20 Jun 2016, 11:28 am
21 Jun 2016, 10:09 am
underwater wrote:
Sounds like your diet is really high on meat, fat and processed carbs, which means you'll need to replace a lot of it with vegetables and some fruit. The challenge is really learning your vegetables and how to prepare them.
As someone mentioned, stir fries are excellent. You can stir fry just about any vegetable, and in my experience, stir frying reduces the need for meat, for some reason. Eating brown rice with it makes a big difference from eating white rice. If you can afford it, quinoa is really excellent for keeping you blood sugar stable.
One thing you might have to keep an eye on is cravings. If you are used to having a lot of fast carbs, and you suddenly cut them out, you can get some serious cravings that can manifest as a wish for alcohol. Since that is something you struggle with, you need to be mentally prepared for it. Once it passes, you'll feel a lot better. Also, eating a varied diet reduces cravings.
Don't be too hard on yourself if it isn't perfect from the start. Some people function better with making dramatic changes in their life, others need to change one habit at a time.
Making my own granola helps me start the day in a good way. This recipe is full of nuts and seeds, which give you lasting energy and minerals. I cut out the dried fruit (too sweet) and use olive oil instead of coconut oil (cheaper and healthier): http://www.cannellevanille.com/gluten-f ... la-recipe/ It of course doesn't need to be gluten free.
This blog has very good and reliable recipes. The blogger used to be a vegetarian, so she's got good recipes with vegetables. She also focuses on using normal equipment and ingredients, so that the recipes are possible to make in a small kitchen. http://smittenkitchen.com/
This blog is a real gem. The blogger posts very seldom. She seems to be a mad perfectionist. However, her recipes are excellent and focus on a lot on vegetables that grow well in the US, so they might be cheaper than imported or California-based vegetables. You can get a lot of food from squashes
Also, the roasted cabbage salad is simple and cheap: http://casayellow.com/
Sorry if I go on, as you can see this is a special interest
. That said, I know quite a few people who wanted to start cooking, and they all said the same thing; they didn't know where to start.
Bon appetit!
As someone mentioned, stir fries are excellent. You can stir fry just about any vegetable, and in my experience, stir frying reduces the need for meat, for some reason. Eating brown rice with it makes a big difference from eating white rice. If you can afford it, quinoa is really excellent for keeping you blood sugar stable.
One thing you might have to keep an eye on is cravings. If you are used to having a lot of fast carbs, and you suddenly cut them out, you can get some serious cravings that can manifest as a wish for alcohol. Since that is something you struggle with, you need to be mentally prepared for it. Once it passes, you'll feel a lot better. Also, eating a varied diet reduces cravings.
Don't be too hard on yourself if it isn't perfect from the start. Some people function better with making dramatic changes in their life, others need to change one habit at a time.
Making my own granola helps me start the day in a good way. This recipe is full of nuts and seeds, which give you lasting energy and minerals. I cut out the dried fruit (too sweet) and use olive oil instead of coconut oil (cheaper and healthier): http://www.cannellevanille.com/gluten-f ... la-recipe/ It of course doesn't need to be gluten free.
This blog has very good and reliable recipes. The blogger used to be a vegetarian, so she's got good recipes with vegetables. She also focuses on using normal equipment and ingredients, so that the recipes are possible to make in a small kitchen. http://smittenkitchen.com/
This blog is a real gem. The blogger posts very seldom. She seems to be a mad perfectionist. However, her recipes are excellent and focus on a lot on vegetables that grow well in the US, so they might be cheaper than imported or California-based vegetables. You can get a lot of food from squashes
Also, the roasted cabbage salad is simple and cheap: http://casayellow.com/Sorry if I go on, as you can see this is a special interest
. That said, I know quite a few people who wanted to start cooking, and they all said the same thing; they didn't know where to start.Bon appetit!
There is nothing wrong with meat and fat, provided it's healthy fat. Fat isn't the enemy of health, in fact your body needs fat for proper hormone function. Processed carbs are a problem however.
21 Jun 2016, 10:10 am
21 Jun 2016, 10:15 am
CommanderKeen wrote:
There is nothing wrong with meat and fat, provided it's healthy fat. Fat isn't the enemy of health, in fact your body needs fat for proper hormone function. Processed carbs are a problem however.
