Comments on: The time-tested “sausage, egg and cheese” diet

By: Yes, Scotty, this is why you're fat. | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com

Yes, Scotty, this is why you're fat. | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:20:53 +0000

[...] morning serving of saturated fat? No worries! If you’re a New Yorker, you can get your “special diet food” delivered right to your door. Or, um, your neighbors’ [...]

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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:03 +0000

[...] notes are — especially when they pertain to specialty “diet” items like, say, a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich — read something like this one, from an office in Burbank, [...]

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:46:01 +0000

“…I rarely eat anything for breakfast if I do.”?

So, when you do eat breakfast, you rarely eat anything?

I agree with you, ya gotta burn more than you put in, plain and simple, but I can’t figure that sentence out.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:07:34 +0000

Yeah, right. Keep telling yourself that. There’s nothing more amusing than an overweight person who thinks if they skip meals it actually makes them fatter. Self-serving, pathetic excuses. I told you – myself, and many of my friends, are thin, and we don’t “starve” ourselves – we eat MODEST PORTIONS – something that overweight people can’t seem to understand. I have extremely low body fat. Like I said, I rarely eat anything for breakfast if I do. Other meals are modest in size. If you eat large meals and aren’t active, you’ll gain weight. Skipping meals will NOT make you gain weight. Please stop perpetuating this myth. If you want to lose weight, eat less food and get off your @ss.

By: rocky

rocky — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:03:22 +0000

In the note writers defense, those things are pretty healthy and are pretty expensive. I would probably be pissed too.

By: kc

kc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:45:57 +0000

bacon eggs and sausage are bad for you. wtf is this shite?

By: Speaking Up

Speaking Up — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:21:32 +0000

As someone who has battled obesity since she was 5, and has major self-esteem issues stemming from social pressure and bullying over her appearance, I think a reminder should be made to those who are lumping every overweight person into one group: There are those of us who cannot lose weight due to medical/genetic reasons. I’ve been through a lot of different tests (far past the normal thyroid test which medication can deal with pretty well) and unless I can afford $150-$200 of hormone balancing medication per month I have to accept that I will never be able to lose weight (I’m on a pension, so affording that is right out the window). It makes it hard when I see society’s views that all overweight people are that way due to choice and/or laziness. I have severe ankle problems which aren’t weight-related, yet I still try and walk at least 20-30 minutes per day – often up to an hour or two if I need to go somewhere via bus. I watch what I eat and very rarely have fast food. Despite that I weigh in at 125kg.

Self-esteem and body issues are all too common in women, leading to depression and eating disorders.

Please, before persecuting every overweight person in general sweeping terms, I ask that you take some time and think about those who aren’t that way by choice.

…And now back to your regularly scheduled snarking.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:40:15 +0000

Even talking about losing “weight” is the sign of somebody who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Skipping meals makes you gain fat. Your body evolved to hang onto fat. Skipping meals puts it in fat conservation mode – there are measurable changes in body chemistry – whether you reduce your caloric intake or not. If you reduce your caloric intake by more than 10% and/or fail to eat 5-6 small meals throughout the day, you’re increasing your fat/muscle ratio. This, in turn, will mean gaining even more fat since muscle is the engine in which bodyfat is burned. Of course, you can keep yourself thin by perpetually starving yourself, but you’ll just be a disgusting, unhealthy person.

By: infant tyrone

infant tyrone — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:46:40 +0000

by Samuel Beckett ?

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:30:02 +0000

Yeah, right… Look all of you overweight people – skipping meals does NOT make you gain weight. Pathetic excuses. My breakfast usually consists of a cup of coffee and a very, very small pastry or snack bar, if I even eat something, which I often don’t. I am underweight, have been all my life.

If your theory was correct, I would be “hanging on to fat” because I skip meals and eat fewer calories.

If you want to lose weight, you EAT LESS FOOD. It’s not complicated. Lower your caloric intake, and you lose weight.

By: Dara

Dara — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:25:46 +0000

Just to be clear… I can’t eat salad for breakfast anymore?

By: Dara

Dara — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:15:52 +0000

Yeah, but isn’t there a crazy statistic about how many American women are overweight? Like 75-80%?

By: Grumpy McGrumperson

Grumpy McGrumperson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:24:57 +0000

As someone who has been the victim of more than a few incidents of breakfast food theft, I think I’m on the note writer’s side here.

Really, it’s so frustrating to have prepared stuff for breakfast, brought it in so that you can control your eating/blood sugar/whatever, and find that some dickwad took it. Regardless of what it was, it sucks to have your stuff stolen.

By: GhostWriter

GhostWriter — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:49:52 +0000

That sandwich was too fast to live, yet too young to die.