What are your meal choices like? (Poll to be added momentarily).
My diet is healthy and balanced, and I pretty much always keep a check on whatever goes in my mouth
I have my weaknesses, but I'm also conscious of how healthy or unhealthy the things I eat are
I eat healthy things sometimes, but I also have a bit of a sweet tooth
I eat mostly junk food, but occasionally consider my health
Judging from my nutritional intake I should have died 3 years ago
Other (please specify)
Your eating preferences
What are your meal choices like? (Poll to be added momentarily).
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I pity your souls
Generally healthy. I won't refrain from the occasional coffee binge or junk snack, but I see no reason to eat unhealthy food consistently. It only hampers my mental and physical functioning. Plus that shit can lead to break outs and what not. Gotta stay pure
4w3-5w6-8w7
I don't eat complete garbage, but I don't really think about what I eat. I eat what I crave and sometimes that's good food and other times that's not so good food. That said, I don't just eat junk food all the time by any means.
ILE
7w8 so/sp
Very busy with work. Only kind of around.
I usually keep good track of what I eat. I definitely have my occasional binge, sometimes even on purpose, but I am one of the most healthy eaters that I know. I mean, I give my D&D group a hard time by not allowing them to order pizza every week. Once a month is totally okay though.
Yesterday I went to the store to buy doughnuts! I just had this one goal. Well, they didn't have any that I really wanted, so I didn't buy any. But I did get pop tarts (hadn't had those ever before) and I got a bag of Reese's Buttercup candy. I actually regret the last one. It's over a pound of sweets. It wasn't expensive, but even if I hold back and don't eat too much at a time, it will be enough to keep my daily calories out of balance for many days. Maybe I should tape up the rest of the bag and not eat it.
The point is that I don't feel bad about replacing a healthy meal for an unhealthy one every once in a while. I know I won't get my proteins and I won't get my usual micronutrients, but it's okay. I will get things I otherwise wouldn't. Chocolate has potassium and magnesium, pastries and beer have B-vitamins, etc. I don't believe in ADDING unhealthy food to othervise balanced eating. That means I just get extra calories and that's not good. I'll have that chocolate in stead of oranges and I'll have a burger in stead of a lunch meat salad and it's all okay.
EIE, ENFj, intuitive subtype.
E3 (probably 3w4)
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I don't eat much. But when I do, it's generally healthy. I grew up on skim milk and salads. Heh. And I don't have much of a sweet tooth at all.
maybe a saint is just a dead prick with a good publicist
maybe tommorow's statues are insecure without their foes
go ask the frog what the scorpion knows
I like cheese, butter, oil, chilli, spices.
I love really rich chocolate cake. Nice fudge.
I like really cheesy food, food with lots of butter/oil.
And I love having large amounts of chilli, really spicy food etc.
Maybe I should like bland food I can't taste. But it just doesn't turn me on.
D&D is fuckin deadly.
Eh, Ive lost 60 pounds in about a year. Walked, exericise, now I eat better.
By the end of the school year I probably will be down 70-80 pounds.
Damn you electronic games and introspection!
At least by college Ill be a sexy beast. lol.
Who am I kidding, Im an ENTp-Ti.
The end is nigh
I eat well. I don't like most processed, fast food, or chain restaurant food. It either tastes like plastic, it's too salty, or there's too much fat and sugar but very little actual flavor. Too much fat or sugar screws up my stomach. I'm a bit of a food snob in that respect. I'll go out of my way to cook real food with more flavorful ingredients than open cans of whatever just 'cause it's the easiest. I don't substitute any 'low fat' stuff, though. I just use the good stuff sparingly. One piece of damn good cheesecake once in a while is better than a slice of bland, low fat cheesecake every other day.
IEE
This is what my entire diet typically consists of
- A sandwich (whole wheat bread, with variations of ingredients, but usually thin sliced honey turkey is the typical choice, unless I go to a sandwich shop at work)
- Spaghetti with no sauce (once in a long while I actually will prepare sauce)
- A breakfast taco
- A can of soup
- Eggs
- Biscuits (that would be buttermilk scones for you across the pond, not "biscuits")
- Shells & cheese
- Orange juice
- A can of Coke
Every once in a blue moon I mix in a muffin or a cereal bar or bake pumpkin bread.
And that's about it. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, all optional, all inconsistent.
Variety is the spice of life imo
INFj
9w1 sp/sx
Yeah, except when that variety turns into 15 extra lbs. on your gut!
It's hard to find that balance. Which is why I just go on crusades.
4w3-5w6-8w7
I ate very unhealthy for years. I used to have 16 ounce steaks every-single-day sometimes twice a day and eggs....oh my, the eggs. Now Im almost completely vegetarian sticking with the all natural things...not really for the health aspect, I just cannot stomach meat anymore.
I find "eating healthy" to be too difficult for me to constantly remember, and it takes the sensorial pleasure out of food. I typically eat healthier type food (natural, organic, whatever, and stay away from processed junk) just because I happen to like the way it tastes better and i have a pretty "refined palette," or so I've been told. I don't eat any "healthy stuff" that tastes like shit or city grass. That just feels medicinal.
