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Post by humanshield on Jan 27, 2017 20:03:22 GMT -5
Hello, my name is Humanshield.....and I'm a choco-holic  I love chocolate. Publix makes milk chocolate almond bark around the holidays that is to die for! They also have decent chocolate chip cookies...depending on who makes em. Costo also has some decent ones. Home made are probably best but I dont have time. In a pinch, chips ahoys have given me the "fix" I craved at the moment.... Anyone else love chocolate, chocolate chip cookies and where do you get yours?  |
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Jan 27, 2017 21:19:55 GMT -5
I'm a chocolate addict, too. It's a rare day when my consumption is zero. I'm fond of chocolate chip cookies. But it's not the cookie part that I'm after. So I actually don't eat them all that often.
But I do buy Hershey bars to have around the house quite a bit. And my kids are happy to share in them, I might add.
And there's a Folger's coffee can right beyond the screen I'm typing on right now. (I'm also a coffee addict.) It almost always has chips in it. Usually Hershey's. Sometimes Nestle's. And occasionally Ghiradelli or something like that.
Where the chips are concerned, I mix white chocolate in. Either in the ratio of 2:2 or 3 parts chocolate to 1 part white. That's a pretty good mix. Ghiradelli, by the way, has a pretty good white chip. Strong vanilla flavor.Animal protein, carbohydrates and chocolate are pretty much my diet for most of my life. Occasionally I'll try to eat some vegetables simply because it's supposed to be good for you. But I never get far. I simply don't want the veggies. And I don't really care very much.
I'm luckier than many, too. Either I was given a particularly good body or my active lifestyle overcame my penchant for the wrong foods, too much beer (at least in my younger days), chain-smoking cigarettes and (in my younger days again) marijuana. My doctor plus those people who give health screenings for the insurance company are always impressed.
But now I'm getting close to bragging. But that's not really what I'm trying to do. I'm grateful that I've been able to eat whatever I want without it killing me. At least not yet.
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Post by humanshield on Jan 27, 2017 22:49:15 GMT -5
I know right? I'm pretty lucky too in that respect. I should be about 280lbs but I'm only about 215 right now. I'll spare ya my ugly mug shot but here's me hittin up the atm for some scooter gas money....they wouldn't give the the 99 cents I needed to fill the tank.....is why I look confused....haha On a serious note...I have NO FREAKING IDEA how this image was taken. I had a camera on the scooter but it was about 40 feet away...it must have snuck up behind me while I wasn't lookin....this image freaked me out because of that....still can't figure it out because it looks like someone right behind me took it   |
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Post by Cincikid on Jan 28, 2017 5:35:55 GMT -5
Those nestle's chocolate chip refrigerated cookies, still warm!  |
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Post by gsx600racer on Jan 28, 2017 9:38:40 GMT -5
They are best when just out of the oven.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jan 28, 2017 18:27:20 GMT -5
What is chocolate?
-Diabetic... Don't even eat that sugar free chocolate candy. The sugar alcohol stuff will cause an extreme liquid effluent to explode from behind you.
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Post by oldgeek on Jan 28, 2017 21:23:11 GMT -5
What is chocolate? -Diabetic... Don't even eat that sugar free chocolate candy. The sugar alcohol stuff will cause an extreme liquid effluent to explode from behind you. Yes....Yes it will. |
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Post by humanshield on Jan 28, 2017 22:24:37 GMT -5
What is chocolate? -Diabetic... Don't even eat that sugar free chocolate candy. The sugar alcohol stuff will cause an extreme liquid effluent to explode from behind you. Wait...you can't eat chocolate (or just not sugar free chocolate)? I thought if you were diabetic you HAD to eat sweets if your blood sugar was low.... or did the point just sail right over my head? (ashamed)...... |
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Post by jeff84 on Jan 28, 2017 22:30:30 GMT -5
I wonder if I can bake chocolate chip cookies on my exhaust
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Jan 28, 2017 22:31:38 GMT -5
My wife's a diabetic. And she's the spitting image of her mother who died at a mere 53 years old from the side-effects of diabetes; heart and kidney damage. I guess I don't really know that the heart damage (blocked arteries) was actually cause by the diabetes. Maybe she had too much cholesterol buildup independent of that.
But my wife is now 50 years old and she's clearly doing better than her mother at that age. She's actually still pretty spry. And her feet are only a little uglier than mine. And the rest of her is far better looking than the rest of me.
But she has a long history, and I know it'll never change, of being really half-assed about dealing with her diabetes. She will not take her prescriptions at the right times. She'll pretend to be unsure. But I know the answer; of course she didn't take them when she should have. She almost never does. She'll make doctor appointments. And she'll always know the date, but she'll never know the time. Many is the time when I argued her out of bed and had her call the office, only to find out that the time was a half hour earlier.
