Let’s suggest that everything real looks a lot less sexy than staged photos and move on. Look at Will Smith in Pursuit of Happyness (what’s up with the spelling) vs. the real guy. Stars in movies vs. Stars in tabloids. Etc. Doesn’t mean anything.

That said, Fast Food is a lot less appealing to me than it used to be (I was what they’d call a high user). Fast Food Nation (the book) didn’t cure that for long (3 months), neither did Supersize Me (maybe a week). Omnivore’s Dilemma did a little more, but it’s hard to sort what is that and what is PP. Either way, I’ve been off since X-mas (drive across country resulted in some FF) and 4 months before that as well. Amazing and thank you.

Really? My tastes have changed so much since being on a low-carb WOE for a year. Sweets, pasta and white bread repulse me now, although multi-grain breads and sweet fruits still look appetizing.

Hey, I just remembered : it’s been exactly one year today! The macadamia nuts I received as a gift certainly were a perfect celebration food.

Hi Francis–

I guess we all have our own specific high-carb demons to fight off.  I used to love potatoes, now they do nothing for me.  I don’t miss them a bit.  I never was much of a pasta fan, so that one has been easy to avoid.  For me the real problem is cinnamon-type rolls, especially if they contain raisins.  If I see one of those, and I’m really hungry, unless my will power is at it’s max, I’m a goner.

Cheers–

MRE 

Hi mrfreddy–

On your recommendation I went back and looked at the ads.  I would never have noticed a thing had I not been primed as to what to look for.

Cheers–

MRE 

We should picture what we eat. Big salads with deli meat, lots of veggies and dressing. How could you go wrong with that? No…I don’t need you to tell me.

It looks pretty gaggeriffic to me, too.  Great word, BTW.

Cheers–

MRE 

The above photo could take hours to capture.

I know; I’ve been there.  I watched what is done to our food on our TV shows to get the real up close shots.

Cheers–

MRE 

The closest I’ve come to eating carbs lately was eating 99% cocoa chocolate (4g of which 3g are fibers per 50g).

I believe people who keep having that sweet tooth is because they regularly maintain it. I’m too happy to have gotten rid of my addiction to anything sweet that I’m not looking luciously at anything carby. I don’t even bother with veggies. It’s all about meat and eggs!

I’ve heard that sometimes in these ads they don’t even use real food, because the real things don’t always look like they should on pictures/TV. The bread on the subway ad looks like what we think bread is supposed to look like, yet bread doesn’t look like that.