Diet!

Snowie

No I'm not talking about loosing weight Im talking about what you eat....

I came across this http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/26/102458/137/70/522670 from a mate on Facebook

Im just curious whats your diet like?

do you care? do you not bother? oo theres tablets for that?

Have you had your clostrol checked?

Dravokivich

For breakfast whenever I'm bothered, or up early enough in the mornings I'd have porridge with some wheat germ thrown in and honey.

When cooking for myself:
Meatwise, quite an amount of cow and chicken, the odd bit of pig and some fish (it's the flesh of a living thing dammit).

Veg it's mainly spuds / carrots. Got some brocolli yesterday so plan on doing a bit of boiling with them later.

I have a tendancy to get lazy though and resort to burgers / dinnerboxes. Have stopped buying crap food after a night out on the beers though.

Fruit, the only fruit I eat regularly would be bananas. Not really too pushed about any others.

amacachi

My diet is horrific, anyone who's seen me could probably guess. :pac: I know what I should be doing but lack of money is one hurdle, laziness is probably the biggest one.

18AD

I have a pretty good diet if I do say so myself!

I usually have a small breakfast, toast and brazil/walnuts and some green/fruit/nettle/whatever tea.

Lunch. Nearly always a sandwich/roll with meat and veg. Maybe veg soup.

Dinner. Standard of meat and veg. Often vegetarian. Time constraints mean I usually end up making myself a stir fry or stew or soup.

Snacks. Fruit (apples and bananas) and/or cheese and crackers and more tea.

I'd love to cook more but it's essay season and I'm really busy. Take-away once a week or so.

Never had my cholesterol checked.

ICANN

I've shown those pictures to children in school during healthy eating week. They all loved what the Americans ate and thought that the people from Chad were healthy because they had a few vegetables :rolleyes:

My diet can either be great- loads of fruit and veg in 3 square meals a day or shocking as in having cornflakes instead of dinner or toast for each meal and then snacking loads. I'm aiming to keep the former going from now on though by getting into cooking new things cos it's mainly laziness and if I have a bad day at work the last thing I want to do is make a proper dinner so I'm planning my meals in advance.

amacachi

amacachi wrote: »

I know what I should be doing but lack of money is one hurdle, laziness is probably the biggest one.

My own diet has become pretty good over time. For me like amacachi above cost and laziness were also a factor up front but both of those things sort themselves out in time.Ever since one of my gfs became pregnant I took over cooking and ensured she ate well and it has become a hobby ever since and I love my cooking and I actually find it great to get the mind of work and unwind.

Cooking and doing it well does take some time and money - but mostly up front with the initial outlay for good utensils and "store cupboard" items.

Over time it pays for itself massively however. Like all lazyness it goes away when you get into a new system/rhythm.

And the cost sorts itself out as you get better at it - cook for more people or more days - and get better at cooking better stock items that can be made cheaply but used in more meals than one thus spreading the cost over the week.

You also get into a system of making things one night to save time the next night. While waiting for something to come to a boil for example - instead of staring at the pot waiting - you can find the time useful to slice and dice something you will be using the next day and stick it in tupperware in the fridge.

Finding ways to use just about everything is also great for cost. I throw just about everything vegetable related - right down to carrot and potator peels - into a stock pot and boil it up to make stock once a week. Even bits cut off mushrooms go into a netting which gets placed in the stock to impart flavor. Nothing gets wasted. I then use that stock to make risotto for example or as a base for a great soup.

I have gotten to the point now that on the first weekend of every month I have mates over, often up to or slightly over 20 people, and I do a several course dinner for the lot of them. They keep coming back too which is either a sign I am good at it - or that free food in the current climate is not to be sneezed at no matter how bad it is.

parker kent

I have a fairly good diet. I get narky if I don't eat properly. Regular take-aways or ready made dinners would drive me mental.

Anyway, an average day would be:

Breakfast: Weetabix or Clusters with Tropicana Orange Juice
Lunch: Sandwich on brown bread, banana and pear
Dinner: I tend to cook in bulk so would make a lasagne, shepard's pie etc to last a few days. I often have a fritatta/tortilla with salad and wedges.

I try as much as possible to make my own food and use fresh ingredients. I like snacking on fruit during the day as well. Every so often I make flapjacks or something similar for a snack. I find that making your own food is actually a great way to save money too.

G-Money

My own diet wasn't/isn't great and my cholesterol was checked and needs to come down so I am working on it.

