I need a diet/better eating routine

[gibella]

I want to get into better shape, and lose some weight because I really need to. I posted a question earlier about going vegetarian. I'm thinking of going "raw" but, not all the way. Because like everyone else, I believe meat is the best kind of protein there is.

And not for the same amount of time I was thinking going vegetarian. Because I think three months going raw for someone who never has before for three months is a little too much.

I just want to lose some weight in a healthy manner. If that makes sense.

I do plan on excersising. I can't drive to the gym, but I've been looking for and researching some good home workouts and I hopefully plan on getting the Wii soon so I can do the Wii Fit, because I've heard some good things about it.

If you have any diet/workout/anything related, comment or message me. I'd love to know. Because I really wanna be serious about this. Because I think I really need to.

Thank guys.

[Anonymous]

Here's my general advice:

Dos

- Eat lots of vegetables. 4+ servings. French fries don't count. Leafy greens.

- Get more protein. Highests sources are beans, seeds, fish, meat, eggs, lentils, nuts, cheese.

- Eat healthy fats such as saturated and monounsaturated. But use sparingly because because of their high calorie density. Butter on vegetables, coconut oil for cooking, olive oil on salad. If you believe the myths about saturated fat, do some research. It's actually not that bad.

- Eat frequently, 3-4 meals/day, with one snack in between them. Also helps increase metabolism. Starving yourself tells your body to store fat.

- Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day

- Lift weights and build muscle (girls don't worry, estrogen stops you from being buff). Do some cardio, but not as much as lifting weights. Less than 30 minutes every 2 days. Muscle is better because it continues to burn callories even after you workout, while cardio only burns when it's being done.

- Sleep properly, take a multivitamin, increase nutrients, decrease toxins.

- Variety is the key to health. So many people eat the same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. Or only one type of fruit, vegetable, meat, and nut. This lacks micro nutrients.

Donts

- Don't eat much sugar. Don't eat candy, pops, juices, packaged snack foods, popular cereals, etc with added sugar. (IF YOU MUST, have very little not often, and be mindfull of it. Enjoy it. Sitting in front of TV chowing down on chips is not being mindfull, that's how people overeat.)

- Don't eat most "Sugar free" labeled foods if they have aspartame, it's a poison. Don't eat any foods with "High Fructose Corn Syrup", that's even worse than sugar.

- Don't eat foods with processed flours like "enriched wheat flour". It has no vitamins and just turns into sugar in the body. Basically almost all packaged grain based foods like cookies, crackers, etc. Eat 100% whole grains.

- Eat less starchy carbohydrates like white breads, fries, potatos, rice.

- Don't eat "low fat" labeled foods, they are higher in sugar, and sugar is what makes you fat. Eating fat does NOT make you fat. You need fat, your cells and brain is made up of of fat. Excess fat is what you don't want, and that comes from calories, and bad fats like in vegetable oils.

- Don't eat vegetables oils such as canola oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated oils, margarine, shortening. They are NOT healthy like the food companies want you to believe. They are highly processed, oxidized, high in omega 6, and low in omega 3 (the good ones). When you have a high 6/3 ratio, you get inflammation. Inflammation and OXIDIZED cholesterol is a major cause of heart disease and others.

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[1ibiz]

First off, let me let you in on something. The truth about health. You might disagree with any thing I might have to say here, but the people that know me, know that I'am the person to listen to. This is a true fact, you could live about 2 and half weeks with out carbs, you would die in a matter of 3 or 4 days if you don't consume any fats and proteins! Don't eliminate fat as it is vital for living. Now not all meat is considered the same. It depends on the physical alterations do to the animals living conditions. You want Grass Feed Beef raised with no antibiotics or hormones, live free range on lands free on pesticides and herbicides. You want pork raised the same way, chickens with no alterations what so ever and if they are given a feed, it should be flax seeds. Eat plenty of meat high in both fat and protein, don't let any body tell you that fat is bad for you. That is one of the biggest lies to ever surface and you only store fat as fat if you eat excess carbs. Your on the right direction with vegetables and plants, eat tons of them. They are high in minerals, sulfurs, alkaline, vitamin k fat solubles, tons of vitamins, and low in carbs. If you want to loose that extra weight, don't consume any grains, legumes, packaged foods, junk food, and sweets, and don't think that portion control is really health. You would still be putting things in your body that your body does not recognize as food, and over time you will see the damage by aging, low energy levels, low immunity system, systematic inflammation, loss of brain tissue and neurons, and lots of bone/ joint damage. Eat plenty of meat, fish, fowl(birds), eggs, olives, avocados, plants, vegetables, tuber roots( carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, and yams only. No white potatoes!), stems like yucca, fruits, berries, and nuts and seeds. Also peanuts are not a nut and is not healthy for you, and so is soybeans. Eliminate all grains and legumes as they have tons of anti-nutrients that would suck the life out of you. You could read a little about the Paleo Diet, or don't be afraid to ask away. I can get very well into detail!

