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prettycool
11/10/09

In reply to Happiness Is A Warm Loaf
And to that, I'm off to eat nutella and toast! #carbs
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willwriteforfood
11/10/09

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Oooooh, this makes me so happy. I'm going to Paris for a week at New Year's and I fully intend to eat my way up and down the Champs Elysees. #carbs
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Breamworthy
11/10/09

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Well, I follow a lower-carb diet for health reasons (not Atkins by any means, but basically no simple or processed carbohydrates), so I may be biased here, but if you read the article there's a very important piece of information that's missing here (and is almost hidden in the article).

The people on the low-fat diet were also calorie restricted, whereas the people on the low-carb diet were not calorie restricted (they call that 'isocaloric'). In other words, the ONLY restriction on the low-carb people had to do with carbohydrates and they still lost the same amount of weight as the people who were weighing and measuring everything and recording every calorie they ate. #carbs
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Snowbunny
11/10/09

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I am a very hostile person, but if you placate me with a bagel I will retreat to a corner and stop snarking. Then I will take a nap. It's best to have a dozen bagels on hand (chocolate chip, natch) whenever I am around and start acting mean. #carbs
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bananaballs
11/10/09

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Haha. I remember trying South Beach a few years back. I think it affected my brain in nefarious ways. I also remember a study they did which concluded that women needed carbs for brain function more than men. I felt vindicated. When your mind space is 100% dedicated to dreaming about sandwiches, there's a problem! #carbs
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
11/10/09

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Recently I have had a number of friends who have had to go gluten free for intolerance, celiac's, and chron's - they all miss cake/cookies and anything in sandwich form sooooo bad. #carbs
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Lymed
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: I had to go carb free for health reasons a couple of times and found you actually adjust pretty quickly. Of course you will miss some comfort foods. But the body stops craving them after a few weeks. Gluten is a little more difficult because it is hidden in sauces, soups and all kinds of processed foods. #carbs
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Dauphine
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: Bob's Red Mills makes a FANTASTIC gluten-free flour mix. Cake for everyone! #carbs
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
11/10/09

@Dauphine: I bake and Bob's does not match wheat flour by any means! Most gluten free things taste grainy and off and are often dairy free, soy free, and a million other things free because they assume if you can't have gluten that you can't eat anything!

Also, it has been 5 months gluten free for my boyfriend and I will say the craving for a damn cookies has NOT stopped haha.

Going gluten free is easy at home, it is just eating out that is a real problem and requires a lot of research. #carbs
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Lymed
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: I find things that are gluten free almost always have either soy or dairy. I can't eat soy or dairy and when I saw nutritionists, they kept pushing me to gluten free. I finally went shopping for gluten free and couldn't find one thing labeled gluten free in Whole Foods I could eat (obviously not counting the obvious like meat, veggies, nuts, etc.) #carbs
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Red-headed bookworm
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: There are some really good gluten free cookies out there. I wish I could remember which one I tried that I couldn't even tell was gluten free. It was a company that was someone's first name. Pamela?

Yeah! It was...
[www.pamelasproducts.com]

I don't have to eat gluten free and I thought they tasted good. #carbs
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Snowbunny
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: My friend has celiac's and she just ate a whole lot of mashed potatoes. Also, meringues and macaroons are kinda cookies and don't have any flour. #carbs
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Dauphine
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: What sort of binding agents do you use to help in place of the gluten? I've found g-f baking to be a lot more scientific and involving a lot more trial and error than gluten-involved baking.

I agree that it's stupid that in assuming that a person has one intolerance, they'd have the whole host of them. (I do, however, know that Vegan Cookies Take Over the World will probably have some good cookie recipes in there that would be easily de-gluten-ized, like in the Cupcake book. YMMV, though.) #carbs
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
11/10/09

@Dauphine: I've tried guar gum and Xantham gum but I didn't find much of a difference. It is the flours that cause the beany or the grainy taste. My next experiment is going to be to use coconut flour, which I hear is smoother and gives a more "wheatlike" flavor for baking. I completely agree about the science of gluten free baking! It can be kind of a headache... Cooking for my boyfriend has made me firmly convinced that if you can't have gluten you must give up being vegetarian or else be forced to eat nothing but chickpeas and rice variations when you eat out! #carbs
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ilovedavelister
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: It is reeeeally bad. I've been GF since April or so, and while my digestive system thanks me greatly, sometimes I'm tempted to shiv someone and steal their food. It's definitely better than it was at the beginning, but eating my weight in mashed potato isn't really a good substitute for a healthy sandwich on BREAD. Bread that doesn't taste sad, anyway. (The tapioca bread in my fridge = gag.)

