Making a buck cleaning Lester's spittle trays on Sequels' 22-year old supermodel abs

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Do I need to include spoiler space for what happens in the first 5 minutes of Finding Nemo? I assume not. Especially now that Anne Elk has informed me that there is some wedding thing at the end of Napoleon Dynamite.

Well, I mean, that was a fish. Fish are not as cute as deer. Even cartoon fish.

(I have actually forgotten what happens there. I don't know if I missed the beginning, or if the trauma of listening to Albert Brooks for the whole movie edged that out in my mind.)

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
If I ate out, it was at a raw food restaurant.

I know that NY rivals LA as an oddball food mecca, but I'm curious -- how did you accomplish this? Are there raw food restaurants scattered across Manhattan, or is this an rarity, like oxygen bars?

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
A gorilla can benchpress 4000 lbs. A gorilla never eats anything except raw plant foods. A chimpanzee looks skinny but it can rip a car door off of its hinges. It's just logic.

And who can argue with logic? It's so logical. It's like if you were to eat nothing but plankton, you could grow about 80 feet long on average and weigh about 120 tons. So stay away from the plankton.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Gattigap
I know that NY rivals LA as an oddball food mecca, but I'm curious -- how did you accomplish this? Are there raw food restaurants scattered across Manhattan, or is this an rarity, like oxygen bars?

There are about 3 or 4 raw foods restaurants, so yes, kind of oddball - but they deliver!. Also my nearby supermarket has a ginormous raw foods section (actually right now I am munching on Tibetan Gogi Berries (organic and sun-dried!) from said section), so it was not that hard to accomplish. I drank a lot of wheatgrass and juiced vegetables and stuff as well. My skin was in fantastic shape.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
There are about 3 or 4 raw foods restaurants, so yes, kind of oddball - but they deliver!. Also my nearby supermarket has a ginormous raw foods section (actually right now I am munching on Tibetan Gogi Berries (organic and sun-dried!) from said section), so it was not that hard to accomplish. I drank a lot of wheatgrass and juiced vegetables and stuff as well. My skin was in fantastic shape.

but if you can't drink what's the point of looking good?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
but if you can't drink what's the point of looking good?

Are you asking me? I don't know - as I said, I only did it for a month.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
And who can argue with logic? It's so logical. It's like if you were to eat nothing but plankton, you could grow about 80 feet long on average and weigh about 120 tons. So stay away from the plankton.

80 feet long on average and weigh about 120 tons is okay if that's the body nature intended for you. Why try to spread your cookie cutter Barbie body image? Do you make your daughter cry if she eats some candy?

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Are you asking me? I don't know - as I said, I only did it for a month.

Were you with the non-bf at this point? This could be hard to pull off in a relationship, especially a nascent one. Unless all you do is stay home, order in from different restaurants and have energetic sex.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Were you with the non-bf at this point? This could be hard to pull off in a relationship, especially a nascent one. Unless all you do is stay home, order in from different restaurants and have energetic sex.

No - this was over a year ago.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Anyone here know much about this lifestyle? I won't call it a diet, because it seems to be more than that to me. I know someone who does it (she's been doing it for over 2 years) and she has dropped considerable weight and gotten a lot more energy since she started. I understand that I cannot do it because it involves (1) no alcohol and (2) no tea (I'm not sure which I would miss more), but the premise behind it all is somewhat intriguing to me*. This website - http://www.living-foods.com/ - has a lot of information about it. Note to Flinty, stick with the bananas:


I'm assuming everyone here thinks the raw foods philosophy is nuts (Nuts!) but I'm curious if there are any differing views.




*I may or may not be turning into some sort of California healthy living freak. Probably not though. I lack the whole willpower thing.

I can give you my Ayervedic (sp?) cookbook if you want. You can just have the caffeinated tea and alcohol despite its strictures. It's all vegetarian. I'm sure you will be able to find prepared foods that meet its requirements. I made two or three things from it that sounded good but none of them actually were good, so it's just taking up valuable cookbook shelf space, which could be filled with "100 Of The Most Delicious Cakes Known To Modern Man."

ETA the cookbook contains definite views on what should and shouldn't be cooked, and what foods should and shouldn't be eaten. Not entirely unlike the raw food stuff, except you can cook some things.

[Nut Case, Sensitive]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive


I'm assuming everyone here thinks the raw foods philosophy is nuts (Nuts!) but I'm curious if there are any differing views.




*I may or may not be turning into some sort of California healthy living freak. Probably not though. I lack the whole willpower thing.

Mmmmm. Nuts!

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
No - this was over a year ago.

What did you do as a social life? I have an issue with a friend who is on some weird, time-consuming diet, and suspect another friend soon may be doing the same thing, and then I will be bored off my ass and *my* social life will consist of sex only.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ironweed
And who can argue with logic? It's so logical. It's like if you were to eat nothing but plankton, you could grow about 80 feet long on average and weigh about 120 tons. So stay away from the plankton.

Great googly moogly you may be onto something there! I never said these guys didn't seem like crackpots, just that some of their ideas are interesting (though ultimately unfollowable for me). I probably cut off the quote too soon, because it think he clarified that the reason he turned to the ape family is because they are our closest evolutionary* relatives.



*if you believe in that theory.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What did you do as a social life? I have an issue with a friend who is on some weird, time-consuming diet, and suspect another friend soon may be doing the same thing, and then I will be bored off my ass and *my* social life will consist of sex only.

I stayed in a lot with my husband. It was boring as hell. The NHL playoffs were on, so I watched a lot of hockey.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I stayed in a lot with my husband. It was boring as hell. The NHL playoffs were on, so I watched a lot of hockey.

Without beer?