What is your diet like?

[namaste]

It's taken me years but I've finally settled on a diet that keeps me feeling good. It is largely plant-based with seafood added in. Think veggies, oats, rice, beans, lentils, fish, and occasionally eggs. I consume a very low amount of dairy (makes me feel horrible), red meat, and nuts. I do still use a healthy amount of olive oil and ghee in my cooking.

I subscribe to gbold's idea that everyone is different and there is no cure-all diet solution. What about everyone else?

 

[Canari]

I call my diet "Lokehay", from lo que hay en spanish. Cook what there is. It means eat local and find a way to balance it. It also means eat according to seasons. I think we can get allergic to something we eat all the time. I think balance and life is about waves, about alternating things.

My only real exclusion is gluten. It gives me puffed eyes bloated belly and super nervous symptoms like electricity all over. Dairies are fine but I keep only a small amount of fresh raw goat organic local cheese. I have orl problems from processed dairies, especially if with sugar. Too much of even good dairies + marmelade and other sweet stuff are part of my big last year crash.

I am a strong believer in the right preparation for each food to be edible. Examples: eat a raw carrot but do not juice it. Eat starch with fat and veggies. Cook well your mushrooms. Corn is better if nixtamilized. Whole grains and legume need fermentation or sprouting. Do not caramelize. A change of color is a change of chemistry, like frying eggs (I never fry eggs!).

I think proteins do not like heat very much, so I try to eat protein foods as close to raw as possible, tartare, raw eggs, cooked-non-boiled fish, ceviche and roll-mops, etc.

Then I eat according to what my guts can. I know resistant starch is interesting, and that is why italians use al dente cooking, but until now it is not fine for me. I can use orange juice, but the rest of the orange I can eat only cooked. I cook apples and pears too, so it signals a problem with pectine.

Nothing is bad or good, well some are, but it mostly, what we can eat or not states what is OUR problem, and not the problem of the food!
-> Tell me what you eat and I tell you who you are!

My diet is for someone who has a weak liver and needs protein and little starch.
I start with what I prepare the night before: green leaves thinly cut in citric juice with olive oil. The leaves are "lokehay" in my garden, and include bitters like dandelion, artichoke and olive leaves. ...a lemon or orange juice soup with green leaves!

Then I have moments I eat a lot of fruits, and I still do not know how much I should take... I prefer them to starches. But they make me eat too often. i use a great lot of bananas as they are local and so handy! I also have raw honey.

I am back to use a lot of veggies, and especially thick soups with bones. I can keep bones boiling for days, with new veggies! The rest of veggies just melt and give me a thick broth. At the moment I have a beef tongue boiling with chayamansa leaves (mexican, you have them also in Florida) and moringa leaves. All from my garden. I also raise some rabbits, to have real good organic meat and offals. I live near the sea but it is not easy to have fish, so I have just bought a freezer.

I still have doubts for me to use freely solanaceae (nighshades), and also celery. Instead of potatoes (that I inspect well for any green part), I prefer sweet potatoes. Yesterday I had some boniatos with green beans and mushrooms.

I am back to more olive oil and less coconut oil. Coco does not use bile and I have a congestion in my liver that is already better with taking orange juice with olive oil 1st thing in the morning. I started having cellulites this year for the first time (I am lean), and a friend who started to use more coco also got the same, and also had consequently diminished olive oil. I am a fan of butter too.

I also eat some brazilian nuts, for selenium as we all know... and hemp seeds, as they are balanced in omega 3 and 6. Also milk thistle seeds for liver, and I ground seeds in a coffee grinder. I am against seperating the oil, so I do not use veg butters.

I have re-introduced legumes, but only 3, as the problem are the anti-nutrients on the peel. They bring good stuff and folate. So I use red lentils and split peas, because they already have no peel. Then I have my own lima beans, that I sprout and pre-cook and then peel and finish cooking. They are big enough to be worth the job.

I also use some rice. I do not have starch every day, and keep them mostly when I have no fruits. I eat eggs almost every day, between 1 and 3. I just add them to any food. I can eat them raw, make mayonnaise with olive oil, or cook the egg in shell without boiling it. The white is much better like this, less rubber like, and the yolk still liquid though the egg can also get hard with no boiling at all.

 

[mattyb]

Mostly local and seasonal. Get about 70% of my groceries from the farmer's market. In summer this percentage is higher, in winter it's lower (live in Canada).