I made some decent brownies the other day, but they're still kinda dry and crumbly and grainy. #carbs
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
11/10/09

@Lymed: There are cereal bars and cookies that are everything free at Whole Foods, but they taste TERRIBLE. Trader Joe's also has a lot but after our run in with the stuff at Whole Foods we decided to avoid things that said they were dairy and soy free. #carbs
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Zombies make the heart grow fonder
11/10/09

@ilovedavelister: You will have to get a little more creative in your meals! We got a breadmaker and use gluten free pantry's favorite sandwich bread mix- it is thick like poundcake but it actually tastes good. Avoid the breads that you can buy from stores- they are awful :( Also, try the quinoa pasta and the corn pasta-they are both much much better than the rice! #carbs
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Plum-Pie
11/10/09

@Zombies make the heart grow fonder: I've PM'd you! #carbs
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Lymed
11/10/09

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I wonder if there was an analysis of what types of carbs people were eating. One would assume that there would be even less anxiety and depression with more complex carbs that keep the blood sugar more level than simple carbs that are high in sugar. Unless people rate themselves happier if they have periods of highs and lows because they remember the highs. #carbs
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formergr
11/10/09

@Lymed: Very good point. Complex carbs do me very good. Simple carbs just make me shaky and crabby (from low blood sugar) within an hour or so. #carbs
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Maryscary
11/10/09

@Lymed: One would assume... You know I've read of complex carbs espoused as mood lifters but I wonder if it's like the "drink eight glasses of water" myth, if it's just an anecdotal thing that ends up as health advice? #carbs
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Lymed
11/10/09

@Maryscary: Perhaps they could seem like mood lifters if you transition to complex carbs after eating lots of simple carbs. It isn't that it is lifting your mood, but your mood isn't getting depressed from the crash in blood sugar. #carbs
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Rare Affinity
11/10/09

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I make my bread by hand. I find kneading dough for ten minutes very therapeutic and an excellent stress buster. Likewise the smell of baking bread is invigorating. However it can send my blood pressure soaring on those few occasions when the bread has failed to rise and I end up dumping it in the bin. #carbs
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formergr
11/10/09

@Rare Affinity: I'm a decent cook and can bake a mean pie, cake, cookies, pizza, etc.

But I am absolutely hopeless at bread. I can just never get it to rise quite enough! I've tried different kinds, different recipes, different flour, from scratch, from a mix, hand-kneaded, Kitchen-aid kneaded, and my results are pretty much always the same. I think I am just cursed! #carbs
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MBM
11/10/09

@formergr: No-knead bread could change your life. Figuring out the persnickety details takes a couple of tries, but even the experiments are tasty--and so, so easy:
[www.nytimes.com] #carbs
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rah29
11/10/09

@Rare Affinity: I'm a home baker too, except when I get lazy and buy tiger bread from Tesco. I can't cook for shit--I'm so bad that when my bf wasn't home recently I just shrugged, made easy mac and poured a G&T. But I love to bake, especially bread (there is talk in my family that I may have inherited my great-grandmother's magic baking fingers). I too feel the greatness of kneading. However, my favourite bread is Irish brown soda bread which you can't knead more than a few seconds or it turns into a brick. I need to know more kneady-bread recipes to get my stress-bustin fix! #carbs
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Rare Affinity
11/10/09

@MBM: 18 hours is a mighty long time to wait for a bread to prove as the recipe in the article suggests, if you are hungry . Mind you in the Domestic Goddess, Nigella says that some of her recipes for bread can be left overnight in the fridge to rise if one doesn't have a few hours spare to hang around waiting. #carbs
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Rare Affinity
11/10/09

@rah29: It seems one of my friends, who admires my bread making skills, has a father who used to be a master baker. Now that's real dedication: getting up in the early hours just to bake bread for others! #carbs
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rah29
11/10/09

@Rare Affinity: I couldn't do it!! I'm so impressed by people who bake primarily for others. My mother does this, since she can't have wheat or dairy, and makes me be taster. I'd go mad. I made brown bread to serve at my birthday party. I saw a large wedge left, went to pour myself a drink, and when I came back saw the whole wedge being scarfed down by my friend. Obviously I was thrilled that he enjoyed it, but I couldn't suppress a moment of pure rage that I didn't get to have another piece! #carbs
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nyc-caribbean-ragazza
11/10/09

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I did South Beach a few years back and was so cranky by the end of the first week my assistant begged me to eat a damn bagel or something.

I did lose a few pounds but gained them back, along with more weight, after I stopped the diet.

Last year I moved to Italy where I eat on average, pasta and/or bread five times a week. I've lost weight without trying. Sometimes I even eat my fresh from the bakery bread with BUTTER!

I will never go carb free again. #carbs
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msAnthrope
11/10/09

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza:

HOW have you lost weight?? italian bread with butter? you must've made a pact with the devil or something. i could live on that diet if i didn't care that i'd eventually weigh about 350 or so in the foreseeable future. #carbs
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rhubarbarin
11/10/09

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza: South Beach is low-carb and low-fat. I'm not surprised you felt terrible! #carbs
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clamme
11/10/09

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza: Somehow I also lost weight in Italy, eating gelato and bread and pasta. I think it might have just been good old portion control. #carbs
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nyc-caribbean-ragazza
11/10/09

@msAnthrope: ha.

While my new French doctor claims I'm overweight by European standards, I'm the thinnest I've been in years despite eating whatever the heck I want. Don't get me started on prosciutto.

