Eating healthier.

Eating healthy = cut out the processed foods and takeaways, cook from scratch, no diet plan required.
Just eat real food.
 
I eat fairly healthy and rarely buy takeaways. 2 years ago i decided to stop eating bread, I have almost completely removing it from my diet now. I just need to swap potatoes for sweet potatoes now.
 
Beerbaron said:
I just need to swap potatoes for sweet potatoes now.
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White potato is just as good, higher in starch which is good for muscle glycogen replenishment, but depending on how you prepare the potatoes some of the starch can become resistant and act as a powerful prebiotic for the butyrate/SCFA producing bacteria of the gut.
 
Freefaller said:
Protein and complex carbs are a great way of keeping you full - proteins and fats satiate the appetite really well. Sweets get processed very quickly (I won't bore you with the science), hence the crash you get after them and the fact they don't keep you full.

Eating healthier is easy, the first thing you have to do is accept it. Then you have to remove the poor food choices from your diet (like starbucks, and chocolate).

You can introduce them back in once in a while as a treat once you have got to the stage where you feel healthier.

If you're REALLY interested in benchmarking your health, you could get your doctor to do a full blood and health analysis, they'll measure all sorts of things and can help guide you as to where you're deficient in and what you're already doing well - but I accept that most people aren't able to do this.

Then start logging your food. All of it. Even every cup of water, tea, orange juice. Apps like MyFitnessPal work well for this. It takes a little effort to get set up, but in due course it becomes easier (especially with the bar code scanning facility - but that assumes you buy foods which come with barcode, which defeats the objective of eating healthily IMO :p).

Once you're aware of what you're eating (log this over a few weeks to get a fair average), you can then start to identify what you want/need to cut out and you can share it with us so we can tell you what is and isn't good.

Diet is not just about food, it's about lifestyle - it's quite something to turn around but entirely possible. :)
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Freefaller, I'm on a protein diet to help me lose weight (while going to the gym) my daily lunch consists of chicken breast and leafy vegetables. I eat raw red cabbage with it as well but if I buy pickled red cabbage is that going to be really detrimental or will it have little impact?
 
Deep said:
Freefaller, I'm on a protein diet to help me lose weight (while going to the gym) my daily lunch consists of chicken breast and leafy vegetables. I eat raw red cabbage with it as well but if I buy pickled red cabbage is that going to be really detrimental or will it have little impact?
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I take it you mean you're on a high protein low carb diet? If so don't forget you need to keep your fats high as well or else you'll feel rubbish.
Pickled cabbage will be fine, although I'd maybe mix some raw and pickled in.
 
tom_e said:
I take it you mean you're on a high protein low carb diet? If so don't forget you need to keep your fats high as well or else you'll feel rubbish.
Pickled cabbage will be fine, although I'd maybe mix some raw and pickled in.
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Yep that's it.
I've pretty much cut carbs out.

I have a lot of fats with my dinner (steak/pork/chicken)
 
Anyone got breakfast ideas, instant or make night before.
Atm it's pretty much canned fish, protein shake or some roasted chicken.
Something I can just pick up and eat at work.

Non work days are fine, eggs with spinach and tomatoes and things like that.
 
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