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Posted 9/27/2019 12:48 PM (GMT 0)
Guilty pleasure. (noun): something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys, despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.
Despite vehement denials to the contrary that some may offer, most everybody has at least one.
So I'm going to 'fess up and own up to a few I've got, and, for a little Friday fun, invite others to contribute a few of their own. Along with perhaps a comment or two on just why they make you grin.
For me:
(1) going to the University of Florida Gator football games here in Gainesville and watching the team beat up on some other team, preferably a traditional rival. This past weekend being a case in point, for example, as the Gators dominated the University of Tennessee Volunteers to the tune of a 34-3 win. Sure, every fan wants his team to win, but it's guilty pleasure creeping in when you find yourself thinking "Score again! Score again! Put a whuppin' on em!"
(2) watching certain TV programs. "Forensic Files" is an example. It's arguably "trash TV," and I certainly don't watch it for the blood and gore that are the subject of most of its episodes, but there really is a certain fascination in learning how technology, such as DNA evidence, can be used in solving crimes. But at times it's like being unable to "look away from a car wreck," which is sometimes literally the case with this particular program!
(3) just can't cut out the junk food completely. Following the PCa Dx, I actually did improve my diet considerably, and did eliminate most of the junky edibles I was regularly consuming at that time. But I just couldn't let them all go. Even today I can still be found on a Saturday night, parked in my easy chair in front of the tube, with a Coca-Cola and bowl of potato chips next to me on the side table. Oh well, maybe someday they'll discover that carbonated beverages kill cancer cells!
So who's next?
Come on, don't be shy. Why, there might even be a kind of guilty pleasure in disclosing one's guilty pleasures!
Posted 9/27/2019 1:19 PM (GMT 0)
Most assuredly, there are a few guilty pleasures!

Probably the worst one, as though I am trying to make up for my occasional fast, or my slight attempts to daily keep the carb input under control: about once a week, a trip to a local fast food chicken joint- ironically right across the street from the hospital where I used to work- to get either a chicken or tenderloin biscuit with gravy plus TWO blueberry donuts. I figure the blueberries might help negate some of that evil. But it tastes so good! I usually will skip breakfast(actually I do that most days) and have this for brunch. Then most days if I do that, I won't eat again until supper. But that is a pretty big bomb of carbs and various other warned against items. And if it is a week that I have not done that bad action(or so they tell me), I'm liable to do even worse with a trip to Cracker Barrel for Mama'a Pancake Breakfast or, drum roll please: Waffle House. So once a week on average, that is a pretty bad strike against everything I preach.

40 years ago this Sept, I had just arrived back down south after completing my anesthesia training in Erie, PA. I would be in the OR working when one of the docs would come in to give me a break. We had an anesthesia tech who would take order's, and go across the street to get me a(back then) sausage biscuit and blueberry doughnut. So about 0900 or 1000 every morning I would have coffee and that mid-morning snack. Once my working arrangement changed, I stopped that habit. But about a year or two back, being retired and with time to go anywhere any morning for breakfast if I want, I suddenly remembered Connie's Fried Chicken across from the hospital, and now that is back in my life. But only once a week, back then it was daily. Of course back then I was skinny even with such habits.
Posted 9/27/2019 2:17 PM (GMT 0)
bad sf movies
Ruffels potato chips
Wacky comments in staff meets (Maybe the elf could do that)
Noting the current location of the star ship Enterprise in week reports
Vogon poetry
and mother said you don't talk about that in public
Posted 9/27/2019 2:25 PM (GMT 0)
Mine would have to be laying down for a nap when it is so nice outside I should be biking, walking, working on my snowshoe trails but I'm so darn tired can't keep my eyes open and a hr nap on the couch feels pretty darn good.

😎
Posted 9/27/2019 3:28 PM (GMT 0)
have several guilty pleasures, but two really stand out. And they both have to do with food.

1. Several weeks ago wife and I were in a big hurry. Neither one of us had much to eat. We stopped at the local hot dog stand and each had one to hold us over. I had not had a hot dog in five years; thus the guilt. It really tasted good; thus the pleasure.

2. This past Monday a local hospital, here in Erie, sponsored a seminar. They provided a large array of snacks, to include cheesecake, chocolate cake, cherry tarts, and all of those sugar laden rich foods. I loaded up, but I sure felt guilty afterward.
Posted 9/27/2019 3:48 PM (GMT 0)

mr bill said...
have several guilty pleasures, but two really stand out. And they both have to do with food.

