Critique my “diet” (not counting calories but want to eat healthier) plan

I can tell you don’t know me, so to clear up a couple of assumptions: I haven’t lived in Texas in 8 years and actually live in (Portland) Oregon. Yay stereotypes. I also had high cholesterol while I was a vegetarian on very low fat diet at the time because (surprise) genetics.

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The vegan diet is unnatural and unhealthy. It leaves one deficient of necessary fat and protein which are even more important as you age.

Fat is needed to synthesize testosterone and prevent neurodegenerative death diseases, and protein is needed to build muscle tissue. Therefore it is no wonder that vegans are generally effiminate, mentally unstable, and weak as sh1t.

Get on the whole food plant based diet man

Vegan cyclist wrote:

Get on the whole food plant based diet man

1. It’s gotta be simple and quick to make

2. It’s gotta be cheap

3. It can’t be boring

Just spent $26 on food for the week (not including the cost of oatmeal that I buy in bulk). I don’t know if I could buy enough nutritious plant based food on only $26. Like, a carton of eggs is $1 for 72 grams of protein total. You can’t get protein from beans or other weird veggies for that cheap.

Just Eat a Balanced Diet wrote:

The vegan diet is unnatural and unhealthy. It leaves one deficient of necessary fat and protein which are even more important as you age.

Fat is needed to synthesize testosterone and prevent neurodegenerative death diseases, and protein is needed to build muscle tissue. Therefore it is no wonder that vegans are generally effiminate, mentally unstable, and weak as sh1t.

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D3 Meal Planner wrote:

Vegan cyclist wrote:

Get on the whole food plant based diet man

1. It’s gotta be simple and quick to make

2. It’s gotta be cheap

3. It can’t be boring

Just spent $26 on food for the week (not including the cost of oatmeal that I buy in bulk). I don’t know if I could buy enough nutritious plant based food on only $26. Like, a carton of eggs is $1 for 72 grams of protein total. You can’t get protein from beans or other weird veggies for that cheap.

Always think " fit and healthy"!

Too many athletes forget the "healthy" bit.

I said previously, start with greens and other veg and then start adding carbs, proteins etc.

I recall UK athlete Brendan Foster once saying that, at his peak, people used to say to him that it must be great being soo fit. Brendan would reply, "Sure, always tired, always having a cold".

I bet Brendan's diet was shite.

Whatever you do, don’t cut the eggs out, don’t make fat to be your foe and make sure you are are not causing your metabolism to plummet by eating too little. People like to throw in the word ‘thermodynamics’, but humans aren’t bomb calorimeters. Hormonal response to food changes the equation (i.e. insulin response) of how foot is processed/metabolized. Make sure you are eating enough healthy fats, getting some good protein and a good share of vegetables. 2000 calories is not a lot, say, for someone who is 140-150 lbs and running >50 miles a week.

Something that the OP should know is that nutritional science is coming along slowly, but there's still too much uncertainty to make the claims that many of these self righteous posters make. People adopt dietary dogmas largely based on their pre-existing values and biases. Just eat until you are full every meal, emphasize unprocessed foods. Don't sweat it too much other than that.

What critical nutrient is needed from eggs? I'm tired of Americans who keep saying "healthy fat." They think bacon is healthy fat. If you are starving and anorexic I guess it is good to eat, but otherwise ..

ALA/Omegas are healthy fats in moderation. They are essential obviously. Most Americans eat way too much protein and fat and it shows. They are obsessed with protein much like the masses in Idiocracy were obsessed with electrolytes . In the '80s they had it right with low fat products. In the past decade they have decided to blame sugar/carbs and "non-real food." The fact was that they just eat bigger serving sizes of more junk/processed food and now pretend that they are "fat burning" with some Paleo dogma; eggs, bacon and bulletproof coffee. Watch the cancer and type II diabetes rates take off in the next 15-20 years...

