Current Events > Been eating salad everyday for two weeks, should i feel better at some point?

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Keeping it healthy. I'm not going to find translations for every ingriedient, but it has lots of green things, onions, paprika, tomato. No dressing just little bit olive oil.

So, far i don't feel like anything has improved at all. My energy levels, or anything else haven't changed one bit.
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Well, for one your stomach should feel better within an hour. Idk dude, I feel better literally every single time I eat something healthy. Feeling "better" though is just relative, like, instead of feeling sick after eating a greasy ass burger, you just feel normal.
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Get some bloodwork and see if you have any deficiencies. If I hadn't, I wouldn't know that I need to take B12.

Not really. Health nuts are just full of crap.

Those who say you feel better when you lose weight are the same people who tell you they projectile vomited the one time they ever are Taco Bell.
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Make sure you're keeping protein in your diet. You need a balanced one, not just veggies.
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Just salads? Like, that's it?

You need to eat a decently high protein diet, low carbs, and moderately high fats.

You can't just eat salad.
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DevsBro posted...

Not really. Health nuts are just full of crap.

Those who say you feel better when you lose weight are the same people who tell you they projectile vomited the one time they ever are Taco Bell.

Yeah, clearly this guy's got it all figured out. Eat fast food and twinkies forever and you'll be fine.
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Yeah, clearly this guy's got it all figured out. Eat fast food and twinkies forever and you'll be fine.

I mean you'll drop dwad of a heart attack at 40 but I feel the same at 200 that I felt at 255.
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DevsBro posted...

Yeah, clearly this guy's got it all figured out. Eat fast food and twinkies forever and you'll be fine.

I mean you'll drop dwad of a heart attack at 40 but I feel the same at 200 that I felt at 255.

I believe you. Feeling nasty and unhealthy feels the same at 200 as 255.
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Think of it as a long game. Two weeks is nothing really, it can take months, sometimes years, to get some nutrients back to the levels they ought to be at.
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I think i worded that wrong. I don't eat just salad, i have added salad to my diet. I still eat some crap now and then, but before i have been dodgin healthy foods for years. I likely have deficiencies, especially vitamin D.

Food i have been eating for few years contains nothing healthy. Just bread with ham, tea, and microwave dinners (the kind that isn't 60% sugar), and bananas.

Berries and fruits fuck me up, can't eat them. I have fructose malabsorbtion issues, so banana is the only one i can eat. Berries i can tolerate, but can't too much of them.
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Sami1000 posted...

I likely have deficiencies, especially vitamin D.

Ah I had that, had a blood test last year and it was extremely low because I couldn't get outside due to illness, it took me about a year to get it back to normal.

You know that brilliant feeling you get on sunny days? That's how your should feel all the time, if your vitamin D is right.
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I believe you. Feeling nasty and unhealthy feels the same at 200 as 255.

*shrugs*

Is esting the same quantity of salads a of other foods gonna give you better weight loss results than 20%?
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To be honest, I'm not even sure where to start on what I should eat to be on a healthy diet - especially since I've got colon cancer, and I know there's certain foods that curb the growth of the tumors. I wish I could get the help of a dietician/nutritionist, but I feel like I probably wouldn't find someone to help me since I'm on social security and I doubt someone like that would take Medicaid.
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Take a multi vitamin with a daily meal.
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Don't take vitamins, they're a scam.
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feeling better is just how they lie to themselves to justify eating tasteless crap.
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flat_tyre posted...

Sami1000 posted...

I likely have deficiencies, especially vitamin D.

Ah I had that, had a blood test last year and it was extremely low because I couldn't get outside due to illness, it took me about a year to get it back to normal.

You know that brilliant feeling you get on sunny days? That's how your should feel all the time, if your vitamin D is right.

Tbh no. I'm indoors regardless the season + Finlan isn't known for its sunny weather, lol. Its 8 months chilly/cold/windy and dark, and if we're lucky its 3 months sunny and one month is something between. Combine that with being indoors and no milk or veggies, it doesn't leave many sources i could get vitamin D.
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Sami1000 posted...

flat_tyre posted...

Sami1000 posted...

I likely have deficiencies, especially vitamin D.

Ah I had that, had a blood test last year and it was extremely low because I couldn't get outside due to illness, it took me about a year to get it back to normal.

You know that brilliant feeling you get on sunny days? That's how your should feel all the time, if your vitamin D is right.

Tbh no. I'm indoors regardless the season + Finlan isn't known for its sunny weather, lol. Its 8 months chilly/cold/windy and dark, and if we're lucky its 3 months sunny and one month is something between. Combine that with being indoors and no milk or veggies, it doesn't leave many sources i could get vitamin D.

Didn't realise you were in Finland, that makes it tricky. Do you eat fish? I think that has a lot of vitamin D in it. If you can get enough, you will feel way better, I know this for myself.
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Juhanor posted...

Don't take vitamins, they're a scam.

Edit: Look at 99 (hell, maybe even 100) percent of vitamin labels and they're sure to list upwards of 2000 percent of your daily value. Would you eat fifty oranges to get 2000 percent of your vitamin C? No, physically you can't. Physically you would die. Your body isn't built to take 2000 percent of anything on a day to day basis, bigger is not better in this case.

Vitamin C is a bad example, the body can tolerate many many times the recommended daily amount.
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BewmHedshot posted...

Vitamin C is a bad example, the body can tolerate many many times the recommended daily amount.

Yeah I was typing in haste and had a couple mandarins earlier, so C was just off the top of my head. D-E-A are the ones to watch out for IIRC.
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flat_tyre posted...

Sami1000 posted...

flat_tyre posted...

Sami1000 posted...

I likely have deficiencies, especially vitamin D.

Ah I had that, had a blood test last year and it was extremely low because I couldn't get outside due to illness, it took me about a year to get it back to normal.

You know that brilliant feeling you get on sunny days? That's how your should feel all the time, if your vitamin D is right.

Tbh no. I'm indoors regardless the season + Finlan isn't known for its sunny weather, lol. Its 8 months chilly/cold/windy and dark, and if we're lucky its 3 months sunny and one month is something between. Combine that with being indoors and no milk or veggies, it doesn't leave many sources i could get vitamin D.

Didn't realise you were in Finland, that makes it tricky. Do you eat fish? I think that has a lot of vitamin D in it. If you can get enough, you will feel way better, I know this for myself.

I don't like fish at all. I have tried supplements (all kinds, expensive and cheap), but they don't work at all. I feel better in summers, so the vitamin D is definitely something i need. I eat cheese, so i get some D from it, but its not enough. I have eaten Omega 3 fish oil pills but they also mess my stomach up, idk why.
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Yeah, switching out one burger for a salad isn't going to do anything. You need more than just leafy greens to improve your health.

Juhanor posted...

Don't take vitamins, they're a scam.

Edit: Look at 99 (hell, maybe even 100) percent of vitamin labels and they're sure to list upwards of 2000 percent of your daily value. Would you eat fifty oranges to get 2000 percent of your vitamin C? No, physically you can't. Physically you would die. Your body isn't built to take 2000 percent of anything on a day to day basis, bigger is not better in this case.

If you're new to swapping diets, I'd say vitamins are pretty good.

It's not about the overdoses (which as mentioned, Vitamin C isn't a good example), it's about using the vitamin to cover up deficiencies.
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