She'll go through fairly long periods of eating just as poorly as I do. She'll also go through fairly long periods of trying, somewhat, to eat the way a diabetic ought to. But even then she'll binge on a half a sack of Oreos or a couple of candy bars.
She also doesn't allow me to see it. It's not that she tries to keep it a secret from me. She often confesses on her own. And she leaves the evidence in plain sight. I've seen the empty Reese's sacks plus innumerable little bits of rolled up gold foil on her passenger seat way more than once. But she doesn't do it in front of me. And it's weird because she could and she knows it. She needn't fear my anger because I don't get angry about it. That's her body and her health to spend as she sees fit and I've made that clear. We've had a few cross words about her making appointments that she doesn't keep. But that's more a matter of me telling her to at least be polite to other people. And even then I don't get furiously angry over the matter.
My real dilemma is that I don't think her attempts to follow 'doctor's orders' are doing her much good and I really do hate the idea of her munching on a bit of celery but wishing she could have a pizza. And I'd rather she just ate the pizza, Big Macs, shakes, etc and enjoyed herself. I think the end result is going to be about the same either way.
From time to time I tell her so. But then I have to walk it back a bit. Saying, "But I'm not sure I should be saying this since it's obviously bad advice". But she'll decline, saying, "No. I'm gonna be careful of what I eat and try to take my meds right". But then she doesn't take her meds right and she has flings with Reese's, Oreos, Hershey's, McDonald's and so on.
Diabetics are weird people.
Present company excepted, of course.
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Post by jeff84 on Jan 28, 2017 22:33:35 GMT -5
a diabetic friend of mine bought a bag of sugar free milyway minis and ate the whole bag when he first found out he was diabetic. he spent a few hours on the toilet.
I haven't looked myself, but he told me. there was in fact printed on the bag a label that warned about the laxative affect of the chocolate.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jan 30, 2017 1:26:51 GMT -5
Yeah, the sugar alcohols are bad news. I do use pure sucralose to sweeten drinks, not the Splenda stuff or knock-offs. Splenda will give me the runs also. I can't have real chocolate either, but I ate a small piece of German chocolate cake tonight at a friends house.
I don't eat the best either. It is difficult and expensive when I am single. I don't get enough protein but protein is expensive. I shake too much to do blood sticks for my sugar readings. It would not do much good though. When I was in a hospital with precisely timed blood sugar sticks, precise meals, and precise insulin shots, they still could not control my blood sugar. I am just FUBAR. I take pills and one injection per day of Victoza. It is difficult enough to do that injection because I shake so bad. Did you know those needles will not only puncture your skin but they can slice it like a scalpel? It usually bends them pretty good though.
My grandmother used to eat sweets and then use more insulin to offset it. I don't know if that does any good. I don't know why I have diabetes other than my mother had it. They say it passes from the mother in the mitochondrial DNA from the egg. My mother died after heart surgery due to healing complications from diabetes. My heart is good and shows no diabetic problems. Diabetes is BAD stuff. If it runs in your family start eating right, drop the weight NOW, avoid sugar drinks, alcohol, and candy. People say artificial sweeteners are bad for you, -well maybe there is a small chance of getting cancer if you guzzled 20 liters of diet drinks per day for your entire life and bathed in it, -but it DOES NOT MATTER!!! Diabetes is much -MUCH- worse!! Do everything you can to avoid it! Getting diabetes is like flipping a switch, you get very weak, your energy is gone, wounds and infections take forever to heal and leave bad scars, parts fall off, and then you die.
BTW, The doctors and big pharma houses don't want a diabetes cure. They make way too much money treating it. Agribusiness loves it too, -they stuff sugar into you and make you fat so you sit and can't move, then cram more food in, crave more sweets, and more food, etc, etc, etc.
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Post by Senna1Rossi on Jan 30, 2017 14:06:08 GMT -5
Hello, my name is Humanshield.....and I'm a choco-holic I love chocolate. Publix makes milk chocolate almond bark around the holidays that is to die for! They also have decent chocolate chip cookies...depending on who makes em. Costo also has some decent ones. Home made are probably best but I dont have time. In a pinch, chips ahoys have given me the "fix" I craved at the moment.... Anyone else love chocolate, chocolate chip cookies and where do you get yours?
Wow, check oot those cookies. Yum.
Could you bake some peanut buttuh cookies and send to me, please?
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Post by badpumpkin on Feb 2, 2017 19:29:23 GMT -5
My go to chocolate chip cookie recipe is Laurie Taylors chocolate chippers. After baking, I put them in tupperware with slices of bread. Serve the next day or two.
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Post by humanshield on Feb 2, 2017 20:09:47 GMT -5
My go to chocolate chip cookie recipe is Laurie Taylors chocolate chippers. After baking, I put them in tupperware with slices of bread. Serve the next day or two. Man, how could you give a tip like that with no link bro  Here...I just hadda.... Lori Taylor's Chocolate Chippers Recipe |
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