Biggest argument you get in with friends about diet

Plus being HEALTHY requires clean eating.

No it doesn't.

At some point, yes it does. Young people can get away with a lot abuse of their bodies. But once a person hits their late 20's if they don't clean up their diet, they will be facing lifestyle problems like hypertension and high cholesterol. Which is more expensive, eating crap in your 20's and 30's and taking drugs from your 40's on or just eating healthy the whole time?

I know thin/fit athletes that have to take statins and high blood pressure medications in their 40's due to dietary abuse in their 20's and 30's. It's kind of like gravity, a poor diet effects all people and the results are predictable.

Plus being HEALTHY requires clean eating.

No it doesn't.

At some point, yes it does. Young people can get away with a lot abuse of their bodies. But once a person hits their late 20's if they don't clean up their diet, they will be facing lifestyle problems like hypertension and high cholesterol. Which is more expensive, eating crap in your 20's and 30's and taking drugs from your 40's on or just eating healthy the whole time?

I know thin/fit athletes that have to take statins and high blood pressure medications in their 40's due to dietary abuse in their 20's and 30's. It's kind of like gravity, a poor diet effects all people and the results are predictable.

This is 100% false nonsense and you should not say it anymore.

Plus being HEALTHY requires clean eating.

No it doesn't.

At some point, yes it does. Young people can get away with a lot abuse of their bodies. But once a person hits their late 20's if they don't clean up their diet, they will be facing lifestyle problems like hypertension and high cholesterol. Which is more expensive, eating crap in your 20's and 30's and taking drugs from your 40's on or just eating healthy the whole time?

I know thin/fit athletes that have to take statins and high blood pressure medications in their 40's due to dietary abuse in their 20's and 30's. It's kind of like gravity, a poor diet effects all people and the results are predictable.

I'm about to turn 44 and none of that is happening. Please stop lying to people and trying to scare them into your diseased mentality toward food.

I have a friend who basically started chain smoking & taking ephedrine to curb her appetite, yet she talks like she is the Dali Lama of diet & exercise. She has no concept of calories & put her husband on a "fat free diet" that included fat free versions of every junk food they make, of which he eats an endless amount of bc she tells him its "fat free" so he can chow all he wants. He has basically gained weight since he started.

ive told her a million times fat free doesnt mean calorie free.

I rarely get involved in these 'conversations' with people as I find them irritating to say the least.

But I am tired of being told I'm 'lucky' and 'don't need to workout'.

The biggest argument (if you want to call it that) is "I thought you were dieting, you can't have that." I try to tell them, if you tell yourself you can't have something, you are going to have it or die, and probably over indulge with it at that. I know I can have everything in moderation, as long as I plan for it. I never feel deprived, I just make better choices.

^^^^^ THIS times a million!!!

I've explained to people that this has been a lifestyle change for my since January. I am not dieting. I can and will eat X if I want to. They don't understand the sacrifices I make in other parts of my day to enjoy the hell out of whatever "non-diet" food I happen to be eating at the exact moment they see me.

Something else I get a lot of is "you're losing weight but you don't eat fruit? You have to eat fruit!"

Um, no. I don't like it all that much and I do try to monitor my overall sugar intake. I'd rather spend my calories on something else. Sheesh.

Plus being HEALTHY requires clean eating.

No it doesn't.

At some point, yes it does. Young people can get away with a lot abuse of their bodies. But once a person hits their late 20's if they don't clean up their diet, they will be facing lifestyle problems like hypertension and high cholesterol. Which is more expensive, eating crap in your 20's and 30's and taking drugs from your 40's on or just eating healthy the whole time?

I know thin/fit athletes that have to take statins and high blood pressure medications in their 40's due to dietary abuse in their 20's and 30's. It's kind of like gravity, a poor diet effects all people and the results are predictable.

I'm 35 and over the past 12 months I -

> lowered my cholesterol from 200 to the low 100's
> reduced my blood pressure from borderline hypertension to 'perfect' (my doctor's words)
> lowered my resting heart-rate from 75 to 60

How did I do it? I lost 60 pounds, and I worked out. I did not eat clean.

There is only one thing that is indispensable to your health - self discipline.

I don't get into arguments. My success if obvious; if people have questions, they ask and I answer. If people don't ask, then I keep my mouth shut.

I never got so big that it didn't hide under my clothes, so people just assume I'm "naturally skinny" because they're oblivious to the fact that while they sit on the couch watching 40 hours a week of TV and shoveling chips down their throat and complaining that they have a 'slow metabolism," I go do fun things that burn lots of calories.

There is a bumper sticker on my car that says "Will Run For Beer" and my cube is plastered with pictures of my daughter and me running (or after runs). If asked I say this why I am in shape and this is how I got in shape. If further pressed I tell them I maintained a calorie deficit but with my running, portion control and planning, I don't have to deprive myself of anything other than second/third helpings...

If someone asks me "you don't take anything" I'll say "Yes, on occasion I take Advil if I overdo my exercise, but that's it"