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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Eggtimer]
#21955447 - 07/17/15 10:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have an extreme sound processing disorder called misophonia and I think that might have something to do with my aversion to certain textured foods. But something needs to change. I need to start cooking my own meals, stop spending money out places, and I need to actually eat the foods that I should be eating. It's just so hard when you don't enjoy let alone throw up the food you should be eating. fuuck
also gabapentin isn't what caused my visual problems. I had similar visual disturbances when I first started taking the stuff, but not as severe as my other reaciton
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Boomballoon]
#21955841 - 07/17/15 12:03 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'l add more later but remember step one, buy raw almonds, and cashews, you will probably like salted roasted cashews best at first. Some how eat a cup of each a day. You will feel the difference within a week if you do this and it should kickstart your motivation to eat better. Do whatever you have to do to get them down.
-------------------- Everything I say on here is not true, I am an insecure person who lies about doing drugs and stuff to make myself feel good. So any illegal things I may have talked about are all fictional.
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Tomandjerry58
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Boomballoon]
#21957372 - 07/17/15 06:25 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wheat thins or trisquits are a decent snack that you can choose. If you are just wanting to chew on something. One cool diet that's really simple to apply yourself to, eliminating high fructose corn syrup and eating over 36 grams of added sugar a day.
Eliminating preservatives in drinks would be likely simple but in packaged foods is much more difficult.
Another cool way to find your way around the grocery store
http://www.fooducate.com/ DL the app I think it cost 1-4 bucks for the simplified version. You can scan the products and it will give you Nutritional value and a rating. YOu could probly screen shot it if you just want to examine one later. Really cool stuff and I hate to go all hippie mushroom on ya man but your body is living breathing multicellular organism. You feed it shit carbs and preservatives. Its going to operate like shit
quality carbs....36 grams of sugar daily"american heart association"world health organization"<<<<that's not a fucking estimate..
screen shot of the app after you scan the barcode. All the red are actually links to describing how fucking bad the item is  
Cool little app to have on your phone and really highlights harmful and controversial preservatives too.
Edited by Tomandjerry58 (07/17/15 06:29 PM)
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Tomandjerry58]
#21957411 - 07/17/15 06:39 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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That app reminds me of an app I highly recommend: myfitnesspal
You type in all the things you eat, they usually already have them in the database complete with nutritional info. It can really help you track the calories you are eating, and even salt, sugar, fat, protein, and carbs. It could be a way to just see where you're at with your diet at this time. Then you'll know what changes you need to make.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Hippocampus]
#21957557 - 07/17/15 07:20 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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These tools are wonderful when finding foods. Especially when, finding decent foods is like hunting and gathering through a field of poison but seriously Ive got my fitness pal on my phone but haven't played with it yet.
The food companies get away with adding high fructose corn syrup as a carb and an added sugar. It seriously fuckin retarded.
Increasing sugar levels in your body will result in increased insulin release changing the sugar to a fatty acid. Then its stored into you cells for later storage. Add a dosage fuck up and you get "fat America"
Then if its diet, it has the harmful preservatives that most likely inhibit gut bacteria.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Tomandjerry58]
#21958286 - 07/17/15 09:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sugar turns into fat and makes people fat? Show me a fat fruitarian.......
That myth scares people away from fruit. Problem is, people eat a slice of cake in which over 50% of the calories are from pure fat, and then their confused minds blame the sugar in the cake for making them fat, then they stay away from fruit. People eat pizza, hot dogs, and coca-cola...then blame the sugar in the coca-cola instead of the fatty pizza and hot dogs. Blows my mind.....
FAT makes people FAT!!!
The fat you eat is the fat you wear.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: wakeINpeople]
#21958426 - 07/17/15 10:18 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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It works the other way too though. People blame fat but don't think of the sugar they're eating.
Excess calories consumed in ANY form will be stored as fat.
Uh oh, "fruitarian" That's a major food religion right there. You may even call it a cult.
