Kitchen

[SaveTheTurtles]

Less processed boxed food and more fresh health food. Less meat more fruits and veggies. Smoothies in the vitamix with low sugar yogurt for added protein.

[ECBG]

Roasting vegetables has taken over steaming.  I don't hardly fry.  I have always bought fresh; I can't stand much canned. 

[AuntMame]

I now eat more chocolate chip cookies because life is too short not to. 

[wagirl]

I try to buy and use more organic products---- never was into the processed garbage in boxes and cans---but do use frozen items---

Incorperating alot more veggies as well and less red meats. Cutting down the carbs too--cooking from scratch but I always have. Trying to buy as local as I can. We eat fruits too but not alot of them---fruit  sugar is still sugar---have stopped buying bottled water and use a filter pitcher. But I still pop 2 oz of dark choc in my gullet each day!!!

[Pixie12]

I have one big meal a day, lunch. Dinner is usually a light salad or fruit. Maybe half a sandwich. I drink water mainly. Sometimes ice tea. My doctor put me on metformin in 2020. I have lost 45 lbs. When my daughter visits she's surprised I don't prepare dinner anymore. All these changes happened after I retired in 2018. Prior to that I was always going out to lunch and having a nice dinner too.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

My diet is significantly different from how I ate most of my life.  I don't eat sugar, grains, starchy vegetables, or legumes, and I avoid cruddy, inflammatory seed oils as much as possible.  I eat  very low carb, a moderate amount of protein, and healthy fats - fruits are limited to berries.  I usually have a serving of MCT oil daily and I use real Irish butter - no margarine or whipped up oil in this house.  I follow an intermittent fasting schedule that ranges from 20:4 - 22:2.  That means I either eat one meal daily or one meal and a little something extra within my eating window.  I always have water near me, only drink a diet pop once in a blue moon.   Between June 2019 and January 2022 I lost 150 lbs. and have been maintaining.  I'm in the best health of my adult life.

[ID2]

Oh, my diet is hugely different now. I lost 70 lbs. several years ago and this time I'm NOT regaining it back! I eat no carb and am an avid walker now. And its working for me. I checked my last years walking record on my Fitbit. I actually walked 1,700 miles in 2023!!! I really didn't know I walked that much. But I'm happy, healthy, slim and did I mention happy? 

[JeanLouiseFinch]

1,700 miles - that's amazing, @ID2! I just started walking again. I tried it many years ago, found too many excuses and ended up quitting. I was a fatty back then too.  I know I'll never be in your league but I am more committed this time.  Since I had my kidney removed, I want to keep the remaining one healthy.  The chance of recurring cancer is super low but I also have high blood pressure. I don't want to increase my meds so the walking helps.  My subdivision is very hilly so I'm challenged, which is good, but once I get my 30 mins. in, that's enough.  When the weather gets consistency nice, I may push a little more, but nothing too radical.

Since you aren't eating any carbs, does that mean you eat the carnivore lifestyle?  I have a friend who used to eat keto but switched to carnivore last year.  

[2sisters]

Agreeing with others that I eat what I can tolerate.  I am having stomach issues so if I get a full meal down it's a good day.  I try to eat and cook as healthy as I can, we don't eat out much at all. I do stay away from processed food as I think many have a chemical taste.  But if I want an Oreo I will have one or four😉

[bells4me]

Much less carbs, sugar & salt.  Haven't had soda in 6 years.