Back on the Health Kick
By Lynn Fowler
@lynnief (1203)
Australia
June 2, 2018 12:57am CST
I wonder how many others share my challenge. I KNOW what constitutes a healthy diet. What's more, I actually LIKE healthy foods. I love fruit and veges, fish, dairy - all the good stuff. And I KNOW that my body is happier if I follow a regime of time-restricted eating - i.e., not eating till around midday, and finishing my last meal by 7pm. And I KNOW that when I eat bread my body gets very unhappy with me.
Yet in spite of all this, I regularly fall off the wagon and start eating all kinds of rubbish at all kinds of hours.
So today I have pulled my sox up and determined to start all over again. My first meal (at midday) was a massive garden salad with Camembert and my homemade dressing (yoghurt, macadamia oil, sesame oil, white wine vinegar, garlic, ginger, turmeric and black pepper.) I've had a mid-afternoon snack of yoghurt, nuts and blueberries, and I'm planning fish and veges for dinner. All very yummy.
Hopefully, this time I'll stick to it. Watch this space.
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@lynnief (1203)
• Australia
3 Jun 18
I find it quite intriguing. I can easily wait till 12 to eat my first meal of the day, without any hunger pangs. But if I do eat early, say around 7, then I am ravenous by 10 or 10.30. Go figure! Sometimes I think my body is just totally weird.
@paigea (36317)
• Canada
4 Jun 18
@lynnief I always think that shows that eating starts my body burning the fuel while fasting or skipping meals shuts my fuel burning down and plummets my energy.
I need a snack by 10:30 after having my early breakfast.
If I didn't have breakfast, like you, I wouldn't feel hungry. But I would get a migraine.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
5 Jun 18
I am trying to eat healthy myself and sometimes I have to almost knock myself out so that I don't eat unhealthy food because when I do, while I love it when I'm eating it, always hate myself the next day or during the night when the negatives kick in. I know exactly what will happen but my cravings just don't get it.
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@CookieMonster46 (13454)
• United States
8 Jun 18
It is hard to stick to a plan of eating at a certain time and a little of healthy and bad. That’s works best for me.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jun 18
But the "rubbish" is always the tastiest.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
5 Jun 18
Not only is it so tasty but very addictive. Why couldn't I be addicted to apples, tomatoes and cucumbers? It just doesn't happen. But pizza is another story?
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