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gururu2

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I've changed my diet this year, trying to incorporate as many new healthful foods as possible. Some foods have completely changed the way I feel and have improved the quality of my day. I've listed them below. Anyone want to share what they eat regularly and why?

Mine:
2 raw eggs (morning/energy)
kefir (morning or after nap; sometimes middle of night/immediate feeling of wellness)
ensure (morning/energy)
pineapple juice (with dinner/digestion)
pinto beans (lunch or dinner/appetite)
mixed green salad (dinner/appetite)
4 slices of whole wheat bread (dessert/regularity)


 
Removing all the processed "food products" from my diet and focusing almost entirely on unprocessed/raw/whole foods has made a big difference in my life. Feel free to read about it in my diet experiment thread. If anything, you'll hopefully realize that self proclaimed "health foods" - that is, most foods that have health claims on their labels - are likely inferior to just plan, natural food (which usually has no packaging/label).
 
Originally posted by: KingGheedora
why do you eat your eggs raw?

Also, wheat bread as dessert??
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Raw eggs actually have proteins that bind to your biotin, which is an essential vitamin in the body. If you cook the eggs, these proteins are denatured so that binding doesn't happen. I always cook my eggs for this reason.
 
Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Originally posted by: KingGheedora
why do you eat your eggs raw?

Also, wheat bread as dessert??
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Raw eggs actually have proteins that bind to your biotin, which is an essential vitamin in the body. If you cook the eggs, these proteins are denatured so that binding doesn't happen. I always cook my eggs for this reason.
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I'll spread a little bit of jam on the wheat bread and eat with milk. Its very tasty!
Eggs are loaded with biotin, more than enough to tie up all the avidin and give you some to boot.
I eat them raw because I've noticed that give me a faster perk and seem to keep me more energetic before lunch than if I cook. Don't ask me why its weird.

Unprocessed or raw foods would be ideal for me, however it is hard to do because you have to shop so frequently. The nice thing about packaged foods is that they are vacuum sealed or relatively unexposed to the environment so they last longer.
 
black beans > pinto beans

I like mine over brown rice with diced tomatoes, onions and grilled chicken. Homemade burrito bowl, mmmm.
 
Originally posted by: gururu2
Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Originally posted by: KingGheedora
why do you eat your eggs raw?

Also, wheat bread as dessert??
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Raw eggs actually have proteins that bind to your biotin, which is an essential vitamin in the body. If you cook the eggs, these proteins are denatured so that binding doesn't happen. I always cook my eggs for this reason.
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I'll spread a little bit of jam on the wheat bread and eat with milk. Its very tasty!
Eggs are loaded with biotin, more than enough to tie up all the avidin and give you some to boot.
I eat them raw because I've noticed that give me a faster perk and seem to keep me more energetic before lunch than if I cook. Don't ask me why its weird.

Unprocessed or raw foods would be ideal for me, however it is hard to do because you have to shop so frequently. The nice thing about packaged foods is that they are vacuum sealed or relatively unexposed to the environment so they last longer.
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Eggs are loaded with biotin... that gets bound to the avidin and remains useless. Think about it.
 
1 cup milk + ON Whey Protein & a banana
Can of Goya Black Bean Soup & a whole wheat roll & a banana
Can of Goya Black Bean Soup & a whole wheat roll & a banana

this diet took me from 240 lbs. to 190 lbs in 5 months. It's the only low calorie diet that has been able to keep me satiated enough to prevent excessive cheating (I did still cheat a bit, but nowhere near as much as I did with other diets). My old shirts look like moo-moos when I wear them now.

I'm getting close to my target weight, so I've diversified the fruit a little (changed to banana, apple, orange instead of 3 bananas) and I'm adding salad and frozen vegetables. I'm hoping the small increase in calories won't cause me start gaining again, and at some point I need to get meat back into the diet, I just haven't figured out the best way to do it yet.
 
Originally posted by: gururu2
Unprocessed or raw foods would be ideal for me, however it is hard to do because you have to shop so frequently.
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I'm not sure what you consider "frequently", but I shop once a week on average. Most fresh produce lasts that long and a lot of items (such as meat, chicken & fish) can be frozen for quite a bit longer.

