I'm kickin the habit.... [finally]

unreggd

I've always been active enough, I walk for at least an hour a day, cycle a lot, and do sports every week

My diet aint too bat either but I have the worst sweet tooth

2 bars and a bag of jellies is a regulary day for me!

But not anymore

Last Sunday I decided to try go a week with no sweets, mainly bars/chocolate and jellies, but also crisps and other sugary snack


So its monday now, and bar 2 minor slips, I did it

It made me realise how much I think abt sweets, and its better to be starvin, but hang on for proper food than get somethin from the vending machine


at home Ive replaced sweets/biscuits with rice cakes and NAS canned fruit

The slips I had was 2 pringles I ate in the pub mid convo without noticin, and I had 2 prepacked mini pancakes the other night

So now that the week is up, im gna keep it goin, my next goal is 2 more weeks

I actually got into the habit of healthy alternatives a lot faster than expected

I'm all proud and stuff. If its not a big deal, it is for me!

And one final question

How healthy are yogurts? I usually get the Biopot ones with oats in them, they're amazin!

Thanks for readin

davyjose

Well done Unreggd, 2 words of advice I would offer - don't torture yourself over 2 lousy pringles - over the course of a week they are utterly insignificant. So forget them - a perfect round
The other thing would be to can the canned fruit and rice cakes. Canned fruit is extremely high in sugar and carries a LOT of calories, as do rice cakes. Rice cakes are healthy(ish) for certain reasons, but losing weight isn't one of them.

unreggd

well my goal isnt necessarily to lose weight, its just to eat better

sayin that I still eat more fresh fruit vs canned

sugar is what im tryin t kick. Do rice cakes have sugar??? Or just lots of calories?


cheers!!

davyjose

Just lots of calories. They're not filling and carry too many cals IMO for something so unfulfilling.
Put simply, two pringles is certainly no worse than two rice cakes.

unreggd

Ah ok, i get ye

what healthy snack would you recommend after fresh fruit?

hunnymonster

small amounts of nuts. Try stirring your fruit into a natural yoghurt, glass of milk, crunchy veggie (I love carrot sticks),

hunnymonster

oh and many congrats on kicking your sugar habit. Mine is still a work in progress.

ptashka

just from reading through all nutrition posts - yoghurts, unless they are NATURAL and UNSWEETENED, are no good. They are promoted as healthy probiotic food, but in reality are packed with sugar ( any flavoured stuff, or with a separate helping of jam, drinks like actimel, muller, etc), unnnecessary carbs ( those low cal youghurts are a disaster) and fat ( dessert type).

i find normal ( full fat) natural stuff much nicer than low fat natural youghurt. Has a bit more texture and flavour.

Supercell

ptashka wrote:

just from reading through all nutrition posts - yoghurts, unless they are NATURAL and UNSWEETENED, are no good. They are promoted as healthy probiotic food, but in reality are packed with sugar ( any flavoured stuff, or with a separate helping of jam, drinks like actimel, muller, etc), unnnecessary carbs ( those low cal youghurts are a disaster) and fat ( dessert type).

i find normal ( full fat) natural stuff much nicer than low fat natural youghurt. Has a bit more texture and flavour.

Hmm, not sure you can be so sweeping about yogurts.
Have a look at "glenisk" Organic natural lowfat yogurts ingredients and tell me this is terrible for you - http://www.glenisk.com/products/lowfat_natural/view
I have this as an afternoon snack with some fresh fruit mixed in and am loosing weight steadily (is part of a good diet with daily exercise).
Dunnes sell the 150g 3 for €1.50 so hardly a bank buster either.

ptashka

Longfield wrote:

Hmm, not sure you can be so sweeping about yogurts.
Have a look at "glenisk" Organic natural lowfat yogurts ingredients and tell me this is terrible for you - http://www.glenisk.com/products/lowfat_natural/view
I have this as an afternoon snack with some fresh fruit mixed in and am loosing weight steadily (is part of a good diet with daily exercise).
Dunnes sell the 150g 3 for €1.50 so hardly a bank buster either.

Apologies, meant to say to stay away from non-fat, zero fat and in some cases low-fat sweet yoghurts, the ones that are jam packed with stabilisers and starch to give it some sort of texture in return for extracted fat.

Glenisk are yummy.Still find that the full fat stuff tastes a lil bit nicer. But it's just my thing