[bri276]

If you want to drink diet soda, alcohol, and eat carbs all day, be my guest. If you want to believe everything you read or see on MSNBC when it comes to nutrition instead of actually delving into the medical journals or even just giving five minutes of your time to the other points of view, fine. Ladle that hardened vegetable oil spread on your food if you want.

But don't dare tell me my BUTTER is unhealthy without a freaking scrap of evidence because "it raises cholesterol"....

Very tense dinner with the stepfather tonight. He is 100% closed minded even after the whole Lipitor fiasco- and I believe he's still on Lipitor. It's almost like some people are emotionally attached to the lipid hypothesis. Ignoring the whole "hypothesis" part. You know, I really have better things to do than worry about how everyone else eats- it's hard enough focusing on myself, DD and DH. I don't tell him how to eat, but it's beyond insulting for him to tell me that I'm wrong when I've read both sides of the story and he refuses to look beyond the mainstream media party line.

 

[ryleigh'smama]

Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone. It is so frustrating. I cringe watching my father down diet soda after diet soda....even AFTER I send him research regarding aspartame. It's like he just doesn't even want to believe it cause if it was really that dangerous the government would ban it.

 

[tolovemercy]

ugh, i know the feeling. my IL's are so terrible about this stuff. i almost think it would be easier to tolerate them if they were more SAD-junk-fooders, but they're not--they actually think that their fake food is *healthier* than my raw milk and butter.

and then my MIL says things like, "i don't know how you stay so thin eating all that fat!"

*sigh*

 

[1littlebit]

the diet soda thing is obnoxious. i love my best friend... and she totally understands why i eat the way i do. she never would... she couldn't she has an eating disorder and i don't think she could eat all that fat even if she wanted to.. it would be to hard on her. but she won't give up the freaking diet soda! she said to me the other day "yeah i'll never be able to get pg b/c i would have to stop drinking diet soda and thats just not going to happen" nice priorities there love!

 

[bri276]

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i almost think it would be easier to tolerate them if they were more SAD-junk-fooders, but they're not--they actually think that their fake food is *healthier* than my raw milk and butter.

yes!! exactly.

thanks for listening to my vent. unfortunately for him, on the nights I cook, there's no fake food in it and it has a crapload of fat and cholesterol. yet, he always gobbles up seconds and thirds

 

[crunchy_mama]

ah, yes. I keep my mouth shut (at least for the most part) and try not to worry about others- however if someone then attacked my eating , well, it wouldn't be pretty. I get emotional about that. knowing the hours I spend in the kitchen cooking, the time educating myself, the effort to procure these foods, seriously, it would be ugly. I have given up trying to convince people. My mom is on yet another starvation diet and wonders why she isn't losing weight. She eats cornflakes or some cereal all day long- probably remnants of the stupid cereal diet on tv. I have told her a billion times about adding some fat and cutting out the processed fat, but she is so carb addicted she thinks it is too hard. I don't know why starving is supposed to be so easy- oh that and she is terrified of fat.

 

[Missa]

My husband doesn't want to give up the diet coke. He believes me, he knows it's bad, but out of convience/habit he just continues to buy it.

I'm trying to keep iced tea in the fridge and that is helping him cut back. I kicked a 3 year addiction to diet mountain dew, seriously, I felt I couldn't function without it. I'm so glad I don't drink that crap anymore, I feel great now.

I've only had a few situations where someone commented on my "unhealthy" good fat filled food. I did try to explain but I think most people just want to believe the mainstream lies and out of convience/habit they just don't want to change anyways. I'm not giving up on my husband though, especially since he is open to learning more. He has heart issues (enlarged heart, difficulty breathing) and is under doctors orders to "eat better, get moving, cut salt" Well, I'm doing my best to have him eat better by way of traditional foods, and he is walking for excerise, I switched to sea salt but I don't limit his, I figure since we are not eating "packaged type" foods loaded with table salt he can have some sea salt.

 

[1littlebit]

i think they also believe it b/c it sounds like it makes sense. eat less fat = gain less weigh (lose weight) eat less cholesterol= low cholesterol kwim? they don't understand thats not how it works.. and unless they sit there and listen to my biology and nutrition lesson they aren't going to believe it. i have 3 count em 3 very best friends one is in nursing school, ones pre med, on is pre vet and every single one of them like checks out when i talk about this. its like yeah i know how it works... but thats not healthy...

its like they can't handle it or something lol

 

[weliveintheforest]

Same thing with my dh's step dad! He thinks my homemade mayo is 'poison' due to the egg yolks, and often avoids foods I make with real meat, eggs and butter. He is very polite about it, but I know how he thinks I'm wrong and I think he is wrong

 

[1littlebit]

lol me and my mom both have to agree to disagree. she is convinced (and terribly worried) that my cholesterol must be sooo high .. she keeps telling me to get it checked. she also keeps reminding me that i should not eat very much red meat b/c our family has a history of breast cancer and colon cancer

 

[LionessMom]

i was told that margarine is only one or two ingredients away from plastic. hmmmmm. made me think twice about buying the cheaper margarine. only real butter for me.

 

[brooks97]

I believe anyone can eat anything or whatever they want, be it fatty, or what not. Everything in moderation is the key.