Today I had a chicken breast with some white rice and an entire avocado. 4 hard boiled eggs at 9 for breakfast. The entire avocado is a little overkill but I’ve been cranking in a lot of fat lately to dial back my appetite. It works.
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Hdl: 67, other one was 45. I’m not far behind Fry.
I have my one cheat meal a week, every Friday for breakfast
tomorrow morning - Break n Egg on Main St. - Strawberry & Nutella Crepe AHHHH!
easiest way to eat healthy… shop on the outside perimeter of the grocery store…stay out of the isles
all i eat is chicken/lean beef,steak… salmon/tuna… eggs,milk, greek yogurt, cottage cheese ( I love dairy and can’t stay away from it,but it’s high in protein) asparagus, broc, carrots,banana,apple,pineapple.
it’s routine…but, I switch up spices/ reciepes etc…
My approach as well. Maintaining a 40lb weight loss for over 2 years now, with no effort. Primal Blueprint FTW.
I bought a juicer, and have been going through an insane amount of produce every week.
I buy 10 pounds of carrots every week, 7 cucumbers, 16 green apples, and 4 bundles of kale.
My daily drink is 4-5 carrots, 1 cucumber, 2 green apples, and a good amount of kale. That replaces breakfast, I get about 24 ounces of real juice.
Also I moved down to Austin, so I have been doing more walking and just better living. I waxed my car yesterday in the driveway in flip flops when it was 70 degrees.
How much money is that though to buy all that produce?
You’re HDL was 67? Damn, you’re kicking my ass. You’re going to live to 150. (Which I really think we’ll see someone do within the next 200 years.)
What was 45? That’s really low for LDL’s. Maybe triglycerides?
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Great advice. I never noticed how all the shit’s in the middle of the store. By the time I leave the produce/meat corner I’m 90% done with my shopping.
Mark Sisson’s legit. :tup:
Nice. Living in a healthier atmosphere with nice sunny weather will have a big effect on your health. There’s nothing worse than living in a place where people expect you to have an excuse for taking care of yourself. “Why are you on a diet you’re not fat?!” “Sorry your fat slovenly ass feels threatened, but I’m not fat because I take care of myself bitch.” But anyhow, people don’t get that things like sunshine and stress show up directly in your body composition and blood chemistry. The head bone’s connected to the… stress bone…
veggies are cheap. buy fruits when they are in season. Its not bad really.
Solid advice, though if you can swing it it might be worthwhile to throw all that stuff in a Vitamix instead of a juicer. All the fruit/vegetable pulp you’re throwing out is a waste of good fiber.
lol why not just fucking eat it? You don’t really need to start your day with 10 pounds of veggies unless you like shitting like an elephant. A protein packed breakfast (i.e. bacon eggs and coffee) is better for you anyway. Liquid calories are a great way to cock-block fat loss.
I just mean in general throwing away the pulp is a waste, plus fruit/vegetable smoothies aren’t just for breakfast. Add in a scoop of whey and they make a great post workout drink. Plus you can add things like avocado in there to get a good fat content going.
I changed my diet up pretty good after the health scare I have going on. Lots more fruits/veggies, lot less refined sugars and grains. (Still eating grains, just the unrefined, whole grains instead of processed). I haven’t had soda/pop in weeks; I’m drinking Mio/Water like it’s going out of style though, I’m probably drinking 6-8 750ml bottles a day.
Between the diet change and starting Power 90, I’m down 4+# in 2 weeks, and am already visibly and physically noticing a difference.
Good ideas. :tup:
Be careful with that stuff, friend of mine was all about Mio for a month straight and then he started getting pretty serious upset stomach, went away after he stopped drinking it.
All good things in moderation. :tup:
I’ll jump in here. Little background first. I’ve never really treated my body well with regards to food intake. Never severely overweight, but was starting to get to an uncomfortable point about 2 years ago. I’m 6’0" and peaked at a little over 218 in July '11. Went through a bunch of stress over the following months, which dropped me down to about 193 by Sept '11. Stress loss is bad. Sure, if I only sleep 2 hours a night and not eat, I’m going to lose weight. But, sorted out a lot of stuff, shed the stress, did a little life-restructuring, but also started gaining weight little by little. By the end of November last year, I was very close to 206. It was time to get serious. GF and I were already going to the gym, but that was just enough to stabilize the gain for both of us. On the morning of Sunday 12/2, we had our last “normal” breakfast. Egg, cheese, pig, onion, pepper, bread strata. And that night our lives changed.
