Food Before and After Photos

[Lilia_90 450]

Baked some delicious smelling brownies (I more than halved the amount of sugar). My little one was like “they’re to die for mama” and the eldest goes “you mean they’re to live for 🙄” with an eye roll. The hubs feedback was “please don’t make them again because I can’t stop eating them. These are the best brownies you’ve ever made”

I omitted chocolate chips and replaced with drizzled nutella on top and pecans. Believe it or not I didn’t try them but will tonight.

[GreenTealael 25,336]

14 hours ago, Lilia_90 said:

Baked some delicious smelling brownies (I more than halved the amount of sugar). My little one was like “they’re to die for mama” and the eldest goes “you mean they’re to live for 🙄” with an eye roll. The hubs feedback was “please don’t make them again because I can’t stop eating them. These are the best brownies you’ve ever made”

I omitted chocolate chips and replaced with drizzled nutella on top and pecans. Believe it or not I didn’t try them but will tonight.

These are beautiful!

[GreenTealael 25,336]

Anyone else noticing the uptick in product recalls?

[Chatterboxdea 131]

9 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Anyone else noticing the uptick in product recalls?

What kind of products?

[Chatterboxdea 131]

My lunch today; ate it all! So good!

[GreenTealael 25,336]

35 minutes ago, Chatterboxdea said:

What kind of products?

food. A lot of listeria contamination warnings lately but maybe it has always been this way and I’m just noticing.

[BigSue 1,372]

4 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

food. A lot of listeria contamination warnings lately but maybe it has always been this way and I’m just noticing.

There was a huge recall of products containing precooked chicken that affected a lot of different brands. This has a 400+ page document showing all the products affected in the recall:

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/brucepac-recalls-ready-eat-meat-and-poultry-products-due-possible-listeria

[ms.sss 15,581]

16 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

food. A lot of listeria contamination warnings lately but maybe it has always been this way and I’m just noticing.

i haven't noticed, but then again, i never really keep a look out for it? maybe i should....

[Chatterboxdea 131]

1 minute ago, ms.sss said:

i haven't noticed, but then again, i never really keep a look out for it? maybe i should....

Same!

[ms.sss 15,581]

11 hours ago, BigSue said:

There was a huge recall of products containing precooked chicken that affected a lot of different brands. This has a 400+ page document showing all the products affected in the recall:

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/brucepac-recalls-ready-eat-meat-and-poultry-products-due-possible-listeria

speaking of chicken, ha!

this was lunch today, that i picked up after yoga classes (pro tip: don't buy take out on your way home from exercise class because it will likely be deep fried stuff like this omg).

1/3 KFC classic chicken sandwich, 1 KFC chicken tender, and 2 and a little bit of KFC onion rings (the cute little one was my favourite, lol) with a little bit of ketchup & bbq sauce: 462 calories for all of it. ate the tender and the onion rings, but got tired after one bite of the partial sandwich and gave up...so probably 275 calories for what i actually ate (mr. already ate the leftovers).

[Chatterboxdea 131]

Did anyone else grow up with parents who told you to clean your plate/not waste food? !?!

I still really struggle with this. I dislike when I portion out food and then feel like I can't finish it, especially if I have already logged it in my app. I definitely have to fight with my brain to just put it in the fridge and finish it later, if I get hungry. I actually think eating out helps with this because I know I'm going to not finish a whole plate or I share with my husband and he will finish it.

[GreenTealael 25,336]

2 hours ago, Chatterboxdea said:

Did anyone else grow up with parents who told you to clean your plate/not waste food? !?!

I still really struggle with this. I dislike when I portion out food and then feel like I can't finish it, especially if I have already logged it in my app. I definitely have to fight with my brain to just put it in the fridge and finish it later, if I get hungry. I actually think eating out helps with this because I know I'm going to not finish a whole plate or I share with my husband and he will finish it.

I did not. However my boyfriend did and it has been the biggest struggle to convince him that he is free to stop when he wants. At one point he, early on, he tried to control my intake, I had to set a hard boundary. He even apologizes if he can't finish something. I honestly wish parents didn't do this to children because it's feels impossible to reverse. Sending virtual hugs to you and strength for the battle.

[Spinoza 1,376]

2 hours ago, Chatterboxdea said:

Did anyone else grow up with parents who told you to clean your plate/not waste food? !?!

I still really struggle with this. I dislike when I portion out food and then feel like I can't finish it, especially if I have already logged it in my app. I definitely have to fight with my brain to just put it in the fridge and finish it later, if I get hungry. I actually think eating out helps with this because I know I'm going to not finish a whole plate or I share with my husband and he will finish it.

OMG absolutely this!!!

[GreenTealael 25,336]

2 hours ago, ms.sss said:

speaking of chicken, ha!

this was lunch today, that i picked up after yoga classes (pro tip: don't buy take out on your way home from exercise class because it will likely be deep fried stuff like this omg).

1/3 KFC classic chicken sandwich, 1 KFC chicken tender, and 2 and a little bit of KFC onion rings (the cute little one was my favourite, lol) with a little bit of ketchup & bbq sauce: 462 calories for all of it. ate the tender and the onion rings, but got tired after one bite of the partial sandwich and gave up...so probably 275 calories for what i actually ate (mr. already ate the leftovers).

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes the tiny onion ring!

[Chatterboxdea 131]

31 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

I did not. However my boyfriend did and it has been the biggest struggle to convince him that he is free to stop when he wants. At one point he, early on, he tried to control my intake, I had to set a hard boundary. He even apologizes if he can't finish something. I honestly wish parents didn't do this to children because it's feels impossible to reverse. Sending virtual hugs to you and strength for the battle.

Sadly once I got heavier/bigger, I was told it was fine not to eat everything on my plate. But the damage was done. Definitely a struggle but I’m trying to be better about it.