Healthy food you can eat lots of!

Edrof

Edrof

Edrof

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Hi sports dudes!

I want to lose about a stone and a half, but after trying a few diets I've realised that I just love food and run to it when I feel knackered (which is often as I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and look after my 22-month-old daughter during most days, then stay up to get some of my own work done). So, I want to embrace food rather than banish it, but start cutting out the rubbish.

So...I'm looking for two types of food (or simple meals):

1) Snacky food that I can eat in between meals to stave off hunger and the temptation to grab crisp badness.

2) Healthy food for picking me up off the floor after being out and about (which often leaves me utterly exhausted). This situation is the worst, really as my body seems to crave rubbish like cola or chocolate. I've been successfully swapping them for bananas of late, but is there anything better?

I've searched for a similar thread as I thought this would be fairly common, but to no avail, so apologies if this has been covered somewhere.

Any input appreciated, thanks guys!

Matt
 
Forde said:
1) Snacky food that I can eat in between meals to stave off hunger and the temptation to grab crisp badness.
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Nuts, fruit. I like celery + carrots as well because the time + effort that it takes to eat them makes it feel like like you're eating more than you actually are.

Forde said:
2) Healthy food for picking me up off the floor after being out and about
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FIG ROLLS!! :D
 
Bananas are a good start, as is getting rid of the sugary crap from your diet.

A balanced diet with proteins, carbs and vitamins/minerals will really help with the energy levels. I have no knowledge or experience of Arthritis or how it affects your energy, but a good start is coming up with a food diary for the coming week, plan your meals out, and stick to it (harder than it sounds) so that you get into the habit of doing it.

Whole wheat pastas, brown rice, lean meats or quorn even if you can put up with the bland taste, and vegetables especially broccoli. As for snacks, things like fruit and nut mixes, wasabi peas are quite good, monkey nuts or brazil nuts are great for protein & selenium, drink plenty of water - if you think you're drinking too much you're probably not, and move to green/jasmine tea if you like hot drinks.
 
Be careful with fruit, lots and lots of sugar. Like anything, too much of anything is as bad as choosing bad things to start with.

How many kcals are you taking in at the moment and when you diet, how many do you drop?
 
Dried fruit (or trail mix) fills a gap when bananas get a bit too much to swallow.
 
I just snack on Nuts between meals. By yourself a big bag they do work just make sure you get the right nuts
 
utajoker said:
not sure, ive watched 90% of mythbusters and dont recall it :p
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I think its something to do with the thermal effect of food generally only burning 10% of the kcals of the food being consumed. chewing doesnt really burn many kcals at all, especially not with something like celery, so I'd bet that 50-80% of the kcals in celery actually stay in you (before being crapped out or stored etc)
 
maybe you are not eating enough when having a meal and thats why your body craves for the junk food with high calories/sugar.
 
Nuts are great, fat and protein, fibre, all make you feel full and are packed with other good stuff for you.

Coke is bad, if its sugar coke then its very bad for sugar rush, sugar comedown and then being hungry and needing more sugar, if its diet, still not great for you and I always got the feeling (with problems in most of my joints aswell) that my joints did better the less coke I drink.

I'd also recommend protein shakes, because they are cheap, easy, quick and almost no effort when you're knackered, very healthy for you, and they fill you up really well.

As for other things, its not necessarily great to eat lots of wholemeal carbs, but its a lot better to eat a lot of wholemeal carbs than heavily processed ones.

A quick scrambled egg's, again healthy, quick and easy, fairly easy to add flavour, a bit of veg, or a bunch of chilli's, or a bit of ketchup.
 
Zefan said:
I recently got some of this for a snack while driving and my god, yes yes yes. I was surprised at how low calorie it is, not cheap though :p
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This. And billtong (can get on bodybuildingwarehouse.co.uk). However they're both very expensive for what they are.
 
Since whe did a protein shake fill someone up?
1 scoop is about 120kcal, that's less than most packets of crisps and less than 2 half decent biscuits.
That won't fill you up, if anything it will make you more hungry ime
 
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