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Any Publicity is Good Publicity? Or is a fat cook trainwreck tv?
Views: 973Added: Wed. Jun 03, 2009 3:37pm
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Recently, a friend of mine posted a link to a youtube cooking show. A young woman had put up about half a dozen videos of herself cooking. They were nicely edited and she was personable...but she was also terribly obese, and the recipes she demonstrated were horrifying concotions loaded with fat, sugar and salt. The first one I watched was a macaroni salad with sweetened condensed milk as its base. The next was taco bowls...using regular ground beef swimming in fat, with bowls made from Grands biscuits shaped over muffin cups (ok, it was a clever idea for bread bowls, but the fat content! EEK!). The account has since been deleted and the videos removed. My guess is that the poor woman was mocked without mercy and couldn't handle it.
This made me think. If I made videos about cooking, I'm sure I'd be trashed in the comments...but suppose week after week I put up videos of healthy cooking, and as I did so, I lost weight? I can't imagine another scenario that would generate more credibility.
The question I have to comtemplate: do I want that? What I do want is to share knowledge on how to manage diabetes. I spend a lot of time and energy trying to figure out how to make the meals I really want to eat work for me. For example, my meatloaf is so loaded with veggies, beans, mushrooms and whatever else I can throw in there that it hardly qualifies as meat. And my mashed potatoes are mostly cauliflower. It's all about finding palatable substitutues for my favorite foods.
Every diet book I come across has recipes for things like seared mahi-mahi with mango chutney. I might order that in a restaurant, but my home cooking is a bit less involved. And that's what I'd like to share. Things you can cook every day and feel good about. Low salt, low fat, lots of veggies and fruits, fiber...and low glycemic load for stable blood sugar. Family staples - redone.
You know, I don't want to launch sheriTV as a money-making venture and I don't have any desire to be famous. All I want is to provide a free resource I had trouble finding when I first was diagnosed with diabetes. Suggestions on how to live a life that's as close to normal as possible. Help other people sort it out...and stay on track myself as a result.
So I'm considering it. Maybe I'll shoot one and see how it goes. I make a mean veggie soup that's filling and so low cal you can eat tons. Great way to stave off a binge. I could start with that. If I go foward with it, I'll post links 
sherisaid
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Posted 9:19am June 20th, 2009Katy, that's exactly how I felt when I learned I had diabetes. I discovered pretty quickly that I had no idea how to eat healthy - and the deluge of information available was both overwhelming and contradictory. In the years since then, I've pretty much got it sorted out, but it really wasn't easy.
Katy
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Posted 1:13pm June 10th, 2009Sheri,
I think what you're talking about would be incredibly powerful -- the only reason I go to YouTube is for how-to videos! And I think the fact that you'd be honest about your journey, and share the cooking tips in a fun way, would make it a resource to people who want to change but don't know how.
When I lost my weight a couple of years ago, I needed a complete re-education about eating, cooking and everything else, and something like this really would have helped.
sherisaid
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Posted 12:33pm June 4th, 2009thanks, Amy! Honestly, I don't know if I have the guts/determination to do it. I don't much like what I see in the mirror, so I expect I'll be horrified by what I see on video. On the other hand, such a project would certainly keep me honest. It would be a lot of pressure to stay on the right track. I'm not really much of a cook, either, but I'm learning...or re-learning...or making it up as I go along..
Amy KR
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Posted 10:57am June 4th, 2009Sheri if you would like we can work together doing it. I cook alot but I am also working on the weight loss thing. yes i am round and I know it but I want to go back to my 5k walks and look better. So if nothing else I will cheer you on but I knowif you did it it would be amazing