Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - How bad are doughnuts

Oh dear. I found this on youtube and was so excited by the idea. Am I bad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKucAzdkCYU


My new goal is to lose weight then eat lots of doughnuts and then ride. Will these infernal temptations never cease! Is there a Tour de KFC?

In this area, we've got the Krispy Kreme Challenge (http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/)

Here's some footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcuE5Z6hpns

We have a Tour De Donut here in Ohio. This years date is Sept. 6th. Here's a link, but they don't have the flyer done yet:
http://www.colavitaohiocycling.com/DONUT.htm
It's a 38 mile road race. You go through 3 check pionts were you get a 5 min. deduct off you time for every doughnut you eat. Of course the goal is negative time. I think last years winner ate 11, not sure though.

There are a couple doughnut rides over here.

http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-12-16404-1,00.html

In this area, we've got the Krispy Kreme Challenge (http://www.krispykremechallenge.com/)

Here's some footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcuE5Z6hpns

When our Krispykremem store first opened somwhere around 2001/2 there were lines long enough to require police assistance to keep the roads moving. Flash forward a few years and mysteriously the Adkins craze finally got enough people to stop buying doughnuts... what they didn't realize they were bad before? Here is the funny thing. The Krispy Kreme store went out of business about 2 years ago and then was replaced by a GMC "Health" store:D. Now that is ironic!

Happy riding,
André

It's not so much the actual calorie count for one of these things so much as it's what those calories are composed of. Doughnuts are bad. I love 'em, but they are sufficiently bad that I'll eat maybe half a dozen a year and acknowledge that's too many. Personally, I'll make my dietary indulgences from better prospects. If you're trying to correct a serious dietary related problem, then incorporating foods like donuts and fried chicken is pretty stupid. It's not about "food police" or "health nazis", rather, making intelligent choices as an adult interested in living a decent life. How long until obesity gets classed as a mental disorder as well as a medical one?

http://www.dietfacts.com/images/nutrition-facts/4/522906B840F106B9225F39C3566268C6.gif

Simple glazed Krispy Kreme donut. Nothing fancy.

I never met a doughnut I didn't like. At 5"9" and 154lbs I can't say that I'm overweight. I guess it all depends on how many you eat.

Tim

Mmmmm donuts!

I haven't eaten one in ages... so sad!

But I did lose another 2 lbs this week. Sigh, no donuts for me. Oh look, a salad... hoorah

Donuts are like Strychnine, as far as I'm concerned ;)

That said, they're rather tasty too ;)

Oh dear. I found this on youtube and was so excited by the idea. Am I bad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKucAzdkCYU


My new goal is to lose weight then eat lots of doughnuts and then ride. Will these infernal temptations never cease! Is there a Tour de KFC?

This year will be my 8th Tour de Donut in Staunton, IL. It's a fine ride/race, with the winner often downing more than 20 donuts. The most I"ve managed is 2. The ride always has between 500 and 600 people in it, and the town has a festival with a barbeque competition on the same day.

Check out the website: http://www.bebikeclub.com/tourdedonut/

Donuts are like Strychnine, as far as I'm concerned ;)

That said, they're rather tasty too ;)

Tom!

Back away from that "new doughnut smell!"

;)

Give me a donut/downhill race and I would be a world champion in my rookie year for sure!

the way I look at it, 1 donut every so often....not bad. A dozen, bad. Nice work cyclokitty, keep it up.

Donuts, cheese burgers, fries, cola, and chips. I lived on that stuff till triple bypass at age 58. What was once a normal weekly consumption of above is now an annual consumption. Except for soda, managed to give that up completely. Actually believe my last donut was at the Bucks County Covered Bridge ride.

Is there a Tour de KFC?

there used to be a century ride on the central coast that was the Saloon Century.. All the rest stops were at local saloons... It made the last part of the ride very interesting..

Is there not an easy solution. Switch to bagels. Don't think they are deep fried.

Deep fried bagels. Hmmm...http://img236.exs.cx/img236/9268/scratchchin6hy.gif

Is there not an easy solution. Switch to bagels. Don't think they are deep fried.