It's definitely not as bad as it used to be though.

That_Guy

Breakfast: Granola cereal with low fat milk. Cup of coffee and grapefruit.

Lunch: Usually a wrap with turkey and lettuce. Orange juice, cup of rooibos tea and a yoghurt. Since the cold weather has come in, I've started to bring vegetable soup to work too.

Afternoon snack: Brown bread with low fat peanut butter.

Dinner: Meat and steamed vegetables/rice. When I'm home from kickboxing I usually cook myself steak.

Snack: Natural yoghurts and walnuts.

I usually eat like this during the week. Very easy to have a routine during the week given that I work the same hours every day.

I usually use Saturday as a "cheat day" and eat/drink whatever the hell I want. :pac:

G-Money

Nice suggestions here.

Logical Fallacy

I have assorted food allergies which completely messed up my intestines for a while. It's funny because i just thought i was getting fat, but upon figuring out which foods were not suitable for me my waist went down 7 inches due to the swelling in my intestines going down. As such, i am strict as hell about my diet. I can't really eat anything that is preprocessed, no junk food, no takeaways, no bad foods at all really.

Daily diet normally looks something like this.

Breakfast : Turkey Bacon (4 slices), red,green and yellow peppers, and a gluten free/dairy free pita bread.

Morning snack : Tuna and pineapple.

Lunch : Boiled brown rice, chicken, peas, sweatcorn, carrots.

Evening snack : Tuna and pineapples.

Dinner : Gluten free pasta and ground beef, homemade sauce that is basically tomatoes, garlic, onions, mashed up red pepper, some cracked black pepper and random herbs.

Last Meal : Boiled brown rice, chicken, peas, sweatcorn, carrots.

Everynow and then i will snack on a homemade fruit cake i make up with this weird gluten free flour blend that i came up with and thats it. I'll also eat grapes and yellow melon as a snack as well.

I have eaten that every day for the last 6 months, with no variance whatsoever.

I've recently found a brand of stock cube that i can eat...despite a lot of them being gluten free i have found they still have something in them that rips up my guts...so i look forward to working in assorted soups, stews and casseroles using my trusty slow cooker.

amacachi

I don't know if it's down to calories or not but I've noticed that cutting out bread makes a stone or more drop off me in around a month with a bigger fall in my waist size than I would've thought would come with that little weight coming off. Would love to see what difference it would make if I could cut out cereals altogether, not something I imagine ever having the willpower for :pac:

Snowie

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I've recently found a brand of stock cube that i can eat...despite a lot of them being gluten free i have found they still have something in them that rips up my guts...so i look forward to working in assorted soups, stews and casseroles using my trusty slow cooker.

have you tried making your own stock ? if you take a jam making pot roast some beef bones for half an hour get them cracked bye the butcher. then add
some veg all in to a pot and boil the **** out of it I'm talking about boiling it for a good day or too eventually youle get it down to about 2 inches at which point you have you own stock, it'le be highly concentrated and taste amazing you won't need much either you can freeze it or keep it in the fridge.

pragmatic1

Getting better but I have a serious sweet tooth and laziness is a huge factor. I find the older I get the worse I feel after eating junk though.

Logical Fallacy

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

have you tried making your own stock ? if you take a jam making pot roast some beef bones for half an hour get them cracked bye the butcher. then add
some veg all in to a pot and boil the **** out of it I'm talking about boiling it for a good day or too eventually youle get it down to about 2 inches at which point you have you own stock, it'le be highly concentrated and taste amazing you won't need much either you can freeze it or keep it in the fridge.

The main two problems i have had with stock is

a) how sick i was. I have very recently set a new record of being able to go for a 25 minute walk. Up until now i simply haven't have the energy for much beyond the very basic bit of cooking i have been able to do.

b) I live in a very small place with a very small freezer in the fridge so sadly no room.

Pain in the ass as homemade stock is ****ing yummers.

battser

Well I have been on a fairly strict diet to lose weight and it has worked and I can say I will never go back to the way I was which was bad. I have shed about 19 pounds in two months and I am not even that fat. Just wanted to get to a respectable weight so I could play ball for a year without injury.

Porridge for breakfast every morning. Soup or a sambo/wrap at lunch. Fruit instead of chocolate and crisps for snacks and a nice dinner with the odd treat thrown in. I still have the odd sweet and love a good biscuit to dip into my tea but has been solid for me.

