I hate whole foods

Dogmom1978

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Sorry OP, but I had to chuckle at some of what you have said here.

As others have already pointed out, CICO is king for weight loss. You don’t have to eat lettuce or broccoli or drink special shakes etc.

Take what you want to eat and weigh and measure it. I hope you eat more than chop meat and chicken as that will certainly lead to malnutrition if you LITERALLY eat nothing else.

Enter your current weight in mfp, goal weight, how much you want to lose per week, etc (been awhile since I filled all that in so I don’t remember exactly). MFP will give you a daily calorie intake to lose that amount a week (.5, 1, etc). Weigh your foods on a food scale, eat at the calories MFP gives you and you lose weight. No YouTube videos advocating for “Whole Foods” diets.

I love Chinese and pizza. I love chocolate and ice cream. I lose weight every week eating those things because I work them into my allotted calories. Sometimes I do so by exercising more to give myself a bigger deficit to play around with.

Stop thinking that you “can’t” lose weight because you don’t want to eat rabbit food 😜

AnnPT77

glassyo wrote: »

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AliciaHollywood wrote: »

You can’t really eat “anything you want” within the boundaries you mention and be as healthy as you could be. There is hidden extra nutrition in so many common “superfoods.” Eating 100 calories of a hamburger bun and a multi-vitamin vs 100 calories of blueberries is a very different thing. Blueberries, one of the healthiest foods you can eat (preferably organic) supply all sorts of micronutrients and antioxidants that you can’t get even in vitamin supplements. Food can be medicine supplying you with cancer and disease fighting nutrients, help your skin and hair and have so many wonderful benefits. I spend a lot of time googling food nutrition and focus on eating the most nutritious food possible. I find that I hardly ever crave unhealthy food because I feel so much better when I eat high nutrient food. Once you learn what amazing things certain foods can do for you, it feels so good to know that you are taking care of your only body the best way you can!

Dark chocolate with a high cacao content is actually really healthy in moderation and even a superfood with many hidden nutrients so if that’s what you eat, great! But chips are mostly full of preservatives and chemicals and most commercial ice cream also has tons of additives and chemicals. If you made your ice cream in an ice cream maker or better yet, frozen yogurt, or made your own chips from scratch or bought organic low salt chips with only healthy ingredients, that would be fine in moderation. But most commercial foods are filled with chemicals and preservatives that are worse than the actual food and counter-balance any healthy food you eat. I think it’s really pre-packaged food that’s the most dangerous and causing so much obesity, diabetes, heart problems and cancer in current times.

This is orthorexia in a nutshell.

Ah, but what kind of nut? It had better be the most nutritionally correct nut, otherwise I won't be optimally healthy.

I call it something else but....runs to look up orthorexia...oh, god, yeah. Why did I think that was over exercising?

I still call it something else.

Obsessive exercise is generally called exercise bulimia, I believe.

With apologies to OP for the slight digression**, in case others may not be familiar, these are signs and symptoms of orthorexia according to the National Eating Disorders Association:

* Compulsive checking of ingredient lists and nutritional labels
* An increase in concern about the health of ingredients
* Cutting out an increasing number of food groups (all sugar, all carbs, all dairy, all meat, all animal products)
* An inability to eat anything but a narrow group of foods that are deemed ‘healthy’ or ‘pure’
* Unusual interest in the health of what others are eating
* Spending hours per day thinking about what food might be served at upcoming events
* Showing high levels of distress when ‘safe’ or ‘healthy’ foods aren’t available
* Obsessive following of food and ‘healthy lifestyle’ blogs on Twitter and Instagram
* Body image concerns may or may not be present

Source: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/other/orthorexia

IMU, it's not officially listed (yet) in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–IV (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)), but is widely recognized as a potential issue - the question is whether it stands on its own diagnostically, as I understand it, vs. is an expression/subtype of a larger disorder category, in that the criteria overlap with things like anorexia nervosa and OCD.

** IMO, it's at least slightly relevant to the original question and our answers, because the idea that there are foods "good for dieting" and others "not good" can, for people who are vulnerable to this type of thinking, be an on-ramp to a disordered relationship with food, if not a full eating disorder. Clearly, all of us categorize foods in various ways, and that's not *inherently* disordered. Certain habits of mind or personality, though, can predispose a small number of vulnerable individuals to taking that thinking to an extreme, toward compulsion and disorder.

wilson10102018

I pretty much only eat entrees with three or less ingredients. Salmon steak, sauteed in butter, oyster sauce. Shrimp steamed with lobster base on basmati rice. Dry aged burger with sauteed onions, mushrooms and grilled tomato - oops! that's 4. It happens. I pretty much never eat any frozen meals in a box although I have nothing against them. They just taste like crap. And, not much take away. Oh, and I have desert about every other day: Klondike Bar, chocolate candy bar, brownie (PAnera Brownie has 400 calories so it get split in half. All this nonsense about rabbit food and goofy concoctions is off putting to me.

CreekFisher

I'm not a big lettuce eater either, soI have vege munchies with a low calorie ranch dip. My choices: baby carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, cucumbers and a few that I don't dip, such as olives, pickles (not many due to salt), a hunk of sourdough french bread. I especially like this when I made pulled pork or slow roasted beef (deep pit style) served with pico or salsa. It all fits in my carb restricted diet quite easily.

sarahbetherck

JoelAguirre94 wrote: »

I like chicken and ground beef. I hate lettuce. I like bread. I get the impression that chicken and ground beef aren't considered whole foods.

I hate lettuce too 👊 I'm losing weight on chicken and ground beef and all kinds of foods, some of which are probably considered "whole" others which are not.

You can do this.