I want to stop eating processed, refined sugar, crap foods.?!
Answers: how can i do this? what should i eat? are there any cookbooks that show this? i'm also trying to be a vegetarian, does this make it harder or easiesr?
Stop eating processed food and refined sugar. It's not exactly rocket science.
This means buying most of your food fresh and cooking it yourself. It also means not buying sauces in bottles, tinned foods, ready meals or anything that involves just adding hot water, i.e. Kraft dinners and suchlike.
I would further advise you to give up things like pasta, which although tasty are essentially empty carbohydrates, and which only form part of a well-balanced diet if you spend most of your day working in the fields, which is the lifestyle that that diet was designed for in the first place.
It's never easy being a vegetarian as it is harder to cook vegetables in such a way that they taste of anything. Meat is easy to make tasty, vegetables are not. However, it can be done.
If you are willing to do a bit of research, I suggest you take an interest in Japanese food. They do process a lot of their food - soy being the ultimate example - but they do so in ways that have been developed over hundreds of years. There is a long, long history behind soy sauce, which there isn't behind A-1 steak sauce.
Whatever you do, don't be taken in by the fad of eating only raw food. Many vegetables are actually nutritionally inert, not to mention disgusting, when eaten raw. Raw spinach, for example, contains oxalic acids which inhibit the body from absorbing the nutrients contained in the leaves. Cooking the spinach denatures the oxalic acids, i.e. makes it possible for the body to get nutrition from the spinach. Many, many other vegetables have similar natural defences, which are designed to protect them from being grazed by animals, and which are proof that you should never take dietary advice from Woody Harrelson.
The only vegetable that is arguably better for humans when eaten raw is the carrot. Celery is edible and (I think) tasty, but it has negative calories - it costs more energy to eat a stick of the stuff than you get from having done so.
The cookbook below is a classic primer in how to cook vegetables with taste and skill. It is not based on faddish diets, just on love of vegetables and respect for their properties. I recommend anything Jane Grigson wrote, but for you this book looks perfect.
eat mc donalds! it's healthy.
Buy fresh food. If you do get anything pre-packaged, read the label. It's not difficult to do and you feel so much better without all the refined crap but be aware that it is a little more costly.
The vegetarianism I can't help you with, I love meat.
try reading Skinny ***** and Skinny ***** in the Kitch... those books aren't as superficial and "bad" as they sound. I've been a vegetarian since I was 17 and I found those 2 books to be really helpful.
http://www.amazon.com/Skinny-*****-Kim-B...
http://www.amazon.com/Skinny-*****-Kim-B...
Follow the BIggest Loser Diet,
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I agree with you. I just gave the basic "bleached white flour" from my diet and instantly started feeling better. I am not a fan of vegetarian diets because I believe God gave us meat to eat and our body needs all 21 amino acids it provides.
It makes it a lot easier. Basically, you need to stop eating junk foods. There are plenty of good snack foods that are healthy and use natural sugars. The biggest thing you'll have to avoid is soda
For some reason I'm doing the same thing. Getting addiceted to junk food. Lol. But try to eat some healthy things like veggies. You usually get addicted to that and forget about the junk food. Also if you work out sometimes you don;t feel as hungry so try that.
sart off by eating wholemeal pasta, bread and cereals you are cutting out a whole load of refined stuff just by doing that!!
good luck with it