Oh I also gave up the drink for 8 weeks! That helped I suppose!

amacachi

Just worked out there that a snack of a few cheese sandwiches was almost a thousand calories. Ridiculous.

Dravokivich

amacachi wrote: »

Just worked out there that a snack of a few cheese sandwiches was almost a thousand calories. Ridiculous.

Aye, a tin of bins and 2 fillets of "southern fried" "chicken" is about that as well.

Never really thought about calories much until a few months ago, when i thought screw it I'll have a look at the back of this choclote bar wrapper. Was about 300 itself. Something that size wise being quite small, had quite a lot packed into it overall.

Only thing though, is when thinking of the calories you are eating, a lot of people forget to take into account what them calories are made of, as it's only a measurement of energy. 2,000 calories of junk, is still junk no matter how you look at it regardless of the amount of calories.

amacachi

Calories are still calories though. :pac:

OldGoat

amacachi wrote: »

I know what I should be doing but lack of money is one hurdle

Funnily enough I found that my diet improves immensly when I'm short of cash. No eating out, or takeaways and very little alcohol. Loads of fresh veg and meats, fresh cooked. No proscessed meals out of the freezer. Pounds come tumbling off.

My diet is calhorrific but delicious. It's all fats and sugars, starch and diary. I'm about 60lbs overweight.

I'm going to give up alcohol for a year just to see what difference that makes to my weight. Easier for me to give up booze then butter. :cool:

amacachi

OldGoat wrote: »

Funnily enough I found that my diet improves immensly when I'm short of cash. No eating out, or takeaways and very little alcohol. Loads of fresh veg and meats, fresh cooked. No proscessed meals out of the freezer. Pounds come tumbling off.

I'm living with my parents so the food available is whatever's bought by them. :pac:

Hellrazer

My diet was diabolical until a few months ago when I got a bit of a scare.

Started getting all these weird stomach pains.

Went in for the whole testing stuff--cameras,ultrasound,blood tests etc.

Everything came back clear bar my liver tests--Apparently I have a fatty liver(non alcohol related-which I though was odd since I was a bit nuts when I was younger but anyhow)

Anyway diet now consists of wholemeal everything,ZERO red meat.Living on chicken and fish.Bananas,yogurts etc.Certain fruits can make it worse.Certain veg can make it worse.Ive to loose another stone but so far Ive lost almost a stone purely from cutting out red meat.

Didnt know how bad red meat was for you until all this started.

After 6 months liver is starting to look better and bloods are all normal again.Its giving up the red meat that I find the hardest<<no burgers,steaks etc.

amacachi

If you hit any kind of plateau in weight loss try cutting out grains altogether, no need for them whatsoever.

Sky King

Ah here. Whole grain is good for the gizzard.

BigDuffman

amacachi wrote: »

I don't know if it's down to calories or not but I've noticed that cutting out bread makes a stone or more drop off me in around a month with a bigger fall in my waist size than I would've thought would come with that little weight coming off. Would love to see what difference it would make if I could cut out cereals altogether, not something I imagine ever having the willpower for :pac:

The majority of people have some form of gluten / wheat intolerance. You'd be amazed the results in weight loss you will achieve within a matter of weeks. By simply cutting / reducing your starchy carb intake (potatoes, white pasta, bread white in particular but brown is not much better) wheat etc.

Or if thats a non runner sub in for brown pasta / rice.

Also I cannot stress enough the importance of the simple act of reading the label to check the nutritional content of what you are about to eat. Be aware of the portion / serving size listed. As a label that details the content as "2 Servings 25g Servings" per 1 bar for eg. may only list what the content is "per serving" so you can double what you see on the packaging.

And don't be fooled by "fat free" products. As a bag of sugar is essentially "Fat free"

amacachi

BigDuffman wrote: »

The majority of people have some form of gluten / wheat intolerance. You'd be amazed the results in weight loss you will achieve within a matter of weeks. By simply cutting / reducing your starchy carb intake (potatoes, white pasta, bread white in particular but brown is not much better) wheat etc.

Or if thats a non runner sub in for brown pasta / rice.

Also I cannot stress enough the importance of the simple act of reading the label to check the nutritional content of what you are about to eat. Be aware of the portion / serving size listed. As a label that details the content as "2 Servings 25g Servings" per 1 bar for eg. may only list what the content is "per serving" so you can double what you see on the packaging.

