Enjoy your sodas baby cows!
Ok, we get sbrats eow. I cook healthy, well balanced meals, every meal! My kids drink water or fruit juice, no soda, no koolaid, no garbage. My family tends to be overweight, and has kidney problems. I will not let myself be overweight, and am doing my best to prevent kidney problems for me and my kids.
Am I crazy to expect the sbrats to follow my food and drink rules, in my home??
Its not so much the eating that's the problem, the cows will pretty much eat whatever you put in front of them. They demand sugar filled drinks to accompany their meals. Meanwhile my biokids are drinking water!
Not to mention, I'm supposed to make a special trip to the store, buy said drinks, keep them in my kitchen, tell my kids no over and over, just to please two unappreciative little brats that I can't stand in the first place!!!!
They stay sick all the time. Couldn't be the garbage bm let's them eat and drink, NO she's mother of the year!
Every time they are here one or both of them pukes somewhere in my house OR car!! To the point I've got barfbags in my glovebox!!
They are both so overweight its pathetic. They look just like their bloated bm!
I almost forgot the best part! When I drop their whiny asses off to(insert fat joke here) bm, she has a f'n 20oz soda waiting for each of them!!! I know she does this to spite me. I'm sure sbrats have told her "Bubbly makes us drink yucky water" I'm such an evil bitch! Whatever, her kids are fat and sickly, mine are fit and healthy. Enjoy your sodas baby cows.
I actually love mine, as I
I actually love mine, as I have (had!) an expensive Pellegrino habit
The trick is, not to put any extra junk into the water. My SO likes the sugar-free Mios, but I'm a sucker for the plain ole sparkly water!
OMG, I won't be taking dh
:jawdrop: OMG, I won't be taking dh there! He would be the same way! Never ending flippin soda, they would be as big as a house.
Echo, I don't do those things, I refuse to. But, that's what dh wants me to do! I set him straight, my kitchen, my rules. If he wants to cook every meal while their here, they can eat and drink seperatly from us. He wants us all to eat as a family. But when sd5 starts her bawling about "toolaid" he says "this is why it would be easier to get it for them.
too much carbonation upset
too much carbonation upset the gasses in the blood. Ask any scientist. Therefore it leaches vital minerals from the body.
Of course these MOTY BM types don't care about that as long as Junior/Princess are mommykin's BFF!!
I've tried to explain that to
I've tried to explain that to cow bm, she doesn't care I guess. Yet, when they're sick she calls me crying. Go figure :?
My second skid used to have a
My second skid used to have a paper route and he used to take the money that he was supposed to be holding for the newspaper lady when she came to collect and go buy soda and candy which was NOT allowed in my house - and bring it in and proceed to eat it in front of my little ones.
It got to the point I would take it away from him and lock it up until his father got home (truck driver - gone five days a week - nice, huh??) and then show him where the money that was supposed to go to the newspaper lady went and why I had to write her a check.
Skid was worthless then and he is worthless now. Him and his gold-digging wife are both easily over 300 lbs. and they guzzle soda like freeking pigs.
I feel you on this one. SD
I feel you on this one. SD used to tag along with DH everywhere he went (what a horror when the alternative is to be left home with me). He would take her to QuikTrip EVERY STINKING TIME, and they would both come home with either a Big Gulp (DH Pepsi and SD Dr. Pepper) or the largest size of hot chocolate available. I mean, this happened EVERY DAY SD was with us, and given that we had primary custody (65/70% of the time), you can imagine. To top it off, DH's family has a history of diabetes and both he and SD are overweight. But it's like talking to a brick wall to try to get them to change. I didn't keep that stuff in my house but it didn't matter. They'd find a way to get it no matter what.
Fruit juice is just as bad,
Fruit juice is just as bad, sorry to say. High glycemic carbohydrate! Just as bad as drinking sugary soda. (Best to eat the food whole, rather than juiced...then at least you get the fiber from it. A glass of orange juice takes about 5 or 6 oranges. Who would actually eat 5 or 6 oranges?) I didn't believe it either? Juice is bad?! What?...but its true.
At our house, we only drink water (my theory is why drink your calories?). SD11 is in soccer, she'll drink chocolate skim milk after a practice, game (and plenty of water during). I'm glad we're all quite healthy. BM is a lazy "see you next Tuesday" who's bloaty from her excessive wine habit...but I digress.
Okay...a little OT here but. I noticed how fantastic my Mom has been looking these past few years. She drinks green tea. So...what the heck...I've gained about 10 lbs in the past 3 years. I changed NOTHING in my diet or exercise habits and started drinking about 3 to 5 green tea a day. Regular in the morning, decaf after 6:00. I lost 3 lbs. Just by drinking the tea. So, it gives me motivation to maybe start working out again.
Fruit juice isn't "bad." It
Fruit juice isn't "bad." It depends on the type. "Fruit juice drinks" are bad, they usually only contain about 3-4% juice. 100% fruit juice, while not as good as whole fruit, is just fine. Fruit in general has a high sugar content, whether juiced or whole.
Funmommy....I'm talking fresh
Funmommy....I'm talking fresh squeezed juice here, not to mention fruit flavoured drinks. Don't drink juice period. Its full of sugar!
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How much sugar is there in juice? Well, the Sugar Stacks site, says that an 8oz glass of orange juice has 24g of sugar, which is about half the sugar - by weight - in a 12oz can of coke (which has about 40g of sugar)! Since oranges have about the same amount of fructose as sucrose, the sugar content can be deemed to be equivalent. Apple juice is about the same at 26g, but since it has more fructose than glucose, it may have more potential health risks.
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So imagine this, you're essentially driking 6 cubes of sugar when you drink a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. Sugar is sugar, whether it comes from sucrose, glucose or fructose.
Yes Fruit should be eaten whole.
If I'm gonna drink my
If I'm gonna drink my calories, it's gonna have a litle "kick" to it if ya know what I mean! }:)
Yes....that's the ONLY time
Yes....that's the ONLY time anyone should drink juice....if there is Vodka in it.