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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Boomballoon]
#21886280 - 07/02/15 04:15 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't know how this relates to iron but I researched diet to the point of realizing that we only need the equivalent of 50 lbs of oats and 50 lbs of lentils per year with added A, C, & E vitmins.
Bible thumpers may be inspired by the fact that the precursor aminos necessary in the diet of felines are present in oat/lentil :Isaiah 65:25
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Boomballoon]
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Won't you just throw up again if you eat fruits/vegetables?
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#21900068 - 07/05/15 08:38 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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secondorder said: Won't you just throw up again if you eat fruits/vegetables?
I don't know but I'd rather die of starvation trying to be healthy than live a long miserable life of eating shit and dying of a heart attack or something lame
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I don't know but I'd rather die of starvation trying to be healthy than live a long miserable life of eating shit and dying of a heart attack or something lame
Fair enough. I wish you the best!
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Boomballoon]
#21922969 - 07/10/15 02:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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So an apple would just be vomitted back out?
Are you eating processed food because of its convenience?
Maybe you should try cannabis to help hold down your healthy food intake. Cooking with whole food is your best bet.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: JV11]
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JV11 said: So an apple would just be vomitted back out?
Are you eating processed food because of its convenience?
Maybe you should try cannabis to help hold down your healthy food intake. Cooking with whole food is your best bet.
I could eat an apple very slowly and keep it down but it would take a long time. I would throw up if I just grabbed one and tried to eat it normally.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Boomballoon]
#21941344 - 07/14/15 09:49 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sounds like you are young in mind and body without a lot of knowledge of how to cook for yourself. Nor knowledgeable of how to obtain the correct nutrition for your body to sustain or thrive.
One fun thing you can do is try to make yourself a healthy meal. For example like steamed zucchini,squash or broccoli. With grilled chicken and avocado slices.
Making fresh green salads with your favorite dressing. Mexican food is favorite of mine that is not unhealthy if prepared correctly. Take away the high fructose drinks and anything with preservatives so that your hormones,insulin and gut bacteria work correctly.
Vegetables do not have to be eaten raw to be healthy.
Simple fact is that you don't know how to cook nor have been taught how to eat! So you have no muscle tone because you have no idea how to feed your muscles.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Tomandjerry58]
#21950279 - 07/16/15 01:46 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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We have flat teeth and no claws. We have fingers for ripping open fruits and planting their seeds back in the ground. We are supposed to be mainly herbivores. There is much deception in this world for the benefit of the pharmaceutical companies. As long as fresh fruits and veggies are out of the question like you say, then your never going to feel healthy. Lots of fresh fruits, veg, nuts, and seeds, is what will make the human body look and feel the best. If you want to eat animal products, make it lean meat in moderation. Dairy is the worst because it has the highest fat content.
Heart attacks are the number one killer of men and many women. They happen from plaque buildup in the arteries 99% of the time. Plaque is from cholesterol. The clogging cholesterol is from animal fats, NOT fruit and veg. The more animal fat you eat (in all it's forms), and the less fruit and veg you eat, the more your setting yourself up for a bad time.
Get some Vegan or Mediterranean cookbooks and start knocking out recipes, and start exercising 3-5 times a week. Get a good juicer and start juicing everyday. Make smoothies too.
You'll feel much better instantly.
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#21950310 - 07/16/15 02:20 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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How did you find out you had hemochromatosis? Normally people don't realize they have it until they are like 50.
Your problems you describe (messed up vision) could be side effects of gabapentin.