And don't be fooled by "fat free" products. As a bag of sugar is essentially "Fat free"

Ah yeah, I know all that. I do find the servings sizes absolutely hilarious. Cutting some cheese last night and it was 119kcal per 25g serving. 25g! :pac:

starviewadams

Been actually eating quite healthy since I started going to the gym about a month a go.

Breakfast is usually porridge and brown toast,the odd day I'd make scrambled egg and toast too.

Lunch is usually homemade tuna salad and brown rice or vegetable soup.

Dinner is generally broccoli,carrots,parsnips and either tuna steak,chicken breast,tinned tuna with brown rice or pasta.I sometimes put in one of those knorr chicken stock cubes in with the rice/pasta just to give it a different taste.

Snacks would be apples/oranges/grapes/bananas or popcorn.

Completely cut out sugary drinks and coffee and only drink water.

Have lost nearly a stone so far and I feel much more energetic too.

Pembily

My diet was really good then I started drinking regularly and excessively for a while and I now need to lose 2 stone, it's harder the second time around!

Diet is still quite good - no wheat, minimal starchy crabs and dairy and lots of veg and water! I find it impossible to cut out grains entirely...

Snowie

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

The main two problems i have had with stock is

a) how sick i was. I have very recently set a new record of being able to go for a 25 minute walk. Up until now i simply haven't have the energy for much beyond the very basic bit of cooking i have been able to do.

b) I live in a very small place with a very small freezer in the fridge so sadly no room.

Pain in the ass as homemade stock is ****ing yummers.

you can also store it in ice bags

sorry I've an answer for everything

as for my diet crosaunts in the morning with rasberry jam

2 cups of coffee i suffer from morning cave man syndrome "Apprently" and i drink a tall glass of multi vitamin tropical juice..

lunch, usually its cheese, on some sort of bread or soup or, last nights curry cold

dinner lots of veg, generally that kinda thing I do eat a lot of indian (none processed) and poo I love risotto with loads of different fungus and chicken tho pee and asparagus Im a king when it comes to making risotto .

To night Im making fish pie .

tonsiltickler

In the last six months I've gone pretty much full paleo. Pretty much no grains, lots of seafood, meat, fruit and veg. My energy levels are much higher, I don't feel tired any more, and whats really great are the results I've gotten from weights sessions. I used to eat a lot of brown bread sandwiches, pasta etc... and spend about two hours a day in the gym. I'm seeing the same results now with 20min sessions a few days a week. What i eat usually looks like is below;

Breakfast: Trail mix with coconut milk/3scrambled eggs/prawns with franks hot sauce + piece of fruit
Lunch:Tins of wild salmon/lettuce wrap or big chicken salad
Dinner:Steak/Chicken with veg and turnip mash or cauliflower rice.

I cheat a bit every day and have dessert tho!

LostinBlanch

Pembily wrote: »

My diet was really good then I started drinking regularly and excessively for a while and I now need to lose 2 stone, it's harder the second time around!

Diet is still quite good - no wheat, minimal starchy crabs and dairy and lots of veg and water! I find it impossible to cut out grains entirely...

Starchy crabs?? :eek:

WeeBushy

My diet is reasonable enough. I am a pescitarian, but don't eat much fish anyway. Mainly only if I go out for dinner, as the veggie options in some places leaves a bit to be desired.

My typical diet would look something like this:

Breakfast: Porridge (made with milk) with an apple and cup of tea

Lunch: I make lunch and bring it into college. Pretty much always brown pasta with veg, quorn 'chicken' and a tomato sauce. Other times it would be soup, rarely homemade unfortunately.

Dinner: Stir-fry, spaghetti bolognese, curries, omelette etc. Use plenty of beans, tofu or fake meat to get enough protein. Try to get a lot of veg in whatever I'm making, and only a small amount of rice/noodles/pasta. I use sauces from a jar most of the time, rather than make them myself. Probably make a sauce from scratch once a week.

Snacks: Yoghurt, nuts, maybe a chocolate bar once a week (not mad on chocolate though), tea (a lot of tea), milk (probably drink a litre a day), toast. Now that it's getting cold I find myself drinking about a cup of hot chocolate a day. Have to cut back on that...
Started back in the gym as well so take a protein shake daily with milk to ensure I have enough protein.

Weekends (especially if I've been on the beer the night before) aren't usually the best. Would usually have a pizza or takeaway, or veggie pies (the Linda McCarthy ones are ridiculously tasty). And I've been known to abuse the dessert when I go home for a family dinner on Sundays

What struck me about those photos in the OP was the amount of global brands that appear in many family's shopping around the world.

