Comments | jhogan: One more dieting tip: Poison your food

jhogan

One more dieting tip: Poison your food

Apr 09, 2009 01:35

I re-stumbled across this one in Vegas this weekend with neurogirl, deeptape and greencorinnaAn important technique to manage your calorie intake is portion control. You can exhibit portion control and multiple places in the chain of events leading up to when you actually eat. For example, you can try to buy less at the grocery store, cook less food at once, put less on your ( Read more... )

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HAHAHAHA! evike April 9 2009, 22:40:13 UTC

That is awesome!!! What a great idea--I can definitely think of times I wish I had done this in the past. This one I am going to remember for the future.

Just the thought of wiping my last piece of bread on the floor cracks me up. I can't wait to go out with friends and be like "wow, this extra-gigantor-super-ultra cheesecake is delicious.. could you hand me the tabasco?" ;D

Re: HAHAHAHA! jhogan April 10 2009, 00:16:27 UTC

Haha, yeah. If you like the weird looks, then this technique is even better :-)

ywong April 10 2009, 08:07:10 UTC

As an Asian, I cannot condone this horrific waste of food. Just ask them to put it in a take-home container and eat it the next day, you horrible wasteful American!

tigresscub April 11 2009, 04:33:24 UTC

Ditto.... except for the Asian part. Or don't order such big portions unless you have somebody to share them with.

Wow, I can see how it would be effective. I'm totally repulsed just reading about it. You've put me off my last chocolate chip cookie! (and it was already allotted!)

jhogan April 11 2009, 06:25:16 UTC

Well, sometimes you don't know how big of a portion you're going to get. Or you think you're going to be able to eat more than you are. Or you find it doesn't taste very good... etc.

dookee April 11 2009, 01:23:17 UTC

Pour a little bit of coke on your last piece of pizza.

I tried that once, but I ended up snorting it and then eating the pizza anyway.

Take pictures of your meal - before and after alonblue March 26 2010, 10:50:27 UTC

The "after" pic has to be taken right before they take your plate. Post these pics to a separate stream and shame yourself for the plates that ended up empty.

BTW I wonder if there's an app that, given such image, tells you approx. how many calories are in the meal shown.

Re: Take pictures of your meal - before and after jhogan March 26 2010, 17:01:09 UTC

I don't think an app like that would be practical -- aside from the really momentous image recognition, calories can vary SO much based on things like how much oil/butter you use in a recipe, whether things are sweetened or unsweetened, etc.

ps: hi!