I don’t assign morality to food.
I eat a variety of foods, in moderation, including ice cream. Ice cream is not a “bad” food - it’s just a food. When you take away strict food rules, you generally find yourself evening out to a place of moderation. Moderation is sustainable, restriction is not.
The good: I love vegetables- avocados at breakfast or lunch, lots of broccoli and cauliflower and tomatoes. I also love almost any fish or seafood and would eat that most of the time if I wasn’t so lazy. I grill every weekend and that’s usually chicken or fish with occasional tri-tip or steak. I don’t eat a lot of sweets- definitely a special occasion only thing.
The bad- I love fatty meat- I’m the kind of steak or pork eater that cuts off a little fat, a bite of meat and relishes in it. When I get prime rib- I eat it ALL. I can’t stop eating chips once I start. I love ice cream though try to only buy it occasionally. Pizza is another thing- I hate to have it in the house because I can’t stick with 1-2 slices. I eat too many carbs when I’m not watching it (see below), rice is my favorite.
I’m trying to lose weight and mostly I try to eat rice/pasta only at dinner with lots of protein and veggies at all meals. I feel so much better after a 3 month or so slacker diet where I gained 8 pounds :(.
Absolutely.
Until recently, my caloric intake was anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 a day from eating all kinds of junk foods, sodas, and sweets in absurd quantities. Then I was diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes (surprise, surprise).
Since then, I’ve started to keep a record of calories eaten each day. Between my last two doctor’s visits, I had lost approximately 67 lbs. Both my doctor and myself were blown away. Since I told her I don’t exercise much (as in, at all), she asked what changes I’d made to my diet. Aside from no longer drinking regular soda, none. I still eat pizza, pasta, burgers, and sweets. Just not in the same quantities as before. As time goes on, those quantities are reduced even more. My cholesterol levels are ok. My blood sugar remains normal.
I know I should eat healthier and exercise, but bottom line is that I don’t restrict what I eat so much as how much I eat.
I would file the eggs and bacon stuff under my GOOD list. My biggest downfall is breakfast breads and potatoes. Biscuits, bagels, muffins, potatoes prepared about 800 different ways. I feel fortunate that I can do without sweet things completely and have no taste for cereals. The worst thing is that I’ve lost my appetite for vegetables as I’ve gotten older. Used to love to eat loads of a variety of vegetables. Now I find myself skipping them and throwing them away when served to me.
My wife is very conscience about our diet. We have no soda of any kind in the house, all breads (sandwich, hoagie, hamburger buns) are 100% whole wheat, we regularly eat healthy dinners consisting of quinoa, fresh steamed veggies and lean proteins like chicken or salmon. She’s also a huge fan of healthy fats like unsalted almonds and avocados.
Bad news - the vending machines at work kill me. Potato chips. Must. Have. Potato chips. That, and I love me some craft beer. Had a few Gumball Head’s on Saturday evening. NOM.
I probably shouldn’t like Doritos, pate or fried chicken as much as I do. But those are very sometimes foods.
I have very little to feel guilty about when it comes to indulging in foods that are considered ‘bad for you’.
I was complaining about something similar the other day. Whenever you read diet blogs, you always hear about how the person cut out the four burgers and bag of chips and soda every day. It really annoys me because I don’t eat any of that. I don’t eat like that at all.
I have started making smoothies for myself in the morning.
Breakfast: banana, strawberry, almond milk smoothie. No sugar added.
Lunch: Salad. I buy those salads from the grocery store and eat half of the bag, which is just right. I add a capful of sunflower seeds, lemon juice, and lemon herb seasoning - no dressing. I don’t like dressing.
Dinner: This is where I get the majority of my calories. I eat whatever my other half makes, and he makes rich, delicious foods. But I’m ok with that because of my breakfast and lunch.
Dessert: Usually an ice cream sandwich or a tapioca pudding or something yummy. I don’t hold back, but I only eat one - it’s not like I eat five or something.
