Are you a healthy person?

By that i mean do you excercise regually? do you eat good foods?

What tips can you give to do these things?

i think its all about routine.

i dont exercise nearly as much as i should but eat well.

for me the key would be routine, wake up have breakfast, lunch, dinner at around the same time.

exercise at a certain time and day and that way it will be easier to get used to

Hia,

Well I excercise 6 times a week and I go straight from work.

I find that if I go hme and relax, then getting up to go and do exercise is really unappealing.

Going from work is also a good way to relieve stress.

I also find that going to classes where someone is shouting at you and ecouraging u to do the work is better for me than going to a hot smelly gym.

Best advice I heard (but ignored) is only eat when you are hungry!!!!

All wild animals eat when hungry...we eat to the time on the clock....eat to celebrate....eat to relieve boredom....we are terribly overindulgent!!

And...we don't have to chase our food and catch it to eat it....well not unless you've had yer Tesco bag snatched by a local street urchin.....!



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I think that's really good advice that Shiesh...! gave. Most of the time we just eat purely outta habit. Ohhh it's lunchtime I better eat .... are you actually hungry though?!

The trick with exercising is finding something that you enjoy ... once you make the effort a couple of times and get into a routine you will find you get annoyed if you have to miss a session rather than trying to find excuses not to go! :D

A lot more healthy than I have ever been and so much more energy.

Eat well, walk miles each week and exercise every day.

Best advice, be determined and know why YOU and only you want to get healthy. It is no use doing it for others you have to want to get healthy.

Originally posted by Shiesh....!
And...we don't have to chase our food and catch it to eat it....well not unless you've had yer Tesco bag snatched by a local street urchin.....!

or you have the misfortune of trying to prevent a random stranger eating your Baby Bel, if the adverts are to be believed!

Originally posted by spiffymonkey
or you have the misfortune of trying to prevent a random stranger eating your Baby Bel, if the adverts are to be believed! #


Yes very good.....:clap:

I think I eat healthily but I'm still the first one to catch a cold when there's one going round. My bloke eats the same but also goes to the gym 2-3 times a week and that obviously makes a big difference as he's never ill and in very good shape!

One thing about healthy food - the vitamins in fruit & veg die if you over cook them or chop them up ages before eating. So someone who eats loads of veg but boils it to death may as well not bother at all!

definately you should only eat when you are hungry and not to the clock but also you should just eat a little and often to keep up your energy levels and not leave you feeling bloated.

I did Carol Vodermans detox last year whilst working in america. The amount of greasy food and crap they eat forced me into it. I ate nothing but fresh fruit, veg and salads in all manners and ways for 8 weeks, drank approx 6 pints of lemon water and went swimming everyday. I never felt bloated nor hungry, my hair and skin was so clean and clear, my eyes sparkled and i was generally in a better mood. Of course the sun and my enjoyment of being there helped but cutting out on alcohol and cigarettes made a huge difference. I stopped it when i was travelling, it was too difficult and so slowly got back into my old ways, but once i was a week or so into the detox i really didn't want to eat any junk food, the thought of it made me feel sick.

Anyone who watched Jamie Olivers School Dinners will remember what parents/teachers said about the kids eating fresh food and the difference it made in their behaviour.

I will have to do it again now i've remember how good it was!!

Originally posted by Shiesh....!
Best advice I heard (but ignored) is only eat when you are hungry!!!!

All wild animals eat when hungry...we eat to the time on the clock....eat to celebrate....eat to relieve boredom....we are terribly overindulgent!!

And...we don't have to chase our food and catch it to eat it....well not unless you've had yer Tesco bag snatched by a local street urchin.....!



