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I added a stat for Joe, as apparently he enjoys other people's pain...well, so do I, I guess. Why else would I watch the Tour?

I survived a close encounter with tasty looking doughnuts on the table of death at work...saved me enough calories to make some apple stuff (essentially apple pie filling) tonight. But one 500 calorie doughnut basically means no lunch and an amazingly long afternoon. After nosing around, I found out why:

"Fatty foods are not satisfying, even though people expected them to be," says Holt. "We think the reason is that fat is seen by the body as a fuel which should be used only in emergencies—it stores it in the cells instead of breaking it down for immediate use. Because it doesn't recognize the fat as energy for immediate use, the body does not tell the brain to cut hunger signals, so we go on wanting more. Carbohydrates are the opposite—they raise blood glucose so the body knows it has gotten enough fuel."

When you are working the 1500, you just can't afford to waste calories on stuff that won't help you survive until the next meal (dramatic, but that is what the challenge feels like).

From the same web site:

Jellybeans also scored higher than expected. Volunteers fed jellybeans did not feel satisfied, yet they ate very little afterwards. This resulted in the sweets getting a satiety rating of 118—higher than that of muesli and yogurt and almost the same as white pasta.

"I suspect the reason that the jellybeans came out so well was that they made our volunteers feel slightly nauseous," says Holt. "We'll be doing some research on that one..."

Translation:

Apples, potatoes, brown pasta, chili, and oatmeal. Well, and lotsa lettuce as it is pretty much free and filling after a while...just gotta keep rotating the lo-fat dressings (the thousand island isn't bad, the ceaser is pretty good, but the blue cheese sucks...Ken's light blue cheese where are you! They have other Ken's light, why not the blue cheese?)