Update XVII: I Ate The Strawberry (The REAL, AUTHENTIC Update)

[King]

bushie do you really see your life as a tv show?

Why not? It gives him a lil bit of pleasure.

[King]

I speak as someone who cannot nap... but surely four hours is not a nap?

Plus, how the hell were you so tired from doing nothing that you could sleep for four hours on a Sunday?

It's Bushie's body fighting off him eating more garbage.

[King]

Actually, last night for supper, I had a roast beef dinner with a baked potato, corn, ranch style beans, and a lettuce and cheese salad

A burger and fries is beef, cheese, lettuce, wheat, potatoes. Corn is a grain equiv to wheat.

So basically you had a burger and fries with beans on it. Congrats on eating less healthier than usually. I can't imagine how many servings you had, too.

[King]

Actually, last night for supper, I had a roast beef dinner with a baked potato, corn, ranch style beans, and a lettuce and cheese salad

A burger and fries is beef, cheese, lettuce, wheat, potatoes. Corn is a grain equiv to wheat.

So basically you had a burger and fries with beans on it. Congrats on eating less healthier than usually. I can't imagine how many servings you had, too.

Why are you attacking me for potatoes when you yourself recommended a steak with MASHED POTATOES from Texas Roadhouse over Labor Day weekend?  Plus, you said a complete meal is better than a burger and fries and now you're attacking me over a complete meal.  You have no credibility left with me.  I am no longer listening to anything you have to say.

I recommended steak, with some potatoes and VEGETABLES. Broccoli, spinach, carrots, green beans. You ordered potatoes and mac and cheese. I didn't say any crap about baked beans or corn or cheese. You never listened to anything I had to say.

You did not eat a complete meal at your grandmothers. You had no greens, no oranges, no purples, no nothing. You had carbs, fat, carbs, fat, and carbs. Same as it ever was.

You will never lose weight because you ignore vegetables and you need to eat vegetables EVERY DAY for EVERY MEAL. Your complete meal was more carbs and more calories than most McDonalds combos.

[King]

Actually, last night for supper, I had a roast beef dinner with a baked potato, corn, ranch style beans, and a lettuce and cheese salad

A burger and fries is beef, cheese, lettuce, wheat, potatoes. Corn is a grain equiv to wheat.

So basically you had a burger and fries with beans on it. Congrats on eating less healthier than usually. I can't imagine how many servings you had, too.

Why are you attacking me for potatoes when you yourself recommended a steak with MASHED POTATOES from Texas Roadhouse over Labor Day weekend?  Plus, you said a complete meal is better than a burger and fries and now you're attacking me over a complete meal.  You have no credibility left with me.  I am no longer listening to anything you have to say.

I recommended steak, with some potatoes and VEGETABLES. Broccoli, spinach, carrots, green beans. You ordered potatoes and mac and cheese. You never listened to anything I had to say.

You did not eat a complete meal at your grandmothers. You had no greens, no oranges, no purples, no nothing. You had carbs, fat, carbs, fat, and carbs. Same as it ever was.

You will never lose weight because you ignore vegetables. Your complete meal was more carbs and more calories than most McDonalds combos.

I think he's miffed at you because he did have lettuce.  

He has lettuce on his burgers. Lettuce is not going to help him unless it's a rough lettuce like spinach or kale. He needs actual vegetables.

It's all part of his selective editing of advice he receives. I tell him steak, potatoes, and broccoli is a complete meal and he translates that as steak, potatoes, gravy, beans, corn, cheese as a complete meal.

Steak, beans, and broccoli is complete meal. Steak, corn, and snap peas is a complete meal. Steak, cheese, and asparagus is complete meal.

No veggies, no exercise, no weight loss. That's a fact.

[King]

I know he's not going to make the distinction. I have low expectations for him and expect him to die within the decade, but I'll be damned if he thinks he has a gotcha moment on me before he passes on.

