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And I seriously dislike when people feel superior to those that decide no to. Its annoying and overbearing, you enjoy your nuts? Good for you, you eat for nutrition? Good for you.
I personally LOVE food, I mean, I went to school to become a chef, I love food. We dont eat out at all as a family as I cook everything and we do want our children to have healthy lifestyles, but we dont eat just to stay alive, we eat because we love eating and its sad that you cant just sit down one day and enjoy a piece of chocolate cake. Besides, my family has a bakery and they have own it for years and years, I grew up eating bread and pastries and cookies and such, I will not give them up.
Im not overweight, but I've never been skinny. Im only 4'11 and before having kids I was no bigger than 45 kg maybe? Now Im at 52 or 51 kg, not fat at all but out of shape but I just had a baby not that long ago. I have 4 children ( under the age of 8) and I live abroad with no help at all, except for a couple of weeks during the summer, do you think I have time to go to the gym? Nope. My husband and I do exercise around 4 or 5 times a week, we mostly jog for an hour everyday and then we swim for another hour, not much but as we take the kids with us and that can be exhausting.
I've known extremyl healthy people that have died all of a sudden, yet my grandfather for example smokes like a chimney and has a terrible diet and is going strong at 75 it will eventually caught up with him but he cant say he didnt enjoyed his cigars and his food.
Relax...you can love food and still make an effort to eat healthy. It's great that you're a chef. I would venture to say that all chefs love food and love eating it. You're at an advantage there. I'm sure you make a point of choosing fresh ingredients.
You absolutely don't have to go to a gym to get exercise or to be healthy. I'm 58, have three kids and haven't gone to a gym since my 20's. I make a point, a priority, of movement everyday. Sounds like you do to with running and swimming. It is hard when you have small children. Don't get stressed out. The first step is being aware of what's healthy and what's not and limiting the latter, getting whatever amount of exercise you can, and enjoying your family. Best wishes.
I work 60 hours a week and go to the gym 3 days a week.
I often have co-workers ask how I can eat so healthy without cheating. They aee me eat a lot of egg whites, nuts, whole grains etc. and ask how I can stand to eat like that every single day.
1) I actually love this food
2) Because I choose to be healthy and feel good. Im in my eatly 30s and often get told I look like im 25.
Im not a HUGE guy but I am in good shape. If you dont/cant workout, at least eat healthy. it makes a eorld of a difference.
When I was in HS I ate like crap. Fast food several times a week. Luckily, I was never overweight.
It took me awhile to get this way, but I almost never eat amything unhealthy. I won't eat cakes and cookies. I don't even have interest in them.
Over the years, I have narrowed it down To 4 enemies of your diet:
1) Sugar
2) Saturated Fats
3) ALL fried foods
4) SODA
Very strange screen name for a person with your attitude. The Libertarian platform mentions that it is up to the individual what they put in their body and it really isn't any of your business.
Very strange screen name for a person with your attitude. The Libertarian platform mentions that it is up to the individual what they put in their body and it really isn't any of your business.
Then why is it any of his coworkers' business what he did to his body? Weren't they the one who asked in the first place?
I didn't see the OP pushing his views on others. If they asked, then it's reasonable that one would compare what they're doing to themselves and what is the OP doing.
I think it's also a matter of priorities. I used to work long hours in an office, and it was difficult to not become overweight. Sitting over 10 hours a day is catastrophic to your health, and even working out an hour after work may not make up for all the time spent being sedentary. But I had to change my priorities. Now, my health comes before my career - for this reason, I will never put in so many hours that I don't have time to exercise and eat properly. The ironic thing is that I will probably live longer than those who put their careers first, thus putting in more hours of work during my lifetime. I have known too many people who worked long hours and died in their 40s and 50s due to the toll that lack of exercise and stress took. If your job and family prevent you from being healthy, then cut back - working 60+ hours a week so you can afford a nice vehicle and a nice home, while not having time to exercise, is not worth it. Taking your kids to soccer games every day if it means that you don't have time to exercise is also not worth it - you can do something with your children that allows the whole family to get exercise, like martial arts classes, hiking, swimming, etc. If possible, simplify your life until you have time to get proper sleep, exercise, and nutrition.
I agree.
I believe many people generally have their priorities misplaced.
I know I often have.
It was not easy for me, but I am doing it anyways and have started accepting it as OK. Its like this quote about prison walls from Shawshank redemption. Your eating modulations will follow the exact same patterns, take my words:
And I seriously dislike when people feel superior to those that decide no to. Its annoying and overbearing, you enjoy your nuts? Good for you, you eat for nutrition? Good for you.
Just as much as I dislike those who try and take pot shots at me for liking to exercise and generally eat healthy. It goes BOTH ways. I don't feel superior to anyone, as I am not that kind of person.
I try not to worry about what other people do to their bodies until I consider the increasing number of afflictions we've voluntarily introduced into our species' gene pool. It's more than modern medicine can contend with and leads to the perpetuity of the abusive relationship between politics and health care. Then again, I'm a big picture kind of guy.
I'm about 20-30 pounds overweight. I should be between 165 and 175, and last I checked was 190 which is where I've been for about 2 years now. I used to be really good at working out regularly and managed to stay in that low 170s range as long as I did that.
I don't watch what I eat all that much and never did, but I make some common sense choices, particularly when it comes to avoiding excess sugars and saturated fats & I especially watch what I drink. The worst shape I was ever in was when I had a latte habit. I also avoid sodas.
When I do manage to work out vigorously 4-6X a week for more than 6 weeks in a row, I drop back down to the 170s. I would run for 2-3 miles, walk for another 1-2 miles three times a week, work out with weights including at least 20 minutes of cardio another two to three times a week.
It would take 2 hours a day for that when you include the logistics of getting to the running trails, gym, etc... The older you get, the more responsibilities you have, the harder it is to budget in time for all that exercise.
I don't know, I'm too busy focusing on my own exercise routines and eating habits to worry about what other people are doing.
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