What are some good dieting foods?

[Anonymous]

I know water is good but I'm not sure what foods, BE SPECIFIC, ik I need to et theee fruits and veggies and meats but list some foods...What are some good dieting foods?

[FlyingTurtle]

For protein:

Eggs and/or egg whites

Tuna

Tofu

Chicken

Turkey

Beans

Limited amounts of peanut butter

Dairy:

Skim Milk

Greek yogurt

Grains:

Breads with fiber--100% whole wheat bread

Cereals high in fiber and low in sugar (I like Go Lean and Unsweetened Shredded Wheat)

Unsweetened Oatmeal

Fruits:

Pretty much anything that is fresh fruit. Avoid fruit juices and dried fruit.

Veggies:

Anything is good, just know that iceburg lettuce and cucumbers are pretty nutritionally weak, and fresh vegetables have the best nutritional value. Eat vegetables when you have a case of the munchies, and regularly every day.

Fats:

Nuts and nut butters, unsalted

Cook with canola oil

Fish oil

Salmon

Avocados and Olives

Limit things containing saturated fat, such as chocolate and ice cream and well all dorts of stuff.

Get enough sleep every night. Avoid foods high in sodium, because they will cause you to retain water. A LOT of stuff you might not expect has a whole bunch of sodium in it, so check labels. Also, things that say they are "low fat" or "fat free" usually are LOADED with sugar, so check labels for that too. Too much sugar is worse than too much fat.

Things I personally avoid like the plague are soda and fried foods.

Diet foods made with chemical substitutes aren't all they are cracked up to be, and I would avoid those too.

Message me if you have any other questions, I do know a thing or two about nutrition.

Good luck! :)

[1ibiz]

This is actually one of the worst recommendations. I think you should really reconsider your diet!

[FlyingTurtle]

Just what exactly is so bad about my recommendation?

[1ibiz]

Have you ever heard of gmo's(genetically modified organisms)? Through gene splicing they alter the DNA of crops and it is extremely bad for anybody who eats them! Tofu is soy beans, 96% of soy beans have genetically modified. 90% of canola is also have been genetically modified. 87% of corn has been genetically modified and thus why you should not eat cereal. Fat is extremely healthy for you and vital for proper weight management and wellness, and that mean saturated fats! All grains and legume

[1ibiz]

are bad for you organic or not. They have too much anti-nutrients that suck the life out of you, and inflammatory properties and other toxins that create damage in the intestine. Sodium are minerals, why would you limit minerals your body needs, it is the artificial salt from processed food you need to avoid! Cucumbers have lots of minerals and sulfuric compounds that increase nitric oxide in the muscles and blood stream.

[FlyingTurtle]

Okay, saturated fats are not the best or healthiest fats for you. The healthiest fats are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Sodium is of course necessary for your diet, HOWEVER sodium in very large amounts causes water retention and heightens blood pressure. I said cucumbers were not the most nutritious because that is what an "Eat this, not that!" book said, whose writers happen to be very educated on nutrition.

[FlyingTurtle]

I have talked to several nutritionists before, and none of them have discouraged eating breads or grains, although I have heard a lot about the setbacks of eating white bread. Whole wheat bread is usually a very good source of fiber. I think only extremists totally cut out bread from their diet, and I do not think one needs to cut bread out of their diet in order to eat healthy and lose weight.

[1ibiz]

Saturated fats are that healthy for you! For those who deny it do not understand what triglycerides are and how they work in the body. Polyunsaturated fats are only healthy if they have a higher omega 3 then 6 ratio. It doesn't really matter how much sodium you consume as long as your getting enough potassium to balance! Cucumbers are very nutritious and offers the body more essentials then any whole grain and including bread! Most nutritionist do not study gene expression and are below me!

