Healthy eating... healthy living: tips and tricks

[Integritas0]

Hi folks:

Thought I would try a thread on general health and well being. The idea is to contribute ideas and tips that have helped you and that really work. Or stuff you eat or do that just plain sensible.

I am not exactly the most health conscious person in that I not have a 'regime'... and I think this is where most people fall down. Health is treated as a fad, or craze, for most of us... unfortunately.

So is there a happy medium? Not a 'regime', but not a token effort or fad either?

We will maybe try to find out...

To start, here are two things that I do that help:

(i) I eat all-bran cereal will little thin slices of fresh, refigerated banana put through it. Mostly I have it with milk, but sometimes with organic, natural yogurt (which is actually hard to get and generally expensive. But I know it's healthy and it tastes great! But so many people have observed me eating this combination and think I am mad. Combining banana with all-bran turns most people off... I have no idea why.

(ii) Every day if you are disciplined, or even the odd time if you can, just sit on the very edge of a chair and stretch one leg out straight out but pointing at the floor/resting on floor... the other leg remains in the normal position... then slowly/carefully straighten up your back/spine. You will fell a slight, pleasant, tightening of some muscles in the lower back. This is a simple and pleasant exercise that can prevent many many problems that are common in the lower back. Do each leg in turn, just for a few seconds.

One other thing that comes to mind is to look up from the computer screen every fifteen minutes or so. This stops your eyes from kind of becoming fixed on the screen. So just glance around, fixing on random stuff --a tree, lamp, door handle, or whatever. This applies mostly to gamers. In fact, they say you should take a complete break every 30 mins and go for tea etc. But the glance around the room trick is easier to do. But this doesn't just apply to obsessive gamers... it also applies to porn loops! And I am sure we've all been there!

So these are my little ideas. :blushing:

Anyone else have some tips? What do you do/try to do to stay healthy and happy?

 

[Tom]

I'm afraid I'm really on the far extreme. I workout around 2 hours a day.
Everyday, no matter what, even holidays.
I might be in pain, I might be sick, doesn't matter, I go every day.
I eat pretty healthy. Lots of fruits, 2 cups of broccoli every day.
Lots of skim milk, and yogurt.
I don't eat a lot of meat so I do several protein shakes a day.

 

[jeremyboycool]

Eat breakfast with in one hour after waking up. You want to eat breakfast soon after waking up, to prevent you body from going into starvation mode. As you have just went the whole night without eating. If you don't eat breakfast your body will go into an energy saving mode, where you'll have less energy, your metabolism will be slower (which mean you burn less calories though out the day) and your body will store more fat.

Do a short exercise routine after waking up. This is not to burn calories or build muscle but simply to jump start you metabolism. Doing a quick work-out in the morning can boost your metabolism for the day, which means you burn more calories.

Eat snacks through out the day. Again the idea it to keep your metabolism up, let your body know that there is plenty of food and it does not need to conserve energy.

Drink plenty of water. Just a 2% drop in your body water can cause you to slow down and lose energy. So drink plenty of water through out the day.

Fill up on vegetables. Vegetables are the one food where you can splurge and not feel guilty. Put a big old heaping pile of them on your plate.

And count those calories!

I am not much of a health nut myself, in fact I am a bit out of shape. But I have recently made these simple changes to my lifestyle and so far it is working great.

 

[jeremyboycool]

Thanks jeremyboycool... but I am quite skinny, so while I want to have sustained energy levels and what not... I need to gain weight somehow aswell?

I have a suspicion that I just need to really work out... but then it becomes an obsession.

Why is life so bloody complicated!

"I need to gain weight somehow aswell? "

I suppose to gain weight maybe you should take up some strength training. Tone the muscles up some.

