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[Sana_mia]

Ah but what is junk food? When I talk of eating a pizza it involves making the dough, cooking the sauce from scratch and throwing on the grill to heat the pizza stone. A process that takes at least 4 hours. Haven't eaten junk food out of cans or plastic in 10 years.
And pizza or burgers have become rare as they involve hour long processes of making bread first.

Ah well I shall talk to misses fruit diet stuff on my appointment next week. Before that I will try some decent food, let's see how hard it is to calculate calories... 300gr potatoes <285 300gr sirloin =400... Hey That seems easy. now to set up an excel sheet and feed it with raw ingredients....
I could make a data base and just feed it with my recipes while cooking then automatically calculate every meal and subtract it from a given calorie count.
Now add in a weight scale and a few graphs... OH and pie charts it needs a pie chart to calculate how much pie one can eat *g*

 

[volsung]

Since my wife is a celiac and we had to go gluten free we've been baking and cooking most of what we eat, and we rarely eat out. I agree with @Sanamia, a good home made pizza is not really junk food. A little heavy maybe, but definitely not your average grease dripping, cheap cheese on bread shit.

We make our own crust, our own sauce, and normally top generously with a combination of olives, fresh cheese, fresh herbs, fresh artisan sausage, organic tomatoes, and so on.

This applies to other delicious meals that are borderline treats, they can be much healthier when home made.

 

[Sardukhar]

Junk food is any food that doesn't have primarily health benefits. Combine simple carbs and fats and voila, junk food. Includes cakes and mousses that take hours to cook, as well as ice cream from the pail. Nearly anything with refined sugar, for example. How quickly you get access to the food isn't the determiner of whether it's junk or not.

Alcohol, for example, is one of the first things to go. A glass of wine or beer once a week - counts as part of a cheat meal, typically.

Potatoes are not a great choice. They are a starch and a heavy carb source. Eat them in moderation and preferably never with fats like butter or fatty meats.

Pizza is pretty much always junk food. It's just too calorie heavy and combines carbs with fats. Fatty meats, fatty cheeses, etc.

You'll know your diet is working when it is working and you can live with it.

 

[SerieLis]

Stop with the loud noises i just woke up...don't make go back to hell...

 

[Mataresa]

You people ruin all the food with your diets. I am getting fed up, just hearing about you thinking, what you are allowed to eat and what not. Food, I feel you. You need more love from them.

 

[ReptilePZ]

Suck it, Rep. Suck it hard.

Ooooh, are you propositioning me?

 

[freakie1one]

You people ruin all the food with your diets. I am getting fed up, just hearing about you thinking, what you are allowed to eat and what not. Food, I feel you. You need more love from them.

I think food intake requires a balance if a person wants to maintain a somewhat healthy lifestyle and reduce health problems from being overweight. It's not very hard for me to do this because I've always eaten mostly for necessity and not out of boredom; in other words: I eat only when I need to which helps to avoid excessive amounts of calories my body can't use which would be stored as fat. I basically follow Sard's recommendation of eating several small meals but usually I have one larger meal a day when I come home from work (since I've burnt a lot of calories while working). This helps me to avoid feeling hungry and craving to eat just for the sake of it.

Of course the other important aspect of staying in decent shape is some form of cardio exercise several times a week for at least 30 minute durations. The human body is designed around being hunter/gatherers; it's designed to be up on two feet, moving, walking or jogging for extended periods of time. Most people's metabolisms are based upon this fact so when a person doesn't do any cardio exercise the body stores the extra calories which would normally be spent moving around. Again, it's all about balance.

It is very hard and less beneficial to lose weight with diet alone. Exercise is equally important.

 

[StaGiors]

The problem for me to maintain a healthy diet is cooking.

I tried eating really healthy for like 2 months, combined with daily exercise (1 and a half hours of swimming). I ate a lot, about 5-6 meals a day, 2 of them kind of large, since I wanted to gain some weight. It worked, I gained like about 5 Kg.

But then I really got tired of cooking and eating the same food.

I mean my main courses were either, pasta with tomato/onion sauce and tons of Mozzarella cheese, brown rice with tuna or chicken, or chicken with broccoli and two slices of bread. And I had to eat two of those per day. So yeah.

Cooking anything else that I know, takes too damn long.

 

[freakie1one]

The problem for me to maintain a healthy diet is cooking.

I tried eating really healthy for like 2 months, combined with daily exercise (1 and a half hours of swimming). I ate a lot, about 5-6 meals a day, 2 of them kind of large, since I wanted to gain some weight. It worked, I gained like about 5 Kg.

But then I really got tired of cooking and eating the same food.

I mean my main courses were either, pasta with tomato/onion sauce and tons of Mozzarella cheese, brown rice with tuna or chicken, or chicken with broccoli and two slices of bread.

