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As long as I eat healthy, which is a chore with my dislike of cooking, I seldom have problems maintaining or losing weight. My downfall is if I don’t eat healthy and my gluttony for deserts kicks in. My Mom can eat just 1 of anything but I can’t. Now I’m hungry for a Carmel cheesecake.
Jake

@imallears Mary, your message is good for anyone here, not just Leonard! Making food a healthy game could be fun. We all need food to survive, definitely, and that is what makes it difficult for people with eating or food disorders. Leonard, my dad always said he never met a cookie or cheesecake he didn't like. Towards the end of his life he wanted Panda brand black licorice. [Myself, I just want Good N Plenty]. Sometimes I still really desire what is a no-no on this renal diet, like a banana or good navel Orange.
Ginger

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

@imallears
You make some valid points. Funny thing is I use to love to cook and bake. I liked to make candy. I seldom eat sweets anymore and do eat quite healthy now bellyaching every inch of the way. I usually have 4oz of meat, potato veggies sometimes a salad. When my dad was alive we all went on a 700 calorie diet. Everything had to be weighed and measured but we all got full and had everything from appetizers to desert and never had any cravings. I use to eat every meal at the bakery and have a couple candy bars with a root beer float every night in bed. I’m not as active as I use to be when my pain was controlled with Fentanyl. I control it more now by staying off my feet. One reason I don’t cook or do anything for a prolonged time. After awhile I just collapse. Trying not to take any pain meds. I should hire someone to cook that way for me. I have a gal who cooks for me occasionally, guess she need to come more often. I hired her to help with my Mom but she’s not showing up.
Jake

@gingerw
My kidney doc wants me to eat an orange a day. I’ve had a few but not every day. I have kidney stones.

@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

@jakedduck1 New today is that Roundup has inundated our cereals .Cheerio,s any oats, corn cereal so go to a smoothie in the morning like banana, yogurt ,almond milk or milk blueberries and blend it .

@imallears
You make some valid points. Funny thing is I use to love to cook and bake. I liked to make candy. I seldom eat sweets anymore and do eat quite healthy now bellyaching every inch of the way. I usually have 4oz of meat, potato veggies sometimes a salad. When my dad was alive we all went on a 700 calorie diet. Everything had to be weighed and measured but we all got full and had everything from appetizers to desert and never had any cravings. I use to eat every meal at the bakery and have a couple candy bars with a root beer float every night in bed. I’m not as active as I use to be when my pain was controlled with Fentanyl. I control it more now by staying off my feet. One reason I don’t cook or do anything for a prolonged time. After awhile I just collapse. Trying not to take any pain meds. I should hire someone to cook that way for me. I have a gal who cooks for me occasionally, guess she need to come more often. I hired her to help with my Mom but she’s not showing up.
Jake

I rarely eat breakfast. KP twice a day is torture enough. It’s traumatic enough just to walk through the kitchen to do the laundry. I should have lived in biblical days before they ate the fruit. No laundry, talk about the good old days.
Jake

@jakeduck
Hey, they ate plenty of fruit in Biblical times. They didn’t eat 3 meals a day like we do but 2 main meals. So you could eat bread and fruit in the morning .At least you don’t have to wash your toga in the stream and beat it against a rock.😏 They didn’t
eat much meat if I am correct...bread veggies, grains and fruit....no toaster steaks...and oh yes...wine.

FL Mary heading for the pantry.... naw too late