Who’s taking vitamins and eating healthy?

ok, so I’m 43 and health is becoming a topic in my life. I’ve made some significant changes but am still looking for tips.

1. Which vitamins or herbs are you consuming to supplement your needs?
2. What are you eating that makes a difference in your life?
3. What do you stay away from that has proven beneficial?
4. How much is your gym membership and what shall I look for as I join one? I don’t have room at my house for any equipment so please don’t “help” with that info until I move
5. Is the gym/workout thread a more beneficial way to gain these bits of information?

@Law323 @Sean266 I know you guys are fit and I feel comfortable taking your advice, but I’m willing to listen to anyone else that has something helpful to say

 

I’ve learned that the key to a healthy diet.

Is planning, shopping, preparing, and cooking your own meals. I’m not saying going as far as weekly plans or meal preps. But as far as a healthy balanced diet.

When I started cooking my own full daily meals and planning the day ahead what I was going to eat. Or cooking dinner instead of take out. I became more conscious of the balance of proteins, carbs, fats, etc. I was more conscious of the ingredients and adatives or oils being cooked with. I was also more conscious of portions. Also saved a lot of money.

That’s just my experience on when I really began to control my health. Starting with food. Other than just the gym or getting too detailed about what exactly to eat.

 

Great tip! Excuses run rampant in my dialogue about why I feel like crap. Awareness and self honesty is the stage I’m in now

 

I hear ya on the health scares. I haven’t had any serious scares but I’ve been experiencing some anxiety due to life choices that have made me think there are some health scares. I’ve been meaning to clean up a bit for a while, and like you, used to be in great health. In my younger days I used to climb high elevation mountains with heavy climbing gear. Now, that climbing gear is in a box deep in the storage with cobwebs. Everyday life can present challenges but in my situation, it’s all excuses. It’s time to find the motivation within and just get it going again

 

I am by no means healthy LOL. I used to go to the gym 4 to 5 days a week and as jobs changed so did my gym attendance. I am fatter than I have ever been. I’m going to be 39 on Tuesday and I really need to make a change myself. One thing I don’t do is eat enough vegetables. So in the last few years one thing I do is make a vegetable juice smoothie every morning for breakfast. You definitely want more vegetables than fruit. But for me it has to have fruit so that it tastes good. I bought the Neutra bullet. This is by no means is a cure-all. But I definitely think it’s a good start that I have a large serving of vegetables every day instead of some crap meal. I put small amounts of all different vegetables. Kale, spinach, beats, carrots, celery, cucumber. I try to change it up to add variety with different nutrients and vitamins. I then add a small apple a small orange and some frozen berries to make it taste good. It gives me a lot of energy to start my day. Which in turn helps me from getting something fast food and sticking to my simple lunch that I make every day.

I got lazy recently and stopped doing it. I definitely suffered the consequences. This last week I finally started again because I just got so lazy fat tired and lethargic. Let’s make some changes Mark!

 

I’m down!!!

 

If you like fried foods... get an air fryer.
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My wife just got one and it's pretty freaking awesome. French fries, bacon, fried chicken, ribs, breakfast potatoes, bacon, calamari, bacon, fried seafood... all kinds of fried foods wiffout the grease. And everything cooks in like 15-20 minutes. We're basically using it every day now. Not sure how I made it through this far in life without one of these. And if you can't exercise much, atleast stretch your legs... especially your hamstrings.

 

How’s your back doing? I haven’t heard much about it in a while

 

Cuz I been stretching my hamstrings. Had back problems for 2 or 3 straight years and as soon as I started stretching, it completely fixed my back. It got so much better that I stopped stretching again for a couple of months and it started getting a little sore the other day. So I started stretching again yesterday. Gonna keep it up this time. It's weird to be able to touch my toes.

 

like @Johnathand said. I meal prep once or twice every week. I always get in 2 servings of fruit and 4-5 servings of veggies every day, the rest consist of lean meat and low GI carbs that I have cooked myself. I save the high GI carbs for breakfast and post workout. Know what you put in your body and pay attention to portions/macro percentages. It sucks at times, but Discipline = Freedom.
get AT LEAST 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, stretch and foam roll a couple times a day. I find doing it in the mornings/evenings and right after workouts are the best for me.

I take a Multivitamin and 3 tablets of Vitamin C every day.

Don't deprive yourself either. I'm a sucker for Brown sugar and cinnamon pop tarts, burgers, and fried chicken. If I want any of these things, I make sure it fits in my daily caloric count but make sure it doesn't make up for the majority of what you ingest.

