How to Eat Like You Mean to be Healthy by fitinfunfood

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How to Eat Like You Mean to be Healthy
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What is the best way to eat a healthy diet? Should you be counting calories, or fat, or sugar, or what?

Common wisdom says that fat and unhealthy people are stupid and lazy and already know what they should be doing to get healthy, and just do not do it. I am not lazy or stupid and tried hard to lose weight and get healthy for three years. I do not want to go into that nightmare time, but at the end of it I was down about 40 pounds and so miserable I did not know what would ever help me do better.

Here is what finally worked for me.

#### Counting Nutrition
I started counting my nutrition in December 2010. By October 2011 I had lost the last 80 pounds I needed to lose and that weight has never come back.


Here are the essential nutrients according to a site I like called [The World's Healthiest Foods](http://www.whfoods.com/)

<center>![essential nutrients.PNG](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmTS2GTwY94Wzfpfa9XZQRXfXzUCFksZAr1hLM3ZLG3tqK)</center>

I started with Vitamin C and Fiber those many long years ago. I found out by working through this chart that:
- I was not getting the daily recommended amount of most of these nutrients
- The daily recommended amount is low for most of them anyway
- The vast majority of my old diet had NONE of these nutrients
- The nutrients were not very hard to get if I ate real unprocessed food 
- I did not need to count calories or anything else if I just paid attention to getting these healthy nutrients into my daily food.

Over the next weeks I am going to be doing posts on these nutrients. I will tell you:
- what they are
- why you need them
- how to get them from healthy sources
- how to prepare food so you get the best advantage

If you follow along, you will improve in your eating habits and stop getting as much of the "bad" stuff in processed food that makes us sick.

<center>![All stopped up.PNG](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmNqKp5CV7y4aYwWsiiz63mdFDHZBFmpEYCyb7wjJrCsa8)</center>

I hope this will help you if healthy living is one of your resolutions this year. Please chime in and let me know your thoughts. 

This is my new account by Sharon @fitinfun. I am now posting food here @fitinfunfood, so I do not overwhelm everything else I do. Please follow this account and tell me how things are going for you with food. 

If you want to know about easy exercise I'm posting that on my son @bxlphabet's account. Motivation is over with me @fitinfun.

Hopefully between the three of us, you will find all you need to know to make 2019 the year you finally turned your health around.
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@raj808 ·
Hi @fitinfunfood I'm looking forward to reading these as I'm just about to launch into a serious food regime to try and address an ongoing chronic condition I've suffered for 6 years called SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth). I've done a lot of research, and after the last 2 years of the gastroenterologist bombarding my system with antibiotics, all to no improvement, I'm ready to take matters into my own hands. I'm pretty sure that a big part of this will be eating unprocessed foods and eliminating all the chemicals entering my system, along with some pretty strict food type restrictions. I'm not looking forward to it much as food is such a big pleasure in my life and I'm going to have to remove a vast amount of the foods I like. But if I get my energy and focus back it will all be worth it. 

Happy new year 🙂

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@fitinfunfood ·
I'm so happy to get this comment, @raj808 even though it is a difficult time for you. 

The best thing I can tell you is to start slow and make one change at a time. Once you master one change - make the next. This is so much easier that making a huge change all at once and gives you a better chance for success. 

If you want to try this idea, make a list of your "Top 10" culprits. Then work to get rid of any ONE of them.

At the same time make a list of the "Top 10" "things you should be doing" and start doing ONE of them.

Once either one of those is going well, go on to the next on its list. Over a few weeks or months this all snowballs and you will not believe how good it's going. 

>food is such a big pleasure in my life 

I hope it will make you feel better to know that ALL of my food is much more satisfying now than back when I was unhealthy and obese.

>I'm going to have to remove a vast amount of the foods I like.

What are those foods you need to give up? Maybe I can help you with substitutions.

Feel hope and watch this blog. I really want to help and I feel sure I can :)
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@raj808 · (edited)
> What are those foods you need to give up?

Omg... the list is endless. If you are familiar with exclusion diets I think it is the GAPs diet I will be following... Off the top of my head. But it is a good suggestion to exclude food groups one at a time to limit the psychological impact. I have tried elimination diets before for this condition with no success. But this time I'm going to combine it with specific suppliments and eating habits (many small meals & slow deliberate chewing to encourage proper gut motility).

> make a list of your "Top 10" culprits. Then work to get rid of any ONE of them.

SIBO is such a complex condition to treat. At the moment everything I eat causes my abdomen extreme bloating and I get nausea for around 1 - 3 hours, so there are no particular culprits, as it were. Fatigue is pretty much constant and brain fog which varies in intensity. The tiredness and confusion is so severe that it limits my capabilities to work.

It is a catch 22 situation as the huge majority of success stories I have found on the internet about people curing their SIBO are from people visiting 'functional doctors'. I can't afford the crazy rates that these (private practice) doctors charge - we are talking £400/£500 per consultation - so I'm stuck trying to puzzle it out myself. From all of the research I've done, it seems I need to cut out the food that are feeding the bad bacteria while taking (either regular or herbal) antibiotics & anti fungal medicines to kill everything in the small intestine. This is essential as there should be little to no bacteria in the small intestine, only the stomach and large intestine house the vast majority of the guts digestive bacteria. I've read also that some people take prokinetic medication as the main cause of SIBO is low gut motility but when I told the gastroenterologist about this he was dismissive and said he wouldn't give me them because they could cause other issues. Anyway, after all these treatments reduce the bloating, I'm then meant to start reintroducing good bacteria and then later slowly reintroduce different foods while keeping notes to see how they effect me.

As you can see it is a complex thing and at any one of these stages something could cause my body to react to the new protocol (medicine/suppliment/diet change).

P.s. I do appreciate your suggestions though. The one about cutting food gradually is great and

> make a list of the "Top 10" "things you should be doing" and start doing ONE of them.

Is also a great suggestion as exercise is meant to be good for gut motility and I get little at the moment due to the fatigue.

Thanks 🙂

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@deathlyhorror ·
I am starting a sardine diet - high quality sustainable sardines, fruits and veggies, lentils, boiled eggs and a few other things.
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@fitinfunfood ·
I love sardines! Those are my go to fish. The smaller fish are supposed to be better for you in regards to pollution and I love the taste. Everything you have there sounds good to me. Start blogging about it and tag me :)
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@ianstevenson ·
I need to make sure I get all those vitamins
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@fitinfun ·
I just did another post on this issue if you would like to take a look. All of these things will help anyone do better :)

https://steemit.com/esteem/@fitinfunfood/get-more-nutrition-fiber
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