Need help knowing what good foods to eat
ashleybennett210191ab
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Need some good advice on eating more healthy
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Someone help me out0
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Well are there any macros or micros you are low on? Fill your diet with 80% nutritious, colorful, foods you like...and use 20% at your discretion for treats. It is a bit of broad question.0
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Fruits, vegetables, lean meats, chocolate.0
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Agreed need some tips on what to eat looking to lose about 10lbs then start cutting and sculpting my body add me !!!0
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I think we all know good foods to eat surely, your either looking for a miracle answer that will allow you to eat what you want and get the desired body or you are asking the wrong question my friend! Chuck out any bad foods around your house, keep a treat box with small treats to help cravings (hide it out of sight, out of sight out of mind!) get some raw foods, fruit veg and get creative! Eat Chicken/Red Meat/Fish for main meals, lots of steamed greens (low on calories very filling) sweet potato's and white rice are fantastic filler's and my personal best carb sources! Just start slowly, start with making better choices!! Example, in the shop, bottle of coke, no, bottle of water. Good luck everyone and anyone feel free to add me
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I've been using recipes from the book leanin 15 - joe wicks known as the body coach - lots of low fat clean recipes that are tasty and very filling! Great alongside exercise ! X0
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Chicken
Brown rice
Egg whites
Whole wheat pasta
Sweet potatoes
Tilapia (any white fish)
Salmon but only once a week
Green vegetables
Salad
Remember carbs are your friends but sugars are very bad.0 -
Starting out morbidly obese myself, I had to learn how to shop differently, how to cook in general and new recipes/favorites I could eat regularly, and new food traditions for holidays... Pretty much everything. The key here though is to find ones YOU like and work for your time and preferences. Websites and blogs like worlds healthiest foods, cooking light, skinnytaste.com, and chocolate covered Katie have been my haunts for free ideas and tips. So as not to get overwhelmed I didn't try more than one new recipe a week and slowly built it up. Likewise, I spent 10 extra minutes at store each trip comparing nutrition values and switching products to healthier versions on prepared stuff I was buying regularly.0
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OP some more details would be helpful. What are your goals? Is it to lose weight? What matters for weight loss is a calorie deficit. You can achieve that eating any foods, as long as you're in a calorie deficit you'll lose weight.
When you say eat more healthy, what does that mean to you? Surely you know the basics: fruits, vegetables, lean protein, grains, dairy, healthy fats, etc. So is there something specific you feel you are falling short on that you need tips on?
I believe any food can be part of a healthy overall diet, I don't believe in cutting anything out. I try to focus on eating primarily nutrient dense foods but don't hold back from eating pizza, cookies, drinking wine, if I can fit them into my calorie goal.
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Eat clean foods. Eliminate sugar, salt, sodium, white flour aka, white poison. Use salsa to flavour your foods. Fist size portions, Have one high carb meal a day unless you workout then have one in the morning and one post workout. Protein: chicken, fish, lean beef. Carbs: sweet potato , oatmeal, brown rice. Veggies, just mixed and one peice of fruit a day. I lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks doing this. About 1400 cals a day. Good luck!0
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Eat clean foods. Eliminate sugar, salt, sodium, white flour aka, white poison. Use salsa to flavour your foods. Fist size portions, Have one high carb meal a day unless you workout then have one in the morning and one post workout. Protein: chicken, fish, lean beef. Carbs: sweet potato , oatmeal, brown rice. Veggies, just mixed and one peice of fruit a day. I lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks doing this. About 1400 cals a day. Good luck!
Oh go away. I don't have patience for this today. Besides it being ridiculous to tell someone to cut out so many foods and fear mongering by calling them poison, how can you tell someone you don't even know how many calories to eat per day?0 -
To simplify: Everything you cook at home is going to be okay.0
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Eat clean foods. Eliminate sugar, salt, sodium, white flour aka, white poison. Use salsa to flavour your foods. Fist size portions, Have one high carb meal a day unless you workout then have one in the morning and one post workout. Protein: chicken, fish, lean beef. Carbs: sweet potato , oatmeal, brown rice. Veggies, just mixed and one peice of fruit a day. I lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks doing this. About 1400 cals a day. Good luck!
Totally unnecessary demonization of foods. Why are those things "poison"?
