Getting healthy is such a personal journey. Do what works best for you. Keep trying new things till something works.
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What is top right?
Pretzel salad
I’m sorry, but that is very clearly a style of cheesecake. You can’t just call something “salad” when you want to eat cheesecake…
Why not?
Because it’s cheating. What stops me from tossing together bacon and cheese sticks and calling that a low carb keto salad? No, really, someone should stop me from doing that, I’m in my 40s now…
Nothing is stopping you but yourself. I just had some ice cream salad with Oreo croutons, it tasted healthy.
It’s not cheating when everything is a salad: https://saladtheory.github.io/
It’s not cheating if you don’t call it cheating.
Serious answer: jello salad.
Edit: wait it really is pretzel salad. I thought that had to be a joke.
Just got home from a little get-together a few hours ago, can confirm.
Not gonna lie, this isn’t that bad. Especially if the dressing you drench them in is fatty instead of carby
Can you tell me how eating 2/3 plate of literally just meat and cheese is supposed to be “not that bad”?
I mean, it really depends on the details. I didn’t exactly claim these were balanced meals, and honestly I don’t think cheese has a significant negative impact on people. But we’re comparing it to what the person probably used to eat, to heavy-carb foods (especially “salads” such as potato salad), and to foods that lack nutrition. These salads have a lot of nutrition and not a lot of carbs. Salt and the worse fats are probably the biggest problem here.
People need salt. If you don’t eat salt, your body can’t retain water or conduct nerve signals. If you’re chronically dehydrated and unable to conduct nerve signals, your life sucks.
Yeah, but I’m just saying people need to watch their salt.
Everybody knows that already though. Almost nobody seems to know that it’s dangerous to take in insufficient salt.
It could be worse
Yeah it could be a plate of pure butter I guess
Eating 2/3 of a plate generally speaking isn’t a bad idea, and dietary science has advanced since the 1980s to the point where we now know the body can produce fat from dietary intakes other than actual fat.
In fact, a high fat, low carb diet like a plate of 2/3 meat and cheese plus some veggies, is a great way to improve one’s gut biome.
My own anxiety and depression basically disappear when I keep my carb intake below 120 grams a day.
I’m not reading all that but good job explaining maybe idk
Yes. Only a wee bit cholesterol
Dietary cholesterol being bad for you is a myth.
Cholesterol is a biochemical precursor to serotonin, among other things.
at least a fifth of that is vegetables so it’s an improvement on the average diet
And very little of it is carbs
As long as you didn’t drench that in ranch it’d probably still be fairly healthy.
When I was losing weight, I learned it’s salad dressing that adds the calories. That shit has a lot of sugar.
Just about everything at the salad bar is okay. Try to have more green than meat. Cheese should be sparse. Harder cheeses are better than soft (e.g. cheddar is better than blue cheese).
If you need to cut the bitterness in the salad, try a few hits of Tabasco or oil and vinegar mix.
I bought some sugar free ketchup and it was so nasty. Doesn’t taste right on anything.
So I went back to regular ketchup.
Sugar-free ketchup has artificial sweeteners. I generally don’t trust anything that’s labelled sugar free because of that.
If you’re trying to lose weight, skip the ketchup if you can. Replace it with something not as sugary. If you’re using it to dip your fries, well, the fries are going to get you more than the ketchup but even changing out the ketchup for malt vinegar (a la Five Guys) will help.
A couple times a year I think about the man I watched pour the most dressing I’ve ever seen used in a single serving. He made a comment about healthy eating.
I still wonder if I should’ve said something just in case he truly had no idea eating more ranch than greens for lunch does not mean you’ve had a salad.
I hate Cobb salad simply because it’s all separated. I want my salad tossed, damn it!
Would you say you’re a tosser?
you can order it tossed
“incoming!”
Don’t forget the literal gallon of ranch.
Lite tho.
I hate when my sandwich falls apart
Hey at least you’re eating styrofoam and not that horrible “bread” stuff
That looks fine, actually. Just replace the processed meats
You know that’s cheese not carrots?
I definitely thought those were carrots. That certainly changes things
Does it change things from carrots to cheese?
What’s funny is that carotin is generally used as a coloring agent in cheese, to make it less pale, or I guess, in this case quite orange.
That looks like an illustration from a 1950s cookbook. Mystery meat, shredded stuff, crinkle-cut discs, quartered boiled eggs, all in Kodachrome. Yummy! (I would eat it.)
looks delicious tbh
And healthy. If I ate like this I’d basically be Dr Manhattan
My gawd - those hard boiled eggs are beyond overdone. Probably smells like a sulphur factory in there.