Originally posted by: gururu2
The nice thing about packaged foods is that they are vacuum sealed or relatively unexposed to the environment so they last longer.
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A big reason why packaged foods last longer is because all the nutrients & healthy stuff has been processed out of them, so there is nothing to spoil. In other words, even the vermin/bacteria aren't interested in it 🙂

Originally posted by: syzygy
what do you regard as a processed food ?
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That's a good question and the answer is not that trivial. I personally like the rules of thumb Michael Pollan lists in the book In Defense of Food. They are not perfect and yes, you have to use your own judgment, but they are definitely a good starting point. I recommend reading the book, but here are a few of them:

* Anything your great-grandparents (or anyone who grew up sufficiently long ago) wouldn't recognize as food.

* Anything with excessively long ingredients lists or ingredients that include manufactured/unrecognizable/unpronounceable chemicals (HFCS, sucralose, preservatives, etc). For example, real bread is primarily made out of whole wheat flour, yeast, water and salt. Wonder bread has an ingredient list with 30+ items, including HFCS, lots of dough conditioners and a bunch of other stuff you probably won't recognize.

* Anything that doesn't rot.

* Anything in a colorful package covered with health claims.
 
The best results come from a consistent healthy diet. Once I changed to a fully-healthy diet instead of a sometimes-healthy diet, my health life improved dramatically. I felt way better and had waaaay more energy. By consistent I mean, you eat whatever you want like once a week, and eat healthy the rest of the time.

Like brikis98 said, getting rid of the processed foods helped a lot. I switched to oatmeal, homemade sandwiches, salads, wraps, and other brown-bagging options. I eat like a king, and my food budget is less than $200 a month now. I have salmon, steak, bbq chicken, all kinds of good stuff.

One of my big stumbling blocks was that eating healthy meant no more fun food and hard work. In reality, it's super easy and tastes really good. I only spend about 20 minutes a day cooking, then I'm done for the whole day!
 
No sodium added sardines and canned Alaskan salmon have been great for when I don't feel like cooking (and they have superlong shelf life). Egg whites. Protein Factory lean gain custom mix. Chicken w/ avocado+ whole wheat wraps. Pears, Apples, beans, almonds, mueslix, edamame, and broccoli florets are all part of my daily diet.
 
Here is my recommendation list:

Old fashioned oatmeal
Chicken breast
Brown rice (slow cooked)
Salmon
Shrimp/lobster
vegetables/fruits
nuts (almonds, walnuts)
 
Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

What's wrong with spinach? Vitamin K? Iron? Lots more?
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A popular way to eat spinach these days is in a salad, which means spinach consumed in this way is as good as lettuce (very high fluid content). Of course, this works both ways: this means that if steamed, an weight of spinach will be much more nutrient dense than other greens.

Regardless, it's a pretty poor source of iron and calcium, particularly because most of these are bound up and not available for absorption (and calcium decreases iron absorption).

A decent leafy green, but there are better options out there. My two cents.
 
Originally posted by: brikis98
Removing all the processed "food products" from my diet and focusing almost entirely on unprocessed/raw/whole foods has made a big difference in my life. Feel free to read about it in my diet experiment thread. If anything, you'll hopefully realize that self proclaimed "health foods" - that is, most foods that have health claims on their labels - are likely inferior to just plan, natural food (which usually has no packaging/label).
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what's wrong with whey protein?
 
Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
Originally posted by: brikis98
Removing all the processed "food products" from my diet and focusing almost entirely on unprocessed/raw/whole foods has made a big difference in my life. Feel free to read about it in my diet experiment thread. If anything, you'll hopefully realize that self proclaimed "health foods" - that is, most foods that have health claims on their labels - are likely inferior to just plan, natural food (which usually has no packaging/label).
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what's wrong with whey protein?
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I posted exactly about this in my journal, so I'll just copy/paste my response here:

Nothing wrong with whey in particular, but I'm just trying to cut out processed foods from my diet. I'm guessing it takes a lot of processing to produce ultra filtered whey protein isolate and most protein powders have random ingredients added (artificial flavors, sucralose, acesulfame K, etc). If I can adjust my diet to get enough protein without the shakes, than I'll probably be healthier for it in the end. It's still something I'm getting used to - shakes offer the undeniable convenience of being able to down some fast absorbing protein within minutes of a workout - but hopefully I can make it work.
 
