Food Network = Porn
I’m mad at Rachel Ray.
If I ever…ever! put that much butter in my food, I would never be able to leave my house. And yet she smiles, looking oh-so-ultra cute, and puts butter on her meal without blinking an eye. Yum-o! Eat up! Grrrrrr!
I look at butter and I immediately gain 99940302485.2 pounds. And I don’t look nearly as cute as she does- I have that evil look of someone with their hand caught both in the cookie jar and a tub of icing.
Which is sad, because butter is delicous and tasty. I watch food network, and I’m both horrified at the use of butter and slightly turned on at the same time.
You’re a bad bad tasty dish, aren’t you!
I am startingto come to my senses about the butter=evil debate. Maybe- just maybe, I can come to a healthy mix of real food and thinness in my life. I am a Taurus, ladies and gentlemen. I cannot live without the richness in my life. I tried to deny myself that before ….and I’d sit around and be furious drinking a skim milk late while my thin friends drank the milk in it’s whole fat, delicous goodness.
Why should I deny myself? Why can I not have something that tastes good? I would much rather have a teaspoon of butter than a vat of fat free chemicals.
This I pledge to myself– I will cook the best foods I can- and make them as healthy as I can without sacrificing the taste. I will not use processed foods (as much as possible). I will learn to enjoy a smaller portion on the foods I want. I want to be able to eat- enjoy my foods, and not gorge.
And dammit- I will have butter!
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Sounds yummy. Its good for you and dont eat too much.Any way, we both love butter.
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Hey girlie. Over here, food can be kinda rich when you eat out. I thinka splash of cream makes it’s way into every restaurant dish. BUT because of this richness, the portion sizes are about half of what ye have over in America. Foods more filling, so you eat less of it (once you eat slowly and give your head time to register the fullness in your belly!).
So, add your knob of butter, or your splash of cream. But be sure to half your portion size if you do this.
Girliee, I feel you on this. i love Rachel Ray also, i am really addicted to 30 minute meals!!! I have even went online and printed out the recipies and stuff. Le tme tell you what I do. I take the actual recipe and go online and dig around for the nutritional values of each ingredient and then I search for substitutions to cut where I can. There are some really good ones, like substituting plain yogurt for sour cream, all kinds of stuff. i knwo ti may not be much but in this war every little battle counts!! meaning every pound!!
I wouldn’t be to hard on Rachel, I knwo I ahve noticed, she is starting to get a little bigger these days herself, so she probably has it even harder than the rest of us having to cook and eat as a job!!!! i still love her, skinny and with tons of butter!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so right, it is food porn. And it’s everywhere. TV, magazines, even the sides of buses for God’s sake. I know what you mean about butter though… I just recently decided the heck with the ‘light’ blu cheese dressing. I would rather have 1T of the real thing than 2T of the light. If I just watch the portion size I CAN have my butter and lose weight, too. My weight graph proves it. When my husband wants pizza…. I eat a 1/8th slice. with a big salad, no problem. Of course that only happens on occasion, not every week like in the ‘old fat days’. ‘)
great blog. funny and so true. i think your goals are good. we need to be healthy. and we need to feel good about ourselves. and we also need to enjoy life. it’s all about finding the happy medium. and you CAN do it.
*oh yeah- what’s with rachel ray being spokegirl for dunkin doughnuts!!!!!! that really ticked me off.
Myra, you’re right about it being good for you. I have begun a crusade of claiming back butter. I keep telling people- use a bit! No trans fats!
Little Flower, you are right. I have to be able to say- OK, I’ll take a bit of butter, eat it, and learn how to not feel bad about myself and not eat the entire portion. I am OK with a little bit. I am NOT okay with feeling deprived. Or feeling like the crazy chick on a diet who can’t eat anything.
Twintluv, I have noticed that too. The evil part of me says- ha! serves you right! All that damn butter! But I know I’m just hating because I always felt like I can’t have that, you know? It’s not her fault.
Sandy, you are at the place where I want to be. I know there are certain sacrifices I will not be happy with in the long run. I am perfectly fine having a big salad and a slice of pizza. I am great having no dessert. But a skim milk coffee just doesn’t do it for me. So I’ve started shrinking my portion sizes. I’m slowly weaning myself away from a large dunkin coffee to a medium. My goal is to be at a small. Right now, I allow it in my points, but as I lose, I know it will have to go down.
Mikey- thank you! I hope so!
