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  • September 28, 2015 at 1:37 am #84261
    Sann
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    I’m interested to hear what other people’s ways of eating are.
    Do you follow certain guidelines or principles?
    And what is the reason for it?
    And does it change sometimes?

    And, do you always follow them, or do you make exceptions?

    For me, i was a vegetarian for 5 years. In some period, i was more towards vegan.
    The reason was mainly animal welfare, animal rights.
    I don’t think i would have turned a vegetarian for health reasons, than i might still have eaten the occasional meat. But i did feel that it did me good, i felt better a lot of the time and my constipation problems got far less.

    Then 3 years ago i started travelling, as a volunteer with people in their home or organisations. So i decided, it’s going to be too difficult to be vegan and to ask people to be considerate about it, and too much hassle to organise it myself. (Perhaps that already shows something about how strong my motivations were related to animal rights?) So i just kept to a vegetarian diet.

    Now i’m living in an other country and since about 1.5 year or something, i’m back to eating meat and fish. In the beginning now and then, and now more common. Not everyday, but it is normal again.
    And i’m still confused. I didn’t eat it because i was so compassionate about animals, and now i act like i don’t care anymore.
    I don’t know if i ate it because i felt my body needed it, or because i liked the taste, or because it was just convenient.
    I’m not going to stop eating meat again from tomorrow on, because i want to make sure first, that i have the right motivation. And that my motivation is not just mental, but deeper than that.

    Besides that, right now, these past months are quite emotionally stressful for me, and i notice that i’m going easier to have little things that are not the best. More coffee, more things with sugar, going for fastfood now and than, which i used to do only sporadically.
    So in general, i’m looking to create a more healthy eating pattern again, because that actually helps the stress and with energy (but it’s oh so easy to go to the unhealthy stuff…). It is not too hard to find what i need to do for that, but it is the discipline that lacks me sometimes, especially when the times get stressy.

    Would be interesting to hear how you make your decisions about your diet – if you do make decisions about it.
    And if you always manage to keep to it..

    September 28, 2015 at 3:12 am #84266
    jock
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    fruit and veg every day
    at least I stick to that
    But a love of certain cookies
    has added way too much fat

    emotional eating
    guilty as charged
    I hope my sentence will be
    1 year in a Buddhist monastery
    eating only vegan food

    September 28, 2015 at 5:36 am #84269
    Inky
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    Hi Sann,

    Instead of thinking Meat = Bad, Must Be Vegan Always…

    You Might Think of:
    Veggies, Fruit and Nuts are Best
    Grains are OK (well, not really, but not going to get into the whole Paleo thing here!)
    Meat, Eggs and Cheese is Optional.

    I think of:
    Veggies Best
    Fruit and nuts Good
    Meat and Eggs OK
    Cheese Optional
    Grains Bad
    Sugars Worst

    It really is a personal preference!!

    When you go food shopping, pick out healthy foods. Follow a yummy recipe from your cookbook.

    But if there’s meat when you go out with your friends or something that just happens to have cheese in it, don’t sweat it.

    And go out for fast food only once a week.

    I would rather you have the best organic, grass fed beef than vegan junk food.

    Good Luck!

    Inky

    September 28, 2015 at 7:33 am #84272
    Anonymous
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    no meat? sacrilege! haha. I love meat but I hardly ever have it. I buy it often for the cat (she needs it as she’s old and has a gentle tummy)

    Im on a fitness regime at the moment having always in my head been the ‘fat lass’ so I’m ALL SYSTEMS GO!!

    WATER is the best thing you can give to your body. Water, sleep and stretching.

    the second I wake up I drink the pint of water beside my bed
    I go and brush my teeth and make a pint of boiling water (sipped slowly)
    I get ready for work and down another pint of cold before I leave
    I walk or bike the 5 miles to work and when I get here I down another pint of water
    then two coffees (black, no sugar)
    then I eat some fruit and nuts for breakfast – just whatever deals the fruit shop has – today was grapes and an apple I foraged from a tree
    Then 11 am I have a cup of hot water
    then 12 I go for a 3 mile walk/run thing
    followed by another pint of water and a small salad (today was a handful of lettuce, a tomato, half an avocado, a cuppa soup and a packet of crisps
    and you guessed it, more water
    Then I bike or walk home
    more water
    cuppa tea (if it’s not a beer which often enough happens instead)
    then supper – which is often a BIG BOWL of something lentil gooey
    more water and bed

    then repeat

    weekends of course are another matter – beer, wine, big bowls of pasta something or other

    then back to the goodness of the week.

    September 28, 2015 at 7:35 am #84273
    Anonymous
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    and it’s done me proud – I’m getting toned and skinny – hopeing I can keep that up til after Christmas and then into March for my New Zealand trip. =- that’s my motivation. to be stunning to see this guy I was seeing over here and will see when I get over there. I’m gonna be a WOWer. it’s all for me but it’s ok to use him as the motivation – whatever works,.

    September 28, 2015 at 9:15 am #84287
    Anonymous
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    Dear Sann:

    For people who tend to stress, anything could be turned into stressful, and so it had with me. You know what foods are healthier than others. When you buy food in a market, buy that which you like and which is healthier. When the cooks at your place of work offer you food, eat in moderation what is not so healthy and a bit more of what is healthier. I personally eat meat. About animal rights not to be eaten, they don’t follow that rule in nature, do they? Compassion, yes. Rights to not be eaten? Not if the animals-in-nature shows I watched are real. So take it easy as much as you can, Sann. Reduce stress and do not add stress that is not there already. Or do not increase such.

    * pomplemous: I am excited for you: the New Zealand trip- with your exercise schedule, I have no doubt, you are more and more of a WOWer every day.

    anita

    September 28, 2015 at 10:30 am #84291
    Sylvio
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    I always try to be as healthy as I can.

    About 10 years now I stop to eat meat. About 5, I became vegetarian, but then a I move on to a small city (here in Brazil) and get married. And for the sake of my marriage (southern brazil eats a lot of barbecue and meat, and that means minimal options and understanding for non-meat eaters) I starts to eat fish once in a while.

    So now, I basically have a vegetarian diet and some seafood. Wholegrain everytime I can, no sodas, very low sugar intake (I don’t like too candies, so it’s easier), a lot of water and tea, also seeds, fruits and vegetables.

    For me, the key is: BE AWARE OF YOUR FOOD (know what you’re about to put inside of your body, know the costs -to the world- of your food). Because most people doesn’t know or doesn’t care of his food’s provenance.

    September 28, 2015 at 2:43 pm #84335
    jock
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    WATER is the best thing you can give to your body. Water, sleep and stretching.

    I agree Pomp. Good point.

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