Is there anyone who just eats normally?

[Peanutss]

I can't believe the amount of threads where the OP claims to eat only a boiled spinach shake for breakfast, plain cous cous for dinner and a salmon fillet with veg for tea. With of course, only an apple as a snack in between.

Is there anyone like me who just has a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, a meal deal for lunch and then whatever I can be arsed putting in the oven for tea? I'm beginning to wonder if I'm massively unhealthy in comparison to most or whether people are just making this up.

Such as bees that should say

I really like a few ryvita cracker thins with a pate or cream cheese and cucumber for lunch

Not odd, I could eat that. I do love pate! I probably couldn't just have 'a few' for my entire lunch though

Alot of the 'nornal' eaters on here are eating all sorts of refined and processed foods. Then they either fall into the camp of not giving a toss about weight loss anymore or they are a normal healthy weight - either way justifying the normal diet. What concerns me is that people make all about your weight whereas surely it's your overall health that's really important. I quite often find that people who profess to be able to indulge in eating lots of bread pasta and chocolate with no effect on their weight will have some chronic ailment instead. Pretty sure no-one gets away with it, our bodies aren't stupid.

getyarn.io/yarn-clip/852f271d-7c18-4be3-b2cb-294782d599fa

Op, did you mean ‘normally’ as in eat when you’re hungry and stopping when full, and not analysing and worrying about the food?

I had fish with carrots and steamed kale (steam it with garlic and butter, no need to massage!) last night.. I'm going to have a piece of fruitcake for breakfast though.
As pp have said, it's about a balance overall.
I do genuinely love green vegetables and always have. I suspect that a bit of "greens" gives you benefits over and above other vegetables..that's not even fake science, that's just a guess!

RE the nutrients in organic vegetables versus non organic: pesticides aren't good for people, but the lack of them won't create a more nutritious product.
It's what the food is grown in. Most shop bought spinach is grown hydroponically and has way less iron that spinach grown in the olden days (or in a garden in soil and muck). Soil is important for all plants, that's all.

InsanityRocks
I don't doubt that less pesticides are better, that wasn't the point of my post tho. I was on about people trying to claim the magical health benefits of organic, there are very few that scientists can find.

If, as a previous poster detailed, they eat organic because of welfare and environmental concerns, that's up to them.

In an ideal world we'd all have a small plot of land, a cow and chicken, small garden and the passed down skill to grown our own food. But most have neither space, time, money, knowledge or inclination.

Bees are important. We should all grow something bee friendly even just in a pot somewhere.

I want a bee emoticon!

I can’t remember ever eating normal.

Before I was dx with crohns I could barely eat anything. Got my stoma bag nearly 4 years ago, was able to eat good things again, so piled on 4 stone!

Been trying to get rid of it for ages now, but nothing I do works. I don’t absorb nutrients from food, can’t digest fruit or veg (comes out exactly how it goes in), can’t digest whole meal, can’t eat nuts as they cause blockages. I can eat white bread and jelly’s til the cows come home though!

So now I’ve started keto and have gotten down to one meal a day without being hungry. But weight loss has stalled after a stone and I don’t know wtf else to do. My one meal a day is out of me within half an hour of eating it, as it’s high fat content. I’ve tried slimming world, weight watchers, rh fitness, keto, just plain old eating healthily, calorie tracking, and nothing is bloody working 😔

I have bees :)
🐝 🐝
🌹

I had porridge, made with water, evap milk and a banana for breakfast, toasted cheese and coleslaw sandwich, orange and then a homemade curry with a Mediterranean veg mix, remains of pheasant, carrots, potato and left over veg with rice. Cups of coffee.

I have wasted a ridiculous amount of time boring myself with pages of food diaries and still not found out why sandwiches are devil food!! I'm not the type of person that thinks its impossible to eat healthily on a low budget but I reckon theres a huge range in what people consider healthy. If you're on a budget, pasta with either home made or a jar of sauce is going to be cheaper than salmon, quinoa etc for a family of 4 or 5, and not IMO outrageously unhealthy (although its carbs so that probably makes it evil) Again if you are on a budget sandwiches are reasonably cheap to make and are probably healthier than some other choices. Also I've offered my kids many other types of lunch and they don't eat it.

If people only ate when hungry as PPs have suggested, that would be great but looking around I see workmates eating every 2 hours and people needing three meals a day plus snacks. Do we ever feel actual hunger any more or is it another need we are fulfilling (boredom?)? My cup of tea habit is definitely not thirst.