Cooking anything else that I know, takes too damn long.

There are literally hundreds of recipes which take less than an hour to prepare which are relatively healthy. Soups, hearty salads with meats/nuts/fruits, casseroles, etc. Anyone with internet access also has access to all of these recipes

 

[StaGiors]

There are literally hundreds of recipes which take less than an hour to prepare which are relatively healthy. Soups, hearty salads with meats/nuts/fruits, casseroles, etc. Anyone with internet access also has access to all of these recipes

No I agree, I guess I kind of got too comfortable with what I was making. I am a student, so I also have to be aware of how much money I spend. Also my cooking equipment is not really.. advanced. My oven does not work. Guess I'll have to research some more, since I'm starting to eat healthy again, now that my exam period is almost over and I have more time. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up. Well I will if I want to long-distance hike this summer.

 

[freakie1one]

No I agree, I guess I kind of got too comfortable with what I was making. I am a student, so I also have to be aware of how much money I spend. Guess I'll have to research some more, since I'm starting to eat healthy again, now that my exam period is almost over and I have more time. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up. Well I will if I want to long-distance hike this summer.

Yeah, I think one of the hardest parts for anyone is breaking the initial bad habits while maintaining enough willpower to replace the bad habits with good. After good habits are formed then it becomes much easier since you no longer have to try anymore; doing so will become a part of your normal daily lifestyle.

 

[Sephira]

It also sucks when everyone in your house is on diet and you are not, resulting in you eating home made lasagne and your parents eating minestrone.

 

[freakie1one]

It also sucks when everyone in your house is on diet and you are not, resulting in you eating home made lasagne and your parents eating minestrone.

Yum, lasagne and minestrone are delicious! *pounds table with fists* Barkeep! I'd like to order both.

 

[PrincessCiri]

Ugh need a break from my diet... need to rethink this whole thing. If I have to eat another piece of fruit in the next ten years I might as well kill myself.

Managed 5 days on a fruit, salad and barely any meat regime... How can anyone survive that way. damn I want a steak and a pizza and pork and bacon and eggs. Also I feel like punching people in the face... Screw it I'm going to eat some decent food, I have a schnitzel or five frozen.

Although what you eat is important in a diet, the amount you eat is far more important. My parents both did a long term diet that helped them both lose a lot of weight, and become more healthy (my mum is now able to run 15km without stopping!!!) And their diet was that you could eat whatever you wanted, as long as you only had 1000 (or 1500 for men) calories. You only had to do this diet 2-3 times a week, and the other days you could eat normally, and week by week you slowly lose pounds. It's not a diet for impatient people but it seemed to me like a sensible, healthy way to diet. Instead of just starving yourself or living off fruit

 

[wichat]

 

[Tjerra]

Although what you eat is important in a diet, the amount you eat is far more important. My parents both did a long term diet that helped them both lose a lot of weight, and become more healthy (my mum is now able to run 15km without stopping!!!) And their diet was that you could eat whatever you wanted, as long as you only had 1000 (or 1500 for men) calories. You only had to do this diet 2-3 times a week, and the other days you could eat normally, and week by week you slowly lose pounds. It's not a diet for impatient people but it seemed to me like a sensible, healthy way to diet. Instead of just starving yourself or living off fruit

So that's propably why I lost so much weight during my exchange year - I wasn't intending to do so, though I was overweight before, and I just forgot to eat sometimes, because I was doing different things or were sleeping or just ate a heavy meal late in the afternoon, so I went to sleep without supper ... Rest of the time I was just eating normal Polish food, which is quite heavy in calories, and LOTS of sweets and I always wondered why I lost like 15kg in ten months without doing extra sport (actually, I wasn't doing any sports at all. Just like back home). Never realized having less calories than normal 3-4 times a week would cause such an effect.

 

[ReptilePZ]

Yeah, I will put up with a lot of shit, just don't mess with my food and sleep.

 

[wichat]

Weirdly I always lose weight when I spent severals days far from my couch

 

[dragonbird]

No I agree, I guess I kind of got too comfortable with what I was making. I am a student, so I also have to be aware of how much money I spend. Also my cooking equipment is not really.. advanced. My oven does not work. Guess I'll have to research some more, since I'm starting to eat healthy again, now that my exam period is almost over and I have more time. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up. Well I will if I want to long-distance hike this summer.

Do you have access to a freezer? I use a slow cooker a LOT, and cheap meat actually works better than the expensive stuff. Just throw everything in, with a lot of vegetables and an interesting sauce, leave it cooking all day. You can cook enough for about four or five meals easily, eat what you want, freeze the rest. A week's food for about 30 minutes work.

 

[wichat]

OMG!!! I feel proud and I don't know why!!

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That relation started with a cup of coffee 6 years ago.... awwww!

It seems it was yesterday... and that's thank of all of you.

Kisses.