Here I have found this website to be really helpful.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/finder/lookup/filter/level/id/1/level/beginner

 

[slimjim]

Well I do my exercises every morning....up down, up down, up down...
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......then I do the other eyelid. :rofl: :thumbs up:

 

[Tjerk12]

I am afraid that my lifestyle is not an example for health orientated people. I smoke, I drink and beside sex my only intense movement is, once a year, fishing. Still I am nearly never ill. Exactly one day a year. Then I have the flu. But it doesn’t bother me much, I just go to work. I never take medicine (even not an aspirin). In the last twenty years I think that I visited the doctor three times. And in fact those visits were also nonsense visits.
So somehow I must do something right.
There are two things I pay attention to.
Number one is my weight.
I am 1m80 and my weight is 72 kilo.
Number two is my mind.
I fill my days with lots of different things. I get up at 05.30 hrs. Until 24.00 hrs I do as many as possible things. Work (08.30-17.00); shopping; keep a household running; love to cook, but hate cleaning (but you can’t have everything); Photoshop, make films, help my son rebuilding an old sports car, woodwork or write stories. Beside my work everything is completely chaotic. I do things when they suit me. Normally I go to bed about 00.15. Another twenty minutes to half an hour crosswords (and I nearly forgot, I use in bed during the crosswords a self made fitness machine. A simple machine, were you can do fitness without noticeable exertion; based on the science of Ismakogie. It helped me regain my buttocks) and then to sleep. So I sleep 5 to 6 hours, very deep. I don’t need more sleep. I do this rhythm since more than ten years and I never felt tired. And in between all this stuff I visit Gay Heaven and a Dutch Gay site. It keeps my brain young.
"Mens sana in corpore sano"

 

[slimjim]

Yes that is an excellent tip: rhythm.

It is also perfectly natural... it seems like many things in nature have a rhythm, or a cycle.

Well I am off to have a shower now, and then to eat some of my all-bran and banana! Then hours later I will crawl into bed and get up in the afternoon. This is a regular rhythm for me... but not a natural one I think. More of a lazy one!

 

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[Tom]

Integritas0, you need to eat, and eat right. Get plenty of protein.
To gain size and muscle mass you need 1.5-2 grams of protein per pound of body weight. Fish is great for protein, tuna, turkey breast, whey protein. People say you don't need meat for the protein, but you do need some. There are some essential fats you need from meat. There are also nuts and milk products, but the best for people gaining weight and body building are from fish, meat, eggs, and whey.
I don't quite do it right. I don't eat much meat, no fish, and very little eggs. I eat a lot of yogurt, cheese, lots of milk and several protein shakes a day, isolate, hydrolysate, and casein protein.
Isolate you take during the day, hydrolysate immediately after working out, and casein at bedtime.
Get plenty of vegetables and brown rice.

Course you could throw away all this and eat tons of M & M's that will get you bigger.

 

[Tom]

OK, now your just bragging.


A heavy protein diet is only if you work out and want to put on muscle mass. I thought you said you wanted to start lifting weights.

I was a scrawny little runt. I ate everything in large quantities.
At some point for most people metabolism switches, I think in the early twenties, but maybe a bit later. Your body goes into storing everything as fat, and burning less amounts.
That also is in part where our activity levels drop off. We spend to much time at school and studying. We get jobs where we sit all day, etc. I did end up over weight. I was running heavily but had to quit because one leg developed blood clots so bad. I was never able to run after that, and sort of gave up for many years on being healthy.
Then I started biking very heavily and got back in good shape over one summer. When winter came I went stir crazy and joined a gym, that was nine years ago. It changed my life. I absolutely love it. I'm there all the time.
The last several years I maintained 12-13% body fat, which is fantastic for my age. I wasn't making the gains that I really wanted so last fall I didn't do near as much cardio, and started eating less healthy and put on some more weight and gained quite a bit more strength. Now it's time to shed some of those extra pounds.
Just be careful and learn proper lifting techniques!
I think I'm very very good. I've been asked by people to train them, and if I ever lose my job, I think I will pursue a career in the line of work.
But I still screw up. I had a very fluke accident happen 8 days ago. Just a one in a million thing. Ended up tearing my bicep and injuring all the extensor and flexor tendons. Thankfully it didn't tear completely so I most likely won't need surgery. Just be laid up for a while.
I was balancing on a stability ball, doing chest presses with heavy dumbbells and when I finished the set I didn't push off the weight and let go of them properly so they could drop to the floor. I hung on to long, overextended the arm and twisted a bit, and RIP!!
Not trying to scare you away. Like I said, one in a million thing.