I follow the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid.

 

1. You could take the generic route and go with a multi-vitamin or go to the doctor and have them do a blood sample to find out real deficiencies. I had one done about a year ago and only needed to supplement magnesium and vitamin d.

2. Occasionally foods that I like so that when I start cutting again it’s more sustainable. That’s the key. I’ve done paleo before and was always drained so that didnt last more then 6 months. However I did loose about 20 pounds. I have been tracking macros for over a year and that will help you see just how certain foods can effect your daily intake. I’m not really tracking now because I wanted to try to bulk for 8 weeks. I have always had to cut weight in the past thanks to some stupid ass pre world war 1 height/weight requirements for the Marine Corps. So I figured since I don’t need to do that let’s just see what happens.

I definitely need to eat more veggies and may look into this smoothie thing. I also have a nutra bullet from when I was doing Paleo.

3. Diet wise energy drinks. Clearly not good for you.

4. 19.99 a month. It’s a little gym but it works. Nobody is open at 2am when I need to go now so this works. The next step is to build my own gym at the house but that’s probably another year out or so... unless it becomes crowded I may just build the gym earlier then planned. I would look for whatever is important to you like price, or hours open, type of equipment they have and how busy are they when you will most likely be going. Is it a convenient location...close to home,on the way to work etc. See if they will give you a 5-10 day pass so you can get a real feel for how things are.

5. I stop by that thread every once in a while but don’t post much. Couldn’t hurt to go say hi and get some input.

 

Gym memberships vary from city/state to city/state. In BR, $50 a month was pretty much the norm. Here in Memphis, $20-30 is the norm.

 

don't forget your calves too!

most muscle imbalances/kinetic chain problems start at the feet and track upwards barring any injury.

 

I have Pickles, onions, lettuce and tomatoes on all my hamburgers. I feel so good eating my veggies.

 

I'm using Centrum silver daily. Eating a heck of a lot more fruit and salads. Still eat red meat but more fish. I stay away from fried anything. Don't ask me about bacon. Doesn't count!!

 

Only good thing about Paleo bacon and dark chocolate were allowed.

 

There’s an herb that I hear is great for your health and in abundance in Colorado.

Really though, counting calories is a joke. Just eat healthier , cut out sodas, and add some sort of exercise to your routine and you will notice an improvement within 2 weeks. Unless your some freakish body builder there’s really no reason to get super technical and make it harder than it needs to be.

 

Colorado does have some great edible mushrooms (not for cooking your brain). Quite tasty and organic. Mostly fertilized by bear and elk "droppings".Yummy....

 

Multi vitamins
No carbs
And a whole lotta cardio !! Hell yea !

 

Also diffuse the oils in my office....Wild Orange. ..Lemon...Doug Fir....just to name a few....customers love it My daily regime.....Doterra .....100 % Natural !!!....Zero additives !

 

In 2014 I got to 250 on the scale and a size 44 waist and decided it was time to change as of today I'm at 185 and feel better than ever. MyFitnessPal is a great resource for helping establish better habits, just by easily tracking what you put in your face and being aware of what categories you're deficient in.

When I started out I didn't want to cut out any foods so I just changed to smaller portions and successfully dropped 60lbs that way, the only reason I've changed my habits is my last 2 blood tests have come back with blood glucose around 100 so I'm most days limiting carbs to under 125g. Most days being the key, today was not that day and cake is delicious, tomorrow I'll get back in line.

I luck out on the gym front since I work in college athletics so all the facilities for me are free. Even still I do pretty much no strength training since I move things around all day and the last thing I want to do in my spare time is lift more crap, running however I like and that's free to do outside anyway.

Ultimately it's about what's sustainable for you. I shoot for 85% good days and 15% fun days.

 

key for working out is finding the motivation. A lot easier with a friend.

 

Definitely a lot easier but motivation IMO, is start up crap. Drive is what keeps you going baby!!

 

That’s the herb that made me fat in college but I hold off these days!

 

Go onto netflix and watch a recent doc called "What the health"

 

I'm 6'2" 240lbs. Sunday I stepped on the scale and said "damn, I need to do something". Been eating lighter and taking a run in the dark at night once the kiddo goes to bed and haven't had a soda since Monday. I already miss the shit out of my one coke a day.

 

I follow the work of Broda Barnes and Ray Peat. Many supplements and vitamins are toxic. Check out toxinless.com He looks through the additives and what not. I just try to balance my protein with carbs (not starch) and avoid pufa