Be honest, how bad is your diet?

xXxkorixXx

OK everyone. In today's world its obvious people don't have entirely good diets....I'm not in any way being judgemental, it's pretty much just for a bit of fun. So how bad is your diet? And please be honest :-)

Birneybau

After you. Be honest, pwetty pwease.

Lucyfur

Apart from the 47 glasses of wine last night, it's not too bad

Sheep Lover

Roadkill and licking damp carpets for moisture mostly

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sausages and rashers fried a couple of days a week, fried steak another day, homemade burgers, boiled spuds most days with homemade chips once a week, no veg unless a tin of beans now and again, about 8 eggs a week, half a pack of chocolate biscuits daily, at most one piece of fruit per day and cornflakes for breakfast. OK I drink a litre of milk daily but overall a really crap diet. That said my cholesterol is 4.2, I am over 70 and fit as a flea with neither ache nor pain. I have an active lifestyle so it might cancel out the poor diet. Do my cigarettes count as part of my diet?

PizzamanIRL

I'm alive. That says it all really.

Nabber

I'm dieing to diet so i don't die.

TheBeardedLady

Lucyfur wrote: »

Apart from the 47 glasses of wine last night, it's not too bad

Similar.

Toto Wolfcastle

A lot of the time it's very good. Then I have days like today. Today I had a crepe with chocolate in it, a chocolate hazelnut truffle, three quarters of a ciabatta loaf and a brownie. All delicious.

mad muffin

Let's put it this way.

I'm hoping medical science will have my back when my tick, tick, ticker stops a tick, tick, ticking…

Riddle101

I'm pretty sure i'm going to have a heart attack before i'm 40. I hate vegetables but love meat, with steak being my favorite. I eat takeaways, fast food, as well foods that have a lot of salt in them. I also have the odd pot noddles from time to time. I don't really consider how unhealthy the food i'm ingesting could be, I just eat it regardless of the consequences.

On top of that, I also have a sweet tooth and eat a lot of surgery foods, and snacks. When I eat toast, I usually smother it with butter, and I eat a lot of food with added butter as well.

All in all I would say my diet is pretty unhealthy, although I still refuse to stop because i've long since had the opinion that i'd rather die enjoying the things I love, than the things I hate or dislike even if it is more healthy.

PS I also eat greasy foods as well.

RobbingBandit

Seefood diet, I see food and I eat it, followed by 6 500ml cans on Monster, think I maybe turning into a sober homer simpson.

Liamario

Could be better, but exercise is my problem.

Tokyo

I eat quite a bit, but I eat relatively healthily. Don't usually eat processed food, cook everything myself, plenty of fresh fruit and veg in my diet. Could do with a bit more exercise though these days.

stateofflux

i have a salad with my chips so im on the fast track to healthy eating

In Lonesome Dove

Due to saving, I look to the famine to get inspiration for my diet but it's more of a modern famine diet with red bull added at many times.

240 Robert

Try sticking to the gluten free diet, having to look at every label, even after 8 years still so hard to stick to it.

Karl Stein

At the moment I'm testing how long I can live on cheap beer and potato waffles.

Hopefully someone will find me in a confused state if it doesn't work out.

Cosmicfox

Really bad. My friends take the piss out of me cos all I've eaten for dinner since I've moved out is chicken kiev type things cos they're cheap and easy to prepare because I've few cooking utensils. I don't have anything with them apart from mayonnaise. I have pasta with tuna and different sauces other days.

For lunch it's a small roll/bap with cheese and ham and an apple/pear.

I either skip breakfast or have a cereal bar.

I've been drinking loads too and it's starting to take more and more booze for me to get any sort of effect from it so I think I need to reel it in a bit.

I drink a lot of coffee without milk, I can't remember if that's good or bad for you.

So yeah, it's awful at the minute.

Talib Fiasco

I've a very good diet. I'm very conscious of it tbh.

Breakfast is normally oats with almond milk, protein and berries.

Lunch can be rice or sweet potato with lean mince, chicken, turkey or salmon.

A snack meal would be fruit with almonds or Greek yoghurt.

Dinner same breed as lunch.