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Simple, open ended question with no details deserves a simple answer. Since no specifics were provided I gave the best answer I could come up with.
I personally would steer away from bread and cottage cheese myself. I can see your point though, as yogurt can be a hassle to make. Though some commercial yogurts out there are basically dairy + sugar, so as long as it's a higher quality full fat greek yogurt, I'd skip it as well.
When people generally speak of eating healthy, it becomes a battle of preference. I think any food can be "healthy" depending on the circumstances.0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »
I agree, it's an oversimplification. However it seems even the oversimplification may have been misunderstood in this case. Dianne, note that I did not say that foods not cooked at home are all bad. I just said food cooked at home is going to be okay. As for food processed elsewhere, I never gave my opinion. For those foods, I'd say it's a matter of effort vs reward vs availability. For example, I buy Chobani Full Fat Greek Yogurt. I know that with some effort I can make that yogurt at home, and it may be superior in quality and nutrition. But I buy since I don't have the time/effort to make it, I've compared the product to others and thought it to be the best, and I can afford it in this case.
Hope that clarified some things.0 -
My mom used to make a killer fried chicken, mashed potatoes/gravy with biscuits and honey butter followed by chocolate cake at home.
Now I don't believe in good foods/bad foods but that meal certainly isn't automatically "okay" because it was cooked at home.
Nor are some of the convenience foods that I rely on necessarily "bad" just because they are processed.
Food is just food. To me, foods that are good to eat are those which are first and foremost tasty, that fit within my calorie goal, and that provide me nutritional balance. It would be a rare day that I would be able to eat that meal my mom used to make all in the same day. But there is nothing inherently bad about any of those things... And I sure wish she was still around to make it for me!0 -
Whole grains, reduced fat dairy (if you use dairy), lean meats, fresh or frozen veggies, fresh or frozen fruits. Learn how to read and interpret labels. Enjoy your treats but don't make them the center of your diet.
Regarding food cooked at home, my grandma kept a can of bacon grease on her stove next to her can of lard, and was fond of lard and sugar sandwiches. She also made delicacies like her mock apple pie, made with Ritz crackers, shortening, spices, and sugar -- no fruit involved. Home cooking doesn't mean healthful cooking. And prepared doesn't mean its unhealthful.
Grammatical point: people can be healthy or unhealthy, the things you eat can be healthful or unhealthful.
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ashleybennett210191ab wrote: »Need some good advice on eating more healthy
vegetables (green ones especially)
fruits
nuts
fish
chicken
healthy oils (EVOO, avocado, sunflower)
Try to keep your food choices as close to one ingredient as possible and try to limit processed or boxed foods.
Measure and weigh your foods if possible. I have to do that with everything I eat or I'd go overboard real quick.0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »
I agree, it's an oversimplification. However it seems even the oversimplification may have been misunderstood in this case. Dianne, note that I did not say that foods not cooked at home are all bad. I just said food cooked at home is going to be okay. As for food processed elsewhere, I never gave my opinion. For those foods, I'd say it's a matter of effort vs reward vs availability. For example, I buy Chobani Full Fat Greek Yogurt. I know that with some effort I can make that yogurt at home, and it may be superior in quality and nutrition. But I buy since I don't have the time/effort to make it, I've compared the product to others and thought it to be the best, and I can afford it in this case.
Hope that clarified some things.
I guess it's a difference in the way we each give advice on the forums. I try not to boil complex ideas down to simple answers (which is why I gave the answer I did up above). I've seen too many people take off-the-cuff advice like this and run with it as a hard and fast rule, to the detriment of their sustainability. Seriously, there was a guy here yesterday with a diet of only chicken, tuna, broccoli, eggs, and Quest bars because those were the foods he'd identified as "healthy."0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »I guess it's a difference in the way we each give advice on the forums. I try not to boil complex ideas down to simple answers (which is why I gave the answer I did up above). I've seen too many people take off-the-cuff advice like this and run with it as a hard and fast rule, to the detriment of their sustainability. Seriously, there was a guy here yesterday with a diet of only chicken, tuna, broccoli, eggs, and Quest bars because those were the foods he'd identified as "healthy."
There is not much to go off of in this case, so specific advice can be just as harmful as simple advice, really. And I tend to be in line with that guy you mentioned. Seems like he is also doing low carb / high fat possibly. Well, minus the Quest bars obviously because why.