Snowie

LostinBlanch wrote: »

Starchy crabs?? :eek:

or if your dyslexic

scratchy crabs

i did read that

My right eye reads faster then my left or something thats why i jumble letters around... :pac:

sensibleken

Im vegetarian and the missus is vegan, so Im mostly vegan. I've recently gotten into cooking a lot more than I used to so my diet is very healthy at the moment. We're both very active so the diet does involve a lot of energy rich foods

Mo14

Most days my diet looks like this:
Breakfast: Muesli with low fat milk and black coffee.

Lunch (brought with me to college): Peanut butter and jam sandwich and an apple/nature valley bar

Dinner: Some pasta based dish most of the time.

Other: Couple of times a week I'll buy a freddo bar (smaller = not as bad, right? :rolleyes:), few more cups of black coffee, another apple, about 2 litres of water everyday (don't drink soft drinks), once or twice a week I'll have one bottle of a craft beer I haven't tried before.

Really could do with improving my diet quite a lot, I'm not overweight and I run a lot, my calories could just do with coming from better sources.

BigDuffman

Mo14 wrote: »

Most days my diet looks like this:
Breakfast: Muesli with low fat milk and black coffee.

Lunch (brought with me to college): Peanut butter and jam sandwich and an apple/nature valley bar

Dinner: Some pasta based dish most of the time.

Other: Couple of times a week I'll buy a freddo bar (smaller = not as bad, right? :rolleyes:), few more cups of black coffee, another apple, about 2 litres of water everyday (don't drink soft drinks), once or twice a week I'll have one bottle of a craft beer I haven't tried before.

Really could do with improving my diet quite a lot, I'm not overweight and I run a lot, my calories could just do with coming from better sources.

Brekkie: Depending on the type of Museli, most of the supermarket bought stuff is loaded with sugar (some even more so than the average kellogs cereal) so check your labels. It's also worth looking at getting a protein sourse in first thing.

Lunch: Jam + white bread, whilst full of doughy and fruit sugary good(bad)ness, is an insulin spike you can do with out. Why not swap in for a george formaned Turkey / Chicken Breast/ Tuna salad / brown rice (or basmati) with some Tabasco or pepper for seasoning. And some fruit.

Dinner: If you must have pasta try go brown, mix it up with the occasional stir fry (coconut oil is supposed to be a decent alternative). Heap in the veg.

Also the 3 meal a day thing is not ideal as it just spikes and plummets your blood sugar so switch the mindset to graze as opposed to gorge. Snack through out the day with the likes of almonds and other healthy nuts. I'm quite partial to a peanut butter and banana combo on a rivita grain cracker as a treat. Which will steer you a way from snacking on convenient chocolate.

All of the above of course depends on your exercise regieme and goals. So chop change and ammend accordingly.

Shiner11

Dont have breakfast.

Have a scone with butter and Jam at 10:00

One of those cully and Sully soups at 12:30 with 2 slices of white bread (proper bakers bread).

A bar of chocolate at 15:00.

2 apples and 2 bananas over the course of the workday.

A proper dinner around 6 or 7. Doing a lot of frying chicken with rice and sauce with some frozen vegetables.

Does that sound okay as in healthy..ish?

amacachi

Loada fresh veg on top of that would be a good idea.

Shiner11

Shiner11 wrote: »

Dont have breakfast.

Have a scone with butter and Jam at 10:00

One of those cully and Sully soups at 12:30 with 2 slices of white bread (proper bakers bread).

A bar of chocolate at 15:00.

2 apples and 2 bananas over the course of the workday.

A proper dinner around 6 or 7. Doing a lot of frying chicken with rice and sauce with some frozen vegetables.

Does that sound okay as in healthy..ish?

Not really no

Shiner11

Thanks for clearing that up for me Bluewolf.

Jarren

Eating more when I'm active,less when sedentary

I watch what I eat ,no counting calories though

No sugar,no dairy,no wheat ( I eat porridge for breakfast sometimes though:o)

Only eating when hungry,small portions

The unusual thing is when eating a very fatty breakfast in the morning,it makes me not wanting to eat anything for the reminder of a day

Drinking water when thirsty , it could be just a glass or 10 litres,
depending on my physical activity

I wouldn't say that this a diet,this is just how I eat everyday,hopefully it will stay this way:)