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Does anyone else find it hard to eat healthy?
- Thread starter BigToque
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giantpinkbunnyhead
Diamond Member
Tell me about it. For the past 18 weeks I've been putting in 70 hour weeks between work and a class. Luckily the class ends this week. But I've had no time to cook or even shop for food really, so I've been living off fast food and junk... I cant wait to have time to cook a good meal once again.
randomlinh
Lifer
I wholeheartedly agree. Not to mention I'm lazy.
AznAnarchy99
Lifer
Its mostly the lazy part for me =)
angminas
Diamond Member
It's very hard to eat healthy. Part of this is simply the difficulty of preserving healthy food as opposed to, say, candy. But I'd say most of it is just that most people don't want to eat healthy. They want to eat good-tasting crap (I plead guilty, though I'm trying to change). Therefore you can't produce healthy preprepared food in the quantities needed to keep the price reasonable. This means buying a lot of individual ingredients and spending a lot of time cooking them yourself, and knowing how to properly do both of those, which is where I stumble.
Not really. You can eat your healthy breakfast at home, eat a less than perfect lunch, and then eat a healthy dinner at home. Add in a shake or two, and you can stay under 2000 calories quite well. More or less depending on your weight or exercise patterns.
It really really really helps if you keep a food diary like Myfooddiary.com. Track all your liquids (lots of water, crystal light, or an occasional diet drink), all your condiments, cheese, and EVERYTHING you put in your mouth.
Yesterday I ate a tremendous amount of food -- I was completely full -- and I had to force myself to get to 1800 calories. I used to eat 4,000 or more calories a day and was always hungry. Now I run into almost not getting ENOUGH calories.
I've lost 9 pounds in 11 days...
It really really really helps if you keep a food diary like Myfooddiary.com. Track all your liquids (lots of water, crystal light, or an occasional diet drink), all your condiments, cheese, and EVERYTHING you put in your mouth.
Yesterday I ate a tremendous amount of food -- I was completely full -- and I had to force myself to get to 1800 calories. I used to eat 4,000 or more calories a day and was always hungry. Now I run into almost not getting ENOUGH calories.
I've lost 9 pounds in 11 days...
irishScott
Lifer
Meh. I'm on campus, so most of the food I eat at the dining hall in pretty nutritious (diced potatoes, roast, bread, fish, fruit, salad, etc). Although they do have Ice Cream that I also partake in.
Point being? I care nothing about strength and muscle loss right now. I won't start weight lifting for another month. Then I will care. Right now I do not. Nowhere did I say "9lbs of fat."
If I were lifting my diet would be heavier on protein and calories. I'm not lifting, so I only get about 120-140 grams of protein a day.
TanisHalfElven
Diamond Member
if you eat a good breakfast. a hunk of grilled meat at lunch, some salad and something you like at dinner you don't need to work hard to eat good. thats what i do and its really easy.
My typical day:
1 cup of cheerios & fat free yogurt (light and fit) (probably about $1.20)
1 Kashi Golean bar (200 calorie variety) ($.94 at Walmart)
45 minutes of cardio (treadmill and/or elliptical)
1 slice of plain pizza ($1.75)
1 fat free yogurt or low fat/high fiber granola bar ($1.00)
1 Lean Cuisine turkey or salisbury steak ($2.00 on sale)
1 bag microwave popcorn (94% fat free) ($.30)
Lost 54 lbs since last May 22nd. It really helps to keep all kinds of good food in the house and it also helps to have a fridge and microwave at my office and a supermarket across the street from my office. I'm 200lbs at the moment... trying to get down to 190lbs. (6 foot tall)
1 cup of cheerios & fat free yogurt (light and fit) (probably about $1.20)
1 Kashi Golean bar (200 calorie variety) ($.94 at Walmart)
45 minutes of cardio (treadmill and/or elliptical)
1 slice of plain pizza ($1.75)
1 fat free yogurt or low fat/high fiber granola bar ($1.00)
1 Lean Cuisine turkey or salisbury steak ($2.00 on sale)
1 bag microwave popcorn (94% fat free) ($.30)
Lost 54 lbs since last May 22nd. It really helps to keep all kinds of good food in the house and it also helps to have a fridge and microwave at my office and a supermarket across the street from my office. I'm 200lbs at the moment... trying to get down to 190lbs. (6 foot tall)
TanisHalfElven
Diamond Member
sorry but how tall are you.
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