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LuckyCharms

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Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:28 PM Dec 2025

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Lots of brocolli so you feel good about the pie BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2025 #1
Or, you could eat a brocolli pie. LuckyCharms Dec 2025 #2
Or, you could just plan ahead Diamond_Dog Dec 2025 #3
As a former accountant, I can say with certainty... LuckyCharms Dec 2025 #4
The best and most effective diet advice I have ever received is this: Ocelot II Dec 2025 #5
That's good advice, as long as you... LuckyCharms Dec 2025 #6
That's what my cardiologist told me, too DFW Dec 2025 #18
This is actually much better medical advise than RFK, Jr.'s HHS puts out. And, IMO, it can apply to more than... Ol Janx Spirit Dec 2025 #7
Very good. I wish more people understood this. LuckyCharms Dec 2025 #8
I tried your 'balanced' approach, just not at Christmas time EYESORE 9001 Dec 2025 #9
. LuckyCharms Dec 2025 #10
Snort. 😆❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #11
Punkin pie is a vegetable right? jmbar2 Dec 2025 #12
5 slices, of course! mwmisses4289 Dec 2025 #20
Those accounting degrees aren't adding up right.... Teacher of the Year Dec 2025 #13
WIth a name like Lucky Charms Nasruddin Dec 2025 #14
Make sure you get the proper proportional amounts from the Nutrition Pyramid. LudwigPastorius Dec 2025 #15
You may be on to something LuckCharms. CentralMass Dec 2025 #16
I myself am on a seafood diet. sprinkleeninow Dec 2025 #17
My diet is more like search and destroy airplaneman Dec 2025 #23
😄 sprinkleeninow Dec 2025 #24
As long as there's a gallon of ice cream in the plan, by God, I'm on board! chouchou Dec 2025 #19
I'm planning on enjoying .5L of Pils, .5L of Schwartzbier... Harker Dec 2025 #21
I am balancing my cheesesteak with onion dip and a couple of hot dogs. Dorothy V Dec 2025 #22

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,261 posts)
1. Lots of brocolli so you feel good about the pie
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:29 PM
Dec 2025

LuckyCharms

(22,659 posts)
2. Or, you could eat a brocolli pie.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:30 PM
Dec 2025

As long as you eat 5 of them to keep the meal balanced.

Diamond_Dog

(40,589 posts)
3. Or, you could just plan ahead
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:32 PM
Dec 2025

and take the batteries out of your scale…

LuckyCharms

(22,659 posts)
4. As a former accountant, I can say with certainty...
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:35 PM
Dec 2025

that numbers are a false, man-made concept. Therefore, numbers on a scale are meaningless.

FAKE NUMBERS.

Ocelot II

(130,542 posts)
5. The best and most effective diet advice I have ever received is this:
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:35 PM
Dec 2025

If it tastes good, spit it out.

LuckyCharms

(22,659 posts)
6. That's good advice, as long as you...
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:37 PM
Dec 2025

spit it out 5 times. To keep everything in balance.

DFW

(60,189 posts)
18. That's what my cardiologist told me, too
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 02:09 AM
Dec 2025

Unfortunately, my advanced memory loss keeps me from remembering to do that, especially when something is put before me that smells extraordinarily good. Having a wife who is a gourmet chef doesn't make it any easier on me, either. Worse yet, she's German, so she can do the pastry department, too.

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,013 posts)
7. This is actually much better medical advise than RFK, Jr.'s HHS puts out. And, IMO, it can apply to more than...
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:41 PM
Dec 2025

...just the holidays.

For healthier-eating parts of the year you might even bring your weight down anywhere from 300 to 1500--possibly 3000--percent!

LuckyCharms

(22,659 posts)
8. Very good. I wish more people understood this.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:43 PM
Dec 2025

EYESORE 9001

(29,733 posts)
9. I tried your 'balanced' approach, just not at Christmas time
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:52 PM
Dec 2025

My downfall was alphabet soup. After five bowls, I had an enormous vowel movement. Thanks a pantload, Charms

LuckyCharms

(22,659 posts)
10. .
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:52 PM
Dec 2025

littlemissmartypants

(33,647 posts)
11. Snort. 😆❤️
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 12:21 AM
Dec 2025

jmbar2

(7,990 posts)
12. Punkin pie is a vegetable right?
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 01:09 AM
Dec 2025

How many slices meet the five fruits and veggies recommendation?

mwmisses4289

(4,190 posts)
20. 5 slices, of course!
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 04:25 PM
Dec 2025
13. Those accounting degrees aren't adding up right....
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 01:10 AM
Dec 2025

I would argue you but I didn't make enough cookies for the neighbors so I just made a double batch of fudge...which sort of ended up being my dinner and I can't eat anything else because my stomach hurts from all that delicious chocolaty fudge. Sigh.

I didn't mean to eat so much. All I did was eat what was left in the bowl/on the spatula. (a ridiculous amount).

Nasruddin

(1,258 posts)
14. WIth a name like Lucky Charms
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 01:10 AM
Dec 2025

We have no choice but to believe you. Pass the gingerbread cookies, would you?

LudwigPastorius

(14,728 posts)
15. Make sure you get the proper proportional amounts from the Nutrition Pyramid.
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 01:25 AM
Dec 2025

CentralMass

(16,973 posts)
16. You may be on to something LuckCharms.
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 01:28 AM
Dec 2025

sprinkleeninow

(22,349 posts)
17. I myself am on a seafood diet.
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 01:48 AM
Dec 2025

I see food an' I eat it. 😂

airplaneman

(1,386 posts)
23. My diet is more like search and destroy
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 05:51 PM
Dec 2025

No matter where the food is I seek it out and destroy it.
-Airplane

sprinkleeninow

(22,349 posts)
24. 😄
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 01:29 AM
Dec 2025

chouchou

(3,145 posts)
19. As long as there's a gallon of ice cream in the plan, by God, I'm on board!
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 02:17 AM
Dec 2025

Harker

(17,787 posts)
21. I'm planning on enjoying .5L of Pils, .5L of Schwartzbier...
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 04:37 PM
Dec 2025

and a 12oz. glass of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale.

Does that qualify as balanced, or do I need to work in some Stollen, too?

Dorothy V

(508 posts)
22. I am balancing my cheesesteak with onion dip and a couple of hot dogs.
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 04:41 PM
Dec 2025
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