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    I got to thinking today about eating healthy. I'm always reading on here how you guys are all following extreme lifestyles, like cutting out all dairy or all animal products or whatever. I really try and take care of myself well, by working out and looking good all the time, and I just wish I could do something like this. I'd love to feel good INSIDE as well as outside....I just don't know how I'd get the motivation to do it!

    How did you all decide to follow these lifestyles? Was being healthy always a thing you enjoyed, or were any of you former fatties and fast-food lovers?

    Also, do you ever fuck it up? Like, don't you have the extreme urge to just go to McDonalds and order a Quarter Pounder meal and ice cream sundae?!?

    I wonder...Are my tastebuds, like, different or something? How come I just can't stand the thought of healthy food? I really would like to change my eating habits, but I am convinced healthy food doesn't agree with me.

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    I eat healthy, but not vegetarian. A lot of my motivation was sizing up my coworkers at the bar, especially the lithe ones. Between that and a medication-induced ED... well yeah. But ED aside, a lot of it was/is focusing on women that inspire me to get down to their size/weight/shape.
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    I thought of the same thing. There are some girls on here who do a 100% RAW diet..I am just like wow..how do they do it?

    I dunno, I"d be lying if I said I could go Vegan. I loves my pot roasts...







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    i've always strived to be healthy. I don't know why. i have a Virgo Mon. Maybe that has something to do with it.

    I was vegetarian for YEARS, then progressed to vegan and then primarily raw. I ate organically but as my vegetarianism progressed, my health did not (according to the health of my organs, glands and skin).

    So now I eat poultry and fish, zero gluten/dairy/shit and my skin has never looked better (not counting whnen I was young and put on ___cyclines) and I don't need any kind of stimulants to get me through teaching like 6 fitness classes a day (that's what I did today). I'm a health nazi who seeks out the truth.

    Do I ever fuck up? Not really. If I want something like chocolate 7 days in a row, I'll eat it without guilt. But it'll be dark chocolate with only the best/organic/pure ingredients.

    I'm a snob when to comes to what goes near my mouth. I finally love my skin. And I feel really good overall.

    When I was young I'd eat fettuccini alfredo or homeade (i'd make it myself) mac & cheese. I loved cheese, wheat products, gourmet desserts and haagendaaz icecream. I was never fat but my skin was horrible and my hormones were a bit whacked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ahmeerah View Post

    When I was young I'd eat fettuccini alfredo or homeade (i'd make it myself) mac & cheese. I loved cheese, wheat products, gourmet desserts and haagendaaz icecream. I was never fat but my skin was horrible and my hormones were a bit whacked.
    girl, I make some MEAN mac and cheese! So you mean to tell me you'd never sample some of my homemade midwest goodness

    Also, what did you cut out first? The meat, the dairy, gluten?

    I LOVE cheese..not to much a fan of milk though. I could probably..live without beef. But I loves my seafood. I dont eat pork, chicken is cool but I can live without that.

    How can I start a better healthy eating regimine?







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    good thread. all i eat is things that can be microwaved i dont have the slightest idea how to cook.

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    Nothing tastes as good as feeling good feels. I have kicked asthma and cronic fatigue syndrome from cutting out wheat, dairy, sugar, yeast, most meats and caffine and alcohol for the most part and introducing lots of raw food to my diet. I wasnt eating much in the way of junk before so its amazing what a difference its made. I also like that its an ethical diet in so many ways. I havent quite perfected it 100% when Im travelling away from home, but it seems to get easier and easier with time.

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    I've been vegetarian for 10 years this month. I first went veg as a boycott against the horrors of factory farming and the American meat industry. I decided I wanted no part of it. I love and deeply respect animals. I did eat fish occasionally up until probably the seventh year or so, but I quit that because I was concerned about the high levels of toxins in fish, about overfishing, and because I was feeling like a hypocrit. I am okay with eating roadkill and with hunting -- because both can honor the animal -- but I'm not interested in doing either.

    I've tried going vegan and that hasn't worked out -- I looked the best I ever looked, but felt weak. Now I eat eggs, but still avoid dairy. I also avoid wheat. I've learned that both wheat and dairy make me bloat. Now and then I'll eat bread and butter at a restuarant, but I try to make it a relative exception. I haven't ever cheated and eaten meat.