But one obviously has to eat enough calories to be healthy. It is very easy to eat 4000-5000+ kcal/day of whole grain plant based foods - and if one does that they are very likely to get adequate amounts of proteins and fats and likely more nutrients/vitamins/antioxidants and fiber per calorie while reducing their risk for heart disease, type II diabetes and cancer. The human body mainly thrives on carbs. Remember that.

If you think the U$DA is concerned for your health you are wrong. If you think the “Food Pyramid” is healthy you are wrong.

Eggs are fine.

Try this. Eat a natural diet, ie: no processed foods. No bread. No added sugar. No added fats either.

Eat greens with every meal. I like kale.

Eat more colors, in general, when it comes to vegetables.

Eat fruit in the morning.

Eat meat with every meal (meat: chicken, fish, pork, lean beef).

Eat carbs in accordance with your activity level. If you adhere to the above guidelines first the carbs will take care of themselves....ie: harder to load up on rice if you’re already eating 4-8oz of chicken and greens and half a avacado....

Alan

Study of 1:

I eat 3 eggs everyday. Have for the last 10 years. My diet is much lower in carbs than it was 10 years ago. My exercise program is much lower in cardio but much higher in strength training. That alone could account for the lower carb content.

My blood numbers are just as good if not better than 10 years ago, and I turn 40 in a week.

But like I said, just a study of one.

Alan

I am going to guess that that ‘low/no fat’ craze of 80s/90s and people’s false sense of health with products advertised as such played a role in the increase of obesity. I think eggs are healthy and have several servings a week. I would slice up a few hard boiled eggs to eat in a salad before I would put some chickpeas in one.

Nub-alance wrote:

I am going to guess that that ‘low/no fat’ craze of 80s/90s and people’s false sense of health with products advertised as such played a role in the increase of obesity. I think eggs are healthy and have several servings a week. I would slice up a few hard boiled eggs to eat in a salad before I would put some chickpeas in one.

Yuck. Neither eggs nor chickpeas belong in salad. The only wholesome salad ingredient that’s not a fruit or veggie or dressing is bacon bits.

I encourage all skinnyfat noodle-armed girlymen runners to become wholly plant-powered, high-carb manorexics, it leaves more real food for actual athletes like myself. #thankyouvegansuckkas

Alan a study of n=1 is the worst kind! Lets look at some bigger numbers and real science/data.

Of course USDA is not always looking out for your health. But they do know eggs are not a health food....legally that is a problem to advertise as it is that misleading. You Americans are all tied up in big $ from beef and dairy and poultry. Billions of dollars on the line. Why do you think farmers get such big subsides and cow's milk/dairy was pushed so hard in school lunches?

It is sad you have to worry about eating bread and rice as a runner. Sounds like you probably abstain from pizza then as well?

You say "Eat meat with every meal (meat: chicken, fish, pork, lean beef)."

Bad advice IMO.

Your blood levels are fine? Well that's great if you are a runner and exercise and don't eat too many calories (and you eat things like kale and fruit) then they should be pretty good at age 40.

Probably should look into choline, eggs and TMAO.:

Eggs are a very healthy food, and the government advocates eating them. "Cuttheegg" is flat out wrong.

Proof:

"Eggs, which the government had warned against for 40 years, are now considered part of a healthy diet. "Eggs can be part of a healthy eating pattern and people should be thoughtful about including them into a healthy routine," said Karen DeSalvo, HHS assistant secretary for health. Evidence has shown that high levels of cholesterol in the blood are associated with saturated fat from fatty meats rather than eggs, leading to a shift in the government's guidelines."

This is taken from U.S. News article "Here's what the Govt. Says You SHould Eat" and the link:

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016/01/07/new-nutrition-guidelines-meat-eggs-are-ok-to-eat-after-all-usda-says

Frankly, it dissapoints me greatly that a runner cares enough to ask and some nutcase perpetuates bad info.

Put up or shut-up. Where does the govt. say anything like that? And before you start, there's article after article from reputable sources advocating their part in a healthy diet.

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That's a cheesy post dude - you better quit typing and go out for a run or something. ?