@vingogly I actually keep my bacon grease too, it makes for a good cooking fat. Ritz crackers are not made at home though, shortening probably wasn't either, and adding sugar I think we can all agree is not good. So the homemade meal that you describe is actually just a combination of already processed foods.
It IS possible to make an unhealthy meal at home, of course. It's just significantly more likely that those foods will come processed from the store. For example take ice cream or bread. Making it at home can be as simple as 3 maybe 4 ingredients? Hard to find that on a store shelf. Plus if you crave ice cream but knew you could only have it if you made it (aka effort!) then most people would just not bother. That's a win in my book lol.0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »I guess it's a difference in the way we each give advice on the forums. I try not to boil complex ideas down to simple answers (which is why I gave the answer I did up above). I've seen too many people take off-the-cuff advice like this and run with it as a hard and fast rule, to the detriment of their sustainability. Seriously, there was a guy here yesterday with a diet of only chicken, tuna, broccoli, eggs, and Quest bars because those were the foods he'd identified as "healthy."
There is not much to go off of in this case, so specific advice can be just as harmful as simple advice, really. And I tend to be in line with that guy you mentioned. Seems like he is also doing low carb / high fat possibly. Well, minus the Quest bars obviously because why.
@vingogly I actually keep my bacon grease too, it makes for a good cooking fat. Ritz crackers are not made at home though, shortening probably wasn't either, and adding sugar I think we can all agree is not good. So the homemade meal that you describe is actually just a combination of already processed foods.
It IS possible to make an unhealthy meal at home, of course. It's just significantly more likely that those foods will come processed from the store. For example take ice cream or bread. Making it at home can be as simple as 3 maybe 4 ingredients? Hard to find that on a store shelf. Plus if you crave ice cream but knew you could only have it if you made it (aka effort!) then most people would just not bother. That's a win in my book lol.
You eat only the same 5 foods every day? I could never stick with a diet like that.
I don't know why you think my advice given was harmful. It wasn't all that specific either. I'm always looking for feedback on my advice, though. If you'd like to drop some comments on that thread it would be appreciated.0 -
Why do more ingredients mean something is bad? Why can I eat tomatoes and green beans and carrots and zucchini and onions individually but if I combine them into vegetable soup it is bad?
I buy Talenti gelato and it has the same ingredients I would use at home to make ice cream. Why is it bad?0 -
@diannethegeek No I don't think your or anyone's advice has been harmful. To clarify, I just said that specific advice, given that we don't know any info about the person asking for it, can also be harmful - in that it can steer them away from their goals rather than get them closer. For example, if you provide specific weight loss advice for someone who is looking to bulk up (but doesn't say it) would not help them. Since I have no idea what the person's goals are, I couldn't give any specific advice and opted for a very general one. Probably should have just passed on the whole thread tbh.
And nah my diet is more varied than just those 5 foods. I think my diary is open so feel free to peek. But yeah it's basically vegetables + meat + good fats. 0 -
@WinoGelato It's not bad at all. Nowadays the market seems to trend toward fresh/organic/natural products, so you may very well find gelato that has very few ingredients. Most processed foods though have ingredients that you would never use simply to make them shelf stable. Also, keep in mind that the company who produces the food wants repeat business, and adding sugar is one way to make food more addictive. Heck even bread is way different when bought from stores. This isn't new science by the way, this info is widely available and has been featured in many-a-documentary. "Cooked" on Netflix (I think the last episode) talks about homemade food vs store bought. I believe "Fed Up" is another one that talks about added sugar in the processed food. 0
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@WinoGelato It's not bad at all. Nowadays the market seems to trend toward fresh/organic/natural products, so you may very well find gelato that has very few ingredients. Most processed foods though have ingredients that you would never use simply to make them shelf stable. Also, keep in mind that the company who produces the food wants repeat business, and adding sugar is one way to make food more addictive. Heck even bread is way different when bought from stores. This isn't new science by the way, this info is widely available and has been featured in many-a-documentary. "Cooked" on Netflix (I think the last episode) talks about homemade food vs store bought. I believe "Fed Up" is another one that talks about added sugar in the processed food.
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-the-movie-fed-up-make-sense/0
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