Always have frozen veg with lunch and dinner. Sometimes frozen berries for desert or just blended into my protein shake

That'd be consistent throughout the week. I am a student so throw in about two bottles of vodka into the weekly mix and maybe a takeaway or two. But cheat meals are essential to a good diet to reset your metabolism etc.

downonthefarm

Litre of redbull and 20 fags a day does it for me

ColeTrain

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

I've a very good diet. I'm very conscious of it tbh.

Breakfast is normally oats with almond milk, protein and berries.

Lunch can be rice or sweet potato with lean mince, chicken, turkey or salmon.

A snack meal would be fruit with almonds or Greek yoghurt.

Dinner same breed as lunch.

Always have frozen veg with lunch and dinner. Sometimes frozen berries for desert or just blended into my protein shake

That'd be consistent throughout the week. I am a student so throw in about two bottles of vodka into the weekly mix and maybe a takeaway or two. But cheat meals are essential to a good diet to reset your metabolism etc.

Ha just the two bottles a week!

orchidsrpretty

My diet is really bad. Some days I would only have an egg, yougurt and two slices of white bread for breakfast, then eat nothing for the rest of the day. If I have chocolate or crisps in the house I will snack on them. If I get around to eating dinner, it usually just pizza and chips or pasta. I am a veggie and eat very little fruit or veg.
When I was pregnant I was consious of what I was eating but since babies arrived my diet has returned to being ****e.

Mine's terrible 'cause I really hate vegetables. I can't stand salads, onions, tomatoes (ok it's a fruit but still), cabbage....you name it. And I don't eat eggs either, or fish. I know it's bad to be a picky eater but at the same time I don't see much benefit in forcing myself to eat disgusting foods that make me gag. I'm quite bad at eating fruit too - occasionally I'll buy apples, grapes or oranges and eat them for two or three days before leaving the rest to go rotten.

I don't regularly eat takeaways or over indulge junk food but I do have the occasional comfort eating binge. The one thing I overeat enormously is breakfast cereal - I could easily sit down and demolish a box of cornflakes by myself in one sitting. I drink a lot of milk, which I guess is both good and bad.

I'm terrible at exercise too - I keep telling myself I'll take up running but I always manage to deflate my enthusiasm. And I'm far too socially awkward to go anywhere near a gym.

*sigh* This is why I'm doomed to be overweight, unfit and single forever.....

17larsson

Corn flakes in the morning, chicken fillet roll for lunch and rice-veg-meat for dinner. The odd bar some days as well. Only drink water though so at least I'm avoiding the red bull or coke

Lia_lia

My breakfast, lunch and dinners are usually great. I eat loads of vegetables, eggs, very little processed food in my meals... I don't eat meat but make sure to get plenty of protein.

My problem is snacking. The vending machines at work are a weakness. And I live with my boyfriend who brings loads of junk food into the house...I need willpower

minidazzler

I've a terrible diet, kinda.

I barely cook anymore because the food in college is cheap and the food on work is free. So I have 4 meals in college a week, one is a roast, maybe lasagne or similar another day, a fry, and a 3 course meal cooked by second year culinary arts students every Wednesday.

Then in work it's chicken based meals of various discriptions.

MadYaker

Terrible. Lots of fat and sugar, some vegetables, lots of meat. I drink too much (usually 2 hardy nights out per week) no smoking though. I exercise like crazy, I run every day and I surf and kayak a lot so I'm actually in very good shape, at least on the outside anyway :pac:

I know my sh!t diet will punish me eventually when I'm old but I don't really care enough to do anything about it.

supersean1999

I eat average enough i suppose. Cut well back on drink since early sept and iv lost 6lbs. Iv gone from say half a bottle of wine and 8-10pints a week to basically none. So just shows ya the old booze. Is a a good fattener. Iv not changed the way i eat.

AlmightyCushion

It's pretty terrible filled with junk food and takeaway but at least I eat plenty of fruit... Caramel is a fruit, right?

cloud493

My current diet consists of one small meal a day, with cigarettes and tea and small snacks filling the rest.

JupiterKid

My diet isn't great. Usually cereal for breakfast and perhaps soup and bread for lunch and a ready made meal (which are usually packed with salt and other crap) in the microwave for dinner. Two pieces of fruit a day and the odd take away/Chinese delivery.

ShadowHearth

My one is generally very good. No potato/Bread/Pasta and general crap. Last 2 weeks are a bit rough with heavy drinking/fatty food weekends.

