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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I’m a good cook and I’m not overweight.[b] I even use butter and sugar and red meats sometimes[/b], but all that is balanced out with lots of fruits and vegetables. I rarely eat processed foods so that helps.[/quote]

You're not a good cook.[/quote]

Why do you say that?[/quote]

If you say you "even use [extremely basic ingredients] sometimes" then you're just adept at making certain weight watchers nonsense palatable for yourself.  A good cook wouldn't think this was some risque thing - to cook with butter!  Or even sugar or meat! - or even worth mentioning.   Also cooking is a food process so if you rarely eat cooked food I don't know how you can think you're good at cooking.

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I’m not on any kind of weight watcher or diet anything. Why would you assume that? I mentioned the butter, sugar, red meat merely to show that I’m not cooking some sort of rigid diet meals. The question had to do with weight. I cook a large variety of foods from different regions of the world. I cook carbs, proteins, and fats of all sorts. Where did I say I rarely eat cooked foods? I cook almost every night for dinner. I rarely do take-out or eat out. I am thin, as is my whole family, because it’s of genetics, exercising 6 days a week, and eating wholesome foods.[/quote]

DP.  But do you (and OP) "get" that the bias in your verbiage causes an immediate and probably subconscious response to your readers?  It speaks volumes and that's what the person you're responding to is pointing out.

To add another perspective, I also am trim AND I am a professionally trained (Le Cordon Bleu) chef.  Even I read your post and thought, woohoo, "even use" was a bellwether that you probably have a pretty rigid repertoire that is outside of the norm in terms of protein and fats (in that you don't use them much).  That's fine, of course, because to each his own, but my inference was that you and OP are two of a kind in terms of making judgments and focused more on low calorie and low fat, which typically result in not very good tasting foods.  Also from my perspective, it isn't a healthy mindset and that type of extreme food preparation isn't necessary or as physically healthy as you might suppose it to be.  IMO of course.

But you do you and I'll do me, and together we'll all get our bake on![/quote]

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