The wife cooks it and I eat it. She is not one for foreign food so a couple of full dinners a week is not uncommon along with standard British grub and there is not much fast food in our diet. As has been said earlier, moderation comes in handy, allied to a bit of exercise. We are both in our late seventies but pretty fit, we think, for our age despite being deprived war time kids on a diet of stodge/suet pudding diet worked off by walking and we have come full circle. Peoples lives change, but we feel people need to diet only to save them from reasonable exercise.
A lot of that stuff was probably better cooked and contained better quality ingredients, even if it was rationed, than the overly processed, fat and sugar-laden stuff that a lot of people eat these days.
One of my jobs as a kid was to search for caterpillars and slugs in my Granda's cabbages because my Mother would not touch them. Us kids got the stalks to munch on. Even the carrot and tatie peelings were kept for chopping up and added as a thickener for broth during the week.
It's a full time job keeping up with it all. Eggs do have cholesterol by the way but it's LDL (the good cholesterol) as opposed to HCL (the bad cholesterol). I generally eat 95%+ healthy and by healthy I mean naturally grown organic produce and organic/free range meats and fish. If it's been processed and preserved, it's probably ****... apart from sauerkraut which is naturally preserved and has probiotics and enzymes. Some sauerkraut isn't though... Errrm, right start again... Just don't eat breakfast at Morrisons and we should all be ok.
I mix my shakes with almond milk which I didn't think I would like....seems to be going down ok....lol. The coconut oil I thought I would never have but again taste wise I don't really know the difference. The coconut oil I use has a garlic flavor. Would recommend it. One thing that has always stood out for me relating to nutrition ....when I was at school in Seaham many years ago I was taught logarithms etc.....never used them in life.....yet I eat everyday and was never taught about nutrition. I hope things have changed now....
Training quite a lot now mate. My program is a killer but I need that or I get bored. My eating is at about 80% still lots of room for improvement.
My wife bought coconut oil once, she insisted that it would taste exactly like vegetable oil but would be healthier. We had some roast potatoes using it, all of which tasted very strongly of coconut. Never again.
Hey I'm from Sunderland....after drinking Irn Bru and Vodka....Lucozade and Vodka....I can handle garlic in the coconut oil.....lol
Thanks for that. Something else I've learned. However by next month, who knows if it will still be true?
Same mate. I was at my worst in November and December. I looked like an Auschwitz survivor. I'm eating well now though and I was training hard. My face is starting to fill back out but had troubles with my back so hard to stop the weights. At the moment I'm just easing myself back in with light kettlebells training and push ups in the house. I'll get there though, I'm determined and focused again now.
I have never really got in to the shake instead of food concept - I know people who swear by them but I like real food too much. I tend to train around 6 days a week (triathlons and ultra events) but still eat healthily out of choice - chicken and fish mainly with the occasional fillet steak or duck breast. I got bought some Joe wicks cook books for Xmas and there's some really nice recipes in there which I've been experimenting with - his idea of portion size needs looking at mind!!
Don't want to sound like a smart arse but I think you've have those the wrong way round @Tel . HDL's are considered the 'good cholesterol' despite the possible misconception that something of 'high density' would be worse than 'low'. (@Gordon Armstrong , is this what it feels like when you correct people?)
