Hi Iwillbe,

I think that processed food, sugar and wheat and transfats are all bad for us. Some people seem to be able to tolerate them in small portions. Processed food covers all takeaways, all cakes, pastries and biscuits, pies etc.

I tend to focus on fish, lean meat and chicken, with lots of green leafy vegetables. Berries, nuts and Greek yogurt are tasty desserts.

I try to drink only a small glass of alcohol, as I believe that any more makes the body work too hard. When I indulge in a cake, I make it a high quality Gluten free cake in a very small portion. I try to keep the indulgences to one a week.

I believe that full fat products such as yogurt are good for us. And that transfats are very bad for us. That’s enough for now. 🙂

Cheers, Bay 🙂

As far as i know i don’t have any physical problems with any food except sugar which when i take the foot off the pedal i eat far too much of. and when that happens, i don’t eat anything healthy. So i’ve quit sugar.

Sugar for me means all refined sugars, honey and all syrups. As well as artificial sweeteners which hold no interest for me. Quitting for me means i don’t buy these foods, or prepare sweet dishes. I don’t eat them at home. But i will eat them if offered to me outside the home say at a friends place or have dessert at a restaurant.

But that’s that’s only a half truth. Basically i eat porridge with no sugar. But i put a pinch in my tomato sauce for pasta. (but i don’t buy the sugar) Or two tbsp in stewed rhubarb which would be impossible to eat without sugar but stewed apple doesn’t need added sugar. After 8 months of quitting sugar i’ve just decided to start experimenting with sugar free desserts and i made a delicious tarte aux pignons the other day which translates to pine nut tart but it also contains dried and glaceed fruit and almond meal. So i can eat dried fruit. And i know that glaceed fruit has added sugar. I also made a maroccan orange salad which was only flavoured with rosewater and mint leaves. So yes i left sugar and other sweeteners out of both these receipes. I will continue the cooking experiment so long as it doesn’t lead me into any binging behaviours and i can keep a strict lid on portion size and frequency. But the quit sugar is for life.

I can also have soft drink because i hardly ever drink it anyway and it doesn’t trigger a desire for more. And sweet alcohol is also not a problem for me.

Other than refined sugar foods, i consider crap foods to be: most processed foods, and all low fat dairy. Also nestles powdered milk which now has added lecithin and no longer tastes right. I heard something else disturbing about nestles powdered milk the other day but i can’t remember what it was. Margerine is a crap food. Spray on oil is a crap food. I’ve found out that vegetable oils and most oils are crap foods (cold pressed oils are fine). I think coconut oil is a crap food because i don’t like the taste of it and i’m totally unconvinced about all the hype one hears about it. I have heard convincing explanations of why a lot of farmed fish is crap food (because they get to eat a lot of crap), along with of course many other animal produce – (because they are treated so badly and fed so much crap).

Some of these foods i actually like the taste of but they are still crap. Whereas there are a lot of foods i don’t like the taste of and which are probably not crap foods. For instance smoked cod.

nikko:

Nothing bad about oily and fat food. In fact, the more the better!:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/health/low-carb-vs-low-fat-diet.html?ref=health&_r=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetsIU-3k7Y

Good Luck!

Thanks simcoeluv. I must learn how to make live links. B 🙂