The calories don't count when . . . . .

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calories don't count
people count

I don't know why, but that made me laugh harder than I have in days.

I have this illogical/irrrational threshold of 2500. If I've burned 2500 calories, then they don't count. But if I haven't, I ingest the "empty" or perhaps "unnecessary" calories anyway and beat myself up about it...for a little while then I move on (I blame it all on Catholic School).

Think this may have something to do with my "overtraining problem"?

Fortunately I'm not a big fan of chocolate. Now, Lay's ORIGINAL potato chips...WATCH OUT. I cannot purchase them otherwise I eat the whole bag.

tlkiwi: Does caffeine free Diet Coke cancel out more calories than regular Diet Coke?

[pedalfaster]

Now, Lay's ORIGINAL potato chips...WATCH OUT. I cannot purchase them otherwise I eat the whole bag.

Oh yeah I love those "single serving" packages.

My personal "single servings" are Girl Scout thin mint cookies, frozen, (actually *two servings*) and Pringles Reduced Fat Original Flavor. Yep I eat the whole can. I like the "reduced " (yeah right!) because they are less greasy/more crispy.

Uhm and microwave popcorn. Is there ANYone who does not eat the WHOLE bag? I am currently into the Paul Newman totally unflavored stuff. Just good corn-y flavor.

Mmmmm food....

[pedalfaster]

Back to the original post...

Calories don't count if you eat standing up! Everyone know that.

Actually I have a story...

My sister, who has always had a problem with her weight, was watching me stand at the kitchen counter and snarf down the above mentioned can of Pringles and goodness-knows-what-else, and commented "They always say the way to loose weight is to sit down, fix a decent meal, and slowly enjoy your food...but that must be wrong because you stay slender..."

I just looked at her with amazment. The part she completely missed??? The SIX HOUR bike ride I'd just completed.

[SadieKate]

Isn't the cocoa bean a vegetable?

[Pedal Wench]

Isn't the cocoa bean a vegetable?

And, chocolate is brown. Mushrooms are brown. Mushrooms are a vegetable with very few calories. Obviously, then, chocolate is a vegetable with very few calories!

For me, the calories don't count... the day before a long ride (carbo-loading) the day of the long ride (glycogen replenishing), or the day after (recovery!)

[LBTC]

For me, the calories don't count... the day before a long ride (carbo-loading) the day of the long ride (glycogen replenishing), or the day after (recovery!)

...and since you ride every other day....

Namaste,
~T~

[SadieKate]

I'm resurrecting this thread because I found a new excuse for Peppermint Mochas and a Blackbottom cupcake for breakfast: being put on a soft foods diet after having a temporary crown re-glued.

Oh, darn. What's for dinner? Marbleslab or Cold Stone? Ooh, how about pumpkin pie? If the dog gets the crust, the pie is probably negative calories.

[Duck on Wheels]

And, chocolate is brown. Mushrooms are brown. Mushrooms are a vegetable with very few calories. Obviously, then, chocolate is a vegetable with very few calories!

That's another one I've heard before -- that calories from anything brown don't count. That one and the evening-out-the-crooked-cut-pie one. Also a third: that they don't count if you're just finishing off those left-over bits that aren't enough for another meal and therefore not worth fridge space. After all, throwing out food is a sin, right?

[fultzie]

yep, that's why brown sugar is healthier than regular sugar!

and second-hand calories don't count... especially if you swipe the fries/ cookie/ milkshake off of your friend/ brother's tray.

or if someone makes you a meal as a treat. that doesn't count.

and you *have* to eat the broken brownies/ cookies/ chips! they're *broken*! you can't subject some other poor person to eating the broken bits.

i spin with a group on sunday mornings, and then we make chocolate chip pancakes with syrup/ real bacon/ scrambled eggs in the bacon grease/ mimosas/ coffee... that doubly doesn't count, because it's sunday and we did a spinervals video!

[mommelisa]

Calories don't count if you eat standing up! Everyone know that.

lol! my mother used to say the food would go to your big toe if you ate standing up... bigger shoes or bigger pants size, i'll take the bigger shoes!

[caligurl]

UGH! but THEY DO COUNT! which is why i'm the only cyclist who has GAINED weight since taking up cycling! cuz i need to eat so i don't bonk.... but now i'm getting FAT!

(tommy's, in n out, pat and oscar breadsticks and coldstone don't count as long as you rode that day... right??????? ya ya ya.... i KNOW! )

[DirtDiva]

tlkiwi: Does caffeine free Diet Coke cancel out more calories than regular Diet Coke?

Hmmm. I'm not sure. I don't believe in going without caffeine, so I have accumulated no experimental evidence on this one.

By the way, leftover stuff like the last of the cookie dough you scrape out of the bowl is also sans calories.