Help! I Am Gaining Weight Watching The Food Network?

I just have to stop channel surfing while working out in the gym! If I'm stuck with the news channels, I might actually pay attention to my exercise. But when I click on the cooking show button, I become mesmerized watching overweight chefs prepare dishes that, if consumed in typical amounts, will certainly add to the growing rate of obesity in the country. To be sure, some of the skinny chefs cook, most of the time, with skinny ingredients. But there are a few whose girth is testimony to the copious quantities of extremely high-fat ingredients comprising their dishes. One recently caught my attention. A charming, articulate, personable woman was hosting a show called "Farmhouse Rules." When I first clicked on the program, she was vigorously mixing an 8-ounce brick of cream cheese with heavy cream and well-sugared strawberries. That done, she spread it on a sheet of puff pastry, and covered it to make a rectangle of buttery, flaky, creamy, strawberry pastry. It looked yummy but, as I rarely make desserts, I left her, channel surfed some more, and then returned to her show 10 minutes later. Now she was making a horseradish sauce to pour over slices of roast beef. She was again mashing an 8-ounce brick of cream cheese, this time with very large dollops of mayonnaise and sour cream. I like my horseradish straight from the jar, so back I went to more channel surfing. Returning a few minutes later (was I becoming addicted to cream cheese recipes?), she was making a Roquefort che...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news