Today I fell off the wagon, but it doesn't count since it's my birthday, right? Fish and chips at a restaurant, and killer carrot cake. Carrots are a vegetable so how bad could it be?
Well first Happy Birthday....
Fried fish is so bad for you...
Just a little tip that I never thought about until I read it. the more you cut something up and then cook it in oil the worse it gets for you.
For instance- take a medium potato. has about 200 calories by it's self. cut it up into lets say 8 peices and pan fry in a tablespoon of oil then it has about 350 calories....cut it up like french fries and deep fry- it has 500 calories, slice super thin like potato chips and then it has 800....so on.
A regular flour tortilla has about 150 to 160 calories. Deep fry it and it has a whopping 400 to 500 calories. a corn tortilla has about 60 calories...fry it up to make it soft- you add about 60+ calories.
If you are a tortilla eater like moi...I personally recommend the mission white corn tortillias. you can warm them up and make them soft without frying them. I also like bueno or mission flour tortillas they have about 150 calories each.
Did you know that the lower the oil temp when your fry your food absorbs more of the oil.
for instance... old fashioned cake donuts, the kind with the cracks on the top that taste at first like heaven and then like you have a mouth full of grease... Well they are fried at 325 degrees and absorb a great deal or fat. Regular cake donuts are fried at about 375 degrees they to absorb a lot of fat, and raised donuts are fried at 400 degrees. Raised donuts have the least amount of calories, but it's still totally bad for you.
pretty much if you fry something it's totally bad for you.
Um- and to break you of eating hamburgers at restaurants- paticularly fast food restaurants.....
DON'T READ THIS IF YOU ARE EATING RIGHT NOW!!. It may gross you out....
The meat used to make the patties are literally heads and hooves. The meat is removed and sent down a big meat tube and treated with ammonia...yes- toliet cleaner....And why do you ask??? To kill the e-coli that is surely in the head and hoove portion of the cow. Now keep in mind that the meat is also mixed in with lots and lots of heads and hooves so the burger that you have "your way" was more than likely made with 10 to 15 different cows.
Needless to say- shannon will no longer be eating hamburgers.
The nice thing about me is once I'm truly grossed out- I never eat it again. I used to LOVE shrimp. I haven't ate shrimp since I was 26. I used to love fried fish...Haven't ate fried fish in 2 years. Remember "goldfish" who used to be here on FC...He told me something about fish and that pretty much did it for me. If I could find a way to be grossed out by EVERYTHING I'd be so dam* skinny!
Donnie and I used to eat out 3 to 4 times a week. since I'm trying to find ways to save money and lose weight I cook all the time at home. We eat out maybe 2 times a month- if we are lucky. When we eat fast food it's always chik-fil-a. They have a char grilled sandwich that only has 300 calories. The char grilled salad only has 230 and if you chose the light italian dressing you only add 15 calories. PLUS they have super good diet lemonade, and they are really nice there too.
By the way we are able to save one whole weeks pay by not going out to eat all the time. We actually live off of 1/4 less than we used to! So going on a diet or making lifestyle changes doesn't mean having to go broke!!
