I have never been able to figure out why a month’s supply of snacks lasts only a week and a week’s supply of vegetables lasts a month. I mean, there’s no children in the home! And it’s not like I’m always in the middle of a coding jag and too busy to eat right. I don’t have a weight control problem (chronically underweight if anything) so I’ve never had to worry about it. Still, I sometimes wonder if I should make an effort to do better. I wouldn’t want any more of my bad decisions catching up with me as they all seem to eventually do.
I have lousy eating habits (and a weight control problem, especially since I stopped using snus five months ago).
Recently I’ve been making sure to have a supply of carrots and apples available at home. When I feel peckish, I’ve conditioned myself to have one of those instead of something tastier.
Snus? I had to look that one up. Illegal in the EU! My goodness, not just strongly discouraged but illegal? Well if it’s been 5 months I guess you’re pretty well through the roughest of it. Good luck with the carrots and apples. Much healthier for you.
EU didn’t want another tobacco drug to spread within the union, which is why they banned snus. Sweden managed to get a dispensation (or we wouldn’t have joined), but Finland didn’t.
Now doctors and scientists in Europe, especially the UK, are actually advocating that the ban be lifted, since snus is a much better option than smoking for those who are unable to quit altogether. In fact, they can’t really find any statistically significant signs that snus is dangerous, other than an elevated risk for pancreatic cancer (from .02 to .04 per cent).
I am not a snack person. I eat veggetables every day. We do cook one proper meal each day. I don’t know when I’ve last eaten at Mc"beth" but it’s been at least a year. We’ve got pretty much all vegetables here. Right, not as much variation as you would get in, say Peru (I envy their potatoes), but you can’t complain what with the abundance of fresh food around here. With that said, I do eat a snack every now and then.
I dont do junk food you only have to look on the wrapping to see what rubbish is in the product that i feel is enough to put anyone off,you cannot beat good old home cooked food with real vegetables.
I am a cook and baker. Most meals in our house are made by me from scratch. My husband prepares most breakfasts so I can sleep in a little longer I make all baked goods from breads, cookies, pastries, cakes and pies, freeze them so they are ready when called for.
A typical day in our house starts with a long breakfast. The best time for us to talk things over. Us is my husband and me. We both work from home, so we have that luxury because there is no time spent on commuting. Breakfast is at least 5 different kinds of fresh fruit with a piece of baked goodness, one cup of coffee and a tall glass of ice water. Sometimes we have eggs and yes, bacon or sausage and scrapple, grits, to include my husband’s southern US heritage. When the oranges and grapefruit are fresh from the trees we have orange juice or a grilled grapefruit, in the time when no fresh oranges are here we drink some other fruit juices or tomato juice.
Morning snack is a cup of creamed tea.
At lunch we have a variety of possibilities from sandwiches with my home made mayonnaise and some tomatoes or cheese or Italian salami, roast beef slices, cold pork roast or any other home made thing. Salads and cooked vegetables. Sometimes a hot or cold soup made from vegetables, depends on the weather.
Afternoon snack are nuts or a piece of fruit or a hard boiled egg or some cheese or some chips now and then, maybe popcorn for fun.
Dinner is always at least three things: a meat, a starch, a vegetable. I cook a variety of ethnic foods from around the world, mostly the Mediterranean variety with lots of fresh things and garlic, olive oil, fresh herbs, which are also home grown. I make all meat and vegetable stocks to have handy for sauces and soups. We always have a glass of wine or beer or a drink that is suitable for the food at that time. Like fish will be served often with a martini, a hardy beef roast with a single malt whisky, a mexican type food with tequila. All things in moderation
Before bed time we eat a small desert. Maybe a sliver of pie with frozen yoghurt, or frozen yoghurt with melted dark chocolate poured over it. Sometimes fresh berries with a dollop of whipped cream.
Variety is important to us, the more different the foods are that we eat, the more goodness we consume.
@Datura re: Moderation
That’s my problem. The word just doesn’t seem to be in my vocabulary.
I drank every day for 9 years - until it caught up with my liver.
I smoked a pack and a half cigarettes for 15 years (1 1/2 tractor trailer loads total!) until it caught up with my heart and lungs.