Originally posted by: gururu2
I've changed my diet this year, trying to incorporate as many new healthful foods as possible. Some foods have completely changed the way I feel and have improved the quality of my day. I've listed them below. Anyone want to share what they eat regularly and why?

Mine:
2 raw eggs (morning/energy)
kefir (morning or after nap; sometimes middle of night/immediate feeling of wellness)
ensure (morning/energy)
pineapple juice (with dinner/digestion)
pinto beans (lunch or dinner/appetite)
mixed green salad (dinner/appetite)
4 slices of whole wheat bread (dessert/regularity)
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your diet is similar to mine, though i suppose i use fish where you use eggs.

pre-workout breakfast - 2 or 3 pieces whole wheat bread + coffee + 1-2 pints water

after workout meal - 3 to 5 different fruits, always including banana & orange.

(then i brush my teeth to remove the sugars)

lunch - 2 sources protein, e.g. bacon + tilapia fish.

i have also experimented with eating earthworms for a protein source, as part of survival training that started with a friend's dare. i'm working my way up to a full 1/4 pound. the first time was rather sickening but since then, not a big deal. 2 the first time, 5 the second time, doubling the amount each time.

also with lunch - about 3 different vegetables, e.g. brussel sprout leaves, carrots, potatoes. where the brussel sprout leaves & potatoes are home grown. if i eat those cheap potatoes from the supermarket i hear they put an anti-sprouting chemical on them, so i peel them.

mid-afternoon - berry or peach smoothie, especially if i exercised that day. then brushing my teeth again.

for dinner, not much. e.g. cheese (Gouda), a slice of wheat bread with butter (grains), a serving of hummus (legumes).

i like beef, e.g. rib eye steak, but i find it can give me GAAAAAAAS :sun:
and, as a friend pointed out, people do not just judge you by the way you look, they also judge you by the way you smell. so i switched to fish about 2 months ago. to make a long story short, that works better.

"Jesus, man, i sound like a f'ing Evinrude motor, i've got to do something" was approximately my realization. fish or eggs are definitely easier for me to digest.

and, to drink, non-fat milk or water. i had to lay off the Sierra Mist and the Mug Root Beer because i had a dentist appointment on October 28, 2008 where i had 9 cavities. during the next 6 months, i had about 18 dentist appointments - 1 every 10 days.

so it's wierd, I associate Obama with sugar abstinence, since i went cold turkey on the sugar drinks about a week before the election.
 
Since we live in the United States/North America, which is rife with grocery stores, I don't think we'll ever have to resort to a survival diet.

What is this, "How to Eat Fried Worms"? Effing nasty, but I'm sure it's worth it, whatever the goal is.
 
Originally posted by: conorvansmack
Since we live in the United States/North America, which is rife with grocery stores, I don't think we'll ever have to resort to a survival diet.

What is this, "How to Eat Fried Worms"? Effing nasty, but I'm sure it's worth it, whatever the goal is.
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well, it is slightly getting off the subject.

but, in a survival situation, for protein, you might have a choice between sowbugs, earthworms, slugs, snails, etc.

for fruits & vegies, wild blueberries (huckleberries) and miner's lettuce - if you're lucky.

there is a cruelty-to-animals aspect to it. if you research it on the Internet, people talk about drying the earthworms & grinding them up to make like a protein flour. i don't know a non-cruel way to eat them, or to kill them before you eat them.

my motivation for doing this is my anticipation that is shared by people at websites like PeakOil.com - that our assumption that the trucks will keep bringing food to the stores - and that we will have jobs to pay for that food - well, i think there could be some hiccups in that supply chain.

i would rather train myself to eat something Dizguuuusting than depend on the government to give me food.

so the person that dared me to eat the earthworms in the first place, that was in the context of a situation like might be discussed on AT P&N. e.g. major US currency devaluation.

i also take 3-6-9 oils (cod liver oil, flaxseed oil, borage oil). i have a feeling one of the reasons people benefit from 3-6-9 oil is because they don't get these things in their diet, which relates to our habit of not eating the entire animal (guts and all).
 
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