EileenG you're in the well.......

EileenG · 15-06-2009 09:05AM

I rarely buy fruit, but when it's growing wild, I go all hunter/gatherer and make a pig of myself. Usually put a pile in the freezer too. I'm amazed at how much does grow wild. I live in the city, but we've still got cherries, crab apples, blackberries, elderberries, damsons, sloes, hips and haws on the walk home. And I grow strawberries, gooseberries, loganberries, black currents, red currents, white currents, blueberries, sour cherries and apples.

StormWarrior · 15-06-2009 11:04AM

When you're not eating fruit, don't you worry you'll get scurvy?

brianthebard · 15-06-2009 01:11PM

Lol, vitamin C is in more than oranges.

StormWarrior · 15-06-2009 03:22PM

Yeah but if you're not eating any fruit at all for extended periods of time?

amacachi · 15-06-2009 03:24PM

StormWarrior wrote: »

Yeah but if you're not eating any fruit at all for extended periods of time?

A bag of walkers crisps has as much Vitamin C as an apple, or it did when they cooked them in "bad" fats. Vitamins are in everything, loads of fresh veg won't leave ya short.

dudara · 15-06-2009 03:29PM

StormWarrior wrote: »

Yeah but if you're not eating any fruit at all for extended periods of time?

Dark green vegetables have loads of Vitamin C if I remember correctly. You can always pop a multivitamin if you're worried.

To be honest, I don't eat fruit everyday, mainly because of the high sugar content in a lot of fruit. It's for that reason, I don't touch fruit juices etc.

But I am partial to berries, rhubarb etc

kevpants · 15-06-2009 03:44PM

Thinking about it there have probably been periods of at least weeks if not months that I've gone without fruit.

Really can't stand most of it.

Never got scurvy though.

Yarrrr!

EileenG · 15-06-2009 06:13PM

StormWarrior wrote: »

When you're not eating fruit, don't you worry you'll get scurvy?

Oranges aren't even the best source of Vitamin C. Peppers, kale, broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts and other greens, cauliflower, tomato and strawberries all have a higher proportion.

I eat lots of rhubarb too, but technically, that's a vegetable, even if you use it to make dessert.

King of Kings · 15-06-2009 06:29PM

do you train in swords? if so where?
I recall you saying you lived there (or maybe i recall incorrectly)

As a practitioner of TKD do you think a low blow hurts a woman to the degree it hurts a man.

EileenG · 15-06-2009 08:41PM

No idea how much it hurts a man!

Used to be in Image, now in Migym.

baybike · 17-06-2009 12:40PM

Just been researching Sally Fallon, so I'm wondering whether you use sucanat/rapadura? Can you get it in Ireland?
Sorry if this is too off topic

d'Oracle · 17-06-2009 01:31PM

baybike wrote: »

Just been researching Sally Fallon, so I'm wondering whether you use sucanat/rapadura? Can you get it in Ireland?
Sorry if this is too off topic

Go to an Asian/Indian Grocer.
Look for jaggery/gur/Cane sugar.
That said it can also contain palm sugar, not sure how that fits in.

EileenG · 17-06-2009 06:23PM

I just tend to avoid sugar in general. I don't miss it anymore.

But I do eat coconuts.

agentgreen · 24-06-2009 04:57PM

Hi,

I'm starting to study for my final professional exams this summer. Would the Keto/low-carb diet be adviced around this time? Like would it effect my concentration levels?

Thanks.

EileenG · 24-06-2009 11:17PM

Personally, I find I concentrate better on keto, and make a point of being in ketosis for exams or study days. However, if you haven't done it before, I wouldn't start around the time of important study sessions or exams. Get well used to it first.

Incidentally, one of my tests for ketosis is the speed at which I can do mental maths or finish a crossword. If I have to dig out the calculator or dictionary, I know I've been eating too many carbs.

agentgreen · 25-06-2009 12:27AM

Thanks,

So maybe a week or 2 to get used to it?

Reyman · 25-06-2009 01:28AM

Eileen, I'm always impressed by your posts. I suppose because they're low key , informative and dead on. No one else has asked I think, so I will. You were 17 stone how do you match up now with all your nutritional touches and training? And what is your height too?

EileenG · 25-06-2009 09:15AM

My right weight is 12 and a half stone. At that, I have veins on my biceps. That can vary a bit depending on time of year and injury status. At the moment, I'm a bit higher because I've being doing physio lately, not lifting. But I've hovvered around that for eight years now. Oh, I'm 5'10".

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 25-06-2009 05:19PM

You the eileen on bodybuilding.com?

Reyman · 25-06-2009 06:56PM

EileenG wrote: »

My right weight is 12 and a half stone. At that, I have veins on my biceps. That can vary a bit depending on time of year and injury status. At the moment, I'm a bit higher because I've being doing physio lately, not lifting. But I've hovvered around that for eight years now. Oh, I'm 5'10".

That's some transformation from 17 stone. You must feel great now?

EileenG · 25-06-2009 09:03PM

georgiecasey wrote: »

You the eileen on bodybuilding.com?

How'd you know?

Money Shot · 26-06-2009 11:57AM

EileenG wrote: »

My right weight is 12 and a half stone. At that, I have veins on my biceps.

Ah, the truest strenght test there is - bicep vein protrusion

EileenG you're in the well.......

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