I drank at least 2 pots of strong black coffee a day for the 5 years it took to get through college until I started getting withdrawal headaches.
Switched to black tea, OK for 4 years, then kidney stones.
Part of me says I’m entitled to at least oneaddiction bad habit. And being underweight, I love to eat. Just not always the healthiest choices I’m afraid.
@mizwizzy - No bread or butter! Goodness I couldn’t make it without my starches, fat, or meat. (I don’t go for sweet all that much, but grease, it beckons) A vegetarian friend of mine once convinced me to try not eating meat. I lost 10 pounds in a week! At 5’10" 130 pounds I certainly don’t want to be 120 pounds. But at least I don’t eat meat every meal like I used to anymore. But lots of Potatoes, Pasta, Rice, and Breads.
well thats quite a life you lead with regard to how u treat ur body I used to eat breads and junk food also, up until about 2 years ago, then its been nothing but good stuff, exercise and back in shape once again, infact better than ive ever been and it feels great…and i look great for it also hope that doesnt sound smug :tup:
I would advise stop eating the junk food as much as you are doing, i know you like it but u need to maybe have a salad roll or something in place of choccy bars and crisps or sweeties, just make different choices and I hope btw that u dont drink that fizzy acid either!
For me a typical day would be protein bars and spicey rice with tuna and onions, i dont eat past 5pm and im strict with my diet, I do however have a lovely dinner on Sundays as a treat but again that is another high protein intake and also well balanced with veggies, chicken/fish and perhaps gravy also, no starches our bodies cant digest them properly, well atleast mine cant! But as you say you are underweight, if you like breads have them with salads, or a club sandwich or pita bread or something, spice it up a bit also, food doesnt have to be boring
Change your attitude. Reason it through and set new standards to change your behavior and emotions that go along with your behavior. It really is up to you.
When I was young I behaved very differently too. I was a chain smoker and ate all sorts of junk and drank a lot of hard liquor to boot. I changed my behavior by the age of 27 (my age of reason) and never looked back.
I had a lot of issues to fight through and won by changing my mental state. That in turn made me eat right and enjoy good food
Well I don’t drink soda. Lots of water, herbal tea, and lots of water. If you ever have kidney stones you’ll learn how great a motivator pain can be to make you change your habits! I’m stubborn and balk at giving up my bad habits, but when push comes to shove I finally yield (after a few shoves).
I’m thinking that maybe the best way to go about it is to try and not have so many snacks in the house to begin with. If they’re not conveniently available I won’t be so tempted to reach for them. Instead of shopping for a “month’s supply” if I need to go out for a “weeks supply” I think that should help matters.
I too have kidney stones, they started to be there when I was 16. Pain by the truckload. Mine are oxalic acid stones, so regular tea and especially green tea are out. I now drink a lot of the African Rooibos red tea, which is free of oxalic acid. Water water water as well.
Just like you say: do not have the stuff in the house. Good snacks are nuts, they satisfy and are loaded with healthy fats—not cashew nuts though, they have oxalic acid in them—especially for a person like you struggling with underweight. Really great is yogurt as well or some chunks of cheese. The calcium rich foods are good for people with kidney stones, the calcium binds up the oxalic acid and makes it too large that way to get absorbed by the body to make new stones.
I don’t eat meat every meal like I used to. But I usually eat at least one small portion a day. As far as making it the mainstay of a diet, I suppose it works for the Inuit. Then again, they live in a colder climate and need the fat for insulation and metabolic heat, and are probably more active just staying alive than I am at my busiest.
A woman I used to work with told how she grew up on a farm in Canada where they always had a big pile of eggs and bacon and potatoes (with butter and gravy) for breakfast, and nobody ever had any cholesterol problems. But, they had already been working for a few hours before breakfast, and continued to work long and hard for the rest of the day.
So I guess it all comes down to “balance”, which unfortunately for me is similar to “moderation”. I might eat catch as catch can when I’m extremely busy, and other days I pig out and do hardly anything.
Heh, jeez! I’m terrible! Last time I had vegetables?..I think I used to eat Corn like 4 years ago… I drink Innocent Smoothies everyday though so I get some of my 5-a-day of fruit! Does that get me some health points :D?
