Yes, I know how it goes, @jakedduck1. Brownie cheesecake is my downfall.

@ jakeduck
Hi,

Gotta respond to this. Understand your aversion to cooking...that ain’t gonna change. Your knowing you should and don’t eat healthy is a good sign that you want to live a long, fairly active life. So work with yourself.

Stop looking at cooking as an everyday thing you have to do......If you could summon up the interest and energy to cook maybe once or twice a month and spend that day cooking meals for the freezer , that equals a lot of days not cooking, just defrosting.

The crockpot could be your best friend...dump the food on and forget about it. But you have to do the initial learning process.

I’m sure you’ve used the rotisserie chicken route ad nauseum. Nothing wrong with that. Pick up a premade salad and throw some of that chicken on top. So many good things are precut today that require little or no effort. A bunch of precut veggies drizzled with olive oil and tossed in the oven is heavenly....and you have leftovers. That’s not “cooking”.

Thai takeout is healthy. Pick up a quart of Chinese stir fry. Throw some frozen fruit and spinach leaves and yogurt and ice cubes in a blender just to give you the nutrients you need. That ain’t cooking, just watching . Also might satisfy that sweet tooth.

You can get around cooking by planning ahead...will cost you a little more but you’re worth it aren’t you? Then when you do have a healthy day of eating, go get that cheesecake as a reward.

Take advantage of the friends that will cook a meal for you and treat yourself to an occasional steak dinner. Chili’s has a under 500 calorie steak and salad and avocado dinner that’s very good but probably loaded with sodium. You can balance that out for that day.

Slice up you toaster steak and toss it with Chinese stir fry takeout.

Make this a game. How can Mr Holloway expend the least amount of effort and maintain a healthy diet. Then write your favorites down and rotate them.

Can’t help you with the sweet tooth...that’s will power....but I bet dollars to doughnuts, the more nutritious meals you eat the less you will crave those sweets. The body is smart that way.

You have a great sense of humor so let’s make fun of Julia Child and Emeril and all of them and say Ha! look at what I did! or, more to the point, what I didn’t have to do.

Regards and Bon Appetit from FL Mary

@jakedduck1........what is this study re: cereal that you guys are talking about?

@jakedduck1 I think many of us can relate to not being able to eat just one of something. My sister and I were just talking about that the other day. It's often easier to simply not have something in the house at all. Basically it is like being an alcoholic, they can't apparently stop at one drink, and us food-aholics can't stop at just one of something we really like. I have read that it's harder to break a food addiction than it is to break other addictions because you can't just stop eating.

@imallears I eat a very healthy, nutritious diet but I still cannot resist things when they are around, particularly if I have one -- one almost always leads to more than one. I do love sweets. The only sweet I generally buy is dark chocolate, over 70% cocoa, because that's actually good for you too. I work at limiting how much I eat of it.
JK

Jake - Ah Oh- Give me anything salty and crunchy and I'm a goner. lol