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Health and Diet

Just something I've been putting a lot of thought into, and wanted to see what all you ladies thought!

My FI does something called Paleo, which focuses on lean meats and seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts, herbs, and some oils.  There is no grains, no vinegars, no dairy, no beans, no sugar, and no salt (though FI uses limited salt since he had dehydrating problems when he was more strict).  It focuses on no additives, no preservatives, no hormone or antibiotic treated meat or dairy, fresh local foods.

I take a slightly different approach, since I do see the value in dairy (and I love cheese and ice cream).  And I just haven't been able to be quite as strict day in and day out.  But I'm a bit heavier than I'd like, and I'm having some health problems that could be greatly improved by boosting my immune system.

I just finished watching "Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead" on Netflix On Demand and it talks about micronutrients and a juice diet.  I did some research and came up with this:

http://www.mensjournal.com/andiscores/

I think I'm going to really push micronutrients and cut down on everything else, as delicious as all that junk may be.  I think I'm going to try to replace one meal a day with a high-ANDI green juice.  Tonight to start, I made a delicious minestrone style soup that is very healthy - carrots, celery, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, white beans, onion, garlic. A hint of olive oil, red wine, salt, pepper, sage, and thyme.

It's a weird way to think, as I grew up thinking whole grains were good for you and calories and grams of fat were what was most important.  Now I view those as lesser important to the nutrients you're getting - obviously you want to minimize calories and fat, but I don't see that as the most important thing anymore.

How do you view juice diets?  How do you try to eat healthy?  How successful do you think you are to maintain a healthy diet?

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Re: Health and Diet

  • KendallR10KendallR10 member
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    edited December 2011
    Fi and I watched that and we are going to do 2 meals a day of the juice

    We cut out burger and we used turkey meat now. 

    I'm horrible when it comes to eating healthy but I have to get some weight off in order to enlist
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  • divinemsbeedivinemsbee member
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    edited December 2011
    I try to be as locavore as possible, within my budget. I'm actually going to hate leaving the awesome speciality stores and farmer's markets in SLC. Plus here I share food with my Mom and Step-Dad, which has been awesome. I also get to have part of their wine budget, I'm going to miss my wine every night with dinner. My Moms is teeny-tiny and my Step-Dad is diabetic, but they still eat absolutely delicious food, it's about balance.

    FI bought a juicer not too long ago, but I think I'll get more use of it than he does. I've basically been on an eat less fat, eat regular meals kick for about the past 3 months, it's working, slowly. I think the really important thing is always to try to change lifestyle to something healthier than to change it up constantly trying to find the next thing.

    I am a total cooking nut, and that generally leads to some 'Julie & Julia'-esque feasts that aren't necessarily great in terms of far and calories (I'm super-psyched to have finally mastered tortes), but I think as long as you limit them, it'll work out. I'll admit, no vinegars, salt, sugar or dairy sounds like my personal hell, but if it works for someone I'm cool with it. I think you just have to find something you personally can stick to. Same with veganism or vegetarians, as long as they're not judgy to me, I've got no beef with them. I think whole grains really work for some people, and they wreak havoc on others metabolisms. The trick is figuring out what's best. I've had a lot of problems with disordered eating on both sides of the scale, and now I'm trying to get to a healthier weight to make it easier to have kids in a few years. I also want to look fab on the most photographed day of my life, but if I get my head to into that, it'll get really unhealthy really quickly. I know it's not like that for everyone, but I just have to pay attention to what's going on inside my head.
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  • edited December 2011
    DH's cousin is also doing the Paleo diet. He was talking to us about one day. It sounded tough but I could totally see the benefits. At that time I had given up gluten for Lent. Which was HARD!! But during that time I noticed a lot of great changes in how i felt and overall felt more healthy. I was cooking more healthy foods, and really acknowledging what types of foods I put into my body. I had a lot more engergy, and was sleeping better too. After Lent I decided to try and keep it up, which I called Gluten-Lite. I've never been a "dieter" I can't keep up with it, but with gluten-lite, I can do it fairly well. I substitute pasta and bread for gluten free ones (they don't taste the same...), and I eat more protein, like fish. I don't eat any meat, just seafood. I stopped eating meat when I was in high school, and have been very successful with that! When I studied in Spain, I started to eat fish again, and since then still eat seafood for protien. 


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  • edited December 2011
    H does a version of the Paleo (when he can),  He thinks dairy is horrible for you (I'm lactose intolerant, so I can't eat much dairy anyway).  I mostly just focus on portion control, but I follow the Curves Weight Management Plan.  I work out at Curves 5 x's a week, plus I've started running again (just at the butt crack of dawn cause it's so freaking hot!!)  3 x's a week. I hate to diet, so I've been upping my exercise and doing smaller portions and drinking a shiit ton of water!!

    That being said... I Love to cook and I use skinnytaste.com on a daily basis.  It's an amazing bloggg!!

    Kendall- email me your address again, I got the books back today and it said it was an undeliverable address, so I'm thinking I wrote it down wrong..
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  • KendallR10KendallR10 member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_military-brides_health-diet?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:13Discussion:34741d8b-af14-4071-a572-528bc9fd6944Post:17b8570f-c25d-4a14-9378-da199e84097d">Re: Health and Diet</a>:
    [QUOTE]H does a version of the Paleo (when he can),  He thinks dairy is horrible for you (I'm lactose intolerant, so I can't eat much dairy anyway).  I mostly just focus on portion control, but I follow the Curves Weight Management Plan.  I work out at Curves 5 x's a week, plus I've started running again (just at the butt crack of dawn cause it's so freaking hot!!)  3 x's a week. I hate to diet, so I've been upping my exercise and doing smaller portions and drinking a shiit ton of water!! That being said... I Love to cook and I use skinnytaste.com on a daily basis.  It's an amazing bloggg!! Kendall- email me your address again, I got the books back today and it said it was an undeliverable address, so I'm thinking I wrote it down wrong..
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    Military Brides December 2011 Siggy. Holiday picture with your SO. We suck and don't have one :/ Those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.
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