Do You Follow A Specific Diet... or Just Eat..

[SeaBreeze]

Hi, just wondering if you follow a specific diet or just try to eat 'well'.
I picked up most of the groceries to start a Mediterrean Diet.
It sounds very balanced and healthy ... not too strigent.. I'm going to start cooking more now that its getting colder out.
Mediterrean consists of:
Lots of fruits, tons of veggies, wheat breads and cereals, potatoes, beans, nuts and seeds, olive oil, little red meat, lots of fish, few eggs a week, and a little wine everyday..  wish I drank... 

[Scottietottie]

Hi 

I'm afraid I 'see food and eat it'. I guess I try to eat reasonably healthily but I don't stick to any particular diet. I find food is hard because most of my life I could eat anything at all and never put weight on and now I have weight that won't come off and the doc says I need to lose at least 28lbs.

I've stopped buying biscuits/cookies (trans atlantic translation here). I don't eat potato chips/crisps - or chips/fries. I rarely eat red meat - make chile with quorn as a meat substitute, eat lots of fresh veg that hubby grows but have a total weakness for currant loaf that he keeps baking.  He makes good wholemeal loaves too. This is his latest passion - baking. He started a couple of months ago and now we don't have to buy bread. Don't know how long it will last for.
Since he got angina we've eating hardly any fried food.

He's lost 28lbs and my weight hasn't shifted at all.

Take care - Scottie 

[eyeamdry]

Scottie, my husband loves to cook and bake too and it doesn't help me at all.  He doesn't need any extra food either.  I tell him he needs to volunteer at our gospel mission and feed the homeless.  He doesn't think so.  Lucy

[pudmott]

LIke Scottie I follow the 'seefood' diet. I seefood and eat it. I am trying to be good but with the pred munchies it is very hard. Whn things settle down a bit and i have a few less ologists to visit im going to go to a dietician to see abot a proper diet. With my vitamin and iron deficiencies and absorption issues i want to be able to eat well.

That's on the list of to do things.

Pud

[genko_b]

We focus on vegetables and fruits when eating at home, and do pretty well on it as far as variety and amount. Also I use extra light olive oil as my primary cooking oil. Trouble starts for us with the add-ons - cheese being a major one. We love cheese, all kinds. It is hard to stick with the recommended amount.

I used to bake all our own bread but have not for years because we can get such good bread from several bakeries here in town. Now with bread prices going up so much, both my sister and I are thinking about baking our own again. It sure does smell nice when it is baking. There again, though, when a fresh loaf of bread comes out of the oven it is hard not to eat half of it right away. Oh well.

Genko

[Calli66]

My digestion is so chronically messed up that I'm always eliminating something or other (that's a bad pun, guys....).

Right now, I'm gluten-free, dairy-free, coffee-free, onion and garlic-free (food sensitivity). I have intermittent trouble with raw salads, fruit. Can't eat beans.

Overall the only food that is reliably stable for me is brown rice cream cooked cereal. I eat veggie soups, ground turkey, fish, chicken, rice cakes, rice, rice, and rice--uhh, I guess I said that already. It's pathetic, really. But I don't lose weight or anything, it's just very boring. I drink almond milk, and of course rice milk, and munch chocolate chips for entertainment.

Yawn.

Calli 

[Bonnie]

I Don't follow a specific diet, but I do eat more than my five a day (portions of fruit and veg)  I also no longer eat any ready prepared foods, I would rather have a simple plate of pasta than eating food stuffed with preservatives.  I eat a mostly Mediterranean diet as hubby is Italian.  I struggle with beans, but I do eat lots of wholegrains and have swapped my pasta to wholewheat also.   I also fall of the healthy wagon now and again and have whatever I want to eat, life would be too boring otherwise.     I wouldn't say that I'm really rigid with myself, with all the other SJS stuff going on sometimes you need to get on with it and try to enjoy life as much as possible.

[Sandra]

You know this is a topic I have been taking great interest in lately. I have like many of us a hodge-podge of diagnosis. A great doctor once told me it doesn't really matter what you call it, they are all the same thing. I believe that for the most part. So the one common denominator for me is pain, one of my dx's for this specifically is fibromyalgia, maybe sjs too who knows? Anyway regardless I have found a great report, http//www.fm-cfs.ca/FM-Guidelines-Journal.pdf written by a professor, Dr I. Jon Russell, from Texas. He has a research center on myofacial pain in Mass I think.
What I had always found on my own was that when I feel well I eat totally different from when i am sick. Well, I eat a farmers diet, lots of foods from the earth, bit of meat, not much out of a box. But when I am sick my body can't handle that diet and actually craves empty carbs. I try make them whole wheat toast and root veggies but often I need a cookie or two or some cakes. In Dr Russell's report it states this, "Pateints who are tired and in chronic pain may require higher nutrient intake to encourage healing processes". It totally believe that, as I eat like a horse when I am "in trouble" if you know what I mean. The report I believe is an excellent it goes on in much greater detail regarding Diet as well as many, many  facets of chronic illness and there practical or at least helpful solutions. The site is www.fm-cfs.ca   go to what is fibromyalgia and then click Fibromyalgia Concensus Protocols. I think you'll like it. Have a Good one! Sandra

[Shari]

Hmmmm...I just posted a long reply and it would not post...so I will jot a quick version.  Lots of fruits and vegis, whole wheat but limited, egg twice a week, olive oil red meat once every two weeks, chicken and fish alltho many of my meals are vegitarian,skim milk and hardley any cheese tho I LOVE it.

I but a Raspberry Bismark once every two weeks and a taste of chocolate once in a while.  ( I think this is what the diet needs to continue so I try not to miss it!!!!)

no prepared food (boxes)..no chips whole grains but limit on bread.

Love homemade bread Genko.  I use to make all my own also.

I have lost 16 lbs being more strict in the last 2 and 1/2 months...with diet and more exercise.

Take care all....Shari

[pudmott]

Thank for the link Sandra. What i have read so far is intersting. Its made one thing clear to me though. I definately have fibromyalgia


Pud

[SilberKatze]

I perfer to eat soft healthy food. Fruit, and baby cereal is a big thing for me, but lately eggs and other things I've been eating more.

[gsmraxe]

I mainly just eat.  My Great Granparents were from Eastern & Western Europe so we kind of stick with the German style meals.  Lots of pork, potatoes, meat, fried foods.  I do love candy but I don't eat a lot of it, I never was a potato chip fan, nor a fan of most snack foods, and I prefer a glass of iced tea over soda.  But i mainly drink ice water in the afternoons and evenings.  Anymore, I stay away from dry cookies, crackers and popcorn unless I have something to drink with it.

One thing I find that works really well is that I eat close to the same time everyday and the same amounts.  That really helps me to maintain my weight.

You know that old saying, everything in moderation.  Well, Christmas cookies and thanksgiving dinner are the exception.