Pasta and rice substitutes...

[happy juneteenth]

24. Please forgive me. I wasn't trying to snark but gently tweak you

about your situation.

My point is that this whole thing about potatoes being "dense" is a bit misleading, IMO. People obsess about number of carbs but the real question is what kind of food it is. White rice has fiber taken out--although fiber is not a nutrient, it serves a definite purpose in keeping us healthy. In addition to assisting elimination, it also slows the rise in blood sugar. I think as a cooked food, baked potatoes (or even fried ones in olive oil) are healthy! I eat the skins, which of course contain fiber. It's all in the way we consume a food.

I read another thread of yours to get a handle on what you are doing to lose weight. You mentioned those meal replacements or powders...If you look on the ingredients, there are artificial flavors and sucralose is Splenda, if I am not mistaken. When we consume such foods, our bodies do not recognize them and thus are seen as toxins. This most likely is why the body stores sugar as fat--in order to protect it against toxic onslaught.