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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 29, 2021 23:21:19 GMT
How has your eating changed from how you were eating when you were growing up?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 29, 2021 23:25:42 GMT
Now, I don't have dessert every night after dinner or snack on sweets. I eat yogurt and raw veggie salads every day now. As a child and a young person I was much better at stopping eating when I started to feel full.
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Post by cathygeha on Sept 30, 2021 8:10:21 GMT
I am eating healthier. Mom was not a super cook when we were little...lots of tinned foods, as I remember.
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Post by luvvinlife on Sept 30, 2021 12:52:29 GMT
That’s a great question. Now that I think about it, I’ve returned to the way I ate as a child. Whole foods, protein, vegetable & carbs. Dessert was only served on special occasions. Snacks were fruit and applesauce. Beverages were tea, milk, juice and water.
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Post by mac on Sept 30, 2021 15:15:34 GMT
How has your eating changed from how you were eating when you were growing up?
* When I was young we always had three healthy meals. It was the rich desserts we had with our night meal, rich sugar snacks we had at night and all the rich Christmas cookies, peanut brittle and rum balls my Mom made for months. We had sugar cookies into the spring stored on the steps to our cold attic in big gold lard tins. I was thin because we didn't own a car so we walked everywhere including school, no bus rides then for in town kids like now. We also entertained ourselves for several hours in the evening with neighborhood kids and friends playing free games like kick the can, no sitting for hours on electronics playing games. Times are very different today on how I eat and what I do for me time, it's one of the reasons I've struggled with my weight since I first joined WW in 1964!
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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 30, 2021 16:24:33 GMT
Enjoyed reading all of the responses.
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Post by lani on Sept 30, 2021 16:57:03 GMT
My mom was a fabulous cook. Our meals were pretty healthy but she would make a dessert once a week, pies, cakes, cinnamon rolls. No one gained weight besides my dad.
Now I watch the sugar and fat.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 30, 2021 19:00:48 GMT
lani, My dad was thin and very moderate in his eating. The only time he gained weight in his adult like was when he lived in Austria for six months. He could have one beer, and one piece of See's chocolate at a time (not at the same time). Mom was a little heavier but not much, of the four kids two ended up with weight problems (my older sister and my oldest brother) and two of us were thin (me, and the other brother). I was one of the thin ones but around age 30 I taught myself to overeat and was overweight and obese for decades. Mom put the standard dinner on the table every night, meat, potato, vegetable, never raw veggie salads or casseroles. We always had dessert. We use to tease my father that his favorite dessert was chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup, and chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
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Post by lani on Sept 30, 2021 19:09:20 GMT
bbbearsmom , families are interesting. My mother and brother were on the slim side. My dad and I would gain weight but only if we really overate, for basically years at a time. However, we did that. BTW my brother's low weight did nothing to prevent him having a heart attack in his 30s. He is fine now, takes Lipitor and is very vigilant with his diet. I guess it was high cholesterol and also he is a very buttoned up individual in regard to his personality. I don't know if being so stoic contributed, but I always felt like it might have. We never did discuss it as we were living thousands of miles away at the time. He's in his late 70s now.
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Post by lizlor on Oct 1, 2021 7:15:20 GMT
My mom was a great cook and had something different every night. Very rarely ate out. No real snacking. Now we batch cook so we have something for 2-3 meals. We eat out more, or used to before Covid. Now only eat out outside.
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