New Healthy Start

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Ashtonian said:
That is the plan mate yeah. Want to have this mindset in place so i'm not resorting to type and just be able to eat as normal again. Things like i'm eating an apple right now, probably be a general morning snack for me in the future as well as i know it gets me 3 of my 5 a day for around 80p or under a day. Less if i pre buy my fruit for the week. when it comes to lunches i want to eat butties and a pack of crisps, right now i know i cant but be nice if eating a butty isnt deemed as an unhealthy lunch (obviously within reason). These are the changes that i wanted to make long term. I have veg with every meal i can do, including spag bol. So conciously if i know right ok, 3 fruit throughout the day, veg of a night, guaranteed 4 of my 5 a day every day, which in turn helps me. Sounds silly but everyone bar me in the house got sick this week, i'm wondering if all the fruit and veg over two months have had that effect on me?

It is all changing perspective, because my eating habits were lazy before. I can spend the same on a oven cooked meal before that i do cooking a fresher meal now. The difference is one is much healthier for me.

As for mash, i do put some marge in it for flavour but only eat a small amount of it. so for arguments sake last night there was more veg than mash on the plate. What i have tried to do all along, eat similar meals but less of it, so half plates if i'm eating something that isn't 100% healthy compared to what i have before.

In terms of tips on here, said it many times i listen to any advice given to me. dont eat carbs for lunch, so i eat fish instead. Eat breakfast/porridge, so i do. don't get subway salads, so gone out my way past couple of weeks to make sure i have fresh salad bags instead. I own a set of (admittedly crap) scales because it was suggested i keep track of my weight. I listen to any advice given to me and implement it the best way i can, because if i didnt then i would still be eating things thinking they are healthy when they actually weren't as healthy as i thought. So i appreciate any help on here, half the point of this thread running so long tbh.

Some may believe me and some might not that i am serious with all of this. They have said as much on here lol But my normal daily intake involves
  • minimim 4 of my 5 a day. Up from 0-1 from before
  • Drinking nothing but water and green tea, compared to coke and stuff before and mimumum water intake
  • Eating smaller meals than before
  • Eating more fish than before
  • count on one hand how many chocolate and crisps i have had in 2 months, compared to daily
  • Lunches are now salads, before they were meal deals with a packet of crisps
  • Minimal sugar, carbs, pasta compared to before.

I mean overall, how much more can i genuinely change ? lol
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Oh in my previous post I was just trying to prove that a healthy lifestyle isn't hard mate. You can eat loads of tasty treats. I really like pancakes and such. Making pancakes healthy is easy and they are tasty. Concerning the sickness thing; I think your changed diet had a big influence on that. I haven't been sick (flue, colds and such) since I changed lifestyle and that's like 6 years ago *knocks on wood.

My question about the mashed potatoes was purely culinary interest. Kudos for you for using margarine, I use regular butter (and to be fair quite a lot). I really enjoy quality mashed potatoes. Hmm. I also really enjoy mattetaarten (around 450 calories very little useful nutrients; http://www.geraardsbergen.be/upload/Stad_Geraardsbergen/AA FOTO ALGEMEEN/toerisme/mattentaarten.jpg) from time to time.

I don't believe in forcing strict diets upon people, people should be able to do what they want. I do encourage people to have a healthy fun lifestyle.

Anyway I think you're doing good. I believe you're serious about this. How much weight have you lost already?
 
Armel said:
Oh in my previous post I was just trying to prove that a healthy lifestyle isn't hard mate. You can eat loads of tasty treats. I really like pancakes and such. Making pancakes healthy is easy and they are tasty. Concerning the sickness thing; I think your changed diet had a big influence on that. I haven't been sick (flue, colds and such) since I changed lifestyle and that's like 6 years ago *knocks on wood.

My question about the mashed potatoes was purely culinary interest. Kudos for you for using margarine, I use regular butter (and to be fair quite a lot). I really enjoy quality mashed potatoes. Hmm. I also really enjoy mattetaarten (around 450 calories very little useful nutrients; http://www.geraardsbergen.be/upload/Stad_Geraardsbergen/AA FOTO ALGEMEEN/toerisme/mattentaarten.jpg) from time to time.

I don't believe in forcing strict diets upon people, people should be able to do what they want. I do encourage people to have a healthy fun lifestyle.

Anyway I think you're doing good. I believe you're serious about this. How much weight have you lost already?
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Isn't butter better for you than margarine though?

Also, healthy pancakes - no. Just no! Either do it right, or just don't do it!
 
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