    I look and feel very good right now because I've been making an effort to eat real food. For example:
    -- I snack on sliced apples or bananas with peanut butter, trail mix, soy yogurt with live cultures in it
    -- For breakfast I eat dairy-free "omelettes" with free-range eggs, spinach & tofu; or oatmeal made on the stovetop with berries, soy milk and agave nectar
    -- For dinner I like spinach and mushrooms sauteed in garlic and olive oil and soy sauce with tempeh or tofu over 5-minute couscous or rice
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    I became a vegetarian because of an eating disorder. Compulsive eating, that is. I wanted to stop eating so much food, and I figured cutting out a whole category of foods might help. I had many friends and a mom who were vegetarian, so after going to a concert put on by peta, I decided it was time to convert. I didn't go cold turkey (no pun intended!), but after 2 weeks of gradually reducing my animal intake I was vegetarian. Been so for 5 years now.
    Now, I'm a polite vegan (basically, only vegetarian when going out to eat, I find it impossible to eat out and be vegan!). Even that's taken years though.
    Going vegetarian makes you lwatch every little thing you put in your mouth to make sure it's okay to eat. Getting yourself to watch what you put in your body is a big step to eating healthy. And you have to eat right to avoid malnutrition too!
    I eat so healthy that fried foods don't taste right to me anymore, and saturated fats... they leave this weird film in my mouth, and I don't like it.
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    I am currently Gluten and Dairy Free. My initial reason to even try it was to conquer my skin issues. I have tried everything under the sun and after some research decided to solve it from the inside. Now I am really starting to take a look at exactly what food is made of. I was in the grocery store the other day and my bf looked at the label on a pack of jumbo hot dogs... 1300mg of sodium and 30g of fat in ONE hot dog!!! WTF?! I get so angry at the way our 'food' has been processed, stuffed with fillers and made to be anything but what food is really suppose to be.

    I guess now my dietary choices are becoming a stand against the food industry. I can't even imagine whats inside of fast food... I checked once, when I worked there as my first job (I never ate there again after that.) And I agree with MichelleJade, if I even tried to eat fast food now, I would spit it out because it would probably taste awful! I don't miss fast food, dairy, gluten, snack foods or anything processed. I just take a second to read the labels or think about what is really inside of the food and it just seems natural to me to cut out most of the crap. And I feel great too! Hopefully my skin will improve with time (I'm still a newbie when it comes to this stuff.)

    For the record though, my grocery bill is expensive. Its the one thing I don't try to put a cap on. If my body needs it and its good for my body, so be it.

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    Thank you everyone for sharing keep em coming!!!! I've gotta make some sort of decision about this stuff soon. I just moved to a different house, what better time to start up something outrageous like eating healthy. There is a little health food store down the street....do you guys do shopping at the normal grocery store or do you only go to the health food store? We don't have a Trader Joes (or anything big like that) around here so that is out of the question. Maybe the farmers market would be good?

    My skin is meh, I get pimples often, but not like full-face breakouts or bad acne. I started using Proactiv and its going away completely, actually (but thats a whole nother thread!)

    Shit, I just had to look up the word "gluten" (haha)....no flour or wheat, that sounds like a pretty big sacrifice. Aren't those in most things?

    I think I am going to start really slow, maybe giving up red meat and replacing regular milk with soy milk. I eat fried foods pretty often, but I could go without them if I needed to. Guess I'll do that too....you guys would be appalled at my eating choices. Kraft macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, french fries, prime rib, and diet coke are all staples of my diet. I also have this soup I created, called "goup," which consists of Mrs. Grass's soup with as many different textures noodles I can find thrown in, as well as some dumplings. Eek.
    I never eat salad or veggies either.

    I'm going to eat less this week, and go to the grocery store on Sunday and start on Monday.

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    Veg is easy if you watch the farming videos on PETA's website. It'll make you lose your appetite for it and you won't crave it. Like to me it's no longer food. It'd be like eating a human or something. While it may be tasty or smell good, I just...can't.

    As for fried/junk foods....if you go without for awhile, and eat them. You will feel sick. I guess it's punishment.

    I don't think you should completely deprive yourself of anything you crave though. It always backfires.

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    Not to threadjack but I saw the 30 days show by Morgan Spurlock about this guy who is an avid hunter who lives with a vegan family for 30 days. I still eat animals but try to eat less beef after I watched it. They were leaving the half dead calves on the side of the road to die. They just tossed them there literally by there ankles and abandoned them to rot and die in the sun alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily View Post
    Veg is easy if you watch the farming videos on PETA's website. It'll make you lose your appetite for it and you won't crave it. Like to me it's no longer food. It'd be like eating a human or something. While it may be tasty or smell good, I just...can't.
    That's exactly why I went vegetarian. I've only been one for 4 months or so, but I don't miss meat whatsoever. When I go anywhere near the meat section at the store it makes me shudder and grosses me out.

