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[Keroin]

Growing up, my food was "healthy" in the sense that it was home cooked, and there were always veggies. However, as was typical those days, veggies were overcooked, everything was slathered in butter or gravy, white bread was a staple at every meal, and every meal was followed by some form of dessert.

We had a "cookie and chip" cupboard that was always stocked. I never had any major binges on that stuff because it was just always...there. Other friends of mine who either had loads of siblings or strictly controlled diets would go nuts on the sweets and junk food when they came over.

I didn't learn what real healthy eating was until I was in my late teens and started weightlifting.

I don't crave junk food, as a rule. If it's there, I will munch...so I just don't let it in the house. Easy. And the more I'm training, the more I crave veggies, beans and other good fuel.

 

[cfuhrer]

I was raised on toast and eggs for breakfast; weekends was pancakes and a breakfast meat.

Lunch was leftovers or a sandwish and chips.

Dinner was a piece of meat, veggie, and starch; most often was potatoes, sometimes rice, very rarely a noodle. Sometimes there was spaghetti or hot dogs and mac and cheese. The meat was most often red because we raised our own. I cannot remember having a chicekn breast until I moved out on my own because they we expensive and we didn't raise chickens.

There was always a dessert, usually a home baked confection or ice cream.

My eating really changed when hunny and I moved in together. He has a pretty particular pallete and was partial to fare such as freezer section chicken nuggets and chilli mac. Consequently I let him cook so I know he will eat it.

I do try and keep on hand the few veggies he likes and lettuce so I can do a starter salad.

Now we have the baby and need to work on making what had been staples into occasional treets. I'm sure that will get easier next year when we actually have our own garden and our own home raised meats.

 

[WhatamIdoinhere]

I'm genetically blessed when it comes to managing weight. Was 220 in May while lifting regularly.

I've been hyper busy since then....building a home. Have lost plenty which allows for more activity.

You will never find an effective 220 pound marathon runner.

 

[Daddy2mylilgirl]

I was raised on healthy foods.

My father has always been up on it. He knew about trans fats 15 - 20 years ago. He wouldn't let us buy anything with too much trans fat. He also bought local/organic when he could. He didn't buy any meat with nitrates or hormones/antibiotics. He always looked for grass fed beef. We used to have chickens growing up so we could have eggs and know what was in the chickens diet.

I've grown up on whole wheat pasta/bread/pancakes, lentils, bulgar, brown rice, whole grains, flax oil, ALL types of veggies, cooking with olive oil, and fresh fruit. Dinner has always been a meat, starch, and veggies even when we have pizza or chinese.

I don't crave junk food. Never had a real interest in processed food.

I enjoy eating healthy. I don't see that changing as I get older.

 

[Homburg]

I've found out that wheat/gluten is basically my clown. Dropping it out of my diet almost entirely has been an incredibly good move. Weight loss, general well-being, and much lower incidence of intestinal issues. It's a good thing.

Yesterday, however, had a MASSIVE allergy attack. Fuck-all awful. As always, I was left craving carbs like mad. Well, dinner was potato soup, with a moderate amount of flour in it, and some really impressive looking cheddar garlic biscuits, homemade of course. I'd had no interest in it whatsoever, and was perfectly happy makign one of my favourite salads, but, after 15 hours of sneezing and feeling wretched, the thought of hot soup was lovely. It could've been a tasty bowl of wood chunks in a savory broth and I would've considered it. Well, I had a bowl, and not a big one, and maybe half a biscuit. Horrible idea. Ditching gluten has apparently made me more sensitive to it. So now I was hurting in the guts on top of feeling like shit from the allergies. Yay.

Down about 12lbs or so. Still feeling pretty good, but we're early into this thing.

And, yeah, ITW, there is a bit of mental weirdness to it. *shrug* If it results in less me taking up space, I'll deal with it.

In closing - fuck wheat. That is all.

 

[Daddy2mylilgirl]

I've found out that wheat/gluten is basically my clown. Dropping it out of my diet almost entirely has been an incredibly good move. Weight loss, general well-being, and much lower incidence of intestinal issues. It's a good thing.