In between I eat lots and lots of fruit. I could eat all the fruit.
So I eat very healthy. What I don’t do is exercise enough. 
Quite frankly, I hate exercise. I never feel good about it and almost anything else is more interesting.
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What’s the point of eating healthy to live longer if that just means you’ll have to keep on eating all that healthy stuff? I’ll eat what tastes good, and if that means I die at 50 instead of 80, oh well. If I had kids or something I might have a different perspective.
I’ve been eating keto since December 7th, 2014. This means I try to limit my carbs close to zero grams every day, so I eat a lot of eggs, bacon, pork, beef, sheep, and chicken, the fattier the better. I eat a lot of avocados, green vegetables (avoiding roots), and cheese. I use a lot of butter, cream cheese, and heavy cream. I’ve started rendering lard and tallow (‘cos I can’t buy it already-rendered), and I’m trying to find a local source for duck fat. Olive oil is my main oil when I don’t use fat, but I have a stash of wonderful almond oil for salad dressings. If I decide I want to snack it’s almonds or other low-carb nuts, or small pieces of very dark chocolate. I can drink moderate quantities of dry red wine, and I’ve taken to drinking bourbon with soda.
I avoid bread, tortillas, high-carb veggies, pasta, sugar, milk, carby pre-made salad dressings, sodas, beer, and pretty much everything that has carbs.
This means that I eat a lot of things that are conventionally seen as unhealthy, but I’ve since done a lot of studying and personal research into its long-term healthfulness, and the question is still open. I’m not 100% convinced either way, other than to think that everything is potentially bad for us.
I’ve lost more than 29kg (about 64 lbs) with no effort and no willpower since then. I certainly miss things like bread and pasta, but the things I allow myself to eat really don’t leave me jonesing for the things that I miss. I’m rarely hungry. I’ve gone back to serious cycling after a many-year break, and I’ve never gotten close to bonking (although due to low bloody glycogen as a result of the missing carbs, I’m only able to sprint once). And of course the cycling will increase my loss rate.
There’s a lot of high-fat paranoia that I’m not 100% immune to yet (see above), but my annual physical blood test results at the end of April showed improved scores for everything. The most important to me were the lowered high-density and increased low-density cholesterol scores.
I was negative for Hep. B antibodies, so I fixed that right away, and I was deficient in vitamin D, oddly enough. I guess that came from giving up milk (it’s also fortified in this market) and not getting enough sun.
I won’t attempt to defend my choice in this thread, but I also won’t try to tell anyone that it’s a better way to live. It’s working for me, and I’m healthier today than I was six months ago as a result.
You can’t save your life by not spending it.
Due to a variety of circumstances I now eat healthily though this was not always so. In fact only recently have I become so strict:
2 or 3 portions of vegetables per day(probably more)
Oatmeal daily
2 or 3 fruits per day
Very little red meat
Mostly fish and white meat, never fried
A variety of nuts.
The foodstuffs I like are limited. THis means I eat a lot of the same food over and over again. Ive been like this all my life not only since I began eating healthily.
I do very well at listening to my body and following that to get what I need on a ongoing basis, and that has produced some fantastic results. I know my base foods (mostly meat/chicken) seem to work very well at keeping me healthy and happy. Other components will come in after that and sometimes I know I need a certain food.
I’d never thought the day would come when I’d say, I completely agree with kanicbird.
Someone please check for climate change in hell. 
Not very. I would like to eat healthy and I try, but since my husband has a narrow list of preferred ‘bad foods’ I have to serve on a regular basis, plus tons of meat/taters/gravy, I end up eating a lot of what he eats. Though I often just make a salad, healthy salad I hope. I try not to buy potato chips (my downfall) - he loves Doritos and I hate them. Midnight snack: ice cream or a half a baloney sammitch with mayonnaise and a pickle. That poor mineola tangerine has been sitting in the refrigerator for weeks, ignored!