[1ibiz]

Your young, so if you start now you could look really young when your even like 80. It's all about how you treat your body, and what you put in your body. Let me clarify why grains and legumes are bad for you so you know what they do to you. Grains( wheat, barley, rye, oats, corn), in any form)bread, pasta, rice, oatmeal/porridge, grits), legumes(peanuts, kidney beans, white beans, baked beans, vegetable beans, chick peas, soybean, green beans, sweet peas. They all suck the life out of you.

[1ibiz]

Their this fat, its called polyunsaturated fats. Theirs 3 of them Omega 3,6,and 9, while the 9's don't really do anything, if you have a unbalance omega 3/6 fatty acid ratio, you create the inflammation response in your body. The more omega 3 fatty acids your body consists of the more natural you eat as omega 6's go rancid. You have to remember these fats are what builds up your cell walls that allows nutrients in, and guides waste out. A healthy cell will have a strong emf barrier that will

[1ibiz]

block foreign invaders from entering the cell. Upsetting the balance is one of the leading causes of cancer, that and physical alterations that are not natural. With Grains and legumes it's nearly impossible to keep the ratio steady as they consist far too much omega 6's. You still need 6's, but it should be a 1/1 ratio of omega 3/6 every time you eat anything. Some foods would have 4/1 ratio and that's OK, as long as it's not the other way. Gluten sensitivity is more common then you think and

[1ibiz]

I'm going to be honest, its biological, everybody would suffer because of the content in all the grains and legumes I've mentioned. They have phytic acid(phylate) that binds to the minerals that you eat and prevents your body from absorbing good minerals you get from foods that your body needs. They have lectins that bind to your lower intestine, damaging your intestinal wall that gaps off to your colon. Letting fecal matter leak into your colon. Grains, legume= leaky guts, and any damage

[1ibiz]

that occurs with in the body will just raise your cholesterol levels. Its a fact that the amount of cholesterol you eat has no affect on your cholesterol levels what so ever, cholesterol is release when damage occurs in the body and cholesterol is what repairs the damage. Like the damage they have to repair with the amount fiber grains and legumes has, it just bounces around scratching your bowls as it moves along it's tract, also fiber cannot be digest, so don't let any body tell you too much

[1ibiz]

is good for you, just get the right amount from plants and vegetables. Also grains and legumes rat between 75/120 on the glycemic index( the amount of carbs your body has to burn). Their are simple carbs and complex carbs. Stay away from complex and eat all simple carbs. Most of the highest glycemic load in natural foods rate around 50-60, 75-80 is cutting the line. It will over work your pancreas by extracting more insulin. Over work your heart because it will speed up to fight the sugar that

[1ibiz]

increasing your blood pressure. Since they excess amount of carbs you are storing fat because even though your body prefers to burn fat as fuel, sugar/carbs get burned first. This is why fat is stored. No grains and legumes means less fat storage! They do do damage to your body and any damage to your body will raise cortisol as well. Which builds more inflammation! You should consist foods high in saturated fats to. Coconuts is a super food and will delay Alzheimer. Kelp has a lot of Iodine

[1ibiz]

that will extract the t1 hormone that will maintain your thyroid. Eat kelp every other day. Kale is super healthy and high in mineral and antioxidants. Don't drink any of your calories. Unless you know it's 100% tea and add some honey. Honey is high in sugar, but that and natural maple syrup is the only sweetener I recommend as they are high in macro nutrients, but a lot will do damage. Drink plenty of water, but no juice as all they are is just a vitamin shot. Vitamins mean nothing if they what

