Bowl of Corn Flakes

Clemenza

Hi guys,

Starting to get myself into shape, working out every day and eating healthier.

I've ditched all the crap foods, but I am just wondering about Corn Flakes? I always enjoyed a bowl of them in the Evening, around 7 or 8pm.

As I've ditched the beer/bread/chocolate/carbs, would it still be acceptable to carry on with the corn flakes?

Cheers

rubadub

I'd have them in the crap food category. People rarely have the tiny portion sizes quoted on the pack. Some think nothing of adding more sugar, while normal cornflakes already have loads added.

If I am going to eat junk food I am damn sure going to enjoy it. Plain cornflakes are 8-9% in sugar. Dr. Kellogg was a nut job, he was a Seventh-day Adventist and invented corn flakes specifically to be a very bland food as it was thought to reduce sexual feelings. He poured acid on the clitoris of girls to stop them masturbating.

There are several bland foods people presume are OK, others would be supernoodles & bran flakes.

Clemenza

rubadub wrote: »

I'd have them in the crap food category. People rarely have the tiny portion sizes quoted on the pack. Some think nothing of adding more sugar, while normal cornflakes already have loads added.

If I am going to eat junk food I am damn sure going to enjoy it. Plain cornflakes are 8-9% in sugar. Dr. Kellogg was a nut job, he was a Seventh-day Adventist and invented corn flakes specifically to be a very bland food as it was thought to reduce sexual feelings. He poured acid on the clitoris of girls to stop them masturbating.

There are several bland foods people presume are OK, others would be supernoodles & bran flakes.

Jaysus :-o

I enjoy Corn Flakes more than pizza and chips though!

LCD

If you have a generally healthy diet & workout 6/7 times a week. 1 bowl of cornflakes a day will hardly be the thing that kills you!

Clemenza

LCD wrote: »

If you have a generally healthy diet & workout 6/7 times a week. 1 bowl of cornflakes a day will hardly be the thing that kills you!

Cheers

Transform

LCD wrote: »

If you have a generally healthy diet & workout 6/7 times a week. 1 bowl of cornflakes a day will hardly be the thing that kills you!

Generally healthy diet.

thats the line i get from most clients i work with that are getting zero results.

Cornfalkes are nutritionally empty and have the exact same effect on your blood sugar levels that a spoonful for sugar would have or a soft drink.

Eat e.g. eggs with veg, make a paleo bar etc

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

I'd have them in the crap food category. People rarely have the tiny portion sizes quoted on the pack. Some think nothing of adding more sugar, while normal cornflakes already have loads added.

If I am going to eat junk food I am damn sure going to enjoy it. Plain cornflakes are 8-9% in sugar. Dr. Kellogg was a nut job, he was a Seventh-day Adventist and invented corn flakes specifically to be a very bland food as it was thought to reduce sexual feelings. He poured acid on the clitoris of girls to stop them masturbating.

You what?!
*reads wiki page*
Jaysus

Brian?

bluewolf wrote: »

You what?!
*reads wiki page*
Jaysus

Cornflakes were accidentally invented as a cure for masturbation. Kellogg thought masturbation was the cause for a huge range of maladys. Nut job.

Aside from that, you'd be better off having a snickers for breakfast. At least a snickers has nuts.

akamossy

For some reason this has completely turned me off eating cornflakes

Brian?

akamossy wrote: »

For some reason this has completely turned me off eating cornflakes

Mission accomplished so.

Jerrica

LCD wrote: »

If you have a generally healthy diet & workout 6/7 times a week. 1 bowl of cornflakes a day will hardly be the thing that kills you!

It won't kill you, but it'll likely stop you losing weight. Few people train 6/7 times per week at an intensity that compensate a bowl of corn flakes every night. Keep them as a treat once a week by all means, but if you want results just drop them altogether.

If you train 6/7 times a week and have a bowl of cornflakes a day you are pretty much just insta-cancelling out the good with the bad.

If you skipped that bowl of cornflakes per day and trained 3 times instead, you'd be in a far better place.

People massively, and I mean massively over-estimate how much 'work' their body does during training.

145 kcals if you have exactly 30g and 125mls of skim milk. That's a tiny portion for a start. 7 of those a week is 1015 (useless) calories to burn through.

That's about 75 (painful) minutes of running. (massively dependent on the person doing the exercise)

Stench Blossoms

...and people massive underestimate the amount of calories they are eating.

The typical (what kellogs say) size bowl of Cornflakes is 30g. That's like what's in the small variety pack. No grown adult would only eat that much.

spodoinkle

Clemenza wrote: »

As I've ditched the beer/bread/chocolate/carbs, would it still be acceptable to carry on with the corn flakes?

Cheers

Why would you ditch the bodies preferred source of energy ie carbs?

doctorwhogirl

spodoinkle wrote: »

Why would you ditch the bodies preferred source of energy ie carbs?

Depends on the carbs you are eating.

Eating a sweet potato or brown rice is very different to eating a hape of bread/pasta/chips.

April O Neill

doctorwhogirl wrote: »

Depends on the carbs you are eating.

Eating a sweet potato or brown rice is very different to eating a hape of bread/pasta/chips.

I don't have a major problem with a reasonable portion of homemade chips. I wouldn't consider them any worse than sweet potato. Higher calorie load but if done in animal fat, none of the components are bad for you. You'd just need to account for them in your food intake for the day.

frozenfrozen

I'm never going to eat corn flakes again. The Kellogs logo is a cock ffs!

NeVeR

After reading this I'm thinking of dropping them as well.

I normally eat these before the gym in the morning.

In saying that.. i've cut a lot of foods out.. and over the last 90 days i've lost about 11kg..

If i was to cut these out in the mornings what quick replacement would there be ? .

My morning is pretty busy already..
Get up 6:15
Walk dogs till about 7
Quick breakfast - leave for gym at 7:10
gym from 7:30 still about 8:40 - then work from 9 - 5:30.

If i don't eat before the gym i sometimes feel dizzy..

Sangre

wrote:

Scoop of oats, scoop of whey protein and 200ml milk. Put them all in a shaker. C. 350 calories and 35g of protein. Will take 2 minutes to consume.

Clemenza

Having started this thread and read what I've read, I've not had a bowl in 4 days.

Gonna make it a once a week treat, if even that

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

There are several bland foods people presume are OK, others would be supernoodles & bran flakes.

Yes! I can't believe I used to think they were healthy, since I've improved my diet I find them so sugary that they're like a dessert!

Reservations at Dorsia

This thread certainly is some food for thought