Dense Makes Sense!

DeeDee,,,,, I'm glad to hear your first day of 'pure protein' has worked so well for you. Amazing that just three oz of food can really fill you up !!!.... Keep up the good work, girl !!! oh yeah, and.. I have a friend from TX that lives here now in WI, she says 'fixin' all the time, You southern girls are cool !!

Luann, The only problem with those southern drawls is that it's much too easy to be a sweet, innocent young lady and when some boy starts to make his move on you it's a real problem. The word "quit" comes out as a long, four-syllable word (kaaaaaaawiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt!). And by then it's too late! DeeDee

Wow - no dairy...no cheese..no yogurt...no bananas? I eat all those things. I didn't really know I shouldn't. Maybe thats why I hit a spot and stuck there for 1 1/2 years. Thats just great...now I can wean myself off those too. Just protien eh? fish, chicken, beans...

Daisy, I don't think this is meant for long-term efforts. For me it's just a way of getting the carbs out of my system. My surgeon did tell me I was eating too much cheese. For me (and only because I'm a cheese-a-holic) I could get in 3000 calories a day on cheese and never feel full. Tonight, for instance, I baked a 4 oz. Tilapai and could only eat 1.2 oz. of it. Had that 4 oz. been cheese I would have had no problem with it. The 4 oz. of Tilapia had 93 calories in it; 4 oz. of cheese would have been about 400 calories. Obviously when I choose dense meats I eat less ... it just seems to work that way and I'm not to goal yet. I still have about 100 pounds to lose so I need to be working it any healthy way I can to get to goal. My surgeon wants me to get about 600 calories a day from proteins. DeeDee

I am not into this whole protein thing, but I have read the thread for some bizzare reason. I have a question...are they now breeding Tilapia (or whatever the fish is really called) in a new lower calorie species? 4 oz. of Tilapia (no added fat ie. butter/margarine) is a minimum of 180 to 200 calories depending on the source. Was it just Tilapia or 4 oz. of something and 2 or even 1 oz. of Tilapia? Maybe I am a kook for knowing mundane stuff like calorie contents...but I am interested to know where you either found calorically altered fish or calorically altered information! Enquiring minds want to know...

It was an individual 4 oz. frozen portion from Beaver Street Fisheries in Jacksonville, FL [ http://www.beaverfish.com/products/ ] and the calorie information was on the back of the package. Please feel free to contact them regarding any misinformation in their packaging. I'm not too worried about it; fish is always a good protein source and it was tasty to boot! DeeDee

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately I was denied access...something fishy is going on here. Sorry for that. I looked into this deeper (shoot me, please) and found that 4 oz. of RAW Tilapia is ~100 calories. So, kick my a$$ and send me on my know it all way. Did you eat the Tilapia RAW BTW? If so, how was it?