gives you a fighting chance with this stuff. As stated earlier, the food processors make it difficult. I had a smart primary care doctor for 15 years who told me not to sweat the diet, I wouldn't be able to make a significant difference. I've always had good lab numbers, but they've always been better when I was beating myself up with physical work.
 
I still to this day try and practice "moderation" in just about everything I injest into myself as sustenance. I basically do not drink Beer except on a very rare occassion such as a hot day after working out of doors. Tastes the best then. I I never have any Spudwiser products as that brand is terrible...IMHO. Whe it comes to salt? I try and only use it when the recipe calls for it and constantly read the labels for the amounts they contain. Sugar I have a sweet tooth. I usually eat sweets after a fine meal to sweeten the pallet. Couple of bite sized brownies or ice cream bars. But my go to is fresh fruit of any kind. More natural that way. So seeing as how 90% of my food intake is prepared at home verses take out or store bought processed types, I haven't had any warning flags when I have my bi annual wellness checks and they take Labs for that assessment. And that is pushing the 73 year make in age...cr8crshr/Bill:usflag::usflag::usflag:
 
Salt and sugar are definitely two spices I can live without. I do not crave sweets at all. Our saltshaker can go about a 2 years without needing refilled, the peppershaker gets refilled monthly. Thank God beer is not salty or sweet!!
 
Nope I don't even put it on the table

I've never had the problem
but my dad is addicted to salt, sugar
(he'd put it on everything if he could, before even tasting it)
& booze, or bread anything he can put between 2 pieces of bread
he eats it, mostly sourdough
he's not supposed to have any of 'any of them', in moderation only
he does/buys several bags of chips, every 2 weeks or so
Lays Ridges (salty mo-fos) & Doritos mini tortilla chips
or Rolled Gold Pretzels (I do like them)
both/all salty, 'as all hell'
& cookies, that crapy store bought processed junk filled
or candy (usually hard candy, or throat lozenges),
he's replaced booze with junk food, sweets, sugar, candy
way too much
(better than his still drinking 32oz's+ of Early Times rotgut daily "I guess",
it's gonna kill him also)
Now he only drinks when I'm not around to harp on him
but still drinks & lies about it, that's sad...

I still have a beer or a drink here & there, rarely
just not in front of the alky, that'd be too cruel

I do like about a tablespoon of natural sugars/sweeteners
like clover Honey, Agave or bee pollen
in a 12 cup pot of coffee
every so often
Especially when I have family over, takes some bitterness
'they seem to taste', that I don't taste away from 'the cowboy coffee'
I make, it's strong 5-6 heaping scoops of home-ground whole beans,
for 12 cups

when it's just me I like it plain, black & strong

I do love bread/s, but don't eat a lot of it now
I do like bagels, every so often, rarely eat bread/s
whole wheat when I do
I do like assorted flavors of tortilla, used as wraps
good hotdogs/polish sausage are my vice

I do make homemade sweet (brown sugar or agave) cornbread
or sort of homemade buttermilk (Bisquick all dressed up) biscuits in a big batch
once a month or so
to have with beans, soups or spaghetti/pasta, we eat each about once a week

what's the ol' saying (?) 'anything in moderation'
so why have I gained 20#s since I retired 2 years ago
that's rhetorical, no need to answer

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No problem with salt or sugar, but been trying to keep ordinary days to 2 beers before supper of late. That will change over the Holidays....
 
Hey-O said:
I never did anymore than watch the food go down, till my thyroid took a dump on me. That happened right after I had my gallbladder removed a few years ago. I went from 190 to 230. I got it straighten out a month ago and now I'm 220. I now watch everything that I eat and now realize that my days of eating anything are long gone. I will get back to at least 195, I was never meant to weigh this much. I now have a specialist for every part of my body and everyone is on the same page and I do a 45 minute, 3 mile walk every day.
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You are playing your current hand well, IMO. The aging process sure complicates the situation. I spent decades just beating the daylights out of myself, either in the gym or on the job, and life was good. As stuff starts wearing out, the balancing act comes into play, and it isn't as simple. I commend you on your regimen. I had no problem with herculean physical stuff when I was being paid for it. Doing it for my own preservation, with no money on the table, is proving a bit more difficult.
 
Family Doc said don't eat anything that comes in a box or a bag and that alone should get you to a ripe old age....hhhhhhmmmmnnnnn
 
Onions and potatoes come in bags.
 
Good point KD, I took it as potato chips and Doritos was his references to, as potatoes and onions once upon a time came in sacks.....
 
68BabyBlue said:
You are playing your current hand well, IMO. The aging process sure complicates the situation. I spent decades just beating the daylights out of myself, either in the gym or on the job, and life was good. As stuff starts wearing out, the balancing act comes into play, and it isn't as simple. I commend you on your regimen. I had no problem with herculean physical stuff when I was being paid for it. Doing it for my own preservation, with no money on the table, is proving a bit more difficult.
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I know just what you're saying and you're spot on! I spent my whole life beating my body everyday working seven days a week, 12 hours a day for months on end. The quotes I post everyday have helped me to remember who I am and how I got here. I was always lean and mean and never knew the word defeat. I found out when body parts started falling off that all my money can't bring it or lost time back. I wasn't kidding about having a specialist for every part of my body and everyone being on the same page now. For me it's a mind set, just like everything in life that I have done. You don't have to like it, to learn that after awhile it becomes a part of who you are. I will get back to where I was a few years ago, a day at a time!!
 
Kern Dog said:
Onions and potatoes come in bags.
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and should never be stored in a bag. The bag is to get them home. They should be stored in a open container in the dark and never together.
 
Mother nature sure plays a role in the salt/sugar issue. My wife is addicted to salt, but she won the genetic lottery in this department. Her grandfather on her mother's side had some great genes. He ate what he wanted, and smoked four packs of cigarettes a day until he was 94. His arteries refused to harden - he had low blood pressure until the end, and not a trace of dementia. The carcinogens from cigarette smoke should have killed him decades earlier. I was lighting cigarettes and pouring bourbon for him the last Christmas he was alive - he could no longer see well enough to light a match or pour a drink.

My wife has low blood pressure and low blood sugar levels at the age of 70. She eats all the salt she wants, and adds it to meals. She avoids sweets and watches carbs and fat, not because of health concerns, so much as weight control. She is also addicted to exercise, and never stopped, even when she used a wheelchair for her peripheral neuropathy in years past.
 
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