[1ibiz]

Whole grains and especially bread is that bad for you! They have a higher omega 6 to 3 ratio, which creates inflammation. They have too much phytic acid which prevents your bones from absorbing minerals. They have lectins, a sugary protein that binds to your lower gut and damaging the intestinal lining where your colon gaps off and creates what is known as a leaky gut. Too much fiber is bad for you, it stretches, scratches, and ruptures your bowels as it moves along its track. The body

[Asker]

... Guys its fine just stop

[1ibiz]

release more cholesterol to repair all the internal damage it has created, which in turns makes you put out the cortisol ageing hormone. Grains also have a lot of carbs and a high glycemic index that thickens your blood(blood pressure), your heart has to speed up to fight off that thick blood, then your pancreas has to work extra hard to produce enough insulin to fight off that sugar in your blood! People that cut out grains are not extremist, they are just smarter then others!

[Anonymous]

My favorites are: chicken breasts (no skin), broccoli, sweet potatoes (sliced and roasted, baked, etc), roasted asparagus, egg whites, red bell peppers, black beans, blueberries.

Use pinterest to find good, healthy recipes. There are tons of great ideas. Using SOME olive oil is good, but make sure to measure it if you really want to lose weight.

[confugirl]

kheserthorpe already listed a lot of things, so I'm just going to add something.

This isn't an obvious one, but you should avoid very sweet fruits on your diet. link

You can eat a lot of Swiss Cheese and meat in general.

[1ibiz]

Bovine(cows, bulls, buffalo's), pork, fish, fowl(chicken, turkey, ducks, birds), eggs, olives, avocados, plants, vegetables, tuber roots (carrots, sweet potatoes, and yams), stems (yucca), bark(ginger, turmeric), fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, and cocoa. The meat you buy, get it pasture raised free range or wild. Make sure they are not injected with hormones and antibiotics. Bovine buy grass fed. Make sure it says 100% grass fed or grass finish for it to be a legit source. I would refrain from eating fish right now because the amount of radioactive leakage going in our ocean from Japan. Check what kind of diets given into their feed, you want legit non gmo sources(genetically modified organisms). They just raise the glyphosate levels from 200 parts per million to 6000 parts per million and now that can increase the rate of cancer dramatically, so buy organic produce such as the plants, vegetables, fruits, and berries. If you are going to buy dairy, raw and unpasteurized believe it or not is the healthiest choice.

[kheserthorpe]

lots of:

chicken.

fish.

leafy vegetables.

eggs (especially egg whites)

moderate amounts of:

fruit

nuts (high calorie, but all the 'right' things)

yogurt (unsweetened)

appropriate amounts, in the middle of the day, given your energy needs of:

complex carbs & legumes things like quinoa, beans, etc.

very limited amounts of:

refined carbs

processed food.

[icehot]

Yeah, this!

& also very important to avoid anything with "high frutcose corn syrup". Look at the ingredients and if it has those words, don't eat it. & anything "from concentrate" is bad too..(such as juices from concentrate) avoid those.

[kheserthorpe]

Juice in general is not something you should have regularly. Eat the fruit instead.

[1ibiz]

All the vital nutrient in eggs is in the yolk. Nuts have a phytic acid and higher omega 6 to 3 ratio, so it is ideal to limit nuts. Any grains and legumes is very high in phytic acid, lectins, fiber, carbs, and higher omega 6 to 3 ratio. So eating any grains including quinoa, and even beans are bad for you.

[kheserthorpe]

You can read up on phytates if you're concerned. I'd suggest that anyone eating the amount of fish & meat vs. legumes & nuts I've suggested is unlikely to suffer from negative effects. This isn't a vegetarian diet heavy on grains, its maybe daily grains vs. multiple servings of fish/meat.

Same thing with omega 3-6 ratio. Crank the fish.

[1ibiz]

Have you checked the limit on phylates a person can handle a day and the amount of phylates are actually in grains, legumes, and nuts. Here is a link explaining it, link Nuts actually rate lots and I mean lots lower then grains.