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agreed. And if you eat proper food (i.e food that actually contains the nutrients you need rather than junk food) you won't get hungry again so quickly and you eat less, and when you do have an appetite, you enjoy the food more. Regular whether you are hungry or not meals are a good way to put on weight.

yes i would consider myself to be healthy...this is my daily thingymajig

morning-sit ups,usually about 70

then breakfast of weetabix or cheerios with semi skimmed milk

then lunch of some healthy dish such as a burrito or cous cous and veggie nuggets

then tea of pasta with tomato sauce or homemade curry with pitta bread rice and yoghurt

I also have various snacks like fruit, yoghurts, soya dessert etc

then before bed i do another round of sit ups :):clap:

my tip is to have smaller portions and then your tummy will get smaller and you'll be wanting to eat less

i recently bought that paul mckenna book "i can make you thin" and its quite good but i am not sure i will be folowing it! he said there are 4 "GOLDEN RULES"
1.. when you are hungry eat, only when you fell hungry..
2. eat what you want, not what you think you should have
3. eat consciously and enjoy every mothful (as in chew you food and let it touch side, dont just shovel it!)
4. when you think you are full stop eating,

i have done some of the things he has said and to be honest it is workin a little but i am not bein consistent enough with it...

i have a fairly healthy balanced diet eating mainly fresh produce, my problem is i am as lazy as they come and need to get off me backside more often and excercise!

What does healthy mean? Thru an illness 5 years ago I now have to have regular check ups. They have done numerous checks on my blood, My liver, my heart, my kidneys, BP taken every 2 weeks, popping medication every morning and night. I am nearly 18 stone, I am 6 ft 1inch yet every time they say I am healthy. They say forget all this magazine stuff, there are alot at my age wish they were as healthy as I.

So where do we go from there.

I am healthy I hope. If I'm not then I don't know what else to do! The key to life I reckon is everything in moderation. Too much of anything is bad and that includes exercise. I incorporate exercise into my daily life. I cycle everywhere mainly because I dont have a car but even if I did I would cycle.
As for diet, we haven't evolved much as a species since the times when we were hunter gatherers. In those times people ate berries/fruit/veg a lot and from time to time caught a gazelle or something and feasted on meat. The result of this is that we crave meat/salt/fat because it used to be scarce. Nowadays however it isn't and we indulge on it enormously. Having meat everyday is indulging. As for eating chocolate/sugar etc etc etc its all bad! And it doesn't help that McD's etc make it so cheap/quick and ever present.
5 portions of F & V isn't much if you ask me!

Originally posted by tim_rutter
I am healthy I hope. If I'm not then I don't know what else to do! The key to life I reckon is everything in moderation. Too much of anything is bad and that includes exercise. I incorporate exercise into my daily life. I cycle everywhere mainly because I dont have a car but even if I did I would cycle.
As for diet, we haven't evolved much as a species since the times when we were hunter gatherers. In those times people ate berries/fruit/veg a lot and from time to time caught a gazelle or something and feasted on meat. The result of this is that we crave meat/salt/fat because it used to be scarce. Nowadays however it isn't and we indulge on it enormously. Having meat everyday is indulging. As for eating chocolate/sugar etc etc etc its all bad! And it doesn't help that McD's etc make it so cheap/quick and ever present.
5 portions of F & V isn't much if you ask me!

Most govts recommend 9 servings of F+V a day (as does the EU). I eat at least ten - I have had five before I get to work.

As for salt - I think it is a cultural thing - the only reason we ever added salt to food was as a preservative and we have got the taste for it now, or rather our ancesters did and gave it to thier children, who gave it to their children and so on. I think most of us could quite easily eliminate salt (from processed food and added salt) and still be healthy.

I agree that there are some foods that just aren't healthy - fast food, chocolate, turkey twizzlers - none of these have the real benefits of real food (i.e natural, mostly unprocessed, including cooking , ingredients)

Originally posted by theflyingfish
I think most of us could quite easily eliminate salt (from processed food and added salt) and still be healthy.

Absolutely! I've developed an obsession with looking at how much salt there is in food. Anything processed has loads in. Its because they process the stuff so much that it loses all its flavour and so then they have to replace it with salt and flavour enhancers (another source of sodium). The cheaper the processed food often the more salt. The gov says the max salt is 6g per day for bloke 5g per day for woman. Thats a max, I don't konw what the min is but I can imagine you don't need much.

A tin of beans on two slices of cheap white bread with salted butter contains about the daily allowance of salt for a man.