We decided to do a 28 day food cleanse. The long and short of it for week 1. No wheat, no gluten, no dairy, no meat. All fresh vegetables, pureed squash soups, beets, kale, raw nuts, some fruit. I’ll put this right out there…it was fucking excruciating for the first 3 days in a bunch of ways. Headaches, fatigue, etc. The detox process sucked. Dinners were no longer something we looked forward to. Before we started this program, the dinners we would make would typically be pretty epic, as we’re both really into cooking. Now, after roasting and pureeing a nice squash, carrot, apple soup, we would literally stand at the kitchen counter and just shove it down.
Over the next few weeks, other things would be incorporated. Finally had our first fish about 2 weeks in, and it was the best fish ever.
Here’s the interesting thing. After about 4 days, energy levels went through the roof, and weight was flying off. By the end of the 2nd week, I was down 12 pounds, felt amazing. We slowly incorporated more proteins, and are now pretty strictly on a paleo diet. So, basically, if you could have eaten it 10k years ago, you can eat it now.
Now, some notes:
Here are two of the sites we followed for recipes for the first month.
Food Challenge
I can promise you, this was not easy for the first 3 weeks. The payoff was/is worth it. I feel better now than I have in over 15 years.
Down to 191 pounds, and haven’t hit the gym in over a month. That will change this weekend.
They’re even worse. Most of the nasties are in the bran. Sounds like you have some sort of congenital structural issue so I don’t know how much diet really matters for you more than for anyone else, but I’d still be ditching the wheat and jamming the fish oil and vitamin d3 to drive out as much inflammation as possible.
As for mio, I’m looking for an ingredients list… OK Found it… Water, citric acid, propylene glycol, malic acid and some artificial sweeteners, dyes, and preservatives. That doesn’t really sound too scary though I like to pretend that I know way more than I do. Maybe not good for the long term but if it keeps you hydrating then go with it.
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Flawless.
The grain intake is down a TON lower than it was before, so all being equal, I’m eating markedly less period.
The Mio I use to add a little flavor, just need something, I hate plain water (except bottled Dasani for some reason). I figure the Mio is 1000x better than juices or soda, etc. As for the stomach issues, I’ve had GERD for YEARS, but it’s under control with 2x a day meds.
Diet for me is due to pre-hypertension being found at the same time. Diet/weight loss first, and if that doesn’t work, then I gotta go on med, which I don’t want to do!!!
To each his own, but I can’t imagine taking medicine twice a day for something that can usually be fixed with proper diet. A lot of people get rid of gerd by going on a really low carb (basically ketogenic, non cyclical) reset period for a few weeks to starve out the nasty bacteria population that cause the reflux. Then eating non-irritating foods thereafter so it doesn’t come back.
I’m no nutritionist so I’ll shut up after this, but between the heart thing and the twice-daily GERD medicine it kind of sounds like you’re on the sick end of the scale that would benefit tremendously from taking like 20g of fish oil a day while doing a super strict full balls to the wall autoimmune paleo protocol month-long reset.
Here’s a couple of books I’ll put out there and then I’ll stop trying to give advice that you probably don’t want. Sorry. I’m getting as bad as a vegan. Not a Newman vegan either. The obnoxious let me tell you all about my veganism vegan. I swear I don’t talk about this shit in real life. 
Paleo solution http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844
Wheat Belly http://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health/dp/1609611543/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359733748&sr=1-1&keywords=wheat+belly
Heartburn Cured http://www.amazon.com/Heartburn-Cured-Norm-Robillard/dp/0976642506?tag=vglnk-c301-20
Good Calories Bad Calories http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359733853&sr=1-1&keywords=good+calories+bad
Or you could just cruise a few blogs
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/gerd-symptoms-causes-natural-remedies/#axzz2JfAocapV
I’m an engineer not a doctor or a nutritionist, just a bit of a nutrition geek so I get excited about passing along stuff I’ve learned. Follow your doctors order over what I say and all that blah blah blah.
OK I’m out!
Completely agree!