Embarrassed to go fully into my clean routine

meshashesha2012

your friends will make fun of you because of what you eat? i think you need smarter friends or at least those with more things going on in their lives than having to talk about what other people eat.

and anyway, yeah, who cares if your friends think it's "funny". it's not like digestion works by committee anyway unless you're all sharing the same intestinal tracts

PikaKnight

http://body-improvements.com/2013/05/24/undiet-your-diet/

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1105036-article-on-flexible-dieting-by-armi-legge?page=1#posts-17068746

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/ihad/view/the-myth-of-good-and-bad-foods-by-eric-helms-588801

Fullsterkur_woman

Can I get on board with both camps here? 1. You don't need to be restricting entire food groups if you don't want to just to lose weight and 2. Eyes on your own plate. Your food choices are none of their business (welfare concerns over disordered eating behaviors excepted).

ldrosophila

your profile says you are 19..
you have 19 year old school mates who will laugh at rice?

:huh:

thats what i thought

www.sparkteens.com

emilyisbonkers

you could just say your mum made you it. lol.

Saramelie

trying to commit to a bunch of overly fussy, totally unnecessary changes to their normal routine is the #1 reason people don't stick to a plan long enough to achieve their goals. In fact, it's also the #1 reason people don't even start.

maybe shelve the big no-bread and all brown rice and veggies plan in favor of figuring out what your maintenance calories are and eating foods you enjoy while keeping your total calories under maintenance. I've heard that method has worked for a person or two.

+1

This

Sreneesa

Girl, let it all out! Be free with your healthy lifestyle with confidence!

I bet you will start a fad amongst your peers! In no time they will be coming to you asking for ideals!

Be a leader not a follower is what I preach to my 18 yr old in college.

PaulaKro

They may laugh to start with, but if it catches on you could be the trend setter. Sometimes it takes courage to be different. Cruel laughter may be insecurity or group mentality. If they're really your friends you'll all just grow.

gracielynn1011

If you really like those foods, just do it. Tell your friends you like this meal, and you wanted to make sure to bring foods you like for lunch.

If you don't like those foods, really like them, then don't bother because it will eventually wear you down and you may begin to find potentially unhealthy snacks to make up for it. It is hard to stick to a change if you don't like what you changed to. After a few weeks this will be your new normal and they won't even question you anymore.

lizziebeth1028

trying to commit to a bunch of overly fussy, totally unnecessary changes to their normal routine is the #1 reason people don't stick to a plan long enough to achieve their goals. In fact, it's also the #1 reason people don't even start.

maybe shelve the big no-bread and all brown rice and veggies plan in favor of figuring out what your maintenance calories are and eating foods you enjoy while keeping your total calories under maintenance. I've heard that method has worked for a person or two.

^^^ This exactly. I've seen friends, family and colleagues see-saw, yo yo, give up entire food groups and make extreme changes that are not necessary and ultimately give up because it's not sustainable. If you think you're never going to eat a piece of bread for the rest of your life then by all means carry on with your plan. I'd rather enjoy a variety of foods and maintain a healthy calorie intake....cause guess what, that works!

But if you feel you must do this, put your big girl panties on and don't worry what others think!

richardheath

OP: you are in Scotland. You MUST eat haggis everyday or all your friends will laugh at you.

OR: just eat what YOU want.

OTOH: people will laugh at you if you say you are "eating clean" because it is a silly, undefined concept with ridiculous arbitrary rules (brown rice OK; brown bread not OK? IDGI)

Otherwise: eat what YOU want.

Laura3BB

trying to commit to a bunch of overly fussy, totally unnecessary changes to their normal routine is the #1 reason people don't stick to a plan long enough to achieve their goals. In fact, it's also the #1 reason people don't even start.

maybe shelve the big no-bread and all brown rice and veggies plan in favor of figuring out what your maintenance calories are and eating foods you enjoy while keeping your total calories under maintenance. I've heard that method has worked for a person or two.

+3

cwolfman13

Those *****es....

journey_man

Some weird amnesia about teens years in this thread. At that age, what your friends think about you is everything. I applaud OP at least for being honest about it (unlike many here).

No_Finish_Line

So lately I have been wanting to cut our bread and replace it with grains

unless your talking about things made of spelt and the like, your not changing anything there

No_Finish_Line

according to http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

brown rice has a GI (glycemic index) of 68 and white bread ahs a GI 75. your fussing over almost nothing. eat which ever you perfer, or is apparently socially exceptable.

Glycemic index is how likely a carb is to raise your blood sugar, if your blood sugar goes high enough, it triggers an insulin response which will force the glucose in your blood stream to be converted into fat and stored in fat cells. presumably thats where the carb hysteria comes from.

these things represent minor tweeks that probably wont influence your sucess very much. get enough protein and eat the appropriate number of calories is 99% of the game

AmyWininger

I measure out everything, and everyday at lunch my friends say, so what are you having today? They laugh sometimes, because they know I am so serious about eating better, but it isn't making fun. They compare what I'm having to them, and realize they are so unhealthy. They're happy I'm eating good though. It shouldn't matter what people say dear. It matters about becoming healthy. What you want and need.

00NL

friends are there to laugh and enjoy.. they make fun of you so do you make fun of them. they are friends not strangers.
are they real friends or just time pass--- that is the question.
real friends make fun laugh but they always care for your goals
it seems you are really under their control or influence or impressed by them or trying to be like them
there is a difference between friends and classmates.

Sabine_Stroehm

according to http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

brown rice has a GI (glycemic index) of 68 and white bread ahs a GI 75. your fussing over almost nothing. eat which ever you perfer, or is apparently socially exceptable.

Glycemic index is how likely a carb is to raise your blood sugar, if your blood sugar goes high enough, it triggers an insulin response which will force the glucose in your blood stream to be converted into fat and stored in fat cells. presumably thats where the carb hysteria comes from.

these things represent minor tweeks that probably wont influence your sucess very much. get enough protein and eat the appropriate number of calories is 99% of the game

Was the choice between white and brown rice? Or between chicken and brown rice versus whatever the student union has to offer from the pizza, burger nugget food group.

0shifty0

Be a leader not a follower

I agree!!!

mungowungo

So lately I have been wanting to cut our bread and replace it with grains and vegetables, the only problem is school. I know that I shouldn't be fussed but I kind of want to do the meal prep where I can put brown rice, chicken and vegetables into a food container and take it and eat it but I can't because my friends will think it's funny. Should I keep doing what i'm doing and put it in a whole wheat wrap or is there anything else I can do?x

Huh? - so the OP asked a question about what to do about her friends making fun of her eating choices and she gets told "to eat like a normal person". Isn't what she wants to eat HER decision? Not anybody else's? She's not telling anybody else to eat this way - this is the way she says SHE wants to eat.

OP if you want to eat this way - just do it - it's your decision. You shouldn't lose friends over it - they might even be interested or congratulate you on making a choice that you think is better for your health.