That said, though I eat healthier foods, I don't tend to eat in a healthy manner. If I'm working and need to be productive, I will, because I definitely feel a difference in how my eating affects my energy levels. If I'm really stressed, anxious, or in a self-destructive mood, my eating habits will go to hell. I've definitely gone through bouts of really bad binge eating, followed by binge eating and induced vomitting when that became boring, followed by hurting myself in other manners when that became boring...
Currently I'm in a "chain smoker" phase.
I know none of this is good for me, but ugh...
EII; E6(w5)
i am flakey
Poor muslims
During the week I have three meals a day, with occasional snacks if I'm feeling ravenous. I only eat when I'm truly hungry, which is why I generally eat just three meals; if I start getting into snacking it quickly turns into mindless indulgences that I don't need or really even want.
On the weekends I am a bit more haphazard w my eating, especially this time of year. Last night I went to two holiday parties, each of which was brimming w holiday goodies in which I indulged
Nearly everything I eat is whole/natural/unprocessed [lots of oatmeal, apples, and chicken], but I'm not a food nazi by any means.
Oh, and as someone who studied to be a personal trainer and for a long time abided by hardcore fitness laws of nutrition, I think that the whole "you must eat every three to four hours or your metabolism will slow down and your body will catabolize its own muscle!!" hype is just that: hype. Unless you have a truly raging metabolism or are training for a hardcore sport/activity like bodybuilding, it's simply not necessary.
When I remember to eat it is somewhat varied. Here are my priorities when eating:
1. Healthy
2. What is readily available?
3. What is quick?
4. Mood
5. Am I entertaining friends?
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I always try to eat healthy, but I don't say no to cakes and the like
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I probably should have voted for the second option upon further thought.
INFj
9w1 sp/sx
I'm eating a lot lately. trying to get over 3500 kcals a day. I'm burning about that much w/ excercise(my habit is about 1000 calories a day) and my ever increasing metabolic rate. i just ate 1000 calories in 10 minutes and i've digested it already and am hungry again. will it ever stop?
asd
Poll is up. I'm sort of between option 2 and 3 (in case it isn't clear, option 2 means you eat healthy more often than not, and option 3 means it's about half and half). I'll vote 3 though, since it's probably more accurate overall.
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I pity your souls
Other.
By that I mean I eat whatever is in front of me. Surprisingly I stay around 175.
mostly vegetables, meat, eggs, diary, greens, legumes, and fruit. No bread, seldom pasta, sometimes potatoes and rice. Pie/sweet stuff ... rarely.
Ideally very healthy, but I can't always keep up with it and there are moments when I give in to the abominable pizza, salami, chips, sauce, canned tasty junk..
Last edited by Amber; 04-18-2015 at 12:10 AM.
I'm allergic to gluten... so... not that.
live off bread and cereal.
I don't know. I have no issues eating healthy because I don't like food in that way. I'm just not sure what even is healthy, and if I did know and had a diet that made sense to me then I wouldn't have any issues with it.
Because theres so many conflicting opinions on food I feel overwhelmed and end up just eating what I want because I hate being wrong in thinking that what Im eating is healthy when it isnt. So if i dont even focus on healthiness then i cant be wrong
I eat to stay alive it varies really. I'm going to live to be an old man let's put it that way, but I'm not going to be overly concerned about it what its not the right appropriate time, meaning I will eat whatever. I was trained well as a kid and had some exposure to the right way of eating so I have an amazing good foundation. Its just finding the time AND the money because that's what really give you the chance to eat well.
I try to eat primal (modified paleo) but have zero resistance to pizza, pasta, chocolate cake, cola and gummy snakes. Burgers, fries and noodles are so damn convenient.
Maybe I should rather say that I eat a tonne of wheat, sugar and seed oil and then pretend twice a week that I'm Mark Sisson.
For me too. I know I'd be better to eat some healthier food, but it's hard for me to resist such food.
I'm trying to eat only anti-inflammatory foods because I'm sick. I'm tending towards vegetables as only source of carbs + meats. I'm also trying to avoid foods that digest as acidic, and avoid sugars (though I just accepted a sugary drink from someone and now my mind feels shitty). So far I've made several disgusting creations, but maybe necessity will improve my "cooking."
Last edited by marooned; 07-03-2018 at 05:48 PM.
Most of the time I just eat simple healthy food. Oatmeal, meat, yogurt, etc. It's not hard to prepare and it does the job. To really feel my best I have to push myself hard while exercising (and I have to vary my exercise types). But I can't push myself unless I've been eating right. So they go hand in hand.
I kinda wanna try a high fiber diet just because I don't need much energy to get by, I'm highly efficient with calories so if I slow down the process of digestion with more fiber maybe the energy will last longer and I can go longer periods without meals
Going keto + my girlfriend is making sure I eat healthy in general. I used to really love all kinds of processed stuff and junk food but now I just feel sick trying to eat them.
