Food and mood

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Uh... me! ::::waving a guilty hand::::

I would be very happy to subsist on chicken, fish, veggies, fruit, nuts, and cheese. However, I am married to Mr. Meat & Potatoes. Must have red meat, must have starches, must have nasty snacky things. He pitches a fit when I sneak brown rice and whole wheat pasta into recipes instead of blecchh (oh, sorry, that's bleached) white rice and pasta. However, I do buy only 100% whole wheat bread for the family (I don't eat bread). So I have a kitchen full of yucky food, which I eat anyway simply because it's there.

<Gets back from walking the dog for an hour while wearing 3kg of weights on each wrist and 2kg on each ankle>

<Heats some food consisting of steamed broccoli, carrots, red cabbage and peas, scrambled eggs, tinned tomatoes, dried basil and oregano, black onion seeds and olive oil>

<Adds freshly picked and chopped sage leaves, rosemary sprigs and also sage and chive blossom. Adds some walnuts and brazil nuts. Adds some walnut oil and black mustard seeds.>

<Gets a lemon for afterwards>

Did someone mention unhealthy people?

<Looks around>

Nah, must just be hearing things.

Nutritious food? Get it away! Get it away!! !

*munches on some Doritoes and slurps a big Mountain Dew* Ahhhhhhhhh... I'm okay now.

You do realize how potentially harmful those wrist/ankle weight things are, don't you? Long term they can knacker in your joints good and proper....

Last edited by TAFKASH on 29 May 2005, 6:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i KNEW all that unnecessary moving about was bad for me...!

Um.... no, I didn't. Damn, everything's bad for you these days. Where did you get the info from?

Googling has turned up some concerns about wearing them during vigorous aerobic exercise, but I'd pretty much figured that already and only wear them around the house and when walking. Also, I don't run or anything anyway, since I don't have the build for it (I cycle though). I can't find anything along the lines of "...are inherently prone towards wrecking your joints...".

Awwww.... but I wanted to scaremonger....

I do remember reading some bumf on some fitness-related website or other (yes, I do read fitness related sites now, God help me ) that insisted that using them was a bad idea, but can't remember the addy.... You'll just have to risk taking your life in your hands....

What exactly is "build for" running anyway? I thought the whole point of running was so's you would end up with a build that was good for running out of it....

Although you can make yourself better at running through practice, it's really comes down to body type to a large degree. Note in the pic that the runners have long limbs and a generally gracile body form.



Contrast that with this gentleman, who looks like he'd be hard-pressed to do any more than waddle:



On a more serious note though, compare the runners with this weightlifter/wrestler. Note the shorter limbs relative to the body and the heavier build.



While the runners could bulk up and the weightlifter could slim down, I doubt either would be particularly suited to the other's sport. I have shortish limbs and a heavy build, flat feet and a lack of springiness to my legs, which makes me suited more towards muscularily intense things rather than stuff like running. I can walk with a huge pack at a brisk pace all day, but as soon as I break into a jog it becomes obvious that I'm just a 2-feet-on-the-ground kind of guy.

The runner image is broken.

It is? It displays fine on my browser.

Here's a link: http://www.dyestat.com/3us/4out/olympicgames/vic-small/74wariner-williamson.jpg

works on mine too.

By the way, the last movie you would want to see, with your diet, is Napoleon Dynamite.

Because you scored me on some test, or because they do 'stuff' with carrots and broccoli?

Neither. It's hard to explain but they sort of fetishise junk food or 'bad' food. It's a 'clean' movie but ugh the food, even the opening credits are made of junk food. I felt compelled to pause the film and have an overcooked hamburger patty accompanied by tinned spaghetti.

Um... ew.

I wouldn't say that eating really bums me out but I can tell you this: when I'm feeling the AS haze hitting extra hard and need to snap out of it, I get all the beef in me that I can. Whether that's getting 2 or 3 strips of beef jerky at the gas station (usually along with a canned energy drink like Rockstar or No Fear), sometimes I'll get a Big Montana from Arby's, other times I'll go to Mr. Hero and get a philly.

I've noticed in my case that my body burns through protein like its nothing. What I find especially interesting is that poultry doesn't do it for me. As I've noticed about myself in the past, hightened serotonin doesn't do anything for me - in fact it slags me out and any kind of happiness I get is hazed otu and offset by the anxiety that in and of itself causes. What does that last part have to do with anything? I hear that poultry is a high L-tryptophan meat (that particular amino appears a lot in the protein sequence of poultry). In that sense, eating fowl counteracts the positives I feel from the protein intake and I feel nothing. I haven't really read into beef but I'm guessing it may well be a high L-tyrosine meat (I have underfocused ADHD along with my AS and know for sure that my dopamine levels are pretty low)