I eat according to appetite, meaning sometimes I just don't eat for most of the day. Often skip breakfast and don't eat until lunch. I don't keep eating if I feel bloated. Overall my diet isn't a strict regimen or anything. I just do mostly what I think will make me feel good.

Lots of greens and vegetables, often cooked or raw and marinated in olive oil and vinegar. I eat this more often if I've been eating a lot of crap food and feel kind of bloated (like I will after this thanksgiving weekend). Veggies often go into soups and stews, especially in winter.

Most carbs coming from oats, rice, black beans, potatoes, cereals, etc. Some fruit (which I often cook into oats), occasionally make fresh squeeze OJ. Occasional desserts, pastries, etc. when I feel like it and digestion is humming along nicely. Some honey. Occasionally put sugar in coffee. Carb and overall energy intake is matched to activity levels, and I try to stay active.

Coffee when I feel like I need a kick or would enjoy the taste of a warm drink. Never more than 2 cups per day, often don't have any. Usually have some before weightlifting.

Fat and protein provided by well sourced meat (beef, pork, chicken, some wild game), eggs, wild fish, and small amounts of dairy (milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, ice cream). I use olive oil for cold dressings, and stick to either butter or coconut oil for cooking depending on cooking temperature and food.

I eat what most regular people would consider a healthy diet. I cook often, use lots of seasonings/spices, and don't shy away from salt.

I eat out maybe once a week somewhere and eat whatever I feel like.

 

[TubZy]

Well cooked white rice, potatoes, seafood (mainly shellfish), bone broths/soups, chicken, eggs, vegetables, occasional red meat, olive oil, coconut oil, grass fed butter, some fruit.

I completely cut out all grains, gluten etc. now.

Basically everything is pretty easy to digest.

I also live on the coast as well, so seafood is pretty fresh here, I just upped my intake even more once Gbol emphasized the mineral content and decided to focus more soups with shellfish as the minerals sit in the broth and are more bio available. I cook every one of my meals and pretty much cook everything.

 

[Aleksandr]

Right now following gbduevs advice; meat, veggies and seafood. Also i add rice if im active that day (like before playing tennis, or after a walk). I cut back on the rice for dinner. I find a little carbs at night helps my sleep tho.

 

[Georgia]

Most important part for me about food is to eat fresh seasonal food and to listen to what my body wants. I love to cook so it is not a chore.

I am blessed to be able to source grass-fed biodynamic/organic lamb, beef, liver, chicken, eggs locally from a butcher and local farms/farmers markets. I grow some vegs and a variety of greens, have a few fruit trees and grow a variety of kitchen herbs.

Winter: Meals will often be slow cooked gelatinous cuts/ soups /broths /potatoes/root vegs.
Custards/puddings/Jelly. Stewed fruits like apples and pears, fruit compotes. Porridge. I eat more in Winter.

Summer: Quicker lighter meals and in Oz, we are blessed with a variety of Summer fruits which I love.

Dairy: Yogurt occasionally and hard cheeses such grana pandano and parmesan often eaten at the end of a meal with some fruit. Eggs scrambled, omelet, hotcakes. A little ice cream, I went hell for leather at one point eating the stuff and making it several times a week and now have it once in awhile.

Drinks: I have a water purifier and use a soda stream for carbonated water and in summer will add cranberry or pomegranate juice or lime whatever I have on hand. Or a bottle mineral water. Average 3-4 coffees daily, a cup of heated milk in the evenings usually with some honey or cocoa. Juice oranges only when they are in season. Have a wine with evening meals occasionally.

Seafood: Prawns, nonoily fish, scallops, clams in season and oysters occasionally (read somewhere they should be eaten cooked but I prefer them raw with some lemon juice and some fresh bread and butter ).
Powdered gelatin in soups/ drinks. I use lots of herbs and some spices. Sometimes I will eat sourdough bread but feel better not eating much bread. I digest most foods easily though pasta and legumes not so much.

I use olive oil/coconut oil/ butter in cooking.

I am not neurotic about food except I won't eat processed or fast foods because I don't enjoy eating them. I buy little and often because I have no idea what I want tomorrow let alone at the end of the week and I have the freedom to do that. Have a couple of good reliable restaurants I go to and apart from eating at friends places I prefer to eat at home, that way I know what's in my food and you can eat so much better at home.