1. Several weeks ago wife and I were in a big hurry. Neither one of us had much to eat. We stopped at the local hot dog stand and each had one to hold us over. I had not had a hot dog in five years; thus the guilt. It really tasted good; thus the pleasure.

2. This past Monday a local hospital, here in Erie, sponsored a seminar. They provided a large array of snacks, to include cheesecake, chocolate cake, cherry tarts, and all of those sugar laden rich foods. I loaded up, but I sure felt guilty afterward.

Hey Mr. Bill,
Are you from Erie. PA? That is where I got my anesthesia training, graduating in 1979 from Hamot School of Anesthesia. They greeted this GA boy with their all time record for snowfall- maybe in 78 but broken since then- 148" of snow that year. This southern boy with his Ford Pinto was constantly stuck in the snow or on ice. Also, it was right after I left there and came here that I developed my habit of a tenderloin biscuit with blueberry doughnuts, which I am in fact eating right now.
Posted 9/27/2019 3:57 PM (GMT 0)
little known donut fact: Eating a glazed chocolate donut will raise your heart rate and blood pressure for 20-30 minutes.

Eating two glazed chocolate donuts raises your heart rate for the same amount of time as a 30 minute cardio workout.

So you can save the sweating by just eating two donuts each morning ...
Posted 9/27/2019 4:08 PM (GMT 0)

InTheShop said...
little known donut fact: Eating a glazed chocolate donut will raise your heart rate and blood pressure for 20-30 minutes.

Eating two glazed chocolate donuts raises your heart rate for the same amount of time as a 30 minute cardio workout.

So you can save the sweating by just eating two donuts each morning ...

This is the technique I am using this morning. I feel so wore out from the work out of eating blueberry doughnuts, that I may have to take a nap.
Posted 9/27/2019 4:17 PM (GMT 0)
Most of my recent guilty pleasures have been a result of PCa and trying to maintain diet, exercise, and various healthy rituals since I retired, The easy ones are like doing nothing on a nice summer or fall day and finally taking a nap like Sky said when the to-do list is quite long. Some items come to mind:

• A small cigar with a beer on Friday afternoon after lawn cutting in the summer when the weather is perfect, not too hot or cold.
• Drinking any beer with over 6% alcohol which was common pre-PCa and retirement.
• Visit MN State Fair for one day in August almost every year. Beer and food that is absolutely no good for you, little fiber or protein, all starch, carbs, fat, sugar and salt. My wife gets a basket of deep fried vegetables and says her Fair diet is well balanced and we skip dinner that night.

I may try the donut regiment that Dr. ITS recommends. If I got a dozen, I would not have to exercise all week but might overwork my heart so must get monitor first.
Posted 9/27/2019 4:32 PM (GMT 0)
BillyBob,
Just sent you off an email. Yes, that would be Erie, Pa. We have three seasons. Snow, road repair, Snow. about the only time you hear about Erie is on the nationwide foul weather reports. When we go back to my wife's home state of Mississippi and she answers the question, "where do you live now?" When she responds Erie, their immediate reply is " I am so sorry." Of course if you saw Hamot now you would not recognize it.
Posted 9/27/2019 5:17 PM (GMT 0)
I, also, take guilty pleasure in food and drink. Perhaps, at our age (and for those on Lupron, even more so) the pleasure of watching pretty girls is fading.

Current guilty pleasures:

Appleton rum with either coke or crabbie's ginger beer

Key Lime pie (or most kinds of pie, actually)

A trip to Ben and Irv's for hamentashen

Mr. Bill--greetings from the other end of PA, in the land of the debate about the best steak sandwich (Pat's or Geno's?), Rita's frozen custard, and whether Bethlehem is 2 or 3 syllables.
Posted 9/27/2019 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
A cigar, when my wife's not around.
Rum and coke, when my wife's not around.
Jack and coke, when my wife's not around.
A double Scotch, straight, when my wife's not around.

I love my wife, she just hates when I do these things, she says it isn't good for me.
Posted 9/27/2019 8:06 PM (GMT 0)
None
I'm perfect. smile

OK, just kidding, it's food. All kinds. Never met a meal i didnt like. Especially sweet foods, fried foods, cheesy foods, fatty foods.
Posted 9/27/2019 8:07 PM (GMT 0)

BillyBob@388 said...
about once a week, a trip to a local fast food chicken joint- ironically right across the street from the hospital where I used to work- to get either a chicken or tenderloin biscuit with gravy plus TWO blueberry donuts. I figure the blueberries might help negate some of that evil. But it tastes so good!

