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Posted by: Betty B on 2012-01-27, 04:06:02
Avoid tea (any color) as it’s a huge diuretic and you have to drink more to avoid dehydration and then pee a lot. You don’t need to have to deal with all that as you have other more important problems right now. Diet teas are the worse as they contain laxatives or fake sugars that will mess up your body to no end (avoid ANY fake sugars). “How many times you really have to eat a day?” is like asking “How many times you really have to pee a day?”...you pee when you need to pee. You eat when you’re hungry, unless you have hunger issues (like you’re always hungry or never hungry) so you need a schedule to put you back on track. If you have a high carbs meal 2 hours prior exercising (for energy), then you exercise an hour, your body should make you hungry again as you need to replenish your blood sugar level that you depleted during exercising (so you need at least a snack). I you don’t exercise, you should not be hungry until it’s time for your next meal. If you work and have lunch from noon to 1pm, work until 6pm, go grocery shopping, go home, cook and eat dinner at 8pm and it’s like that every weekday, you should not be hungry between 1pm and 8pm if you’re not used to eat in the afternoon (and your job is a desk job, not very physical). If you’re active all day long, like at sport camps, you’ll need a good breakfast, a hearty mid-morning snack, a huge lunch, a hearty mi-afternoon snack, a good dinner and probably a supper too. Do not have a “diet” diet, where you’re told what to eat, just eat healthy, have a simple healthy diet, so you can satisfy your cravings and answer your body’s need for some missing nutrients. If I’m building muscle mass, I’ll need a lot of carbs to do the weight training (because it’s anaerobic and fat burning shuts down) and then I’ll get huge cravings for eggs, nuts or a good juicy filet mignon (need for protein for the “repairing stronger” part) otherwise, I would only eat eggs or meat like once a week. Eating healthy is about avoiding the unhealthy food as much as possible. Once you stay away from fast food (any restaurant food, really), packaged and boxed food (except for bread, pasta and rice, if you don’t make your own bread/ pasta), canned food, prepared and processed food, then you’re left with the fruits/ veggies, whole wheat food (the brown kind of bread, pasta), brown rice, legumes (beans, peas, lentils, peanuts, peanut butter, including soy milk and tofu that comes from soybeans which are legumes), lean meat, low fat dairies, eggs and the good kind of oil (olive oil, canola oil, soybean oil, corn oil and also olives, avocadoes, nuts, fish). You can have any of the bad stuff occasionally so they don’t become forbidden obsessions. Have some French fries, or one slice of pizza (with your favorite veggies) or a cookie, once in a while. Just don’t do it every day and watch out for portion sizes. Canned food is okay if you use it to enhance a recipe. Like canned tomatoes have more antioxidants than fresh ones as they are more concentrated. I also use canned corns in my recipes. And I like canned asparagus with canned beets (in a salad with vinaigrette). I tried fresh (steamed) asparagus and beets but I prefer the soft texture on the canned ones. As long as your can is not some dreadful soup or prepared meal with tons of sodium. Also the cooking method can double the calorie content of a meal, so learn about healthy cooking without having to add extra fats, like using a steamer (using water), a rotisserie (using heat and herbs), a slow cooker (using homemade broth and herbs), a pressure cooker, a grill… Once you cook your own meals, you can control the calorie content because your control the cooking method and all the ingredients. A lot of people are overweight because they keep eating food that they did not cook. |
