Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?

Post by shaftway » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 7:52 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #64

kevas wrote: post #30

--READ-- Reading all the comments on this thread is pretty funny. I was a trainer for many years and the strategy (note that it’s a strategy rather than a diet) that was most successful takes years to complete with the goal of never doing too much at once. Take the worst thing in your diet. Over the next few weeks, replace it with something slightly better. When your body starts accepting it, move on to the next wors…

How to replace ice cream?

    0.5 c.    Cream
    1.5 c.    Milk
    0.5 c.    Sugar (or substitute; we use Splenda)
    1.0 pinch Salt
    0.5 tsp.  Vanilla
    Up to one cup of flavor

Post by alexmingoia » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 8:07 PM UTC

runjake wrote: post #96

alexmingoia wrote: post #89

Try eating only whole plant foods (vegan). It's better for you, for animals, and the planet. Whole foods means unprocessed. Avoid concentrated or processed grains, sugar, and oil. So no flour, bread, or sugar. Just avoid grains entirely except for steel-cut unprocessed oats. Whole vegetables means potatoes, Japanese sweet potato, carrots, cauliflower, tomatoes, broccoli, etc. Whole fruits means bananas, oranges, avoc…

To tack onto this: eat legumes for energy, add spinach/kale/etc to parent's list, and take a legitimate B12 supplement[1]. Source: was an athletic vegan for a long time. 1. I use "Garden of Life B12 Vitamin - mykind Organic Whole Food B-12 for Metabolism and Energy, Raspberry, 2oz Liquid". I went from B12 deficient to B12 adequate on blood tests, so it works (for me). It's also worth pointing out that I eat a lot of…

Post by darpa_escapee » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 8:41 PM UTC

dlivingston wrote: post #25

coldtea wrote: post #7

The canonical advice, as someone already wrote is: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." I'd add: - Eat mostly what your grand-grandparents would identify as food (e.g. no preprocessed stuff, no chips, etc). - Don't eat constantly. Leave 14+ hours that you don't much (if you sleep 8 hours that's just 6-wake hours off of food). - Don't eat refined sugars, wheat, etc. Whole grain is OK. - Mediterranean diet has been…

Very great advice. A little nitpick - lifting small dumbbells is probably useless. The main benefits from weightlifting come through Progressive Overload, where those small weights must necessarily\* turn into big weights. If (s)he must stick to small weights, there is a very small window of benefit to weight lifting. \* - note that in Progressive Overload you can also increase total number of reps (the true metic is…

Post by bluewater » Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 10:31 PM UTC

codesternews wrote: post #61

kevas wrote: post #30

--READ-- Reading all the comments on this thread is pretty funny. I was a trainer for many years and the strategy (note that it’s a strategy rather than a diet) that was most successful takes years to complete with the goal of never doing too much at once. Take the worst thing in your diet. Over the next few weeks, replace it with something slightly better. When your body starts accepting it, move on to the next wors…

how to replace sugar in coffee? I can not live without it.

Post by skellera » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 2:21 AM UTC

itchyouch wrote: post #66

codesternews wrote: post #61

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how to replace sugar in coffee? I can not live without it.

Try replacing the sugar with fat. Use cream or half and half. For a latte, ask for it to be made "brevee" (brev-aye) which indicates half and half usage. For coffee, I will do 50/50 half and half with coffee. It is quite delicious.