Healthy eating.

kylith wrote: »

I am.

I am also a prodigious farter.

Are you also a gamer? Do you drink pints?

If yes, then me love you long time!

donegal_road wrote: »

what would it be? Thats what Im asking

Meat, fat, vegetables, fruit, dairy. Little to no grains and no vegetable oils.
Basically no food you can't make yourself in a kitchen

I've just started eating healthy after being being a junk food junkie for the past 3 years. It's hard goin at the start cos your body craves the junk but definitely am starting to feel better:)

I go through phases, a few months healthy living here, a few months of laziness there. I'm always surprised when I eat relatively clean and throw in a bit of exercise for a couple of weeks how good I feel. I get used to feeling sh!t all the time and so don't really notice it. Aches and pains become the norm, headaches are frequent. Then I spend a few months (usually spring to autumn) giving it socks and feel fantastic. I gradually slip back to unhealthy habits as the evenings get darker so I don't really notice the change. That's just my experience, I know people who thrive on junk food. As long as you get enough nutrients and eat enough but not too many calories there isn't much more you can do. Avoiding pesticides, sugar and known allergens won't do you any harm.

Shenshen wrote: »

Raw almonds are NOT healthy. Ever.

Where do you get your information?

I was very unhealthy about two years back. No exercise, takeaways regularly and fond of the beer. I was very unhealthy looking and quite overweight - but I hadn't really realised myself the extent to which I had slipped until I saw a picture of myself in the local newspaper to which I was shocked at the state I'd let myself get to. Soon after I decided, 'fuck this' and I started to jog/run pretty much daily and gradually began to eat healthier which I've taken on in a bigger way in the last 6 months or so.

I feel so much better in general, I've lost loads of weight (which, again, I'm ashamed to say, at one time I didn't fully realise I had gained) I don't get pissed off at the thoughts of going out to buy clothes etc. Somebody recently said to me (during a conversation about exercising where I told them what I used to be like before I copped on) 'I could not imagine you being overweight' - that was a nice thing to hear!

Still fond of the beer though and would go out for 5-6 pints twice a week and maybe a can or two watching football but I'm conscious enough about that and try to limit it a bit more now. The nights I go out I ensure that I get in a good long run that morning/afternoon and eat sparingly the next day.

I've also found in recent months that I have absolutely no need for two (or three!) large meals a day. Generally, midweek I'd have cereal, coffee and fruit in the morning, veg soup+wheaten bread around lunch and in the evening potatoes, veg and some chicken/steak/whatever. Although the temptation for crisps and other sh!t is always there I've got to the stage where I've almost convinced myself that I don't need it. Not to say I've cut junk/takeaways out completely; I've just dramatically limited it.

Tl;dr - personal experience is that exercise, less sh!te, smaller portions = feeling/looking much better! :pac:

Aliana wrote: »

I go through phases, a few months healthy living here, a few months of laziness there. I'm always surprised when I eat relatively clean and throw in a bit of exercise for a couple of weeks how good I feel. I get used to feeling sh!t all the time and so don't really notice it. Aches and pains become the norm, headaches are frequent. Then I spend a few months (usually spring to autumn) giving it socks and feel fantastic. I gradually slip back to unhealthy habits as the evenings get darker so I don't really notice the change. That's just my experience, I know people who thrive on junk food. As long as you get enough nutrients and eat enough but not too many calories there isn't much more you can do. Avoiding pesticides, sugar and known allergens won't do you any harm.

I follow a very similar pattern - in summer my eating tends to be great, lots of salad and raw veggies and generally less stodgy crap. In winter though I really need my comfort food, and find myself more tired and generally feeling crap. I usually blame it on the long nights and cold weather but I also know that my eating habits are to blame. I do have porridge and green tea for breakfast every morning for a good start, and generally a good dinner with lots of veg, but in between I just snack on whatever, and notice the difference.

As for the whole 'to eat healthy/ to not eat healthy', I would say its a bit like smoking. Young people who smoke don't tend to care because the effects aren't felt for years, or decades. Eating junk food all day everyday is easy and may not feel like its doing you harm now, but I would take a guess that in 20 or 30 years time it will have done a lot of damage. Read this recently:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/29/men-cancer-deaths-greater-women. Ok there are more reasons than just eating habits, however I would agree that they make a difference.

And yes, everybody has heard the stories of those people who lived to be 110 years old and smoked everyday and only ate spam or whatever and sure weren't they great! But the reality is that most people don't get a free pass for treating their bodies like crap for so long. Eventually it will catch up to you. Personally, I want to give myself a good chance at being healthy later in life rather than trying to undo the damage.

Plus most healthy food tastes really good, I eat the food that tastes good, it just happens to be healthy.