- Joined
- 16 Feb 08
- Moves
- 124290
2 edits
If someone had told me 20 years ago that cutting out alcohol, sugar, potato, bread, rice, pasta, breakfast cereals and fruit … and consuming instead, fatty red meat, oily fish, a little bacon, butter, cheese, avocados, eggs, sea salt and lots of green veg would make me feel much healthier, lose weight, have less food cravings, lower appetite and experience improved mental wellbeing, I would not have believed them.
I do now.
- Joined
- 15 Jan 24
- Moves
- 47376
@diver saidVery happy for you, my friend. Yes sugar, in all its clever disguises, is the enemy.
If someone had told me 20 years ago that cutting out alcohol, sugar, potato, bread, rice, pasta, breakfast cereals and fruit … and consuming instead, fatty red meat, oily fish, a little bacon, butter, cheese, avocados, eggs, sea salt and lots of green veg would make me feel much healthier, lose weight, have less food cravings, lower appetite and experience improved mental wellbeing, I would not have believed them.
I do now.
You rarely see an overweight old person :-)
- Joined
- 10 Jan 08
- Moves
- 24326
@diver saidFruit?
If someone had told me 20 years ago that cutting out alcohol, sugar, potato, bread, rice, pasta, breakfast cereals and fruit … and consuming instead, fatty red meat, oily fish, a little bacon, butter, cheese, avocados, eggs, sea salt and lots of green veg would make me feel much healthier, lose weight, have less food cravings, lower appetite and experience improved mental wellbeing, I would not have believed them.
I do now.
It's good that you're only cutting out potato and not potatoes. A life without potatoes... Impossible.
2 edits
@diver saidGreat that you’ve discovered what works best for you.
If someone had told me 20 years ago that cutting out alcohol, sugar, potato, bread, rice, pasta, breakfast cereals and fruit … and consuming instead, fatty red meat, oily fish, a little bacon, butter, cheese, avocados, eggs, sea salt and lots of green veg would make me feel much healthier, lose weight, have less food cravings, lower appetite and experience improved mental wellbeing, I would not have believed them.
I do now.
The older we get the more we need to get serious about our diet & lifestyle to maintain our physical & mental wellbeing. When I ever had a pain I used to think ‘Do I need to see a doctor?’ These days I first think ‘What have I eaten, done or not done to cause this?’
We have far more control over our health than we realise.
- Joined
- 16 Feb 08
- Moves
- 124290
@Trev333 saidNot all fruit but most; the complex sugar content is horrendous; it gets broken down into glucose and still messes with you. Surprisingly for me bananas are one of the worst culprits. Sugar is as bad as drugs, in fact I am now regarding it as literally that.
Fruit?
It's good that you're only cutting out potato and not potatoes. A life without potatoes... Impossible.