This is exactly the BS I would warn OP about. Instead of picking up a new food religion, you should study some biochemistry.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Hippocampus]
#21958512 - 07/17/15 10:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Hippocampus said: Uh oh, "fruitarian" That's a major food religion right there. You may even call it a cult.
Your right, I wasn't talking generally about someone who eats lots of fruit, I was talking about a literal cult.....a cult of fruit eaters that does blood sacrifices then consumes the flesh, because they believe its good for them.
Edited by wakeINpeople (07/18/15 01:04 AM)
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: wakeINpeople]
#21958817 - 07/18/15 12:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You inspired me to buy so much fruit at the store
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Hippocampus]
#21958937 - 07/18/15 12:50 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hippocampus said: You inspired me to buy so much fruit at the store

Awesome!!!
Stick with it, you won't regret it.
Invest in YOURSELF, your body will thank you. And don't skimp on eating fruit....many people start eating healthy, and think that 1 apple and 1 banana will hold you over for half a day. No way, you have to get those calories up by eating a good amount. I'll make 4 mangos a breakfast, or 7 oranges, or half a watermelon. You don't have to worry cuz they aren't high-fat calories, they are ultra-lean high-carb calories. Don't believe the carbs are bad BS, your body runs on carbs, it's just that most people mix their refined grain carbs with loads of fat (sandwiches, creamy pastas, cakes), so once again the carbs get the bad rap just like the sugar does....no one ever wants to blame the fat for some strange reason.
Good luck on your journey.
(and learn to tell when the fruit is ripe, many people eat unripe, unsweet, bland fruit and it turns them away from eating healthy)
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Tomandjerry58
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: wakeINpeople]
#21959411 - 07/18/15 06:18 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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There is nothing wrong with sugar that is in fruits or even fresh squeezed fruit. It also holds fiber, vitamins and loads of other healthy stuffs. Not a huge fan of fruit but I make my margaritas with fresh squeezed lemon,limes or oranges.
I did a little research on store bought margarita mix. It contains anywhere from 24-45 grams of sugar per 4 oz!!!Who the hell has one margarita? know one that's who.
SO the idea here is that if you use "jose cuervo" store bought mix. 3 four oz margaritas would shoot the sugar intake upto 80-100 grams! For 12 oz of liquid!
What if you also had 2 sodas that day....your sugar intake is almost at 1/4 pound or more.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Tomandjerry58]
#21963287 - 07/19/15 01:36 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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There was a guy on youtube a while back who was pushing a banana-only diet. He would eat like 100 bananas per day or something ridiculous, just a room full of bananas. I wonder what ever happened to him it was bananas, but I always suspected he cheated.
My thinking on diets, is that it has to be something that works, and something you're going to follow through on. That sounds obvious, but it still is a really hard thing for pretty much everybody.
Not eating fruits and veggies is childish and insane. That should change. Maybe start with canned peaches and work your way up to peeling a banana.
I also have appetite problems effected by health issues. Important steps to me eating better were learning to cook, taking a nutrition class, and just getting older and better at maintaining routines.
I had to learn to cook because I did it for a job starting at 16, but I usually cooked fairly unhealthy. Anyone can do it though. Sign up for a cooking class maybe if you're totally clueless, then once you know that you need to use oil so things won't stick, and be careful with high temperatures, and basic things like that you can just do what you want.
I took a couple nutrition classes at different points, and even though I'm a little shaky on the specifics, it definitely made me more mindful of how to balance fat/protein/carbs, and how the different types of each are important or a risk factor. You can take it as far as you like down to weighing out and calculating every calorie, but it also makes you aware in general of the impact of the things you eat, which is what it is all about.
You can learn all this stuff online, but until you put it into action there's really no telling how a diet will go. Some people plan and plan and invest time and money convinced that will motivate them to change, only to find that the diet is unmanageable. Be patient with yourself and stay committed.
Maybe write down everything you eat, some people who overeat I've heard say that helps.
Also don't fast, or at least don't think it is an effective diet technique. There is good evidence that long-term fasting (24h+) is not healthy.
Edited by moonrockmushy (07/19/15 01:37 AM)
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