Food

[Ecthy]

Try the teabag lighting up thing. It's great fun!

[Barinthus]

interesting thread.

Isn't pumpernickel bread whole grain?

My lunch hour is fixed so I'm stuck there.

And oh yeah, unfortunately some Americans do eat pop tarts for breakfast. I was one of them

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Barinthus
Fruit juice while a good idea do have high amount of sugar, it's nearly if not equally as bad as soda. I shun soda and desserts so fruit juice would be bringing more sugar into my diet

Fruit juices don't have nearly as much sugar as soda. It tastes sweet due to frutcose, which is much, much sweeter than sucrose.

Fruit juices also have vitamins, minerals, and soluable fibre.

Originally posted by Barinthus
I figured if an apple in the morning helps to wake me up, there must be something else out there.

Try an apple

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Generally speaking, gyms are good for people who wish to develop their muscle, which generally results in mass increase. For those who rather wish to lose fat, the intense effort at gym isn't good. Endurance efforts are better, and swimming is great all around. If you can spend two-three consecutive hours swimming sometime in the week, it will help.
I have much trouble with self-discipline, and I've noticed it worked better when I had a routine with reliable friends

Swimming is great but swimming laps is boring. of course it doesn't help that the pools here are mobbed, and most of them are slow swimmers. So I couldn't quite do laps - more like an obstable swim. Blah.

I found that doing the rowing machine in a gym at low to middle intensity is good for burning fat. Clearly, pumping iron isn't. There also is no problem building up some muscles while you are fighting flap. Afterall, muscles help you burn fat.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Footie Mad
Eat oatmeal for breakfast or failing that bring some with you in a container and eat it at lunch, if you think the taste is boring add a little honey, cinnamon, berries or something. Oatmeal is incredibly good food that will last long in your stomach and it's cheap.

I know oatmeal is good, but I usually have a hard time scarfing it down.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by GePap
As for getting a bit less energetic in the mid-afternoon, this is very common, in fact I think this happens to almost everyone.

That appears to be a human trait.

I read somewhere recently that studies have shown that we humans have a dip around 3pm. The scientists reason that our ancestors rested during the period to avoid the scrotching mid-afternoon sun.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I suffer from the exact same problem, crashing after lunch -- and I'm an all-day coffee drinker. Like UR, I've read somewhere that this is actually quite natural -- that many people haev an energy "trough" period midday. The best solution is actually to give in to it and take a short nap, but that's not always practical. Here's what I find helps:

Fruit instead of sweets at lunch
Avoiding fried foods -- especialy french fries, for some reason
Drinking a lot of water all day, but especially after lunch
Getting out into the open air for a while

[Ted Striker]

As suggested, throw in some oatmeal for breakfast. And some kind of protein source. You HAVE to have protein for breakfast because your body needs it after it has depeleted all of it's protein stores overnight. Even a scoop of peanut butter is better than nothing but you HAVE to have a protein source in the morning.

If you know how to make smoothies, you can even throw oatmeal into them. Yes, that's right, oatmeal. If that taste is too chunky for you, you can cook the oatmeal first and it will make it smooth, you won't even know that it was oatmeal in the smoothie if you blend it well.

Strawberries, blueberries, cinammon, and honey go well with oatmeal to spice it up. You can throw them all in at once for a good taste and strawberries have a slower burning fructose in them than other fruits.

One of my favorite meals is green apples and peanut butter. IT FREAKING OWNS and talk about mad energy. The cool thing about this combo is that you get both protein and carbs and you can eat alot of peanut butter, because the apples have so much fibre in them, so you don't risk getting any "blockage" inside.

You have to pick a tart apple because things like red delicious don't taste good with the peanut butter.

For lunch, try a dark green leafy salad (with spinach like leaves -- none of that worthless iceberg lettuce crap) and DROWN it in olive oil and a hint of vinegar. You can get crazy energy from olive oil, it is laced with raw power. Add in some chicken or some other kind of meat to the salad.

You'll need a complex carb source in addition to salad. Brown rice or a multi-grain bread is a good choice.

Also, why not move your apple to your slump time?

The best fruit combo for energy is:

Orange, apple, and banana

Eat those all at once and you will be getting mad headshots on fools

[Urban Ranger]

Drinking lots of water

You need water to digest food, esp. meat. If you don't drink enough your digestive system draws water away from other parts of your body, making you feel worse.

BTW, in the PRC there used to be a napping period after lunch. Maybe they are more advanced than you think.

[Ted Striker]

Oh yeah like Rufus said drink alot of water, even if you have to go piss alot.

[Ecthy]

Pissing a lot isn't that bad. I used to be better at drinking lots of water some months ago, I should get back to that. The water from this tab just has a weird taste to it, and I'm not going to buy bottled (<-- student).

Cool stuff Ted, it's just the fruit part that makes me worry. Fresh fruits are quite expensive, so that's where they grab you first. Everyone should be able to afford a healthy style of living, yet it's fruit and veggies where they kick your butt.

What's wrong with iceberg etc. lettuce? I usually get that, might as well go for leaf salad though!

Now I'm going to ge a glass of water plus the last kiwi in my shelf, afterwards brushing teeth and then fof to library! On return I shall pop into the supermarket to get new fruit! Should be a new pack of milk as well.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Oatmeal muesli is quite popular here, I just never fancied the boring taste of it... even adding honey and banana gets a bit dull after time.

Then add nutmeg, crystallized ginger, prunes, dates, cinnamon, sultanas, raisins, almonds, walnuts- make yourself a hot muesli, in fact.


An oatmeal breakfast is a great way of getting through that mid-morning hiatus, when you might be tempted by the offer of something sticky and sweet or salted.

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Oatmeal muesli is quite popular here, I just never fancied the boring taste of it... even adding honey and banana gets a bit dull after time.

Gak, I was also just introduced to musli. I could have sworn the first time I had some that the hostel staff had switched out the cereal for the horse feed.

The answer to all food deficits, of course, is pictured in mein avatar.

[Ecthy]

Funn how 2 guys would reply to the same statement within so short a timespan, so long a time after I posted it

[Cyclotron]

I saw molly reply.