Anything edible but not trash or garbage
Milk, bread, cheese, spices, red meat and beer.
Vegetables are for women.
My diet varies a lot. I will eat almost everything, except the plants in the Allium family (which I am allergic to), invertebrates and coffee.
But I have eaten a cat before.
Today I would have had:
8 glasses of whole cream milk. I'm no soy boy.
My morning tea: 2 cups of green tea + panax ginseng extract + mucuna puriens extract.
A truly man-sized burger with double beef patties, a hash brown, a fried chicken breast, swiss cheese, tomatoes and lettuce.
My evening tea: 2 cups of hibiscus tea + chinese five spice + mucuna puriens extract.
Lots of stimulants.
I'm too busy talking to be eating.
I'm not much of a foodie, tbh, I'll eat what I crave and that's usually pho or some kind of salad. Sundried tomatoes, avocado, feta, olives mixed with lemon juice, a pinch of salt and olive oil.
My diet mostly consists of greens and sack yoghurt, lots of rice crackers, dips and antipasto.
This may all sound very healthy, but I have a history of eating popcorn for breakfast, big choc chip cookies, twiggy sticks, and my greatest weakness, Red Bull.
In general I prefer foods that are simple and healthy, that are quick and easy to prepare, and cheap to purchase locally i.e. whatever is on sale and in season.
My typical diet - fruits, vegetables, nuts, mushrooms, fish, poultry, and meat.
Rare, usually avoid - milk, cheeses, bread, pasta, pizza, bacon, anything deep fried and charred
Sweets - honey and lemon, 88% dark chocolate, dried fruit like persimmons
Drinks - plain water and black tea, coffee on some days, if it's my lunch for the day then I'll add some milk and sugar to it, if for energy then simply black, sometimes fresh squeezed or carton juice but don't like the fact that it comes with so much sugar
Junk food: was never into it but sometimes I get a craving, or a curiosity, and find that if I give myself windows to buy it then the cravings go away. I eat it, tastes great at first, then I feel groggy and sick, remember how crappy it was and forget about it for another month. My favorites have been Kettle vinegar chips, chicken wings with clunky blue cheese sauce, and of course burger'n'fries, the classic junk.
Recipes/cooking: Once in a while I'll brave the waters of Si and experiment with a new recipe or two. From these trials a few recipes have stuck around and became my go-to meals. These are simple recipes that require no more than 3-5 ingredients and 15-30 minutes preparation time. I prefer that food tastes as it is, raw or steamed over fried, and use very little salt, pepper, spices or sauces. Essentially bland is my type of flavorful, then I can feel the real taste of what I'm eating. Only exception has been garlic. I've started using it more often lately as it's supposedly healthy to eat it at least once a week.
Diet - Mix of intermittent fasting and something similar to paleo. I like this dieting method because there's no need to count calories and obsess over which foods I can and cannot eat. Seeing other people take up keto at that time, and how awkward and stringent it was, I decided that's not something I want to put myself through. I've seen feedback of people losing 50+ lbs on keto so I think it's kind of an emergency diet if someone needs to shed a lot of weight, but not something you could maintain in the long run. Almost everyone I know who has tried it didn't last longer than 6 months.
Later I've somehow switched to intermittent fasting even before hearing that this is a type of diet now. One spring, due to certain life events, I've practically stopped eating. I'd feel hungry, look at food, yet I could barely eat anything. Lost 15 lbs in those two months, which was the most rapid weight loss I've ever had. Then it was like hey, I actually feel better when I'm fasting and spending at least a few hours hungry. It saves a lot of time not having to concern about 3 meals a day, doesn't strictly limit one to some foods, and it's easy to keep to year around. So this is my current diet.
I dislike cooking.
When very young and had to feed myself on a budget I really only ate fruit, cereal, yoghurt, canned spaghetti and made mince to last a few days.
Oh yes and lots of toast with vegemite!
For the family I cooked because I had to and often made enough for left overs for the next day to avoid having to cook again. I guess we had a fair share of takeaways and eating out.
Now that it’s just husband and I we mostly prepare dinner together such as heating canned soup, cooking chicken in the pan to go with whatever is around like frozen veggies, microwave frozen meals, get takeaways and eat out.
We make coffee with toast or cereal and yoghurt for breakfast.
Often lunch is meeting at a cafe.
Last edited by Hays; 07-12-2018 at 05:06 AM.
fish, chicken, eggs, green leafy & cruciferous veggies, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, bananas, apples, berries of all kinds.
And lots of chili peppers and turmeric. Cinnamon for some fruits/veggies too. I find most food bland so a lot of spice usually helps with that.
I'm not a picky eater in terms of taste, I'm just focused on how it makes me feel. I could eat frozen burritos (tasty), wine with orange juice (because I did), pizza on pineapples (it's good), and even toasted fish eyeballs (haven't tried). But I don't because well. Where do I even find fish eyeballs? But the rest just make me feel bad.
Whatever is bought for me, but also ''ew, i want something else''
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