Have you read this book? Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

A renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problems.
Every day, over 200 million Americans consume food products made of wheat. As a result, over 100
million of them experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive stomach bulges that preventive cardiologist William Davis calls “wheat bellies.” According to Davis, that excess fat has nothing to do with gluttony, sloth, or too much butter: It’s due to the whole grain wraps we eat for lunch.
After witnessing over 2,000 patients regain their health after giving up wheat, Davis reached the disturbing conclusion that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemic—
and its elimination is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health. In Wheat Belly, Davis exposes the harmful effects of what is actually a product of genetic tinkering and agribusiness being sold to the
American public as “wheat”—and provides readers with a user-friendly, step-by-step plan to navigate a new, wheat-free lifestyle.
Informed by cutting-edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who
have experienced life-changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat
Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

 

[Homburg]

Have you read this book? Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

Hadn't seen it. Looks kinda cool.

It started with me realising that I always felt unpleasantly full shortly after eating pasta. I paid more attention and realised that I consistently felt crappy low energy and just unpleasant after mostly pasta meals (spaghetti with meat sauce for example). I started paying attention to my gut after meals of different types, and realised more and more that gas, indigestion, and, most prevalently, bloating were an issue after wheat-heavy meals.

Did some basic research and found that gluten-sensitive types have these symptoms and reasoned that, hey, I might just be gluten-sensitive. So I figured, as I am wont to do, that an experiment was in order. Buh-bye to breads, pasta, etc. Worked well. Weight is going away, no bloat, I feel better.

I'm prone to random fits of dietary experimentation though. This has just been a rather successful one. It can be a pain in the ass to avoid wheat, but it beats the godawful unpleasantness I went through last night.

 

[Keroin]

Today's run was Keroin vs back. It ended in a stalemate but back did not win and that's what matters.

Had a few moments when I was ready to bow my head in defeat but every time that happened I played this song and kept on pushing forward.

(That's my current inspiration song.)





Fuck you back! You won't win! I won't let you!!!!

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Today's run was Keroin vs back. It ended in a stalemate but back did not win and that's what matters.

Had a few moments when I was ready to bow my head in defeat but every time that happened I played this song and kept on pushing forward.

(That's my current inspiration song.)





Fuck you back! You won't win! I won't let you!!!!

Back = Your bitch!

But that song is Warning Sign No. 74 on the "Is your neighbor an arsonist?" list.

 

[Keroin]

Back = Your bitch!

Damn skippy!

But that song is Warning Sign No. 74 on the "Is your neighbor an arsonist?" list.

Oh! Oops...I...er...I meant this song! Man is my face red.

*hides matches and gasoline*

 

[FurryFury]

Good for you!

*hugs*

FF

Today's run was Keroin vs back. It ended in a stalemate but back did not win and that's what matters.

Had a few moments when I was ready to bow my head in defeat but every time that happened I played this song and kept on pushing forward.

(That's my current inspiration song.)





Fuck you back! You won't win! I won't let you!!!!

 

[cfuhrer]

(That's my current inspiration song.)

Kick ass song.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Damn skippy!


Oh! Oops...I...er...I meant this song! Man is my face red.

*hides matches and gasoline*

MUCH more invigorating! KICK ASS, purple dino!!!

And I have tried, K. Skippy doesn't burn as well as Jif.

 

[CutieMouse]

Okay... it's been a month since I started this C25K thing Yanks recommended, and I woke up this morning, rolled my ass out of bed and did my run-thingie. Again. As in, woke up and went "It's Monday! I get to run today! Yay!!!!"

Teh sickness; I think I haz it.

I've discovered a few things -

1.) I can't stand running if I can hear my feet hitting the pavement, so Pandora Radio is my friend.

2.) It takes me 1/4-ish mile of walking at the beginning as a warm up to make sure I get a grip on my breathing. If I stretch and walk less than 1/4 mile, my breathing gets all panicky when I start running.

3.) Running [with music] turns off my brain almost as well as kinky sex. Almost. (Which is a good thing.)

4.) After a month of consistently running 3-5 days a week then coming home and eating breakfast, I've managed to teach my body to want/crave/eat breakfasts for the first time in my entire life.

 

[Cattypuss]

Today's top-notch workout song -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk

 

[Cattypuss]

Interesting childhood diets.

