People are inconsistent or just stupid about healthy diet

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Absolutely shocking revelation that Americans aren't great sticking to diets and eating healthy. People also might cheat on their healthy eating for food or beverages they enjoy the most. As a country we also don't exercise enough.

yes. people are very ignorant about diet. 100%.

but, if you are cutting calories because you aren't active enough to burn them through exercise, then I guess you have to set priorities and cut calories on things you can live without and keep the naughty things you have to have. I get that.

for myself, i am thin enough. I think a burger is healthy. it is meat. It is bread. it is cheese. all things the body can use for fuel.

high school xc coach wrote:

for myself, i am thin enough. I think a burger is healthy. it is meat. It is bread. it is cheese. all things the body can use for fuel.

You could not be more wrong.

You are thin because you are young. That will change in a hurry if you don't learn to cook and prepare healthy food for yourself.

A burger with meat and "bread" is not healthy. But go ahead eat that sh!t and be a diabetic with 45.

I'm not even going there about the difference between eating humus and eating hummus because that would make this thread crappy..

Anyway...for the last over 20 years, I have eaten what I wanted..healthy, unhealthy, good, bad, small, large and my weight variance has only been in a range between 172-186, all at different times within the time period.

As long as you stay remotely fit and sweat some, it's really not necessary to eat like a Spartan except for maybe a goal time at a goal race.

I'm 47 and have never been hospitalized for a severe health problem at any time

The last time I had a medical issue at any time was ingrown toenail surgery in 2003.

Prior to that, a broken leg at age 11.

Sometimes people sweat the concept of eating too much.

Hopeful LRC poster wrote:

high school xc coach wrote:

for myself, i am thin enough. I think a burger is healthy. it is meat. It is bread. it is cheese. all things the body can use for fuel.

You could not be more wrong.

You are thin because you are young. That will change in a hurry if you don't learn to cook and prepare healthy food for yourself.

A burger with meat and "bread" is not healthy. But go ahead eat that sh!t and be a diabetic with 45.

I am 40. I am fine.

high school xc coach wrote:

Hopeful LRC poster wrote:

You could not be more wrong.

You are thin because you are young. That will change in a hurry if you don't learn to cook and prepare healthy food for yourself.

A burger with meat and "bread" is not healthy. But go ahead eat that sh!t and be a diabetic with 45.

I am 40. I am fine.

You recently said you run 70 miles a week.

That’ll help.

It's about weighing the cost and benefit. Think about calories like dollars that you have to budget. You are going to spend those dollars on the things you enjoy more.

Maybe the person in your example gets more utility per calorie out of drinking mimosas than eating fried chicken. In that case, it makes complete sense for them to skip the fried chicken and drink the mimosa instead. Opportunity cost also comes into play. If someone likes a hummus wrap almost as much as they like friend chicken, they aren't losing much by forgoing the fried chicken.

Anyway, you've openly acknowledged on LR that you are an alcoholic, so I'm not sure why you are acting like you have a hard time understanding why anyone would ever consume something that is bad for them.

jamin wrote:

I know people who will avoid eating something like a fried chicken sandwich, instead opting for a humus wrap. Then they'll have a mimosa with breakfast the next morning. Makes no sense from a perspective of either calories or bad-for-you-ness.

Have you got the vaccine yet?

80/20 rule is a good sustainable option for healthy eating. Make the 80% count, like pescatarian veggie diet, 20% of calories make meat, junk, beer

I can't see why someone can't have fried chicken, a hummus wrap, and a couple of mimosas, call it a meal, and not worry about having done that because they will work it off tomorrow.

By the time we are adults, if we're not elite, we shouldn't be depriving ourselves.

People act like by really eating, you'll gain a pound a day.

Theoretically, that means a person could go from 140 to 201 in 60 days.

Impossible.

Ask the vegetable people specifically why their food is "healthy" and you can break it down to empty rhetoric. Authorities tell you to eat it but once you question why, it falls apart.

Few vegetables have many calories. Those that do tend to be grain-based and overload on carbohydrates. There is no benefit to eating a high-carb diet when most of it is merely converted to fat. These diets used to kill people young before they started adding B vitamins to the flour.

Other than that, the stuff has some vitamin A and C, and sometimes K, and dietary fiber. Active people don't need fiber. The vitamins can be got from just one serving, but also from a serving of liver.

The usual response to this is cognitive dissonance leading to lashing out with fearful insults. That can't possibly be true! But it is. Nothing "healthy" about veggies.

2600 bro wrote:

jamin wrote:

I know people who will avoid eating something like a fried chicken sandwich, instead opting for a humus wrap. Then they'll have a mimosa with breakfast the next morning. Makes no sense from a perspective of either calories or bad-for-you-ness.

Have you got the vaccine yet?

Have you stopped fearmongering yet?

Just keep eating what you are eating.

But please don't complain when you get any health issues.

Is this and eating disorder thread yet?

Anyway , talk about virtue signaling , OP. Let's food virtue signal, that's pretty low.

Hopeful LRC poster wrote:

We all thought you left this forum.

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Where else would he go? This is the only place to accept his $&*#.

In my family tree, we have multiple people with diabetes, at least 5 people who died from heart attacks, strokes, depression, etc.

At 47, if I have lived in a way where I have had none of these, after that, whatever happens happens.

I like food, and I like exercise, but i think people should not overthink food because that's not healthy either.

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