    I was talking to the DJ last night about this and he said his BIL got a master's degree in poultry science and went to work for Tyson. His BIL said that if you took a tour through there, you'd never eat chicken again. They have machines that they put the chickens in and it pulls out all their feathers and it's all just so inhumane

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    OMG!!!! What the FUCK!!!!!!!! How do people do that for a living?!?????? I've never seen one of those because I was always scared....that was one of the worst things I've ever SEEN

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    Shit, I just had to look up the word "gluten" (haha)....no flour or wheat, that sounds like a pretty big sacrifice. Aren't those in most things?

    Yeah they are in a lot of *processed* foods. But don't bother with a 100% overhaul right away -- I think if you make any effort at all towards incorporating healthy foods, you will look and feel better for it.
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    OMG!!!! What the FUCK!!!!!!!! How do people do that for a living?!?????? I've never seen one of those because I was always scared....that was one of the worst things I've ever SEEN
    I spared myself from viewing the links in this thread, but I will tell you, I saw PETA films when I was 16 and I went vegetarian immediately and haven't ever cheated. It's horribly disturbing stuff, isn't it?
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    Yes it is. I can't believe I just saw that shit....the chickens!! I seriously can't stop thinking about it. I am going to be thinking about this all day. I could never imagine someone treating my little birdie-boy back at home that way.

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    people don't usually watch those videos because they like meat and want to be in denial.

    So kudos to you cutey for doing that!

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    Thank you everyone for sharing keep em coming!!!! I've gotta make some sort of decision about this stuff soon. I just moved to a different house, what better time to start up something outrageous like eating healthy. There is a little health food store down the street....do you guys do shopping at the normal grocery store or do you only go to the health food store? We don't have a Trader Joes (or anything big like that) around here so that is out of the question. Maybe the farmers market would be good?

    My skin is meh, I get pimples often, but not like full-face breakouts or bad acne. I started using Proactiv and its going away completely, actually (but thats a whole nother thread!)

    Shit, I just had to look up the word "gluten" (haha)....no flour or wheat, that sounds like a pretty big sacrifice. Aren't those in most things?

    I think I am going to start really slow, maybe giving up red meat and replacing regular milk with soy milk. I eat fried foods pretty often, but I could go without them if I needed to. Guess I'll do that too....you guys would be appalled at my eating choices. Kraft macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, french fries, prime rib, and diet coke are all staples of my diet. I also have this soup I created, called "goup," which consists of Mrs. Grass's soup with as many different textures noodles I can find thrown in, as well as some dumplings. Eek.
    I never eat salad or veggies either.

    I'm going to eat less this week, and go to the grocery store on Sunday and start on Monday.
    IMO, if you can cut out the Diet Coke, you're halfway there! That stuff is satan in a can! Lime Perrier is my diet Pepsi replacement. No sugar, no aspartame, just bubbles and lime. Lemon might be more Coke flavored?

    I'm a veg and I do try to eat as healthy as I can deal with. If it's unhealthy (like ice cream) I try to get the healthiest I can find (like Breyers or B&J-no additives!). I try to cut out HFCS. I do most of my shopping at a regular grocery store that has a good health food section (Wegman's). Farmer's markets are good, too.

    You can replace a lot of your food choices with healthier versions-replace Kraft with Annie's. Get the fries you cook in the oven, not the fryer. Etc. Baby steps!

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    Annies is BANGIN. We got a Wegmans on the way home from work. I'll have to stop by there Saturday night

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    Like to me it's no longer food. It'd be like eating a human or something.

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    Annies is BANGIN. We got a Wegmans on the way home from work. I'll have to stop by there Saturday night
    Woo hoo! And the produce is way cheaper than most other places.

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    Also, asian supermarkets are a great place to get vegetables cheaper than the supermarket. They also have all different types of soy at better prices. I refuse to pay $3.99 a damn pound for asparagus. Also, since its summertime....all the way til fall, the farmers market is a great place to get vegetables and eggs....just make sure you ask if they hens are cage free.

    I went vegetarian with the exception of fish when I was with my Moorish boyfriend. In his religion, they never eat anything that breaths the same air as they do. So, family outings meant all veggies and fish. I have to say that was the healthiest I had been, ever.

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