What Did You Eat And Drink Last?

[Deleted member 29920]

Oatmeal and acacia honey, water

 

[Changing4Best]

Oatmeal honey and salt, coffee with milk. Buttermilk (fat free). Trying to work on keeping the cholesterol down, as my last blood test showed it to be a bit high, not alarmingly so, but enough to work on it and hopefully improve it (with diet alone) to a healthy level.

 

[Teasel]

Good luck @SheilaKathy I need to improve my health via diet too. It's difficult as food is one of the things I turn to in hard times.

Eating pretty good lately, healthy enough n not too much.

Breakfast - egg n guacamole on toast. Very nice

 

[Changing4Best]

I have an egg every other day for breakfast and then have oatmeal on the other days. I know that oatmeal lowers cholesterol, proven by several studies, but I heard that eggs are not bad for us either. I don't know what studies have been done on that though. I figure just about anything in moderation is good though. @Bearlinda

 

[Rani G2]

Potatoe/ lentils soup with bread.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

The whole moderation thing used to be my automatic go to answer when I'd choose things I thought might not be all that good for me, too, @SheilaKathy , as that's what I always heard everyone else say, even the docs and such....until I compared my inner systems to a car engine after much reading and researching foods and their actual effects on/in our bodies.

The fuel that goes in greatly determines the behaviors/moods/other symptoms that come out, in so many ways. Equally, the fuel that goes in that can't be healthily recognized and/or processed by our bodies to be eliminated in a timely manner creates ongoing built-up over time stuff that might not show up for years down the road. It really is a crap shoot, of sorts. We spend more time focusing on what goes in than we do paying attention to what comes out, at least I know I used to.

I used to work at a gas station and anytime someone would put a "moderate amount" of diesel into a gas-run engine by accident, or vice-versa, regardless of the actual amount, it was quite an expensive repair to have to clean it all out before being able to use it again. That's the day it finally clicked in my brain and I realized that whole moderation scene might not be in my best interest, either.

Adding back a little bit of gluten into my diet once in a while, or if I order something out somewhere and later realize it had an animal product in it (by how my body responds), or was full of artificial stuff, consistently serves as a bold bodily reminder that the moderation method appears to be a myth as far as my particular biology is concerned. Yet another lesson I never knew I needed to learn until I was forced to do so when facing possible organ removal. May the moderation methods of consumption treat your biology much more kindly than it did mine.

Sipping on a couple quarts of lemon water and a warm cup of ginger root/turmeric root/burdock root, about a pint of apple juice, and will eventually be diving into some more blueberries and bananas.

 

[Changing4Best]

I'm going to use coffee as an example first, with these 2 web articles as my back up. First, let's go back to 10 years ago, coffee was vilified as something to be avoided by health food experts, from my recollections anyway. Now it is the poster child for Dementia prevention?

Caffeine as a protective factor in dementia and Alzheimer's disease. - PubMed - NCBI

https://www.alzheimers.net/2014-04-09/benefits-of-coffee/

I'm going to have some coffee now.

My thoughts on this are as follows. As time goes by, and studies are done, various things have been vilified, and then later glorified for various reasons. Gluten, which as far as I know, is a wheat component, seems to be being vilified these days for whatever reason. Yet, bread is mentioned throughout the Bible as a staple food, so much so that Jesus put it into a daily prayer that folks were recommended to pray. In that prayer it says, "... give us this day our daily bread" so apparently back then bread was something that folks ate daily.

I just had some 5 grain bread with my lunch of lentil soup and a salad. I feel fine. I eat bread most days, or at least crackers. I try to eat whole grains whenever possible.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Right...I've found it's the processing, methods of growing and such, and so-called "improved" practices that make things we ingest nothing like they used to be back in the day. The type of bread/grains makes a huge difference, from what I've experienced. Happy eating, whatever you choose. Our bodies eventually let us know, for sure. But I also learned damn near anything is better than having to go hungry.

 

[MrMoonlight]

I feel like a little kid, eating when I'm reminded. Haven't eaten...going to make a piece of toast.

 

[CatInTree]

I had a strawberry-banana smoothie. Before that some chicken.

 

[Teasel]

About to have pork chop with spring greens n Tinned new potatoes.
Last had corn beef lettuce n cucumber sandwich

 

[Justmehere]

Chicken soup.