 

[Latapy]

How do you guys fulfill calories just by eating veggies + protein + fat? Do you guys really just eat, for instance, for lunch spinach + meat + fat and for dinner broccoli + fish + fat?

When I read what you guys eat, you seem all under eating. Unless you eat tons of fat, like literately drink olive oil, to get calories :|

I would certainly appreciate to read an example of how a daily eating of yours looks like (calories and macros). Unless calories, of course, don't matter.

 

[mattyb]

How do you guys fulfill calories just by eating veggies + protein + fat? Do you guys really just eat, for instance, for lunch spinach + meat + fat and for dinner broccoli + fish + fat?

When I read what you guys eat, you seem all under eating. Unless you eat tons of fat, like literately drink olive oil, to get calories :|

I would certainly appreciate to read an example of how a daily eating of yours looks like (calories and macros). Unless calories, of course, don't matter.

I still eat plenty of carbohydrates, but I just eat them around periods of activity. Yesterday I ate about 300g of carbohydrates. Yesterday I exercised for 2 hours (1 hour light/moderate, 1 hour of weightlifting) and then coached (which is light to moderate activity) for another 3 hours.

Here's my breakdown from yesterday:
For reference I weigh about 160lbs at 5'7 (31 year old male)
Calories: 2175kcal
Carbs: 297g
Fat: 66.3g
Protein: 102.2g

What I ate for food is attached. EDIT: Whoops, forgot to add in the butter I used throughout the day and two mandarin oranges I had. This brings things up to about 2350:317/78/104

It's a bit low in calories, but I wouldn't mind getting down to 150lbs just because I perform better athletically around that weight. I'll often have a few days a week where I eat significantly more (last weekend I probably ate well over 3000kcal every day). On days when I'm inactive I'll often eat quite a bit less, and less carbs.

 

[Legna88]

How do you guys fulfill calories just by eating veggies + protein + fat? Do you guys really just eat, for instance, for lunch spinach + meat + fat and for dinner broccoli + fish + fat?

When I read what you guys eat, you seem all under eating. Unless you eat tons of fat, like literately drink olive oil, to get calories :|

I would certainly appreciate to read an example of how a daily eating of yours looks like (calories and macros). Unless calories, of course, don't matter.

Interesting, i just researched this few days ago, we all have a Basic Metabolic Rate(BMR) meaning that the body needs a minimum caloric intake just to maintain body functioning(heart beating, breathing, digestion etc.), above that you need to add more calories for your daily activities(walking, working) plus more calories if you workout/do sports. My BMR is 1750kcal. It can add up at the end of the day!

Somebody smart once told me, healing is like body building, give ur body enough calories, amino acids, fats, carbs, minerals, vitamins and it will rebuild itself. But you also need enough stomach acid to actually break down and assimilate nutrients.

IMO most people are underfed, in a starving mode, how can you heal without enough energy/calories?

 

[Canari]

I do not mind any more about counting calories.

- What counts is to USE those calories, and many people do not, because of digestion failure. Strangely, if I eat more raw, I need less. A very big salad with some roots, plus veg juice, plus raw meat (I was advised 40% of my calory intake as proteins according to hair test), plus raw eggs and avocado olive oil mayo, and I am full and fine. If I up carbs, even fruits and bananas, I crash and have hot flushes coming back....

- The ANS can consume a lot of calories for nothing in one case: if you sympathetic and para-s work together, it is like driving your car with the had brake on: burn fuel for nothing.

- If you have parasites, then you need more calories, but they are not for you!

- If you have candida, leaky gut, eat whole meal with phytic acid and loose some minerals, not good either.

How do you want to know your real calories use?!

 

[Canari]

So now my diet is tending to more raw food. I do not cook what is better raw, and I cook what is bad or not as good raw, on nutrition basis and not taste, though they can concord.
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I also follow the advise to eat even more proteins than I did, to reach 40%.
= I eat a lot of raw meat and eggs. And I do not boil fish.

Actually, I will use my taste and my likings, and stop when I feel an internal no. I also go higher in veggies and lower in fruits, much lower, which I am sad about... :cry:

I also decided to keep a very small and very occasional piece of goat cheese, to keep the memory of my stomach and body!

I still hesitate to get my carbs from some fruits or some starch like rice or roots...