Lunch; pasta leftovers
Tea; mini waffle/biscuits
Dinner; pork belly, rice, green veg.

Breakfast is usually a cup of coffee.

RedForShort less analysing is what I meant.

For example, I probably wouldn't have sandwich if I'd had toast for breakfast purely because I know I'd end up bloated/wouldn't feel like having anymore bread. Not because I think bread is the devil. I'll happily have 2 slices a day and not feel guilty about it whether that's a sandwich or toast or bread with some soup.

I find it all sort of balances itself for me. As someone said upthread, one week a loaf of bread could be gone in 2 days in our house and the next it could sit untouched. I don't force myself to eat things I don't want and I don't stop myself from eating things I do within reason and I don't think any food is all round 'bad' and should be cut off completely.

The other week I had a dreaded pot noodle just because I fancied it. I've not had one in a long time and I didn't end up hospitalised with ill health because of it. I don't have one every day and who knows, maybe I wont again for the rest of time, maybe I will.

If I stopped myself having chocolate, I'd be thinking about it all the time and probably end up eating more than if I'd just let myself have a few squares!

You have to take everything into account I suppose . I do a lot of walking with the dog morning and evening so perhaps that's why I'm lucky enough to not really think so seriously about it. I don't just sit and eat 'junk' food and not move all day but I do eat a bit of 'junk' on the go every now and then!

If someone wants to source organic foods to help with the environment or eat as healthy as possible then I admire and respect that. It's great to have the will power to set yourself on something and do it. I just hate the judgment for people who don't feel so seriously about it. You're a shit parent if you don't/do this or that, you'll end up costing the NHS thousands if you have a sandwich at lunch blah blah.

The children in our house have fruit/veg/yogurt every day in their lunches. I also don't lose sleep because they have a few Jaffa cakes after tea some times. They are healthy and active, they aren't overweight or lazy.

If you're on a budget, pasta with either home made or a jar of sauce is going to be cheaper than salmon, quinoa etc for a family of 4 or 5

100%

I do genuinely love green vegetables and always have. I suspect that a bit of "greens" gives you benefits over and above other vegetables..

People must somehow have different tastes in some physical sense, when it comes to green veg. I eat it, but only because I make myself, because I know it's good for me. I've tried every method going for cooking them (or of eating them raw), and while I can choke them down, I have never enjoyed a single bite. They taste incredibly bitter to me, no matter how tender and coddled. And I grew up eating them every day since I was weaned (as DM is eager to tell me), so it's not a case of not being used to them.

DH, on the other hand, doesn't give a fuck about healthy eating. He'd happily just have a bag of pork scratchings for lunch, if I didn't give him looks. Doesn't worry about his weight, doesn't obsess about any aspect of food, and is only concerned with whether it tastes nice to him or not. LOVES green vegetables! Thinks they taste great. The more broccoli and sprouts, the better.

Perhaps you have too much sugar in your diet if vegetables taste bitter.

To me green vegetables generally have a sweet flavour.

Different green vegetables taste differently. And some people have much more taste buds which means vegetables do taste more bitter.
Nothing to do with eating sugar. I have a very sweet tooth and some green vegetables like green beans are not at all bitter, and I can see how you would describe them as sweet. But arugula you would not describe as sweet.

When you say a grain fed free range organic mormon chicken jedi egg I think you are trying a bit hard to tell me something about you and not about an egg.

I properly laughed out loud at that, WunderBlah!

And some people have much more taste buds which means vegetables do taste more bitter.

I’m not convinced the number of taste buds has any impact on whether vegetables taste bitter. If anything - if a person generically finds them bitter perhaps they have fewer taste buds - their sense of taste may be less sensitive.

Chocolate spread on toast here for breakfast. Lunch is usually a sandwich and fruit. I literally can't remember the last time I even ate dinner.

People who insist on regaling us with stories about having organic goats cheese and chickpeas on cocktail sticks for breakfast washed down with sparking Highland spring water (fresh from the mountain glen) are......liars!

@TatianaLarina - I did a few years or more or less strict low carbing (although with periods of bulimia relapse in the mix), so my sugar intake was pretty low. Books promised me sweet green veg. In part my tastes did change: for example fresh peppers started tasting incredibly sweet. Green veg, nope.