My diet would be perfect if not Social life.

ash23

Five days out of seven I'm pretty good at the moment. But today started well with porridge and then everything went to pot. Dinner was icecream and snacked on custard creams washed down with two glasses of vino.

Back to veggie and fruit tomorrow!

4zn76tysfajdxp

My diet is unreal. Plenty of bread, meats, vegetables and gluten free desserts (rewards for good eating). I was inspired by the federally approved food pyramid to bring my weight down from a hefty 25 stone to a slender 24.

xXxkorixXx

Haha there all so good! Mine is s***e too basically. The only thing I've eaten today is a sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise, chicken and red onions and crisps. And two hot chocs. One Insomnia (my favourite) the other was Dunnes. And thats it so far today.. I'm currently waiting on my OH to bring me home garlic mushrooms. Then maybe tomorrow I'll treat myself to mizzonis

conorh91

My diet is great. It's the 60 units of alcohol per week that's my problem; it's not a problem it's under control...

SMJSF

AWFUL!!!!! my doctor would be horrified if she knew!!!

breakfast
sometimes not hungry... but I down about 5 cups of tea in about 30minutes!
lunch time (1-3pm)
i'll feel a bit peckish - so ill start drinking my coffee - and muffin if not that hungry - or a sandwich - or a few crackers.
then constant snacking on what I can get my hands on....
dinner(5-6pm)
either a bowl or pasta with (a lot) of butter, and cheese.... or some garlic bread (on its own) or something that will take about 20 minutes in the oven.
and chocolate for the next few hours.....
with at least another 20-25 cups of tea since breakfast - a 160 pack of tea bags only lasts me about 2 weeks. :O

Before people start telling me I'm lazy - I put my hands up and can say I CAN'T COOK!!! home EC in school was always a disaster! nothing was ever edible - either burnt to crisp- or still raw!
I don't cook meat.... I don't trust myself enough!!

I don't have any decent take aways or chippers or a mcDonalds in my area -THANK GOD!!!

I would love to be able to exercise more though - but in the city where I live - when its quite (7pm onwards) its not safe enough to go walking.... I don't like the city during the day at all - their isn't even a nice park within walking distance!

I've just had an enormous amount of Mexican food, washed down with vat-sized mugs of tea.

Ask me tomorrow.

Sure you can cook, follow recipes or put things in the oven or a frying pan... or boil it. boiled chicken fillets are nice


diet is ok could be better could be worse

Tarzana2

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

But cheat meals are essential to a good diet to reset your metabolism etc.

What manner of pseudoscience is this?

Tarzana2

Tarzana2 wrote: »

What manner of pseudoscience is this?

He means that when I fill myself with Mexican stodge until I fall into a coma that I'm actually doing myself a favour!!!!

Tarzana2

Candie wrote: »

He means that when I fill myself with Mexican stodge until I fall into a coma that I'm actually doing myself a favour!!!!

Yeah, sound likes he's in denial to me.

Much better to just say "I mostly eat healthy but I like the odd blowout" instead of trying to make out it's beneficial. :pac:

Stheno

bluewolf wrote: »

Sure you can cook, follow recipes or put things in the oven or a frying pan.

This.

I do a massive cook up about once a month and stock the fridge/freezer with meals. My OHs kids were over today, and I'd to go out, and rather than call out for Chinese, he'd the options of serving them homemade lasagne, beef casserole, or shepherds pie, all made from scratch, no jars of sauces etc.

Day to day, I think my diet is pretty good.

Breakfast is a split meal, I've a tea when I wake up, then a latte on the way to work, followed by a banana and yoghurt when I get to work.

Lunch is usually a sandwich/roll with home cooked ham or chicken, and home made soup (veg for me, tomato and pepper for himself)

Dinner is usually something homemade lasagne/roast chicken/shepherds pie/casserole/steak with plenty of veg

Snacks for me are dried fruit, apples, pears

Not much junk tbh
Drinks during the day are usually peppermint or green tea, along with up to four 16oz lattes

Snacks are nuts, or fruit, in work we have a mad habit of sharing treats, so there is always chocolate about, but I'd rarely eat it

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Liamario wrote: »

Could be better, but exercise is my problem.

