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Location: Newcastle
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Friday Night Food Muse
The laugh for this evening! Probably as a result of nutritional information on all food packaging, my diet is very healthy, if not a bit obsessive. No medical reason for it, but I’ve carried onto a fine art. My body is a temple and all that.
I don’t drink alcohol (or smoke)
I don’t drink tea or coffee
I don’t eat dairy including cheese
I don’t eat sugar, apart from natural in fruit or veg, the exception being strabs, rasps, grapes and blueberries which are too high in natural sugar for my liking
I don’t eat sweets
I don’t eat biscuits or cakes
I don’t eat bread
I don’t eat red meat
I don’t eat pasta
I don’t eat processed food in any form
I don’t snack or graze between meals
I don’t do anything with a medium or high carbohydrate value. I’ll sit there and ponder food labels in the supermarket. Anything over 20/25g per adult portion is the devils food.
So what do I eat? Tomatoes, poached eggs, fresh veg and the occasional bit of fish, chicken or pork, so long as it’s fresh and not coated in anything and I drink spring water. For a sweet, a few pistachio nuts or dried apple slices.
Works for me, but a bit OTT on reflection. Still I don’t think I’ll ever change.
2nd Dec 2022 7:19 pm
rrhool
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that looks dull!
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2nd Dec 2022 7:24 pm
Moo D3 Decade
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2nd Dec 2022 8:17 pm
DIY Ace
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Re: Friday Night Food Muse
JordsDisco wrote:
The laugh for this evening! Probably as a result of nutritional information on all food packaging, my diet is very healthy, if not a bit obsessive. No medical reason for it, but I’ve carried onto a fine art. My body is a temple and all that.
I don’t drink alcohol (or smoke)
I don’t drink tea or coffee
I don’t eat dairy including cheese
I don’t eat sugar, apart from natural in fruit or veg, the exception being strabs, rasps, grapes and blueberries which are too high in natural sugar for my liking
I don’t eat sweets
I don’t eat biscuits or cakes
I don’t eat bread
I don’t eat red meat
I don’t eat pasta
I don’t eat processed food in any form
I don’t snack or graze between meals
I don’t do anything with a medium or high carbohydrate value. I’ll sit there and ponder food labels in the supermarket. Anything over 20/25g per adult portion is the devils food.
So what do I eat? Tomatoes, poached eggs, fresh veg and the occasional bit of fish, chicken or pork, so long as it’s fresh and not coated in anything and I drink spring water. For a sweet, a few pistachio nuts or dried apple slices.
Works for me, but a bit OTT on reflection. Still I don’t think I’ll ever change.
Reminder me never to offer to take you out for dinner...!
Seriously though, hats off to yoy for having the discipline. Tonight I've had a cupcake, hot dog, glass of beer, cheese sandwich and some pigs-in-blankets. My body is a temple too, but just a really f#@king massive one 2022 BMW i4 M50. Bought Oct 2022. 10,200 miles and counting...
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The offspring are probably making up for it, especially the one with a strenuous lovelife😆
2nd Dec 2022 8:23 pm
kajtzu
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Bought the curry guy’s bible last summer, been doing 1-2 curries/week
2nd Dec 2022 9:44 pm
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1626
I would enjoy some of the food I don’t eat, chocolate and crisps anyway, but realise as you get older then the easier it is to increase weight and the possibility of becoming predaibetic and/or have high blood pressure. I think it’s defo a national problem.
Anyway, I keep to the foods mentioned. It’s not a chore tbh even with the kids and SWMBO eating something different next to me or me cooking for them. I suppose I am used to it.
Absolutely no problem with energy. I rarely get tired. I don’t cat nap.
I suppose I am coming from the two things you can do to generally help with your health are diet and exercise, so I do it for my own good. Just I might over do it I suppose.
2nd Dec 2022 10:08 pm
Paul J.
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With a diet like that, you’ll live to the age of 150.
……….. well, not really, you’ll get your four score and ten, but it will feel much looooooonger. An ex-Disco3 / FFRR / I-Pace owner ......
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2nd Dec 2022 10:35 pm
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
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But I’ve done it so long, I don’t miss it.
I do regularly check my weight and blood pressure, simply because I want to monitor it. Once a year I make sure I have a full bloods check. I keep the results and measure them against previous years.
2nd Dec 2022 11:02 pm
Moo D3 Decade
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Location: UK
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Tonight my wife cooked an excellent Spanish pepper tart. We washed it down with a very fine Rioja followed by a very good Espresso.
My wife and I are both in our mid 50s. She is a 5'6'' and size 6 and just pure muscle: you can carry out an anatomy lesson on her! Me, I'm 6ft, 13.5 stone and have a sedentary job involving flying, dinning and drinking! However, I can churn out 200 mile bike rides and have lived on four hours of sleep since I was six.
On the other extreme, my brother is a food and lifestyle hair shirt puritanical that is miserable and suffers more illnesses and issues than me!
SWMBO, the girls and I want to live a life and enjoy it and we are doing our best to to do that. Food and wine is a huge part of my family's lifestyle and social life and if I can't imagine a good life without it.
The thing is, we're all different and I admire you for your mental resilience and perseverance against what must have been tough circumstances, but great food, good wine and coffee are just too good to give up. D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
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Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
2nd Dec 2022 11:25 pm
RRSTDV8
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Re: Friday Night Food Muse
JordsDisco wrote:
The laugh for this evening! Probably as a result of nutritional information on all food packaging, my diet is very healthy, if not a bit obsessive. No medical reason for it, but I’ve carried onto a fine art. My body is a temple and all that.
I don’t drink alcohol (or smoke)
I don’t drink tea or coffee
I don’t eat dairy including cheese
I don’t eat sugar, apart from natural in fruit or veg, the exception being strabs, rasps, grapes and blueberries which are too high in natural sugar for my liking
I don’t eat sweets
I don’t eat biscuits or cakes
I don’t eat bread
I don’t eat red meat
I don’t eat pasta
I don’t eat processed food in any form
I don’t snack or graze between meals
I don’t do anything with a medium or high carbohydrate value. I’ll sit there and ponder food labels in the supermarket. Anything over 20/25g per adult portion is the devils food.
So what do I eat? Tomatoes, poached eggs, fresh veg and the occasional bit of fish, chicken or pork, so long as it’s fresh and not coated in anything and I drink spring water. For a sweet, a few pistachio nuts or dried apple slices.
Works for me, but a bit OTT on reflection. Still I don’t think I’ll ever change.
No wonder you obsess about your son and his girlfriend. You're jealous of the enjoyment he has in his life.
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3rd Dec 2022 12:14 am
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
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Grow up man, we’re not in the playground!
If you’re interested, I enjoy what I do eat. There is a huge health problem with people over eating on the wrong food. It’s an addiction. Modifying your diet, to some degree simply makes sense.
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that looks dull!
