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KeenRush · Android Dummy Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Posts: 2120

More than I care about personal diet I care (in some abstract sense -- I'm not doing anything to correct the 'wrong') about distribution of food in global scale. It might get the 'developed world' back to their senses somewhat if we had a real famine for some years.
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Grimson · The Dragoner Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 1639

I don't think a famine is a solution. It would only cause food producers to look for the cheapest, most efficient and most nourishing nutrition as possible to be mass-produced; in other words, changing nothing.
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Rorie · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:19 Post subject:

my mother had an appointment with a dietitian yesterday and since she and i are in the business for us to lose weight together she asked on my behalf what was a good weight for me. she suggested at least 85kg i am 193cm tall. which means i need to lose almost 25kg more. i do a lot of physical activity at work a lot of arm exercise and walking and back bending.

she also said there was no hurry to lose it but to remain committed and replace certain foods even though i can still enjoy junk in small quantities

i am almost 30. i must lose this last 24kg cuz if i don't it will be harder as i get older to burn it off. and with there being medical history of heart problems including heart attack with the blokes in my family i need to take better care of myself
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VikingBoyBilly · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:38 Post subject:

Well you seem to be doing a lot better than Chris-Chan. Keep up the work, Rorie!

I mostly eat rice and oatmeal these days, with broccoli and bananas respectively.
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Paramultart · VBB's Partner in Crime Joined: 26 Jul 2010 Posts: 1795

Update: I got down to 143lbs and have actually made an effort to safely gain a few. I'm up to 150lbs now and I intend on keeping that as a stable weight.

My diet is no longer vegan, as I have incorporated egg-whites into my diet. (There is no fat and zero cholesterol in eggs when you extract and discard the yolks, and only 1g less protein. My eggs are grown locally on a happy organic farm, where the chickens are free to roam around.)

I just started making fat-free, sodium-free bread, which I use for egg-white sandwiches. For cheese, I use nutritional yeast, and for a little extra kick, I'll use a very modest amount of Liquid Aminos (a healthier alternative to soy sauce), totaling the sodium of the entire sandwich to less than 100mg.

I'll also make low-fat tacos. Rather than frying corn tortillas, I'll drape them over the edge of a pan, and bake them until hard.
Instead of ground beef, I'll fill my tacos with beans, rice, lettuce, nutritional yeast, and a little Liquid Aminos. Tastes amazing.

The beans I get have no salt added, and the tortillas I use have a mere 3mg of sodium per serving.

KeenEmpire · Intellectuality Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 733

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Scarlet · Vorticon Elite Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Posts: 1015

I met someone who lost over 100 pounds over about a year and is still losing weight. This person looked like a whale.

Anyways, the person would eat anything. The most important thing they said is to watch the calories, how many you take in and take out. It makes sense.
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Scilicet · Vortininja Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 86

Actually, I don't think eggs are as bad as what they're made out to be. They have essential nutrients (not made by the body but still needed) like protein and choline. I could not find where in the egg that good stuff is located, but I'm guessing that it's the yolk. If you're not using the yolk, you're missing out on good stuff like leutine and Vitamins A, E, D, and K. Some people combed through data and made a handy table you can find here(as well as link to source data): Egg Yolk Nutrients. One caution: people recommend eating egg yolks raw to preserve these nutrients. I can't quite make myself want to do that. The whites are lower in cholesterol, but have less desirable attributes, such as blocking the absorption of biotin.

I like organic, but I am living with my parents and three siblings. We can't afford to eat lots of organic because the cost for 6 servings is prohibitive, especially for something we eat a lot, like eggs. We ate organic green beans last night, however.

I think that unless you have an allergy, you should eat from all the food groups because foods in general have more than one good thing going for them. You should not need supplements of any sort.

From what I've read, the culprit behind obesity is due to gm grains, fructose, and fake foods in general rather than meat, eggs, and salt. Really? 1.5 g Na per day to maintain all those Na-K pumps and bodily fluids? That seems far too low.

Finally, people are different and so work best on different diets. My mom lost 30 lbs (13.6 kg) about 1.5 years ago and has maintained it with a protein-rich diet with lots of fish, chicken, pork, and beef. I read somewhere about schizophrenics being put on an all-animal-product diet and seeing improvement. Other people might do well with meat once or twice a week.