Healthy diets

Furryanimal

Furryanimal

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How healthy would you say your diet is?
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Very. Mostly whole grain, veges, fruit, no red meat and very little poultry. We never have dessert in the house of any kind. We actually prefer 'real food' to sugar. If we have some kind of event, party, etc., then I'm all over the junk food as it's a treat (some of it ---- don't have any desire to have sugary kinds of snacks). The main thing about our diet is that it's more 'traditional' to what has always been done in other cultures. We don't eat a piece of meat by itself, or go out and get burgers. Meat is always cut up and put into a stir fry, soup, stew. No steaks, prime rib, that kind of thing ever.
 
I mainly eat lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and salads, wholemeal bread, chicken, fish but I also have a sweet tooth and enjoy
treats, like a cake or chocolate bar, a couple of times a week
 

My diet is much healthier than it was a few years ago but it is a constant struggle for me to change the habits of a lifetime.

I would say that on a scale of 1-10 I'm currently a 7.5.

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Very healthy.

I had to change the way I ate after I hit menopause, because I just could not stop gaining weight! :( This after an entire lifetime of eating whatever I wanted, in whatever quantities I wanted, and never gaining, never having to think about it. It was extremely frustrating! What was even more frustrating was that I'd always eaten healthily, few fast foods, careful about fats, lots of fruits and veggies and whole grains and foods etc. but even so, I was 40 pounds overweight before I figured out my diet well enough to stop the gain. And even more research and experimentation before I was able to lose most of that 40 pounds. And then even MORE work as I figured out how to keep it off!

I guess the most frustrating thing to me was that all I ever cared about was eating healthily, but suddenly, because of hormonal changes in my body, eating healthily was no longer the only consideration. Now it's become eating healthy while ALSO closely monitoring quantity, nutritional balances and types of proteins and carbs. Thank god for the app on my phone that tracks it all with a couple of keystrokes!
 
Healthier than 99.99% of all others on this planet. Strict vegan, for the last 26 years, vegetarian for 15 years before that. I cook my own meals, most of the time. As for the nonsense about vegans having no energy: At 66, I still climb trees for a living, still haul and load heavy wood and brush. Other physical aspects of my life are about the same as they were forty years ago.
 
Well, there is also something to be said about a happy life. And if refusing oneself things oneself enjoys , there goes allot of the happy. Now if one chooses to live like Euell Gibbons ? fine! But keep in mind that Mr. Gibbons only lived to 64. Also keep in mind that George Burns outlived Jack LaLanne .

IMHO it all comes down to genetics....
 
Kept me going for 82 years!

My rule of thumb is "If it's green, uncooked or unpeeled it is meant to fed only to animals to be processed into proper food"!
 
I have been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 34 years and cook the majority of my meals. I only buy cage-free eggs and very rarely use milk, but my weakness is a love of cheese, ANY kind of cheese. I very seldom eat desserts and never eat junk food. I don't use any medicines, except if I get an infection (have ear problems).
 
I eat what I want, but not a lot of carbs. I also show restrain with the sugar. We had lamb chops for lunch, yummy.
 
Wren said:
I mainly eat lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and salads, wholemeal bread, chicken, fish but I also have a sweet tooth and enjoy
treats, like a cake or chocolate bar, a couple of times a week
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Mine is like yours, except I don't do the sweet things as often. Once I get started in sweet stuff I tend to overdo it, so I don't keep any in my house.
 

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