Supplements and Healthy Eating

[Mitch f]

Wanted to start a thread about food choices and supplements. I’m just looking around and see people dying not long after their parents...kid of scary. I’m thinking lifestyle and food choices. There’s so much to talk about here, but I’ll just start by saying I’ve been very conscious in the last few years after my parents passed and I have young children.

I gave up coffee because I had some stomachs issues, that was tough...after 40 plus years of drinking strong coffee. I started consuming a bunch more Olive Oil (gave up on cooking with vegetable oil) avocados, less red meat, trying to exercise more.  Take a few supplements like pre and probiotics, but don’t want to get into that game too strong...it will break the bank! So just trying to be making better choices that are sensible. What are you guys doing?

[fishinwrench]

I just keep mixing it up. But my wife loves chicken so much that we probably eat too much of it.   Nobody in our house, myself included, is overly fond of beef.  So hamburger is about the extent of our beef intake.  I like GOOD steak but our stores here don't know what good beef is.  Fish at least once every 2 weeks (rotate fried or baked). Plenty of broccoli, lima beans, green beans, cooked carrots, beets, salad.  We go through a ton of CHEESE in this house.

Absolutely no "supplements" at all.

    My older brother refuses to eat vegetables to this day.  French fries..... that's the extent of his vegetable consumption 🙄. He lives on beer and corn dogs.

[ollie]

I have lost about 40 pounds in the last three years and the first thing I did was to start with smaller portions. That and I have pretty much given up a lot of processed foods. I still eat pretty much what I want, but in limited numbers. I gave up soda a long time ago and that was a huge amount of bad things going on there! Started eating more veggies as well and when I was younger I never did that. My wife is big into supplements, but me not so much. 

[Mitch f]

6 minutes ago, ollie said:

I have lost about 40 pounds in the last three years and the first thing I did was to start with smaller portions. That and I have pretty much given up a lot of processed foods. I still eat pretty much what I want, but in limited numbers. I gave up soda a long time ago and that was a huge amount of bad things going on there! Started eating more veggies as well and when I was younger I never did that. My wife is big into supplements, but me not so much. 

Yep, Coca Cola is a killer...but I love it!

[bfishn]

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

... What are you guys doing?

Enjoying what life has to offer while I can.

 

[Mitch f]

2 minutes ago, bfishn said:

Enjoying what life has to offer while I can.

 

Local Mexican restaurant?

[bfishn]

Yep. That's my every Saturday brunch Still working on it, but slowing down...

[bfishn]

The way I see it, you can live a long life filled with foul tastes and miserable habits till you get cancer and spend your remaining days dying from the chemo, or you can climb atop a speeding train and catch an overpass to the brain while howling at the moon. I chose the latter.

[fishinwrench]

5 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

Yep, Coca Cola is a killer...but I love it!

I'm a big Diet Coke guy, 3-4 12oz. cans per day.   I don't know what I would substitute that with.... but it surely isn't good for me.  I'm one of those people that feel like I have to have something to sip on within reach at all times.   

It's either coffee, orange or cranberry juice, soda, and more coffee.  I really don't drink as much beer/liquor as you probably think I do..... I just act half-drunk alot because it's fun. 😄

[snagged in outlet 3]

A year ago my my blood sugar and blood pressure started going up.  Even though I was low carb and working out 6 days a week.  Apparently the 6 small meals a day they were preaching never lets your insulin go down.   Bought a blood sugar monitor and BP machine.   I fast 19 hours a day since January 3.  Low carb very little processed food.  Quit drinking altogether.  Both blood sugar and pressure are back down to normal.  Lost 27 pounds.   Once a week I eat what I want.  Last weekend I had cheddar bay biscuits.  Nothing ever tasted so good.  Fish oil and I take magnesium for Charlie horses.  I’m 59 btw.