I think not driving everywhere, rarely snacking, eating hardly any processed foods, smaller portions, actually sitting down and eating meals with friends and living close to four farmer's markets with excellent seasonal veggies and fruit (open 6 days a week) has a lot to do with my weight loss. My eating habits here are the complete opposite of how I ate in L.A. #carbs
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nyc-caribbean-ragazza
11/10/09

@clamme: yep. the portions here are smaller. #carbs
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nyc-caribbean-ragazza
11/10/09

@rhubarbarin:

Looking back I feel bad for my co-workers. I was so moody. #carbs
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colormeroutine
11/10/09

In reply to Happiness Is A Warm Loaf
The Atkins diet always seemed so counter-intuitive to me. I mean, our species existed primarily on carbs for most of our history. Even back when we were hunter-gatherers meats would have been a relative rarity. And it all sits in your intestines for so long. I just don't get the theory #carbs
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la.donna.pietra
11/10/09

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I believe it. Atkins followers are up there with Evangelicals when it comes to telling people how to lead their own lives, in my experience. No, I do not care how many grams of carbs this sandwich has, random stranger. No, I do not care how fat it will make my stomach. GO AWAY! #carbs
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CurtCole
11/10/09

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About three things I was absolutely positive. First, I was Team Carb. Second, there was part of me — and I didn’t know how potent that part might be — that thirsted for sweet sugary goodness. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with sugar in all of its permutations. #carbs
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heykoukla
11/10/09

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Thinking of a carb-less diet makes me think of how sad and lonely our foods must feel when deprived of their natural partners. Like, what is butter's prupose if not to be slobbered over freshly baked bread? And what good is cheese without crusty bread, or pasta to grate it over? And who wants a burger without fries? They belong together...they deserve to be together. #carbs
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NellMood
11/10/09

@heykoukla: You're so right- who are we to question these relationships? If butter and bread want to be together they should be together. We shouldn't deny their love. #carbs
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Plum-Pie
11/10/09

@heykoukla: Kofte - deprived of a pitta! Curry - alone in a bowl, praying for some naan! Minced prawn and pork - all they want is to curl up in little wonton wrapper! #carbs
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heykoukla
11/10/09

And sausage and mash with gravy...biomolecules and macromolecules 2getha 4 eva! #carbs
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rah29
11/10/09

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I tried to resist the carb for like six years, but in the last two months I've eaten basically nothing but carbs due to stomach problems. It's like rediscovering a magical world of wonder!!! Pastas! Gnocchis! Home-baked bread! I'm as happy as a kid at Disneyland. I've also lost weight. Take that, carbophobia! #carbs
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FontWhore (the Great Nubling Hope)
11/10/09

@rah29: Lucky. I've had to give up most carbs BECAUSE of stomach problems. Well, the yummy white-flour carbs, anyway. Farewell, gnocchi! Smell ya later, home-baked bread! #carbs
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babyruthless
11/10/09

@FontWhore (the Great Nubling Hope): Don't give up home-baked bread just because you can't do white flour. If you add a tablespoon of wheat gluten for every cup of whole-wheat flour, you will get lovely loaves of whole-wheat goodness that do not at all resemble bricks. And tonight I'm making a gnocchi that is based on butternut squash instead of potatoes. There's still hope! #carbs
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FontWhore (the Great Nubling Hope)
11/10/09

@babyruthless: Oh, wheat is out for me. It's all almond or rice or tapioca flour from here on out. Adapt and change..... #carbs
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rah29
11/10/09

@FontWhore (the Great Nubling Hope): Oh I'm so sorry. Have you tried potato flour? It's fabulous for pancakes.

I also make really nice almond cookies for my mum, who's also wheat-intolerant. But I don't know about bread--can you handle spelt? #carbs
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FontWhore (the Great Nubling Hope)
11/10/09

@rah29: I think so, I had spelt-flour pizza on Friday and no problems. Also: delicious. #carbs
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hatepaperdoll
11/10/09

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"Happier and less hostile"
I've always suspected that zombies were just misunderstood Atkins diet followers. "GRAIIINSSS" #carbs
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o-line
11/10/09

@hatepaperdoll: I've had that theory before too! Brains and flesh is very high protein, and you seldom see an overweight zombie. #carbs
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FontWhore (the Great Nubling Hope)
11/10/09

@o-line: Are brains really high in protein? For some reason I thought they'd be more simple sugars. You know, for quick undead energy. #carbs
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bluebears
11/10/09

@hatepaperdoll: LOL #carbs
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wtfox?!
11/10/09

@hatepaperdoll: This would explain why you always see them advancing on grocery and convenience stores! And when they try to break into your house, they just want a bowl of pasta. #carbs
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morninggloria
11/10/09

@hatepaperdoll: [www.threadless.com] #carbs
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hatepaperdoll
11/10/09

@all: So remember, before you bash someone's skull in with a canoe paddle, try giving them a Pop Tart, and maybe some Zoodles. #carbs
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hatepaperdoll
11/10/09

@morninggloria: Shoot, there goes my plan to expand my clothing business beyond baseball caps with offensive jokes about celebrity children. Back to the drawing board. #carbs
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