Same here really, I'm 25 now and I was lucky enough that up to now I never put on weight easily and kept a fairly trim figure without doing any regular exercise and no matter what I ate. Since that metabolism has begun its inexorable journey towards death I'm becoming aware of my diet so much more. I'm fairly active but I need to start paying more attention to exercise.

My diet ranges from really good to absolutely terrible, several times within a week. I might have porridge for breakfast one day and skittles the next, not eat anything for a day and a half and then a huge stirfry. I'm living between about four houses at the moment so there's not a lot of consistency!

Stheno

Mae Prickly Cabinet wrote: »

Same here really, I'm 25 now and I was lucky enough that up to now I never put on weight easily and kept a fairly trim figure without doing any regular exercise and no matter what I ate. Since that metabolism has begun its inexorable journey towards death I'm becoming aware of my diet so much more. I'm fairly active but I need to start paying more attention to exercise.

My diet ranges from really good to absolutely terrible, several times within a week. I might have porridge for breakfast one day and skittles the next, not eat anything for a day and a half and then a huge stirfry. I'm living between about four houses at the moment so there's not a lot of consistency!

I have the opposite problem as I am in my forties, and struggle to maintain my weight.

For years I was told I would balloon at x/yz age, and it never happened.

Talib Fiasco

Tarzana2 wrote: »

What manner of pseudoscience is this?

I am currently bulking but it applies to both a bulking and cutting diet.When you're cutting, i.e ingesting less calories and less carbs than usual maintenance and doing that every single day, your body begins to think you're starving and goes into survival mode, thus shutting down some hormones and f*cking up your metabolism thus limiting your results. Introducing some dirty meals will help tell your body that everything is fine and resets the process. In terms of bulking it serves to get in extra calories and carbs that will provide your body with enough energy and carbs to use in the furnace.

conorh91

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

When you're cutting, i.e ingesting less calories and less carbs than usual maintenance and doing that every single day, your body begins to think you're starving and goes into survival mode, thus shutting down some hormones and f*cking up your metabolism thus limiting your results. Introducing some dirty meals will help tell your body that everything is fine and resets the process.

Can you point to some science that actually demonstrates this? Preferably not a magazine that has shirtless men on the cover.

Talib Fiasco

conorh91 wrote: »

Can you point to some science that actually demonstrates this? Preferably not a magazine that has shirtless men on the cover.

Leptin, a protein mainly produced by fat tissue, regulates appetite and energy balance in the body. It acts on the brain's hypothalamus to suppress food intake and stimulate the use of energy, or calories. Leptin plays a key role in regulating body weight and fat mass through its stimulating effect on the brain. In fact, studies have shown that within 24 hours of fasting, leptin levels decrease to 30 percent of their normal value.1

But it doesn't end with leptin. Ghrelin, a peptide hormone mainly produced by the stomach, is an appetite stimulant that signals the release of growth hormone. Low-calorie diets and chronic exercise have been shown to result in increased ghrelin concentrations, which may lead to increasing food intake and body weight.

In addition to affecting appetite and energy use through leptin and ghrelin, sustained caloric-deficit diets also cause the body to attempt to conserve energy by decreasing levels of the thyroid hormones T3 and T4, which help regulate and maintain metabolism. Sustained low-carbohydrate diets deplete the body of glycogen stores and can leave you feeling sluggish and weak, which can negatively affect your training performance.

Since significant changes in the levels of leptin and ghrelin are seen after only 72 hours of a calorie-restricted diet, weekly cheat meals that are higher in calories and carbohydrates can help raise leptin levels and lower ghrelin. This is important because the return of your hormone levels to normal can help reverse or even prevent any negative effects on metabolism, hunger drive, and energy expenditure. In addition, the increased calories will also help to increase thyroid function, further boosting metabolism.

This increase in metabolism can last for days after your body digests a cheat meal, thus offsetting the drop in hormones that occurs when the calorie-deficit diet is again resumed. As a result, a scheduled cheat meal can actually help optimize our body's hormones to avoid weight-loss plateaus and prevent it from entering starvation mode. That's right, a well-rounded cheat can help you break through weight-loss plateaus!

murray.eoghan

i am on the icy diet...... I c it i eat it

rainbow kirby

Not too bad, but could be better. I probably have too much sugar and a few too many little treats, but it's generally not too bad. Dinners are cooked from scratch most of the time and I try to get plenty of veg. Porridge and a mug of tea for breakfast etc.