[1ibiz]

don't have minerals to help the body absorb, because that's what vitamins do. Vitamin c means nothing if theirs no potassium their to help the body absorb it, same thing with vitamin e and beta-carotene for your eyes, or all types of calcium's and vitamin d's for your bones, and so fourth. Eats cocoa too, it's healthy but try getting 1005 chocolate melt it down and add honey so you know your eating real chocolate! Well that's all for now, I know it's a lot, but it is worht reading all of it!

[Ingrid422]

I agree with everything but this "Also peanuts are not a nut and is not healthy for you, and so is soybeans. Eliminate all grains and legumes as they have tons of anti-nutrients that would suck the life out of you."

Grains and legumes ARE healthy. I can't see how I'd be able to keep on working out if I were to cut out all grains. And as for peanuts, it's a little excessive to call them unhealthy. There's not as healthy as almonds, but they're good fat nonetheless.

[1ibiz]

Trust me their not. Peanuts and Soybeans hit the charts when it come to off balance omega 3/6 ratio. Vegetable oil is made out of 100% soybeans and peanut oil will just go rancid as they both have excess omega 6 fatty acids. Fat is tricky, vital for health, but fitting in the appropriate fats insures healthy responses as the wrong ones will create inflammation. Grains and legumes are not only unnecessary, but damaging as well!

[1ibiz]

The only thing I can tell the both of you is try it out and see the difference yourselves. Experiment. Completely cut out grains and legumes for 3 months and tell me you've noticed what I'm talking about with higher immune functioning and my favorite part is the clarity of thought at any given time. Imagine your head always feels like its a weightless cloud because their is no inflammation. Notice how many symptoms disappear as well. I use to have anxiety and that disappeared as well.

[1ibiz]

Do that and take a good fish oil supplement every day, about 2400 MG purified of all Mercury, PCB's, and Dioxins, and make sure the label is on the bottle or you cannot trust the manufacture, also read the ingredients that they are real fish oils, and not types of complex carbs like maldexterin. Vitamin d supplements don't hurt either. Lots of people like fighting with me that grains, legumes, and dairy are vital for the minerals you get from them for healthy bones, and this country has been

[1ibiz]

ranting that message for the past 30 years and yet this country is now facing some of the highest osteoporosis and arthritis rates ever in recorded history. Get your minerals from plants and vegetables. Plants like Kale greens, Dino Kale, Red Kale, Green Chard, Spinach, Lettuce, Cabbage. Vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, all types of squashes, bulbs to like Onions Garlic's and shealots, Cucumbers, Brussels Sprouts, Celery. Tuber roots but in moderation because of density, but

[1ibiz]

Sweet potatoes, Yams, Carrots, and Beets. The you have stems like Yucca and Ginger. Buy Kelp and Dulse too, they are sea vegetation or algae and contain lots of Iodine, which is vital for weight management! I've listed a diet you could work with, even if it's natural, some things like nightshades( tomatoes, all types of peppers, eggplant) creates shaking with people that suffer from not being to digest it appropriately. It's all about how the enzymes in the food interact with the enzymes in your

[1ibiz]

body! Well good luck, if you have any questions ask away.

[Anonymous]

Why do you want to go raw? I think you need to research what it's about more... learn the truth about protein... I can link videos if you want..

[funkadelic5]

Eat fresh food.

If you are eating REAL fruits, REAL vegetables (not iceberg lettuce from Subway), preferably organic, drinking mostly water or tea, along with a little bit of low GI carbs (think whole grain bread, brown rice) and some quality protein (fish is the best) then you should lose a lot of weight and feel much healthier!

BTW, organic eggs are my savior. I get a carton of 12 for like $3 and I'll use 4 eggs with a little bit of cheese, pepper, and hot sauce to make some REALLY good scramble eggs. Which comes out to like $1.10 per high-protein meal. Throw in some home-made salad and you have some healthy food that's really easy to cook (like 5 min for eggs, <5 min for salad) and tastes great.

My 2c!