American food

[Anonymous]

I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe. I decided to live it up and eat whatever I wanted and deal with the weight gain when I got back. So this meant pancakes, muffins, and lattes for breakfast every day, fresh bread and cheese for lunch, lots of pasta dishes or meals with rice and potatoes for dinner (I never eat this stuff usually because it makes me gain like crazy). Pasteis de nata or gelato every day for dessert. We did walk a lot but nothing super crazy (about 5 miles a day). At home, I walk 2-5 miles daily due to commute to train.

I did not gain any weight, which is crazy because I could not eat this way at home. I used to think all the people saying that the sugar and preservatives in American food is the problem but now I think there is legitimately something to this.

What can be done? This is awful.

[Anonymous]

You can just cook like they do if you truly believe it is the case. Fresh ingredients are available here. I did not have the same experience as you in Europe I gained weight maybe it’s because you are eating too much junk food here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe. I decided to live it up and eat whatever I wanted and deal with the weight gain when I got back. So this meant pancakes, muffins, and lattes for breakfast every day, fresh bread and cheese for lunch, lots of pasta dishes or meals with rice and potatoes for dinner (I never eat this stuff usually because it makes me gain like crazy). Pasteis de nata or gelato every day for dessert. We did walk a lot but nothing super crazy (about 5 miles a day). At home, I walk 2-5 miles daily due to commute to train.

I did not gain any weight, which is crazy because I could not eat this way at home. I used to think all the people saying that the sugar and preservatives in American food is the problem but now I think there is legitimately something to this.

What can be done? This is awful.

I don't believe you. We don't have pancakes and muffins and nobody drinks lattes. Actually, pancakes and muffins are disgusting - pretty much all the cakes with chemical leaveners are disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Did you really need to make a new thread about this.

[Anonymous]

You posted this exact thread 2 weeks ago. Close this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe. I decided to live it up and eat whatever I wanted and deal with the weight gain when I got back. So this meant pancakes, muffins, and lattes for breakfast every day, fresh bread and cheese for lunch, lots of pasta dishes or meals with rice and potatoes for dinner (I never eat this stuff usually because it makes me gain like crazy). Pasteis de nata or gelato every day for dessert. We did walk a lot but nothing super crazy (about 5 miles a day). At home, I walk 2-5 miles daily due to commute to train.

I did not gain any weight, which is crazy because I could not eat this way at home. I used to think all the people saying that the sugar and preservatives in American food is the problem but now I think there is legitimately something to this.

What can be done? This is awful.

I don't believe you. We don't have pancakes and muffins and nobody drinks lattes. Actually, pancakes and muffins are disgusting - pretty much all the cakes with chemical leaveners are disgusting.

+1. Where in Europe did you eat all of this food?

[Anonymous]

Maybe the AC, heat?

[Anonymous]

There are like 3 threads on this exact same topic right now.

[Anonymous]

We just had a really long thread on this. it got real heated, real fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe. I decided to live it up and eat whatever I wanted and deal with the weight gain when I got back. So this meant pancakes, muffins, and lattes for breakfast every day, fresh bread and cheese for lunch, lots of pasta dishes or meals with rice and potatoes for dinner (I never eat this stuff usually because it makes me gain like crazy). Pasteis de nata or gelato every day for dessert. We did walk a lot but nothing super crazy (about 5 miles a day). At home, I walk 2-5 miles daily due to commute to train.

I did not gain any weight, which is crazy because I could not eat this way at home. I used to think all the people saying that the sugar and preservatives in American food is the problem but now I think there is legitimately something to this.

What can be done? This is awful.

I don't believe you. We don't have pancakes and muffins and nobody drinks lattes. Actually, pancakes and muffins are disgusting - pretty much all the cakes with chemical leaveners are disgusting.

At our hotel. They had all of these things on the menu. They called the muffins "cakes" but they were (small) American style muffins. I'll give them this - the portions are much, much smaller. But still, two small pancakes, one small muffin, one small croissant. I'm assuming it adds up to a lot of calories not to mention all the milk in the coffee. Plus bread with lunch and dinner and pasta.

[Anonymous]

You didn't consume more calories than you ate. Where the calorie comes from (carbs, etc) doesn't matter one bit.

You probably walked more, took more stares, snacked less, and as you said the portions are smaller.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe. I decided to live it up and eat whatever I wanted and deal with the weight gain when I got back. So this meant pancakes, muffins, and lattes for breakfast every day, fresh bread and cheese for lunch, lots of pasta dishes or meals with rice and potatoes for dinner (I never eat this stuff usually because it makes me gain like crazy). Pasteis de nata or gelato every day for dessert. We did walk a lot but nothing super crazy (about 5 miles a day). At home, I walk 2-5 miles daily due to commute to train.

I did not gain any weight, which is crazy because I could not eat this way at home. I used to think all the people saying that the sugar and preservatives in American food is the problem but now I think there is legitimately something to this.

What can be done? This is awful.

I don't believe you. We don't have pancakes and muffins and nobody drinks lattes. Actually, pancakes and muffins are disgusting - pretty much all the cakes with chemical leaveners are disgusting.

+1. Where in Europe did you eat all of this food?

-1. NP - i just got back from Italy and the hotels that offered breakfasts had lots of pastries and sweets. Brioche and cream, cronettes, sweet cakes, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You didn't consume more calories than you ate. Where the calorie comes from (carbs, etc) doesn't matter one bit.

You probably walked more, took more stares, snacked less, and as you said the portions are smaller.

Should be "you didn't consume more calories than you burned."

doh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You didn't consume more calories than you ate. Where the calorie comes from (carbs, etc) doesn't matter one bit.

You probably walked more, took more stares, snacked less, and as you said the portions are smaller.

Should be "you didn't consume more calories than you burned."

doh!

Also "took more stairs" not "stares"

WTF is wrong with me. You know what I mean!

[Anonymous]

It takes my body a couple weeks to show weight gain/loss. You may be in for a surprise in a week or so.