[kheserthorpe]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'lower'. Nuts have, per weight, more phylates. However relatively few people eat a plate of nuts as a base to their meal the way they do with grains. I also eat nuts between meals so the impact on Z and Ma levels is probably low. As for the once daily grains I eat ...

[kheserthorpe]

if she's okay eating only tuber roots, that might work.

That said, depending on what she's doing exercise why, she may barely need carbs at all.

[1ibiz]

She barley doesn't need carbs if she doesn't exercise, I definitely agree. The thing is you can phylate bares in the skin of the crop, you can ferment grains, legumes, nuts, and nuts, but it is easy to destroy the phylate content in nuts it is per weight. But you also have to remember the polyunsaturated fat ratio. I know you say keep taking fish oils, but in grains and legumes they are just like phylate, weigh too high. Then their is the lectins, and fiber content to think about. Lectins does a

[1ibiz]

lot of damage, and too much fiber does too!

[1ibiz]

Here is a good link, and my mistake some nuts are higher then grains, but that's only some!

[1ibiz]

link

[1ibiz]

don't mind the grammar, I'm half asleep!

[Adamadamadam123466]

Black beans, oats, avocados, salmon, blueberries, broccoli, brown rice, pears, wine, grapefruit, kidney beans, almonds, green tea, lentils, bananas, eggs, dark chocolate( eating a bit slows down digestion), oranges, potatoes, pine nuts, white beans, cheese, low fat milk,

[jdfarmer]

It depends on how aggressive your diet is? An 800 calorie a day diet, start your morning with 2 egg whites, lunch time have A 400 calorie meal, you can get those in the frozen sections, then for dinner, a salad with egg whites. that kind of diet alone should lose a half pound day. then if your diet starts to get stagnant you need to step it up by eating a large portion of steak for protein.

[A_Guy]

I have lost weight, about 50lbs past year so here you go.

All meats are OK as long as you stay away from breaded meat like chicken nuggets and processed sh*t.

All veggies

Fruits I stay away from except rarely since its higher in sugar.

FATs are a must. Eat coconut, avocados, nuts, olive oils, butter.

I also stay away from dairy.

[Anonymous]

Depends on what type of diet you want to follow. Low fat, low carb, etc. People don't agree on what is the best. Tomatoes, blue berries, straw berries, dark leaf greens, and eggs have a lot of healthy stuff in them. Some people don't like to eat eggs because they have a lot of cholesterol. Others believe that eating cholesterol, doesn't actually raise your cholesterol.

Stay away from starches like corn, white bread, potatoes, and white rice.

[Asker]

Is rye bread ok

[Opinion Owner]

Not sure. I don't eat rye so I never looked into it. I do know that a lot of wheat bread has honey, sugar, and corn syrup added to it to improve flavor. Some of it is worse for you than white bread, so you really need to read the ingredients. I am not a fan of foods like sugar, that raise your insulin a lot. The more insulin your body has to make, the more food you eat gets stored as fat, instead of being burned as energy.

[1ibiz]

You want a high fat low carb diet. The amount of fat you eat has nothing to do with how much fat your body will store and fat is vital for health and wellness. Also, cholesterol that you eat has no effect on your cholesterol levels. Cholesterol the you consume just gets absorbed or digested and what gets absorbed is used for energy and is nutritious to you cells. Your body cholesterol levels is created by your own body and it is released to repair and maintain internal damage. All grains are

[1ibiz]

bad for you no matter what the source is. Wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, quinoa,etc..

[Opinion Owner]

I agree, but most people still don't believe that. So it depends on what type of diet the person chooses to follow. Either way starchy foods like white bread should be avoided.

[1ibiz]

If they truly cared about their health then they would experiment, because you can feel the difference when it comes to different energies and the symptoms you get from different foods!