You should come to the Iowa State Fair sometime. Ever had a fried Twinkie? Or a fried Oreo? What about a fried Snickers? You can walk through the fair and gain 5 pounds just by smelling the food.

What about a fried Snickers?
mmm...yummy. Had deep fried Snickers, Mars bars, and Reese's PB cups, all dipped in batter and deep fried. You can usually get them at fish and chip shops.

raspberry-filled with white icing

Oh my god! What have I started here? I thought we were supposed to encourage each other to lose weight!

That's it. I'm giving up the healthy eating. Let's import the Tour de Doughnut acroos the pond to the UK. Maybe we can get a petition together to call for the first stage of the Tour de France to be in the UK again but with the addition of gourging on doughnuts every 10 miles. Or maybe a pub stop every 10 miles. That might be popular.

Krispy Cream??? You guys make me laugh. Theres a good old fashioned bakery in Munising Michigan. I stop there once a year and buy a dozen assorted doughnuts. The box weighs about ten pounds. I'll eat one and I'm done. Not even my 13 year old can put a major dent in that box. Makes you just want to have a cup of coffee and a cigarette to finish it off. Ahh, I long for the days of old. It truely is a different world now. It's not a better one either to tell the truth.

Jim

Krispy Cream??? You guys make me laugh. Theres a good old fashioned bakery in Munising Michigan. I stop there once a year and buy a dozen assorted doughnuts. The box weighs about ten pounds. I'll eat one and I'm done. Not even my 13 year old can put a major dent in that box. Makes you just want to have a cup of coffee and a cigarette to finish it off. Ahh, I long for the days of old. It truely is a different world now. It's not a better one either to tell the truth.

Jim

Krispy Kreme, tried one, once, more expensive then Tims or Country Style, not as good, that's why the local KK store has a sign in the window, it says "For Rent".

Oh my god! What have I started here? I thought we were supposed to encourage each other to lose weight!

Ha ha, sorry. I just can't believe some of the stuff they have at the Fair every year - honestly a lot of it I think would make me sick. I usually go to the Cattleman's booth for some good beef or the Pork Producer's booth for a tenderloin, then the Dairy Association's booth for an ice cream cone. Not real healthy, but at the fair you end up walking around for 8+ hours in the August heat (in Iowa, that's usually 80 - 90°, with high humidity). Obviously the real concerns are water and sunscreen. Between the good-tasting/bad-for-you food, beer and heat I'm always surprised that there aren't a ton of medical issues every year.

I often calculate my rides in terms of donuts or other goodies.

A staple of my summer weekends is the outdoor barbecue. One burger, smothered in condiments was the equivalent of 30 minutes on the bike. The full blown meal would be 90-120 minutes.

Wanna eat, gotta ride.

[Wanna eat, gotta ride]

I love that slogan. Maybe that could be our motto for the Clydes/Athena forum.

It's not so much the actual calorie count for one of these things so much as it's what those calories are composed of. Doughnuts are bad. I love 'em, but they are sufficiently bad that I'll eat maybe half a dozen a year and acknowledge that's too many. Personally, I'll make my dietary indulgences from better prospects. If you're trying to correct a serious dietary related problem, then incorporating foods like donuts and fried chicken is pretty stupid. It's not about "food police" or "health nazis", rather, making intelligent choices as an adult interested in living a decent life. How long until obesity gets classed as a mental disorder as well as a medical one?

http://www.dietfacts.com/images/nutrition-facts/4/522906B840F106B9225F39C3566268C6.gif

Simple glazed Krispy Kreme donut. Nothing fancy.


Good post with the calorie info, Cast Iron.

Apologies in advance for being long winded. THis is for other folk like myself who have had to, or are, making health-related lifestyle changes. I'd like to add one thing to this that that I think perhaps I read in a fitness column or two somehwere.