BB, I must admit to being skeptical in the past about your dietary suggestions. However at this time I bow to your obviously superior wisdom! Blueberry donuts to offset chicken biscuits with gravy makes you a man after my own heart!

My guilty pleasures are numerous including:

1. Having one of those little Hershey bars occasionally after lunch because, "I just need something sweet".
2. Our community dining room serves "country fried chicken" once a quarter...I partake w/o hesitation.
3. Demanding a hot dog with all the trimmings on the 4th of July because, "it's a tradition".
4. Like 81, wanting my Gators to stomp the he!! out of any other team, particularly Tennessee and FSU.

The others are not fit for publication on a family forum but are mostly only fond memories from a mis-spent youth.

Jim
Posted 9/27/2019 9:04 PM (GMT 0)

Tudpock18 said...


BB, I must admit to being skeptical in the past about your dietary suggestions. However at this time I bow to your obviously superior wisdom! Blueberry donuts to offset chicken biscuits with gravy makes you a man after my own heart!



Jim

Well at least you have, apparently, at last come to realize my vast wisdom! I should probably write a book about the health benefits of blueberry doughnuts.
Posted 9/27/2019 9:19 PM (GMT 0)

BillyBob@388 said...


Well at least you have, apparently, at last come to realize my vast wisdom! I should probably write a book about the health benefits of blueberry doughnuts.

You should, I know it's an area of dietary science that is greatly over looked. The available literature on the subject is lacking. Please make it a priority to fill this gap in our knowledge.

Andrew
Posted 9/27/2019 9:24 PM (GMT 0)
I think I just added no. 4 to my list above:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=blueberry+donut+photos&form=edgsph&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&plvar=0&refig=dbe655bf03514ad7b09856b30986f07c&pc=dcts&sp=1&qs=sc&pq=blueberry+donuts+phot&sk=pres1&sc=1-21&cvid=dbe655bf03514ad7b09856b30986f07c&cc=us&setlang=en-us
Posted 9/27/2019 9:24 PM (GMT 0)

InTheShop said...

BillyBob@388 said...


Well at least you have, apparently, at last come to realize my vast wisdom! I should probably write a book about the health benefits of blueberry doughnuts.

You should, I know it's an area of dietary science that is greatly over looked. The available literature on the subject is lacking. Please make it a priority to fill this gap in our knowledge.

Andrew


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Yes, indeed, greatly over looked. In fact, I am not aware of a single large scale RCT of blue berry doughnut's effect on health vs placebo. I, however, have done a good bit of personal research on this subject and plan to publish it, as soon as I can find the right peer reviewed journal.
Posted 9/27/2019 10:23 PM (GMT 0)
Would the placebo be a bagel?
Posted 9/27/2019 10:44 PM (GMT 0)

Mumbo said...
Would the placebo be a bagel?

Make the placebo banana nut and I'm in..

Post Edited (island time) : 9/27/2019 4:50:17 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 9/27/2019 10:47 PM (GMT 0)
Diet coke. Absolutely.

I've learned to live with the guilt.
Posted 9/27/2019 10:58 PM (GMT 0)

BillyBob@388 said...


Well at least you have, apparently, at last come to realize my vast wisdom! I should probably write a book about the health benefits of blueberry doughnuts.

BB you could probably write that book in one sitting. No...in 15 minutes. 😂
Posted 9/27/2019 11:05 PM (GMT 0)
Halbert,
Having spent some time working in center city, Geno's is the best.
Mr. Bill
Posted 9/28/2019 12:05 AM (GMT 0)
Mumbo, I told my wife what you said about the state fair she said there is no way you should feel guilty about eating like it's your last meal, that's why you go there. She has been going since a teenager but now that she can't walk very far we haven't been there in a couple of years. She really misses it mostly the junk food!! LOL 😂

Larry
Posted 9/28/2019 3:14 PM (GMT 0)
My guilty pleasures have certainly change over my lifetime. In my much younger years it probably had to do with enjoying illegal substances while playing just the right mix tape. Today, after going 17-1/2 year of not missing a day of doing a workout until I had my prostate out, it is now taking the occasional day off.
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