Getting healthy is such a personal journey. Do what works best for you. Keep trying new things till something works.
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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…
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.
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.
at least a fifth of that is vegetables so it’s an improvement on the average diet
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.
I hate Cobb salad simply because it’s all separated. I want my salad tossed, damn it!