I seem to thrive on quality protein and fat, with carbs only from veggies and some fruits (mostly berries) and no gluten. My doctor keeps marvelling at my annual blood test results and says they show me 20 years younger
For me, eliminating gluten really did wonders for both mental and physical energy.
21 Jun 2016, 10:17 am
BenderRodriguez wrote:
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I seem to thrive on quality protein and fat, with carbs only from veggies and some fruits (mostly berries) and no gluten. My doctor keeps marvelling at my annual blood test results and says they show me 20 years younger
For me, eliminating gluten really did wonders for both mental and physical energy.
I seem to thrive on quality protein and fat, with carbs only from veggies and some fruits (mostly berries) and no gluten. My doctor keeps marvelling at my annual blood test results and says they show me 20 years younger
For me, eliminating gluten really did wonders for both mental and physical energy.
I actually heard that animal organs are very healthy to eat, not that I'm going to eat a cow heart anytime soon.
21 Jun 2016, 10:18 am
CommanderKeen wrote:
BenderRodriguez wrote:
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I seem to thrive on quality protein and fat, with carbs only from veggies and some fruits (mostly berries) and no gluten. My doctor keeps marvelling at my annual blood test results and says they show me 20 years younger
For me, eliminating gluten really did wonders for both mental and physical energy.
I seem to thrive on quality protein and fat, with carbs only from veggies and some fruits (mostly berries) and no gluten. My doctor keeps marvelling at my annual blood test results and says they show me 20 years younger
For me, eliminating gluten really did wonders for both mental and physical energy.
I actually heard that animal organs are very healthy to eat, not that I'm going to eat a cow heart anytime soon.
Eating liver is very common where I live, and I like it a lot. It's also very cheap.
Edit: with organs, the way they are cooked is crucial and can make the difference from disgusting to delicious.
21 Jun 2016, 12:02 pm
BenderRodriguez wrote:
CommanderKeen wrote:
There is nothing wrong with meat and fat, provided it's healthy fat. Fat isn't the enemy of health, in fact your body needs fat for proper hormone function. Processed carbs are a problem however.
I seem to thrive on quality protein and fat, with carbs only from veggies and some fruits (mostly berries) and no gluten. My doctor keeps marvelling at my annual blood test results and says they show me 20 years younger
For me, eliminating gluten really did wonders for both mental and physical energy.
I thrive on pretty much the same diet - perhaps with more veggies.
I absolutely agree with you, CommanderKeen. I've been paying attention to the metastudies that show no positive health effects from having a low fat diet. That said, the quality of fat is important. Firstly, the ratio between saturated and unsaturated fats, and secondly how the fat has been treated. In the case of a diet rich in fast food, what you'll get is a too high percentage of saturated fats, and those fats, because they are heated and reheated at high temperatures, tend to be of lower quality and containing more carcinogens than if one were to replace some meat with wild fish, nuts/seeds and olive oil that hasn't been subjected to very high temperatures (keep in mind that a lot of olive oil isn't really olive oil - rape seed oil is also a good alternative).
I've been looking into which cultures actually manage to stay skinny even though they have a high standard of living, and technically should be ready to gorge. Both the French and the Japanese are pretty good at staying skinny. Part of that is that they eat small portions and don't overdo the sweets. Also they eat a very varied diet rich in fruit and vegetables and have very high standards for freshness. They also walk a lot. The big difference is that the Japanese diet is rich in seafood, whereas the French diet has always been high in saturated fat. Yet both countries manage to stay skinny and have long lives.
One thing that might be influencing weight gain in the industrialized world though, is that the fat balance in meat is being disturbed by feeding the animals soy and corn instead of grass.
Because research on nutrition is notoriously unreliable, I try to copy people who seem to know what they are doing rather than marry a scientific theory that might later be disproved. One thing nutrition research is clear on, though, is that our bodies are much more successful at extracting nutrients from real food than from vitamin supplements.
21 Jun 2016, 11:42 pm
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23 Jun 2016, 6:16 am
Deconstructed salad
23 Jun 2016, 6:26 am
goatfish57 wrote:
Deconstructed salad
That looks really delicious!
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