I was brought up on pure shit. Sugary, highly processed cereal for breakfast. White bread and highly processed meat for lunch with a bag of crisps and a choc bar for lunch. Dinners were mostly takeaways cos mum had two jobs and no time to cook - so we would have fish & chips 1-2 times a week, a Chinese takeaway 1-2 times a week, Wimpy (burger bar) 1-2 times a week, Pizza Hut once a week, and the rest of the time it would be Pot Noodles or Vesta meals. Plus constant free access to the biscuit tin and the crisp cupboard.

I bucked the usual trend in vastly IMPROVING my diet when I left home to go to university.

Amazing I'm still standing at 44 yrs old, not to mention reasonably fit and healthy. I do, however, blame the zillion and one food and other allergies I have on my childhood diet.

 

[Bandit58]

It was years before I knew there was any other type of bread other than white (there were only 2 types when I was growing up, white and brown!). We ate a lot of red meat and fried foods although we also ate a lot of fresh veges because we had space for a garden.

Living in a small country village there were no takeaway shops so fast food was a rare treat. My mother did a lot of her own baking so there was always cake in the pantry.

Both us kids had the "skinny gene" though so we never got overweight - there were always heaps of kids to play with (it was the '60s and our family was unusual in only having us 2 kids). We were active all day (we only got TV in 1967 and it came on at 5pm and went off at 10).

I think it's a combination of genetics and joining the gym that I'm as fit as I am at nearly 53. I still rarely eat fast food, I just don't like the bloated feeling I get afterwards if I've eaten too much fat If I want a burger I go for grilled fish and egg with salad

 

[Homburg]

Lost almost five pounds in the course of two days. Yay for stomach flu.

Not.


Five pounds. Two days. It hurts my brain. Likewise hurts my brain to think that I am prepared, in the midst of a diet, to work to regain weight )if I have to. Odds are the body will adjust and regain the weight on its' own) because a 5lb loss in two days is way unhealthy.

 

[FurryFury]

I'm sorry.

*hugs*

FF

Lost almost five pounds in the course of two days. Yay for stomach flu.

Not.


Five pounds. Two days. It hurts my brain. Likewise hurts my brain to think that I am prepared, in the midst of a diet, to work to regain weight )if I have to. Odds are the body will adjust and regain the weight on its' own) because a 5lb loss in two days is way unhealthy.

 

[ImOnIt]

Lifted yesterday, ran today, stretched the day before last. Two hundred consecutive days of deliberate exercise.

I find myself increasingly happy with the way I handle things and that is nice.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Lost almost five pounds in the course of two days. Yay for stomach flu.

Not.


Five pounds. Two days. It hurts my brain. Likewise hurts my brain to think that I am prepared, in the midst of a diet, to work to regain weight )if I have to. Odds are the body will adjust and regain the weight on its' own) because a 5lb loss in two days is way unhealthy.

Man, that's crazy.

I once lost eight pounds in about a week with the flu. The sickness and lack of nutrients combined make you weak as a baby naked mole rat.

I hope you feel better.

 

[FurryFury]

Awesome!

You are my new role model!

FF

Lifted yesterday, ran today, stretched the day before last. Two hundred consecutive days of deliberate exercise.

I find myself increasingly happy with the way I handle things and that is nice.

 

[FurryFury]

Childhood diet:

I was brought up lacto ovo vegetarian. Lot's of soy. We always had a garden.

Soft drinks rarely, special occasion only. Mostly just water, juice (the real stuff, we had a juicer) and milk, though sometimes kool aid.

I can't complain though I'm actually eating healthier now though.

FF

 

[ruby_my_dear]

I've lost 14 lbs over the past 5 weeks. My energy is certainly improving. Long way to go until I call it done but I feel I am on the right track. I think the connection I have made with my body through my experiences on lit is helping. I want to take care of my newly disxovered sexy body more than I ever did. Interesting connection.

 

[FurryFury]

Awesome!

I've lost 14 lbs over the past 5 weeks. My energy is certainly improving. Long way to go until I call it done but I feel I am on the right track. I think the connection I have made with my body through my experiences on lit is helping. I want to take care of my newly disxovered sexy body more than I ever did. Interesting connection.