Is there anyone who just eats normally?

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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.

Today I’ve eaten a big bowl of granola for breakfast.

I had a salad with chicken, avocado, parmesan shavings, croutons and Caesar dressing for lunch, followed by a piece of homemade chocolate cake.

For dinner, a packet of microwave brown rice with a couple of handfuls of rocket, halved cherry tomatoes, Parmesan shavings, pine nuts and olive oil stirred through it.

And a Tunnocks teacake.

Probably shitloads of calories, but satisfying and delicious and just what I needed today.

I think this thread proves there are a lot of inaccuracies, inconsistencies and downright falicies when it comes to people's diets.

If people can eat what they like and not gain weight and stay healthy well bully for them

But if I eat cheese sandwiches I gain weight
If I have a quinoa and kale salad (or variant therof) I maintain weight

All these scorning comments . Some people have to eat healthily to stay slim . I know there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a cheese sandwich . That’s what my
Kids eat

But my metabolism is different to theirs

These type of threads always turn into a competition of who can pretend to be the most unhealthy. 'Ooh I'm so bad, I had porridge with full fat milk with goji berries and flaxseed, a massive salad for lunch with rocket, avocado, peppers, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, lemon juice and skinless chicken breast, and dinner was poached salmon on a bed of wild rice. Then I had 3 squares of 70% organic dark chocolate. I'm such a greedy pig!'

Ok love. I had an egg and onion sandwich, a twix and a cup of tea

Why do so many people get genuinely defensive and pissed off at the posters saying they promote healthy eating? It's weird.

I don't get angry/care that you're eating a Twix.

First in my new series of diet advice...

Enjoy...

I think I do!
Brekkie is usually porridge and maybe fruit atm as it’s cold.
Lunch is usually a sandwich, veg, fruit, a biscuit or two!
Dinner could be tuna pasta; omelette, salad and chips; spag bol; spuds w filling, curry etc.
I have snacks too!!

ItsMEhooray

You have a point

But whilst the people can annoy , a healthy diet is not to be scorned at

Why do so many people get genuinely defensive and pissed off at the posters saying they promote healthy eating? It's weird.

They don’t.

But why do people ‘promote’ (i.e. preach about) diets at all? It’s such a pointless and intrusive thing to do.

For me it’s not about weight or size re eating habits and diets, it’s about health, even if you are lucky enough to eat 10 bags of crisps a day and a shed load of ready meals across the week without being overweight there is no way you are healthy

But why do people ‘promote’ (i.e. preach about) diets at all? It’s such a pointless and intrusive thing to do.

It's important to promote being healthy. Don't you want your kids to have the best chance at being fit & well and preventing disease by having a nutritious diet?

I think it's important not to promote unhealthy eating as normal.

Right oh I would agree with you, healthy sets are important and too much of certain foods can cause long term damage so it is important to educate our children as much as possible about how it be healthy, but it seems very uncommon to eat healthily these days as people see it as ‘preaching’

Twinny, exactly. I don't get why it's preachy when it's just NHS guidelines. Hey ho. :)

It’s all very well having the idea that there are no bad foods. Now sugar would be the obvious demon here. So it is only bad in excess some will say.
That’s a very simplistic way of looking at it tho. By its nature and use it’s extremely addictive. Many people can’t just eat a little bit and it is in everything.

And now we have the joy of artificial sweeteners because we are addicted to sugar (sweeteners would not exist if it weren’t for sugar; there would be no need to substitute a product if most people could self-regulate as regards their intake. But many can’t so they eat a chemical instead)

I think the move towards healthy eating is positive , hugely

So yes the clean eating bloggers are a bit annoying . I don’t follow them . Simple

But if having the Hairy Bikers , Jamie popularising healthy eating triggers more change - well it’s positive overall . It’s little things , that start a change .

I find the current mode of eating pretty appaling . If nothing else the sheer waste generated by fast food alone is shocking . And processed food . Any dinner that generates a plastic container , a film cover and a cardboard sleeve is not great in any level .

I genuinely think it’s a crisis . But if others don’t well - I can’t change their mind can I ? 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's important to promote being healthy. Don't you want your kids to have the best chance at being fit & well and preventing disease by having a nutritious diet?

Are you saying you believe you have a responsibility to preach about diets on MN for the good of other (presumably in your view feckless and irresponsible) posters and their children?

That’s incredible.

Kissing who is preaching? And how exactly?

I see our current relationship with food very much like current politics. It's all gone very extreme. Loads of people eating absolute shite. Loads eating extreme diets and the rest thinking what the fuck.

...the rest thinking what the fuck.

I’d say that’s pretty much the view of the normal eaters on this thread.

If everyone took responsibility to eat healthily there would be less type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity. It's proven that eating a balanced, nutritious diet can help prevent disease.

Less strain on the NHS would be a great thing. Sadly, lots of people want to eat whatever they like with no thought to its nutritional value and bounce that around as 'normal' and then expect a pill to make them feel better when they're ill. Might be normal, but it's not ideal.

And I'm not personally preaching, I'm stating my opinion on a public forum. I'm happy with my diet, my health and fitness.

As long as you're happy with yours, great!

I doubt there are many on MN who live exclusively on KFC and Kit Kats. Most people eat diets that contain nutrients, fibre and so on. They just don’t make every meal a ‘healthy eating’ exercise.

For these people the benefits of more slavish attention to ‘healthy’ eating will be marginal.

As for obesity, that’s about too many calories. It’s got nothing to do with mung beans and kale.

In any event, unless the topic is one in which someone else’s health choices might affect you, like vaccinating against infectious disease, there’s no reason for you to involve yourself in how other people choose to live their lives.

Eating disorders caused by anxious and fussy attitudes to food and the sanctification of being thin also put a strain on the NHS.

I genuinely don’t understand people who live off bread/sandwiches/cakes/little veg.

They will be fine until their 30s and generally there is a slow decline to obesity, depression, thyroid issues, type 2 diabetes, stomach issues and premature ageing.

I can’t fathom why people can’t connect the two. It is blindingly obvious that a normal western diet leads to ill health. This will bankrupt the NHS and it you don’t believe me, check out the statistics around fatty liver and the younger ages it is hitting.

This is a crisis and yet the way people eat is normalised

This doesn’t mean we all need to be gluten free vegans. It just means an overall focus on a plant based diet, with good quality protein and not too many sugary carbs.

It’s cheap and it’s easy if you plan a little/

There is no excuse to ruin your health.

Me 😂. When I'm working I have about 3 coffees before lunch, cheese and ham wraps for lunch today oh and scoffing all the chocolates in the office that were handed in at Christmas (everyone else on a diet), tonight I'll probably have salmon and veg but that's about as healthy as it gets today 😂. I'm a "healthy" weight for my age.

Totally right, Glasgow.

Some people prefer to stick their heads in the sand and think ill health is just something that 'happens' to them.

As a society we need a huge ideological shift towards our view of food to see it as fuel, vital for our mental and physical well being.

:)

genuinely don’t understand people who live off bread/sandwiches/cakes/little veg

Who? I have a sandwich sometimes at lunchtime. Does that mean I live off bread now? Or does it mean that sometimes two slices of bread form part of my daily diet. I also sometimes have jacket potatoes or salads or wraps or pasta etc...

Because sometimes I have some cake, I now live off it.

No, I actually have three meals a day with fruit in-between very often which I've actually said a few times over this thread but yet again people seem to select the few things I treat myself to that fit with their 'massively unhealthy, on the verge of diabetes' view point.

Anyway, lecture away I'm a bit bored of this thread now.