A quick stop by to drop hugs for everyone **hugs**

yay! *hugs* hope all is well with you Jaz.

its kinda hard to eat "american food" ... i say it like this or i would probably piss someone off a say "white people food".. because i am mexican and have been raised up eating all the good and fatty foods!!!! -licks lips- man do i love me some food when i cook. my hubby loves it when i cook. He could live off my cooking. I eat at least 2 times a day but snack in between... its hard to eat at work so when i get my lunch break i eat and when i get home and my hubby cooks i eat after that i don't really eat much unless i am dying of hunger. I just rarely eat.... at work i sweat a lot because i work at mcdonalds and am a cashier so i am right by the ovens and grills so i know ima loose weight cuz of that but before i started working i would just walk the dog and clean house and be on the computer... i guess you can call me an all around fat a**

-hugs- Hello Jaz ... how are you and your avatar is so cute!!!!

I was considering trying a "raw food" diet. I just don't feel like going with out the meats that I like. >.> or rice.

eh. I can't do raw. I don't even like most vegetables raw. like I know people can eat things like raw broccoli and I'm just like Ugh gross. no deal for me. I think what's best for me has been just watching what I eat and how much of it I eat. some things are just torture and those diets never work for people that feel that way because sooner or later you just break.

I like this carb one. we've all been pretty much following it since my mom has to and i think we all just feel better with it. matthew does anyway. andrew's always been pretty active.

I like fresh fruits/veggies a lot. xD

I can't remember what the other diet Dar was talking about a while ago was...but it sounded interesting too.

I like the seafood diet... where you see the food and you eat it! lol.... i don't like calling it a diet... i usually just say i am watching what i eat. cuz if i say diet i usually eat whatever and get off track.

I love fruits. completely. I like juices but they're so bad for me even if they're 100% juice and no sugar added just because I'm weak and can't seem to make sure I only drink 6 fl oz of them at a time.

At some point I'd like to get a juicer I think. I think I'd use one a lot.

for veggies.. I think I only like carrots. celery is ok. cucumber.. but some things just taste gross to me like raw pea pods. or broccoli or certain leafy green things. spinach. I can't eat uncooked spinach salads. >.<

I love fruits and veggies! i can eat them all day! I love apples with peanut butter... carrots with ranch... broccoli with ranch.. and more omg yummm!

When I was pregnant, I didn't get gestational diabetes, but some foods caused my sugars to go up higher than my midwives liked. A blood sugar reading that had anything above 135-140 was unacceptable, and 90-110 or so after 2 hours was desired. In short, they wanted to keep me as normal as possible so I wouldn't be at risk for anything...

So! I ate lots of salads and meats while pregnant and limited my fruits and refined carbs. I felt GREAT. Sadly I just can't give my toast up these days. ;)

I would be able to give up alot of things but its just extremely hard to say no sometimes.... I love food but i know i gotta loose weight. so i do other things in order to loose weight and limit myself on how much i can and can't eat.

Salads are the best.... what do you put in your salads Chi?

It depends on my mood. I love to make my own vinaigrette, but sometimes I use bottled stuff, like Ranch in particular.

Sometimes I take greens and add tomatoes and cucumbers, other times I add fresh peppers. Sometimes chickpeas, sometimes beets. :XD

Though right now I would love to have a bed of greens with sliced chicken breast and avocado on top!

I like a bed of greens, carrots, dried cranberries...and when I can get away with it...feta! om nom! (: Oh, with red onions. Don't forget the red onions! Any type of dressing (save for asian ginger) seems to go good with it too.

my salads have some good shit in it lol....

bed of greens... diced onions, diced apples, grapes, carrots, cucumber, chopped up eggs, ham or turkey and some fat free creamy ranch! OMG My mouth got all watery just thinking about it. ha ha ha ha... Wish i had all that stuff now! :(

I have everything for a salad actually. Hubby and I are eating late tonight. We're marinating lamb chops to have after the monsters go to bed right now. yum. Perhaps we'll have a salad as an appetizer before the chops. (:

I made pork chops for dinner tonight. just got finish making them about an hour ago... just waiting for the hubby to get home.

we had pasta and salad for supper. it was pretty good! :yes: trying to eat better, as i think thats what my problem is. and eat less.

we're having salad on andrew's birthday since he says instead of going out he just wants dominos pizza. but since my family is so picky we don't really put much in the salads aside from romain lettuce the only thing we mix in are carrot slices and then we dice cucumber and put those in.

I discovered that I don't like lamb. xD It's a very strong meat and the cuts were had were apparently really fatty...and lamb fat is just gross. D: So that was by far very disappointing since they weren't exactly cheap! /sigh. We plan on trying a different cut later since I think the main problem was the fat and I don't want to count something out until I've had it a few times and a few different ways. >.> Or maybe I just like wasting money? Who knows. In any case, dinner was a wee bit depressing. But Scott made me some turtle brownies for dessert to make up for it!

yes. Lamb fat is very nasty. even though us mexicans love eating it. I don't like it but my dad loves it. but lamb meat is good! i like it!

huh...I don't think any of my Mexican friends ever mentioned eating lamb before. xD It was always chicken or steak. Odd. Though, I believe lamb is supposed to be a traditional passover dish, and since the majority of Mexicans I know are Christian/Catholic it does fit. I just hate how expensive lamb is! D: But like I said, we'll be trying a couple of different cuts and seeing how it goes then.

I'm Dana's mule, so don't worry. I used to eat fast food when I was younger, but now I just eat my mom's home cooking. I love all kinds of food. I love all vegetables. I don't eat most of them raw because they give me stinky breath.

Hi Steven: Nice to meet you... Dana's mule. -giggles- I like cooked and uncooked veggies

It's hard to eat healthy when you want to gain weight. I'm now ninety-eight pounds, which is underweight for my height, but I don't eat that much fast food anymore.

You want some of my fat? i can give you a whole bunch lol. I have been overweight my entire life. this is the first time i have been loosing weight without trying. it kind of feels great but at the same time it worries me because i don't know what i am doing differently.