How Do Your Eating Habits Impact Your Health?

[rhinefire]

I have always eaten reasonably well avoiding fats, sodium and sugar when possible but I am not a fanatic about my health. Recently I have opted for organic on a few items like milk and eggs and meat but again not religious about it. So on a grading scale of A-F how would you rate your overall eating structure in terms of good for you or bad for you?

 

[Celebrity]

I'm on a high protein diet and I'm pissed off.

 

[Aunt Spiker]

Unlike a lot of people who are overweight (aparently), I have never liked eating. I don't like food. I was anorexic for most of my childhood / teen years because I just HATED EATING.

But yet somehow I became fat - anyway. 4 kids and a steady diet of coffee with cream and sugar apparently puts on the lbs, even if you are food avoidant. Being married, I slowly learned how to cook food I liked and became quite decent in the kitchen. My goal is often to cook food my husband likes - that's quite rewarding.

In an effort to lose weight I've really kicked all or most extra sugars and fats out of my diet (still off coffee) . . . I eat a lot of fruits and veggies, maybe once a day I eat a serving of meat but usually not. I don't drink milk or eat cheese often so my dairy intake is low.

And yet . . . it doesn't seem to have benefited me at all. I've become quite frustrated with it.

With my increased effort to lose weight I'm starting to hate food again. I haven't lost much weight, which was the original goal years ago when I first started workingout and trying new foods I never had as a child. Now I feel angsty about eating, again. In order to keep myself from becoming anorexic again I have to force myself to eat.

I'm so sick of EATING food. I'm tired of cooking. I'm tired of grocery stores. I'm tired of sitting down and eating every day - more than once a day! I want my all-liquid diet BACK. I'm struggling with this '2 or 3 meals a day' thing... I really am. People have no idea how hard it is to eat when you know you can live without solid food and life might be better if you could quickly drop 50 lbs.

I thought that, if I kept lifting weights, I'd feel better about myself - like my mental map would finally update and I'd see how fit I was - but it's not working. I don't know how to go about losing weight and staying fit with this anorexic urge to just not eat solid food going on. I haven't figured it out and I think it's sapping my energy quite fiercely.

 

[PoS]

Unlike a lot of people who are overweight (aparently), I have never liked eating. I don't like food. I was anorexic for most of my childhood / teen years because I just HATED EATING.

But yet somehow I became fat - anyway. 4 kids and a steady diet of coffee with cream and sugar apparently puts on the lbs, even if you are food avoidant. Being married, I slowly learned how to cook food I liked and became quite decent in the kitchen. My goal is often to cook food my husband likes - that's quite rewarding.

In an effort to lose weight I've really kicked all or most extra sugars and fats out of my diet (still off coffee) . . . I eat a lot of fruits and veggies, maybe once a day I eat a serving of meat but usually not. I don't drink milk or eat cheese often so my dairy intake is low.

And yet . . . it doesn't seem to have benefited me at all. I've become quite frustrated with it.

With my increased effort to lose weight I'm starting to hate food again. I haven't lost much weight, which was the original goal years ago when I first started workingout and trying new foods I never had as a child. Now I feel angsty about eating, again. In order to keep myself from becoming anorexic again I have to force myself to eat.

I'm so sick of EATING food. I'm tired of cooking. I'm tired of grocery stores. I'm tired of sitting down and eating every day - more than once a day! I want my all-liquid diet BACK. I'm struggling with this '2 or 3 meals a day' thing... I really am. People have no idea how hard it is to eat when you know you can live without solid food and life might be better if you could quickly drop 50 lbs.

I thought that, if I kept lifting weights, I'd feel better about myself - like my mental map would finally update and I'd see how fit I was - but it's not working. I don't know how to go about losing weight and staying fit with this anorexic urge to just not eat solid food going on. I haven't figured it out and I think it's sapping my energy quite fiercely.

If you hate food, here is your answer:

 

[Hawkeye10]

What scale are we using here because if we go by what the Food Nazies say I am maybe a D-, if we go by what I think it is B+ or A-. Course I do factor in my mental health, me being Zen and all.

I mostly mock the clean living freaks, case anyone had not figured that out already.

 

[Aunt Spiker]

If you hate food, here is your answer:

Yes I'll take some. Since elementary school I've taken most of my meals in my room standing up at my desk with a cup of coffee - to save time. Like Chas Tenenbaum.

No kidding.

I like the flavors of food - but am really tired of everything else about it.

Hmm . . . maybe i should research all liquid diets. Seriously.

 

[Celebrity]

Yes I'll take some. Since elementary school I've taken most of my meals in my room standing up at my desk with a cup of coffee - to save time. Like Chas Tenenbaum.

No kidding.

I like the flavors of food - but am really tired of everything else about it.

Hmm . . . maybe i should research all liquid diets. Seriously.

You've been drinking coffee since elementary school?

 

[SmokeAndMirrors]

I'd give myself a B, with random days of solid F.

I mostly eat quite well, because my impulses are mostly quite good. I don't like cooking, so my meals are simple, but fortunately I like most foods, so I'm perfectly happy to just eat a tomato with a little pinch of salt on it as a snack, for example.

I'm heavy on fruits, slightly less but still plenty of veg. I consume a fair amount of fat, but my body tends to burn it pretty quick so that's fine (fat's not bad, unless you're not burning it). I don't eat much meat. Mostly fish, occasionally poultry, and I mostly only eat red meat on rare occasion in the winter. I don't know what my calorie intake breaks down to, but my weight doesn't change unless some outside factor is affecting it (I tend to lose when I'm extremely stressed or bereaved -- makes me feel kind of sick, so it's hard to eat). So whatever it is, I guess it's fine.

But then I have random days where I start off the day with a chocolate croissant and finish it with delivery pizza. :lol: But I suppose that's fine as a one-off thing.

I also drink coffee, though only 1 to 2 cups per day. And I have a major, major sweet tooth. If I have a food vice, that's definitely it. But I try to sort of keep that under control. I'm amazed I've yet to have a cavity, if I'm honest.

 

[Mr Person]

I have always eaten reasonably well avoiding fats, sodium and sugar when possible but I am not a fanatic about my health. Recently I have opted for organic on a few items like milk and eggs and meat but again not religious about it. So on a grading scale of A-F how would you rate your overall eating structure in terms of good for you or bad for you?

I'd say very well. For about ten years now, I've avoided caloric drinks (other than booze, milk, or vegetable juice), sweets/desserts, and processed foods (I think the most 'processed' thing I'll eat is whole wheat pasta or bread). One exception is occasional store-bought bacon, a rather processed meat.

Combined with a lot of weight training and running, I'm in almost the best shape of my life (best areobic shape, at least, being high school wrestling.... which was brutal).

I don't have the appetite I used to, so I don't have to count calories or control portion sizes.

 

[PoS]

I'd give myself a B, with random days of solid F.

Mine is very similar. Im at a B+ during weekdays but when the weekend happens its a big fat F.

Weekdays its mostly fruit and veggies, with fish and chicken at small portions plus with my exercise routine I feel great. Then the weekend rolls around and Friday night is always pizza night, then going out with friends and drinking weekends does me in.