Apparently not all calories are created equal. Sure, a calorie is a calorie in terms of energy, but to your body, it's organs and intestines etc, where that calorie comes from is just as significant. While "calories in" vs "calories expended" or needed, is important, the ratio of protein/carb/fat calories is a big deal.

It went on to say the more one eats foods in which a great deal of the calories come from fat, the more the body adapts -- not in a positive way -- to get its calories from fat, and the greater the tendency toward messing up your metabolism, developing insulin resistance and storing these calories as fat.
Apparently these kinds of fat or sugar convert to far more quickly than low-glycemic index foods.

On the other hand, it's reported the more you train your body to get its energy from lower-glycemic-index foods, the better your chances of improving your metabolism and other aspects of general health, etc.

It's not written in stone and no guarantees, and there's a ton of conflicting research out there, but for those trying to make any serious lifestyle changes to improve health or fitness, being careful about how many high-fat things one eats is a good place to start.

Yep, I like the occasional donut treat too, and am trying to get down it to less than a half-dozen per year. That way I can hit the garlic mashed potatoes with less guilt about quantity.



Here's one quick quote from another article on this: "Low-glycemic carbs include oatmeal, buckwheat noodles, buckwheat pancakes, red (new) potatoes, yams, cherries and oranges. They digest slowly, converting more slowly to glucose, the basic energy source of the body. Slower-digesting carbs help make the body less efficient at storing bodyfat than other sources of carbohydrates."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KFY/is_8_23/ai_n15627359

I don't get the popularity of donuts, actually. My coworkers eat the heck out of them, but I can pass by them without being tempted. I think they are a non-food, like Twinkies or Zingers. I'd rather have a Belgian waffle, myself.

Good post with the calorie info, Cast Iron.

Apologies in advance for being long winded. THis is for other folk like myself who have had to, or are, making health-related lifestyle changes. I'd like to add one thing to this that that I think perhaps I read in a fitness column or two somehwere.

Apparently not all calories are created equal. Sure, a calorie is a calorie in terms of energy, but to your body, it's organs and intestines etc, where that calorie comes from is just as significant. While "calories in" vs "calories expended" or needed, is important, the ratio of protein/carb/fat calories is a big deal.



A calorie is a calorie, but it depends on what you get with those calories. The donut is basically carbs and fat,
there are no real benefits, just cost. This is why it's often termed empty calories. Now take an apple,
apples contain a lot of fructose (sugar), so your apple may contain the same number of calories, but gives you a nice selection of vitamins and minerals with those calories. Vitamins and minerals you don't now need to get somewhere else, which you would with the donut.

I think really we need to think about the mechanism at work, your body knows what it needs, to keep operating, and that includes carbo0hydrates. The thing is, when your deficient in something, your body will tell you it needs more, so you get hungry and eat, but if you don't eat the right thing, you will still be hungry. So if the body is wanting potassium, then eating a case of 12 boxes of donuts, will still leave you unsatisfied, where as a single banana, might have done the trick. Sometimes I think the body will tell us, eat a banana, but we tell it, no, I'm going to have another donut instead.....

Fair is a treat day, so yeah, I have my "Australian Battered Potatoes" smothered in pasteurized process cheezy goo. It's one day a year; I'm allowed.

Donuts are about to get more expensive, as the big sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, GA (near Savannah) exploded and burned.

Remember, you are what you eat. Doughnuts are round. Pizza is round. Pie is round. Cake is round. Get the idea?

On Krispy Creme- once or twice, I've eaten some fresh ones, and ummmmmm, they were great! But the convenience stores around here sell 'em, and those aren't fresh. And for a while, they had a Krispy Creme in the local Walmart. I picked up a dozen doughnuts one morning to take to work, and they were cold when I picked them up. So yeah, they're great if you get 'em fresh, otherwise, not so hot. My personal favorite is the apple fritters.

They have a Tour De Doughnut in Houston. I think it goes from doughnut shop to doughnut shop. That is Bubba Country (ie, too hot to exercise), so it's a great place for something like that.

Donuts aren't that bad. If you eat enough of them, you'll win the decathlon:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b9_1191370215&o=1