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Healthy Eating
Beardman:
--- Quote from: slyjoe on February 04, 2013, 08:35:42 PM ---If only I could eat healthier!
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It's hard when you are living at home. It's a long road, but I was able to re-educate my mum, it took many... I wouldn't say heated, but frustrating (maybe) discussions before she started to understand that I wasn't insulting her cooking, just that I was trying my best to lose weight and improve myself, and my diet (and food intake) was holding me back.
MarkusToe:
--- Quote from: Beardman on February 05, 2013, 04:40:51 AM ---
--- Quote from: slyjoe on February 04, 2013, 08:35:42 PM ---If only I could eat healthier!
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It's hard when you are living at home. It's a long road, but I was able to re-educate my mum, it took many... I wouldn't say heated, but frustrating (maybe) discussions before she started to understand that I wasn't insulting her cooking, just that I was trying my best to lose weight and improve myself, and my diet (and food intake) was holding me back.
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what did you change?
MarkusToe:
hey, take a look at this http://eastwesthealing.com/high-protein-diets-good-or-bad/?fb_source=pubv1
what do you think about it?
mrzed:
This thread deserves a long response, and i'm rushed today, but i'll pm later in the week. Starting a return to healthy eating diet this month. I've been off the band wagon too long and regained too much.
D.A.L.U.I.:
One source that shares an idea with the previously mentioned paleolithic concept avoiding spikes is the Sugar Busters. Let me say up front, one of the authors is a long time friend and doctor of mine, Dr. Sam Andrews. The Sugar Busters' site is: http://www.sugarbusters.com/ . Both are essentially low gylcemic diets--encouraging you to chose foods with a lower gylcemic index. This has also been called the complex carbohydrate diet concept. Google glycemic index and you'll find many sites that provide the index for almost everything you eat. Basically, low gylcemic index or complex carbohydrate foods result in the sugars entering your blood stream more slowly, hence avoiding your body's response to have spikes of insulin, etc. Once you're familiar with several low index foods, it becomes easier to prepare your own food, but importantly for all of us who have to eat on the run, also to chose foods from a menu at a restaurant, etc. that will stay closer to what you need to eat. Also, since most complex carbs are not "white" --think rice, mashed potatoes, french fries--they're pretty easy to identify. Then, calories, as mentioned in--through the old pie hole, have to be expended by exercise. So depending on your size, and the number of calories necessary to maintain your current weight--and that can be calculated--eat 100 or more calories less in a day, do 100 calories worth of exercise in that day also--and you'll lose weight. Walking is exercise--so when you go to the Mall, don't waste gas driving around trying to get close to the store you're looking for, park far out--and you can work on your waist with a walk--waste-waist (sorry really bad pun--but diet's are kind of grim so anything to get a grin guys). Finally salt--cut your salt intake, almost everyone uses too much and you can avoid retaining fluid. Fluids--they weigh a lot--each pint, that's two cups, weighs one pound--you don't often think about just how heavy fluids can be. So, retain less fluid--weigh less. Less salt--less potential for fluid retention.
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