Real Food

Topher1978

Prepackaged foods are the worst thing you could be feeding your family.

Why?

Prepackaged foods are filled with preservatives and most also have artificial colors, artificial flavors, and several other known carcinogens such as carageenan. Just look at the ingredient list on any packaged food and tell me if the forty or so ingredients are ones that you would use if you were to cook that from scratch. Bread for example has about forty or fifty ingredients in store bought bread. Good bread only needs about five ingredients, I doubt if your grandma would have put fifty ingredients in her bread. Watch the movie Food Inc., and/or read the book In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. Pollan recommends not eating anything that your great grandmother would not have recognized as food and also not eating any packaged foods with more than five ingredients.

But why does it being artificial, automatically mean that it is bad for you?

ARTIFICIAL, PETROLEUM BASED CHEMICALS are carcinogens. Not only that, but they fool your body into thinking it is getting something it is not getting. Therefore you want to eat more and more because your body is not getting what it wants/needs. It has been proven that eating this artificial junk does not aid in weight loss. Just look at our country, we eat the most processed foods of any country in the world and we are by far the fattest country in the world. The children growing up now are the first generation ever that will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. This should be a HUGE eye opener. We are riddled with heart disease and diabetes, yet we fill our bodies with more and more CHEMICALS. What our bodies need is REAL FOOD. Humans were meant to eat FOOD, not chemicals. Like I said before I highly recommend watching Food Inc., Food Matters, Forks over Knives, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, and reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.

That may be so, but there is no scientific evidence. I am sure that some of the additives are a large part of the huge cancer rate in the modern world. Some things are linked, most are not. There haven't been the studies done to validate your claims, though I think some of those assertions likely. They cannot be GOOD for you, that's for sure. I am gonna watch the vids I haven't seen yet which you mentioned!

lasmit4477

I eat a mixture of make-believe and real-life food. Since make-believe food has no calories i can eat as much of it as i want and still lose weight. I am typing one-handed right now as I'm polishing off a unicorn burger with dinosaur-milk cheese.

LOVE THIS!!! :laugh:

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Firefox7275

Gee. One of the main reasons I left weight watchers was due to the smart a__helpful, hateful comments on thier message boards. I see with my first message board post on MFP that the only difference is that with MFP I dont have to pay to be insulted. I was under the impression that these boards were for support and advice. By the way , all 3 of my children are perfectly healthy and are not at all overweight. We do have homemade meals most of the time. My only point is that with most "diets" there are heavy restrictions on what to eat and what not to eat. I have chosen to plan my day around being able to have pizza or a cookie without feeling guilty. I see so many posts on here from people who never eat anything that is "unhealthy" that is fine for them if that is what works for them. I am working really hard to find a plan that will work for me long term. I would like to thank everyone for their wonderful welcome to MFP, it has been an eye opening experience.

Not having any diagnosable medical conditions or obvious symptoms is NOT the same as being perfectly healthy, nor is being a healthy BMI. I was 'perfectly healthy' and not in any way overweight until I got so sick I could not work, partly due to my poor lifestyle choices. Once I started taking care of my health I suddenly understood all the little signs my body was giving me that it was under stress - imperfect skin, ridges in my nails, energy that was not boundless etc. I retrained in lifestyle healthcare and now see these small 'tells' in client after client..

What support and advice do you want if you are not willing to change your attitude about the nutrient devoid rubbish you are feeding your family? Vitamins, minerals, fibre and certain types of fats (esp. omega-3s) are classed as essential by medical professionals, you will not get that from heavily processed frankenfoods. Sugar, white/ refined starchy carbs, an excess of animal fats or omega-6s causes systemic inflammation, this is linked in published research to a vast array of health complaints from diabetes to cancer to asthma to allergies to heart disease.

You don't need to get to the store weekly to be healthy: buy a large freezer and fill it with berries, vegetables and real meat, fill your cupboards, garage or basement with canned oily fish/ tomatoes, dried fruit/ beans/ lentils, nuts, seeds, brown rice, brown pasta, spice blends. If you have outside space grow a few veggies and fruits. Find out what you can get on home delivery. Keep pizza, chips and cookies to maximum 10% of daily calories.

jzammetti

eat whatever you want. Just make sure you are in your daily calorie goals also including fat, protein, carbs, or whatever else you track. I don't know "real" food. I just eat food. real or fake, I guess.

This ^^^^

I totally agree

CkepiJinx

Gee. One of the main reasons I left weight watchers was due to the smart a__helpful, hateful comments on thier message boards. I see with my first message board post on MFP that the only difference is that with MFP I dont have to pay to be insulted. I was under the impression that these boards were for support and advice. By the way , all 3 of my children are perfectly healthy and are not at all overweight. We do have homemade meals most of the time. My only point is that with most "diets" there are heavy restrictions on what to eat and what not to eat. I have chosen to plan my day around being able to have pizza or a cookie without feeling guilty. I see so many posts on here from people who never eat anything that is "unhealthy" that is fine for them if that is what works for them. I am working really hard to find a plan that will work for me long term. I would like to thank everyone for their wonderful welcome to MFP, it has been an eye opening experience.

It is the Internet and they let anyone on here . Just ignore the people who think they know everything and think pushing their agenda on others is ok.

Now to your original question I eat what ever I choose with in moderation and it is working fine for me. There are a ton of wonderful people on here don't let the few how shall I say this, uncompromising, yes that is a good word,people make you give up on the rest of us. Good luck

Poetry_In_Pics

I also did WW with pretty good success.. just decided eventually to save the money and try MFP (love it!)... I also eat whatever I want, I just count the calories & try to be at or under the limit. I'm a mom, too, and so we're on a budget & I can't afford to buy myself a whole different meal plan. So far it's working for me the same as WW did... hang in there.. you'll find a balance soon!

missjeanlouise

Gee. One of the main reasons I left weight watchers was due to the smart a__helpful, hateful comments on thier message boards. I see with my first message board post on MFP that the only difference is that with MFP I dont have to pay to be insulted. I was under the impression that these boards were for support and advice. By the way , all 3 of my children are perfectly healthy and are not at all overweight. We do have homemade meals most of the time. My only point is that with most "diets" there are heavy restrictions on what to eat and what not to eat. I have chosen to plan my day around being able to have pizza or a cookie without feeling guilty. I see so many posts on here from people who never eat anything that is "unhealthy" that is fine for them if that is what works for them. I am working really hard to find a plan that will work for me long term. I would like to thank everyone for their wonderful welcome to MFP, it has been an eye opening experience.

It is the Internet and they let anyone on here . Just ignore the people who think they know everything and think pushing their agenda on others is ok.

Now to your original question I eat what ever I choose with in moderation and it is working fine for me. There are a ton of wonderful people on here don't let the few how shall I say this, uncompromising, yes that is a good word,people make you give up on the rest of us. Good luck

^^ I agree with this.
You'll see a lot of posts from people who never eat anything 'unhealthy', sure...but you'll also see plenty of posts from people who say, "No food is off-limits as long as you plan for it."

Just like any place else in life (real life or internet life), find the advice that works for you and leave the rest. But also be really honest with yourself. Making choices my way is what got me 30 punds overweight. Sometimes I have to listen to things that are difficult, just because it's the only way I'm going to get a different result for myself.

OliveDouglas

I try to eat normal food but healthy everyday. However, if I want something that isn't good, I wont deprive myself. I do also have one cheat meal per week (never back to back) and I do not track it.