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Old 11-15-2012, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr View Post
Like I said a lot of pasta, rice, quinoa with beans, corn and other vegetables. Lots of salad with lettuce, corn, beans, cucumber, celery, olives, beets, carrots and only balsamic vinegar as a dressing. Two or three beers a day. A bowl of very low sugar cereal with a banana and sometimes some blueberries and low fat, low sugar soy milk in the morning.
How many calories in a bottle of Budeiser? I looked it up on the internet. It said 129 calories. So three beers a day is nearly 400 calories. That's way too much. You can't just ignore that if you're trying to maintain an ideal healthy weight.

Then there's the pasta, rice and corn. It's not reasonable to think that you can just eat unlimited amounts of starches. I measure all starches so that I consume no more than one serving of one starch per meal. In other words, one slice of bread is one serving. So if you have one slice of bread in a meal you shouldn't have any pasta, rice, potatoes or corn in the same meal. If you choose pasta, make it one serving and don't have any other starch with it.

By the way, beer is a processed carbohydrate, is it not? So if you have a beer and lots of starchy carbs in one meal, you're asking for trouble. It's just not realistic to think that you can maintain a healthy weight this way.