[bluexqueen]

Spinach

eggs

blueberries

avocado

almonds

black beans

grape fruit

oats

quinoa

salmon

pears

kidney beans

bananas

dark chocolate (for a reward)

lentils

and basically any kinds of fresh fruit or vegetable

[COCOCHANEL]

chicken breasts, egg whites, figs, prunes, spinach, avocado, tomato ...

[britannny]

Cut out all animal by products. Or as many as you possibly can, anyway. Start eating mainly plants.

[DodgersGM]

This. A whole foods plant-based diet is they way to go.

[1ibiz]

Does plants give you vitamin b12? Would you meet your choline recommended amount just eating plants? Plants are very important, I give you that, but if you start cutting out flesh and eggs then you will deficit on key nutrients your body needs to function accordingly!

[britannny]

You have to supplement for b12. You wouldn't have to supplement for it if we didn't use so many poisonous fertilizers on our plants, and there wasn't so much pollution to worry about. But as it is, we live in a germaphobic society, and we have to supplement our b12. Or get it from the unhealthy, disgusting meat we eat. Idk, I think it's a myth that you absolutely HAVE to have meat to function.

[1ibiz]

It not a myth, meat is vital for health and wellness and if you care to live long enough. Vitamin b12 can not be bio-available to humans from plants with poisonous fertilizers or pollution or organic and clean! The only way vitamin b12 is bio-available to humans is from sources that have been fermented from the liver of an another animal and is either consisted in the flesh of an animal or is passed through hereditary to an egg. Vitamin b12 supplements does not go through true fermentation, so

[1ibiz]

they are not a true vitamin b12 source and are not valid, just a another scam to make money!

[britannny]

Tell that to the vegetarians/vegans who have been outliving meat eaters for ages.

[1ibiz]

Yea and most of them are skinny fat that live to 60

[britannny]

At least we're not FAT fat like a good portion of meat eaters. And dying from hear disease.

[britannny]

It's funny, because I went on YouTube not too long ago, to see if any meat eaters had anything insightful to say. ALL I could find were videos from morbidly obese people. It wasn't very insightful, but it was a good laugh.

[1ibiz]

And you cannot put a statistic on who lives longer between meat eater and vegetarians, because their are too much process foods out there and any party could eat garbage. But the hunter and gatherers, and that is the people that eat meat, and produce, and avoid all processed food are the one that live the longest! The main goal is not to go deficient on key essentials the body needs and keeping everything in balance. You start lacking the nutrients your body needs then you start to get weak and

[1ibiz]

sick, then you die. Also I do not know what you are talking about. I eat meat at bulk of my diet and I'm skinny and lean! I'm also a nutritionist and study gene expression. If you understood how saccharides and the glycemic index works, you would understand that meat would not make anybody fat!

[yaddayaddayadda02]

Fruits/Vegetables/lean meats, whole grains. As little processed food as possible. As they say, shop on the outside aisles of the grocery store.

[523206720]

You don't need dieting food. Eat 1/4 of an egg plant everyday on top of your regular diet. They contain 16 grams of fibre and they are dirt cheap.

[JamielovesKU]

If you're lookin to lose weight, Watermelon, blueberries, pomegranate, and grapefruit can definitely help :)

[Anonymous]

White beans are good for you. Celery is good for you. Avocado is good for you. Spinach is good for you. Fish is good for you. Stick with foods like that. Keep it natural, don't eat processed foods.

[beastman88]

drugs and alcohol jk, anything green, fruits, fiber, beans etc

[Trendii]

All you really need is meat veggies and fruits and milk

[Pinkheart]

Acai is good.

Peanuts

Fiber

[Anonymous]

Some good ole McDonald's and his arch nemesis Burger King are great choices

[JamielovesKU]

Fruots and veggies

[Anonymous]

Fruits, veggies, lean meats, nuts, eggs, crackers

[1inmillion]

EAS protein shakes

[Anonymous]

Fruits

Veggies

Nuts

White meats

[Anonymous]

Fruits and veggies