Powerbars are too chewy. Let’s see, a very fit woman who likes junk food, triathlon, hmm, do you live around here?
While I am not the healthiest eater, I try. I can say that last summer, after reading about the effects of high fructose corn syrup, I made a concerted effort to cut it out. I stopped eating most yogurt and switched to diet soda (huge effort). I noticed an immediate weight change.
Confession time: I love junk food. I can’t help it. I think I need a 12 step program. It’s a quality of life issue for me. I TRY to eat well the majority of the time. But … sometimes only a Taco Bell feast will suffice. My four pack might never be a six pack but i’m willing to make that sacrifice if I can continue to occasionally indulge my junk food habit.
And don’t get me started on Mountain Dew … I drink the stuff like, well … like water.
I’m never going to power thru an IM bike split like Bjorn, but I can chow down a stuffed burrito like a World Champion.
Just ate a bag of Snyder’s of Hanover Hot Buffalo Wing Potato Chips - and loved’em.
Think I’ll hit McKill-mees on the way home in silent protest of all the health food natzie out there.
ZipChip you sound like da bomb - my junk-food wet dream girl!!!
I just started on the athletic version of the paleo diet. Like you, I like french fries and potato chips. But I figure that it’s not giving me much nutrients and if I going to train this hard, I want to put all the chances on my side. It is hard for me to lose weight but I have lost a couples pounds in 2 weeks. (I am 124lbs, not like I am overweight) I don’t know yet if it will make me faster but I hope it helps my health in general:)
Bless you for posting this thread. I was beginning to think everyone but me had a less than ideal diet and that was why everyone was beating me. I know I need to lose some weight (I like to refer to it as a winter safety mechanism that keeps me from dying of hypothermia when I do the polar bear dip every year) but I think I do okay…and I’m having fun. Sure hope that doesn’t get me blacklisted on here since most people take this SPORT very very seriously. Gonna go see if there is something bad to eat so I can munch while I forum.
Great to see that there is a bunch of closet Junk-food eaters out there!
I’m from Canada, so I don’t think that there is a tonne of high fructose corn-syrup in our foods. Not sure of the dangers… Care to elaborate?
I too, LOVE that sweet nectar called Mountain Dew. I don’t keep it around, because I will drink it all the time.
Marisol - do you find that your energy is affected with the athletic paleo? I find that my Caloric intake gets too low, or, to get enough calories, I must eat ~120$ worth of food per week - not to mention all the poopin!
A chick that loves junk food and talks about poopin - you are elevated to Goddess!!!
I do eat junk food. I love McDonalds, I love going to watch a Hockey Game at the bar and eat a Buffalo Burger with fries and extra onion rings. I don’t have a weight problem, training gets rid of the junk food. I even smoke a cigarete or two every weekend when I go for a beer or to with friends. On that diet I have completed about 15 IM most of them under 10h.
Now the question is, would I be faster without junk food or my casual smoking habit? I don’t think so. If I would anyway, say 5-10min on an IM, then…
I WOULD NOT GIVE UP MY BURGER OR SMOKE!!!
For an hour faster, we could talk.
I’m all about dick and fart jokes!
A Canadian chick that talks about junk food and poopin…I’ve died and gone to…not sure where…it’s cold out…can’t be hell…so confused. Yep certainly elevates her status some. Glad to see we’re all coming out on this topic. Someone wanna pass me the supersize fries?
My name is Kent and I am a junk food-a-holic…
I’m gonna pass out - it justs keeps getting better.
If you tell me you like guys that are…
Idiots
Sex crazed
ugly
I might just shoot my wad - at the least my head will explode ;]
can you say Diet Mt. Dew? weird
As I recall, high fructose corn syrup (which is almost everything these days - especially soda), quickly converts to fat in your system, worse that any other sweetner. I’m neither a doctor nor a scientist so I can’t elaborate, only tell you my experience. And I’m not an Atkins/ Weight Watcher/ whatever fanatic.
on a serious note, dick joke coming up
Nothing wrong with a Double/Double after a good weekend of training… Meeting up with some friends for Mex food and a few beers after the race… Going from 41st to 30th in my AG is not worth giving up my “comfort food” I think we are all closet junk food eaters…
jIM
Are you a Canuck - Just so I know that we are on the same page re: the “double-double”
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Nope… I’m in Cal. In & Out Double Double… What’s the Canuck D/D?
I’ve had in and out. Very good burgers!!!
Canuck D/D = Tim Horton’s coffee - 2 creams, 2 sugars
I’m all about dick and fart jokes!
guy sits down at a bar, guy next to him says “hey, you want to see something?” He proceeds to pull a tiny piano out of a pocket, and pulls a tiny guy out of another pocket, sets him down by the paino and he starts playing! First guy says “wow, that’s cool, where did you get that?” “there’s a genie in the back room, he’ll grant any wish”
first guy runs in the back, sure enough, there’s a genie. He asks the genie for a million bucks. Genie says “it is as you command”
As the guy comes back into the bar, there are ducks all over the place. First guy complains to the guy at the bar, “what the f**K! I asked for a million bucks, not a million ducks!”
The other guy says " you think I asked for a ten inch pianist?"
I’ve had in and out. Very good burgers!!!
Canuck D/D = Tim Horton’s coffee - 2 creams, 2 sugars
in and out? hmmm
sorry, couldn’t help it
lmao!!!
I suppose I should have said: I love in and out… Good meat.
No, now this is just getting silly.
a thousand computers just locked up
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