As for your nutrition. I urge you to educate yourself on real nutrition. Try not to get suckered into all the bullshit. There is a TON of BS nutrition info out there. My advice is simply general. Don't overeat. Eating too many calories or anything, even "healthy" foods is bad for you. Don't eat too much sugar all at once. Especially for you, diabetes is a concern. Try to limit sugar as much as possible and cut out added sugar as much as you can. Don't eat too much fat. Everyone needs a healthy amount of fat, but eating too much is bad, imo that's much more important than what type of fat you're eating. Those are the basic most important diet things to remember. Oh, and as an afterthought, try to eat a good amount of fiber. diverticulitis is the health concern for old people that no one ever seems to worry about. It happens from out-pocketing of the GI tract from not eating enough fiber throughout your life. Everything else diet related imo is more personal to each person. Such as, you think you are sensitive to MSG, (which is basically just a salt), then watch out for that. Or if you have hypertension then don't eat too much salt at all. If you are predisposed to cholesterol problems then be careful of your cholesterol. People who get all super into their nutrition tend to believe a lot of pseudoscience. If you need a food religion to make you feel like you're eating healthy then fine, but I'm not buying it. Most are relatively harmless, which imo goes to show how sturdy the human body is, and how diverse of a diet we can manage. Good luck, and I hope you start feeling better.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Hippocampus]
#21950323 - 07/16/15 02:39 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hippocampus said: Most are relatively harmless, which imo goes to show how sturdy the human body is, and how diverse of a diet we can manage.
Most what is relatively harmless?
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: wakeINpeople]
#21951091 - 07/16/15 09:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Food religions, ie vegan, paleo, gluten-free, dairy free, raw, organic, etc.
that's what I call them, because they amount to dogmatic beliefs about eating that stand on the acceptance of some unproven group of teachings that must be accepted mostly on faith. Plus, they are widely popular, everyone thinks their food religion is the one true food religion, and they are always trying to convert new followers.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Hippocampus]
#21952142 - 07/16/15 01:49 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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What you have realized about weed, is what I too have realized. That in making you hyperaware of your current state you can better assay how your body, including all of its functions and organs are doing. I personally find though, that when your doing bad there is no reason to smoke weed everyday as it becomes very depressing to always be aware of how your body is doing.
I will add to this post, because thats the way I am, I do parts of things at a time and switch between things. I read everything about your food-phobias, many of which are mental, however you should try to determine through research if there is an actual reason your body reacts bad to certain foods. Say a food makes you throw up, research everything about it and in it, and based off your bodily problem and maybe ask your doctor, determine if there seems to be a plausible scientific reason for your body not liking the food. Most of what our bodies do is for a reason however we all do develope "mental mistakes" where the brain thinks something which is wrong. Like an allergy, how the situation does not really need the amount of histamines it sends out, but it sends them out anyways. The brain can develope reactions similar to this. It's sorta like a deep engraved placebo effect into the circutry of the brain since the connections have grown stronger and stronger every time it happens. Sorry if you think I am saying you are mental, I just ended up writing a lot about this because I feel it is an important first step as you change your diet, since you (probably) should eat a lot of foods you currently don't beleive you will eat. You may have to accept that its how life is, the better the food is for you the worse it tastes to you. This is actually true for a person in your state, however once you start eating healthy it reverses and unhealthy food tastes even more disgusting than you think healthy food is. You will feel like you are putting shit into your body, remember you are still building the most complex being to date, you don't build a building with shit materials and expect the building to come out sturdy and have longevity. I will compile a list of foods and suppliments later.
-------------------- 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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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Hippocampus]
#21953105 - 07/16/15 06:07 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Your saying that healthy mostly plant based diets are harmless?...but then u diss it....I don't getcha. But that's what I was saying, plants are better. Eating healthy fruits and veg is not pseudo BS....it's known that animal fat clogs arteries. The medical industry figured that out many years ago.
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#21953192 - 07/16/15 06:27 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You need a lot more than plants to be healthy, you need meat. I will put more effort into making a longer list later but some important things.
Nuts Fruit Berries Fish Bread Olive oil instead of butter Vegetables
I put vegetables last because you want fruit and berries over vegetables, you still want veggies but not as much. Nuts contain protein, good fats, and a ton of vitamins and minerals. Two basic common nuts are almonds and cashews, peanuts are still good but not in the same leauge health wise as the former two. Fish is lean and has protein with once again good fats, and other vitamins and minerals that are good for you. Fruit and berries contain fast acting sugars and lots of water, along with some vitamins, they are very easy on your gi tract and digestion since they are made of very soft fibers. Although bread is considered bad, that is because people overeat it, you need carbohydrates and if you pick out the most natural looking bread (it shouldn't be perfectly white!) you get cheap and paletable carbs. I would reccomend getting some good loafs, or rolls, so that you can slice and toast them to eat with olive oil and vinegar, or just oil. What actually tastes really good and is good for you is mixing garlick and other herbs with your olive oil. Don't overdo it with the vinegar though, just like with pasta don't overdo it with the sauce since they are both acidic and you do not want a highly acidic body. Berries and fruit are acidic, and bread but much less so, nuts are basic (the opposite of acidic), I am unsure about fish but its probably pretty neutral.
