Likesspace
Sun, Nov-20-11, 20:36
Long time lurker here, even though I don't post much at all.
Anyway, here's my gripe:
My dad is disabled, and has been feeling a lot of loneliness after losing my mom last February.
He lives alone and unfortunately we are only able to spend time with him on the weekends.
Anyway, a few weeks ago we planned a Saturday out with my dad.
My family and I are into hiking and about 2 hours from our home we have some awesome hiking trails that my dad has never gotten to see or enjoy.
Well I knew that some of these trails could possibly, (if you really stretched your imagination), be considered as wheelchair accessible so yesterday we loaded up my dad and his wheelchair and I spent the day pushing him up and down a few different trails.
Now just so you know, this is not what ticks me off. Even though I could barely walk today, (and I do exercise daily), we all had a great time, especially my dad.
What does tick me off is that the last thing that we decided to do was to stop at a local Ryan's restaurant for dinner, before heading home, and that's where the trouble began.....
Even though I was pretty much famished by the time we arrived at the restaurant, I had decided beforehand that I was not going to break my diet. At that point nothing sounded better than a nice salad and a piece of steak, or baked fish.
Well once we got into the restaurant I saw that they not only had steak but also pulled pork on the buffet. Those both sounded good as did the boiled cabbage and the green beans.
Now guys, that is all that I ate. I admit that I did overeat, but I would guess that all told I had 8 oz. of steak, a cup of cabbage.....possibly 3/4 cups of green beans and maybe 6 - 8 oz. of the pulled pork, (hey, I did a LOT of work shoving that wheelchair down some moderately difficult trails!).
Anyway, once I got home (about an hour and a half later) I started to get these temptations to eat some. It wasn't as if I was hungry, but I just wanted to nosh on something.
Now about the only time that I feel like snacking is when I've ingested carbs. As long as I stay very low carb this never happens so I started to suspect something was off.
Well I resisted the urge to eat (okay, I did give in and had a small handful of mixed nuts), and went to bed early. I was tired and that seemed like the easiest way to get rid of the cravings I was having.
Well to make a long story short, my gripe is this......
I got up this morning, got on the scale and found that I weighed 2.2 lbs. MORE this morning than I did yesterday.
Now I've been at this long enough, (since 2003), that I know this is not a true fat gain but I've also been at this long enough to know that I DID ingest a sizable amount of carbs to have this much of a water weight gain, overnight.
The only thing that I can figure is that the steak had been marinated in a sugar based solution and that the pulled pork also had sugar, (probably brown sugar), added, during the cooking process.
You know, this really ticks me off. I went into this restaurant, thinking I was eating on plan and walked out feeling really good about myself.
It just disgusts me that you can't even eat what LOOKS like regular meat and vegetables and not be sure that there is nothing added to make it more palatable to the masses. I guess I should have known, but I never really gave it a seconds thought.
Anyway, live and learn. I did a massive workout this morning and have been slugging water as fast as my body can take it. I'm pretty sure that from here on out I'll just be eating what myself or my wife cook and be happy with it.
This has been bothering me all day and my family is sick of hearing me rant and rave about it. Because of this, I decided to break down and actually make a post on one of my favorite websites. :-)
Thanks for listening.
Dave
Anyway, here's my gripe:
My dad is disabled, and has been feeling a lot of loneliness after losing my mom last February.
He lives alone and unfortunately we are only able to spend time with him on the weekends.
Anyway, a few weeks ago we planned a Saturday out with my dad.
My family and I are into hiking and about 2 hours from our home we have some awesome hiking trails that my dad has never gotten to see or enjoy.
Well I knew that some of these trails could possibly, (if you really stretched your imagination), be considered as wheelchair accessible so yesterday we loaded up my dad and his wheelchair and I spent the day pushing him up and down a few different trails.
Now just so you know, this is not what ticks me off. Even though I could barely walk today, (and I do exercise daily), we all had a great time, especially my dad.
What does tick me off is that the last thing that we decided to do was to stop at a local Ryan's restaurant for dinner, before heading home, and that's where the trouble began.....
Even though I was pretty much famished by the time we arrived at the restaurant, I had decided beforehand that I was not going to break my diet. At that point nothing sounded better than a nice salad and a piece of steak, or baked fish.
Well once we got into the restaurant I saw that they not only had steak but also pulled pork on the buffet. Those both sounded good as did the boiled cabbage and the green beans.
Now guys, that is all that I ate. I admit that I did overeat, but I would guess that all told I had 8 oz. of steak, a cup of cabbage.....possibly 3/4 cups of green beans and maybe 6 - 8 oz. of the pulled pork, (hey, I did a LOT of work shoving that wheelchair down some moderately difficult trails!).
Anyway, once I got home (about an hour and a half later) I started to get these temptations to eat some. It wasn't as if I was hungry, but I just wanted to nosh on something.
Now about the only time that I feel like snacking is when I've ingested carbs. As long as I stay very low carb this never happens so I started to suspect something was off.
Well I resisted the urge to eat (okay, I did give in and had a small handful of mixed nuts), and went to bed early. I was tired and that seemed like the easiest way to get rid of the cravings I was having.
Well to make a long story short, my gripe is this......
I got up this morning, got on the scale and found that I weighed 2.2 lbs. MORE this morning than I did yesterday.
Now I've been at this long enough, (since 2003), that I know this is not a true fat gain but I've also been at this long enough to know that I DID ingest a sizable amount of carbs to have this much of a water weight gain, overnight.
The only thing that I can figure is that the steak had been marinated in a sugar based solution and that the pulled pork also had sugar, (probably brown sugar), added, during the cooking process.
You know, this really ticks me off. I went into this restaurant, thinking I was eating on plan and walked out feeling really good about myself.
It just disgusts me that you can't even eat what LOOKS like regular meat and vegetables and not be sure that there is nothing added to make it more palatable to the masses. I guess I should have known, but I never really gave it a seconds thought.
Anyway, live and learn. I did a massive workout this morning and have been slugging water as fast as my body can take it. I'm pretty sure that from here on out I'll just be eating what myself or my wife cook and be happy with it.
This has been bothering me all day and my family is sick of hearing me rant and rave about it. Because of this, I decided to break down and actually make a post on one of my favorite websites. :-)
Thanks for listening.
Dave