You've lost all credibility, so you might as well save your breath and go back to the bleachers.

I'm not the one who has trouble breathing.

[King]

I have a little more privacy than I did in the old office

Sorry writers, but I see your clever little "fired for briefly relaxing at work" scene from a mile away. Try again.

[King]

Joe, please stop discriminating against a smart, dedicated, and hard working employee like Milton with comparisons to his polar opposite in Bushie because of  their appearance.

[King]

Are you good on math, Bushie? Do you need to brush up on anything? I imagine you haven't done exercises in it since you were a college freshman.

[King]

Your life expectancy is definitely old fashioned. I will give you that.

And it's just another bogus excuse. I'm sure if grammy had a big ol' bowl of cooked spinach or collard greens on that table, you would've skipped it in serving despite your Southern Hospitality.

[King]

Bushie, if your grandma made a bowl of cooked spinach on Sunday, would you have eaten it?

[King]

Bushie, if your grandma made a bowl of cooked spinach on Sunday, would you have eaten it?

I doubt she would have cooked that, because she knows I don't like it.  But, if set before me, I would choke it down somehow, with probably 3 or 4 glasses of tea.

So it's not rude to make grandma accommodate you when it's spinach.

[King]

Yes, Bushie makes it sound like he's jumping into veganism, when in reality he should be encouraging his parents and grandma to join him.

[King]

Ramen is cheap and low on calories because it does nothing. Any time I've eat Ramen I'm hungry again in 10 minutes.

[King]

Also, Bushie, you say a cup of Ramen/Kraft Mac costs you "no more that what you pay at the store."

Where do you buy this if not at the store? A vending machine?

[King]

King, I just pay for it at the store, so it doesn't cost me anything extra by bringing it from home.

By paying the OK state bringing lunch from home tax?

Bushie, are you seriously in so much poverty that you can't afford a lunch bigger than Ramen? Where are your dollars going? Create a budget. Food should always be most of your daily expenses not the least.

[King]

It's one thing not to cook. He can't assemble meals. I know people who don't cook but still have the sense to buy frozen Stouffers entree, a bag of frozen peas, and Uncle Ben's instant rice and you know... have a full dinner on a plate.

Bushie, from what he's told us, eats stew out of a can cold because the can isn't microwaveable.

[King]

I would recommend cooking classes at the CC or something, but I have a feeling it would just result in our Dear Friend being escorted off the premises

[King]

Meh, I go for the Prego every now and then. They have a really good red wine sauce, actually. That's not the issue.

The real problem here is he's eating carbs and no veggies. He's never going to lose weight doing that and he just can't accept it. Burgers and fries, spaghetti, mac and cheese, ramen, Dinty Moore stew, ham and cheese sandwiches, pizza, none of it is weight loss food. None are particularly better than the other. They're all equally bad as long as no vegetables are being eaten. That's the bottom line.

[King]

Put some chopped garlic and onions in a pan with olive oil, let those start to get nice, add your tomatoes whole, they'll get soft and eventually you'll be able to smash them with your wooden spoon, add a little red wine, add a little chicken or vegetable stock (which salts it), let that reduce a bit, add your tomato paste to thicken. If you want to add veggies/herbs like spinach or basil or peas or carrots, do it the tomatoes stage.

If you're really lazy, you can just skip the chopped garlic/onions and use garlic powder and onion powder. I do that too much.

In short, put everything in a pan with heat and it will eventually turn into a sauce.

[King]

The easiest way to lose weight, and never be hungry, is to just cut out pasta, bread, rice and potatoes from your diet entirely.

That's very rude of you.

[King]

mac and cheese

[King]

Plans changed at the last minute.  We had pizza instead.

It's ok Bushie! At least you tried!!!!!

[King]

Two breakfasts? Good call, Bushie! That way you won't be hungry later )))

[King]

Bacon and eggs, and pancakes are generally separate menu items. But that's okay, friend! Enjoy your moderate supper )))