I'd say step one is buying "raw" almonds unsalted, and some cashews, you will probably like salted roasted cashews if used to an unhealthy diet, but you do need some sodium. I was actually sodium deficient when I got tested! I did too good of a job of not eating salt. After you buy these two nuts eat a cup of each a day, make that your goal until it no longer takes effort. It doesn't matter if you eat one nut every 5 minutes, as long as you get down those two cups. That would give you a great base of proteins, fats, vitamins, and nutrients. Nuts are one of the best ways to meet your nutritional needs, I bet you will eat plenty of carbs and sugar from other stuff.
-------------------- 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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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: SteelPanther]
#21953925 - 07/16/15 09:34 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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wakeINpeople said: Your saying that healthy mostly plant based diets are harmless?...but then u diss it....I don't getcha. But that's what I was saying, plants are better. Eating healthy fruits and veg is not pseudo BS....it's known that animal fat clogs arteries. The medical industry figured that out many years ago.
Here, have some fruit and veg and relax
I've never heard of the healthy mostly plant based diet religion. What's the name? If there's not a name it's not a religion.

There probably needs to be a best selling book too. Preferably with lots of writing on the front in different fonts, sizes, and colors
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#21954628 - 07/17/15 02:35 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Why do you keep saying religion? What religion? I'm not talking about any religion. You don't make much sense. I was simply suggesting to the OP that they eat more fresh fruit and veg, less animal fat, less dairy, and get some exercise. Also, I was explaining some of the details as to why they should eat that way. Details that are already well documented.
I can tell by the way you instantly jumped on this common medical advice and attacked it, and by your suggestion to the OP to simply "not overeat", that you probably eat a lot of shitty food, and are just trying to make yourself feel better about it.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Boomballoon]
#21954717 - 07/17/15 03:22 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Don't know if you've ever done a good dose of shrooms but they can bust silly phobias like being afraid to eat leafy stuff. You and the leafy stuff come from the same place. 
Buy a good blender like 1K watts and put kale/carrots/orange/other sweet fruits like pineapple or mango orrrrrrrr kiwi, dates have a ton of sugar but taste good. Blend the fuck out of it and they actually don't taste too bad.
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wakeINpeople said: Why do you keep saying religion? What religion? I'm not talking about any religion. You don't make much sense. I was simply suggesting to the OP that they eat more fresh fruit and veg, less animal fat, less dairy, and get some exercise. Also, I was explaining some of the details as to why they should eat that way. Details that are already well documented.
I can tell by the way you instantly jumped on this common medical advice and attacked it, and by your suggestion to the OP to simply "not overeat", that you probably eat a lot of shitty food, and are just trying to make yourself feel better about it.
omg you're so right dude. You've guessed all my motives and really put me in my place. I had no idea your internet dick was so massive. Please forgive me for wasting your valuable thread space.
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wakeINpeople said: Why do you keep saying religion? What religion? I'm not talking about any religion. You don't make much sense. I was simply suggesting to the OP that they eat more fresh fruit and veg, less animal fat, less dairy, and get some exercise. Also, I was explaining some of the details as to why they should eat that way. Details that are already well documented.
I can tell by the way you instantly jumped on this common medical advice and attacked it, and by your suggestion to the OP to simply "not overeat", that you probably eat a lot of shitty food, and are just trying to make yourself feel better about it.
omg you're so right dude. You've guessed all my motives and really put me in my place. I had no idea your internet dick was so massive. Please forgive me for wasting your valuable thread space.
I didn't guess.....you give it away by the things you say.
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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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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.
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Re: I am looking to fast and start a new diet from scratch- thoughts and opinions welcome! [Re: Tomandjerry58]
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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]
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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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#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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#21958512 - 07/17/15 10:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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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.
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You inspired me to buy so much fruit at the store
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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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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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