I’m always snacking on crisps too, I don’t eat chocolate much at all really or cakes or anything. Only junk food I have that I snack on is crisps. I’ll usually get an Italian B.M.T from my local Subway resturaunt and they’re healthy sandwhiches / baguettes.
As I’m typing this current sentence with one hand I’m gulping down some lovely ice cold Coca-Cola. I’m addicted to Coca-Cola. Like seriously addicted. But at the same time I do thoroughly brush my teeth and I probably drink more Milk then I do Coca-Cola. My parents won’t buy me Coca-Cola because they obviously discourage it so I have to buy it myself which doesn’t happen often, but when it does, I’ll often consume two large bottles within two days.
So definately Snacks > Vegetables for me at the current time. I used to eat vegetables everyday when I was younger but I don’t like any now. I’m sure I’ll acquire an appetite for them again one day in my twenties, I’m hoping!
pffft, who cares about what one eats. as long as you are in charge of your own life; who cares. as soon as you start listening to those flat belly experts;- they are in charge of your life, and not you.
says who? other people say it about you, or is this actually coming from your own mouth - without the influence of others?
I guess people would say I have lousy eating habits, but do i care? nah, I’m in charge of my own life, and i like it how it is. I also like snacks of all types, and i like it any time of day. I can wake up at night and eat a plate of chockolate and drink soda, and then go to bed again, or i can wake up and bake a cake to eat, or make pancakes or whatevah…
we also do this. (if i’m home)
we don’t eat much junk food here either, but come on… no bread, no butter… and what is these “bad things” you don’t eat?
i use to slice homemade butter and salted butter with a cheese slicer, and eat it right from the fridge, or put a lot of these slices on a sandwich, and then put a lot of fløtemysost on top of it. yummy
but, it is good. you should try it someday
same here, Ulrike
I smoked up to 60 cigarettes a day for 13 yrs, and have been drinking 2-4 pots of strong coffee every day for 18 yrs now, with no side effects at all (from the coffee)
i feel a lot better after quitting smoking, but it’s not as much better shape, than it is to feel better, smell better, better breath and not being troubled so much with sickness as i was while smoking.
Funny thing is, i really never enjoyed smoking haha
you’re an amateur :<
for about 10-11 yrs i only ate meat, but now i eat fish too from time to time… like cod tongues during the winter. that’ll put hair on your chest
milk is for MEN, and i drink a lot of it, every day.
nothing beats the feeling of doing hard labour to earn food on the table. i can’t imagine a life where i just sit there, and not push it to my limits from time to time.
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I can only speak for myself here, and I will do so.
as of today, i’ve been eating:
1 box of Pringles - Salt
1liter of chockolate ice cream
1 liter of soda (pepsi max)
2 pots of strong coffee
400 gram of chockolate
1 big plate of rice cream with strawberry
4 slices of bread, with fløtemysost, strawberry, and nougat
a big huge dinner consisting Christmas ribs, baked potatoes, baked carrots, onions, rice, sauerkraut, and a thick yummy homemade sauce - all specially made from casa del crazy
but the day ain’t over, so i will continue eating as long as i stay awake, or feel for it
I probably only live once, and i am not going to throw away my life being afraid, or on purpose limiting my life here in one way or another, just because some flat belly experts say it’s a no no
nor will i do it by pressure from my surroundings.
I can’t say i actually feel that smokers should run after the train, instead of sitting in it, and i can’t say i feel that fat people should be less happy than thin ones, nor can i see any benefits from chasing ghosts…
where is the problem and what is it - is it real, in your head, with you, or with the community or society, and who says it’s a problem. where is here, and where are we heading, and is Ahab, Ahab.
God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death.
i prefer living my life, not running away from it
no song unsung, no wine untasted!
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest–
…Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
well… that’s just my humble opinion…
now, i’m gonna eat more snacks while watching Dr House
Of course, how much you eat relates to how much physical work you do. Your today’s menu is a snack for a viking, but my stomach would be about to explode right there.
I make all baked goods from breads, cookies, pastries, cakes and pies, freeze them so they are ready when called for.
:tup:
I drink Innocent Smoothies everyday though so I get some of my 5-a-day of fruit! Does that get me some health points :D?