my thoughts on food advice 🙁 Delete if you wanna

#1 · October 16, 2001, 10:48 am

Quote from Forum Archives on October 16, 2001, 10:48 am
Posted by: dabanks <dabanks@...>

I just thought I would share my thoughts about this food issue. There are so many many theories out there. I believe that most of us are doing our best to maintain a healthy diet. I don't think that one person is doing it "right" and someone else is wrong. I was a vegetarian for many years. In 1998 I started eating meat. I was no more healthy then than I am now. I use lard in some foods (pie crust) and I use olive oil in others (stir fry). What difference does it make?? Some foods taste better prepared with different fats.
One diet out there (the zone) specifies eating a high protein diet, another one out there (dont' remember, but the books are all over the place) specify eating a high carbo diet. It gets too confusing listening to these so called experts in the area. I think it can really get obsessive with some people ( I know that from personal experience, I am one of them). Whatever type of diet someone is on, another person will be able to argue it because of all the so called expert advice out there. I think as Christians it is best we just simply back away from worldly advice. Anything from this world is not from God. The Lord is not going to call us to run to the whole foods coop to buy all our foods because some people simply can not afford such things. Neither is he calling us to buy prepackaged high fat foods from the grocery store either. There is a balance there and we need to find it for ourselves and chase ridiculous "expert" advice out of our minds. There are even Christian "experts" out there.. silly, if you ask me. Only the good Lord knows what our bodies need, He created us. It is up to us to ask Him and listen to Him.
I had a good friend of mine who was caught up in some "food advice of the week", say to me as I was pouring my good husband a cup of coffee, " Giving him his daily dose of poison now, eh?". I was ready to kill her. She went on a radical change in her diet listening to expert advice, got rid of her microwave, her bbq grill, her daily "poisons", threw out tons and tons of food from her freezer and cupboards lest it not be "OK" to eat. When I saw her 5 months later she was off that diet and eating all the stuff again that she had thrown away and had bought a new microwave, and she had never lost any weight from it all, nor got any healthier. Silly, silly, silly. Yes, she meant well and really thought she was doing the right thing, but I tell you, it really stung when she told me I was poisoning my husband! People can get down right nasty when they think their way is the right way and they "know" how bad things that you are doing/eating are.
I am probably the only person on this list that smokes cigarettes. I KNOW how bad it is for me. I have watched people die from it, including one of my best friends. No one needs to tell me to quit because it is bad. I choose to smoke sometimes and other times I want to quit so badly and I pray about it and end up losing the battle. I am weak. I don't always do what is right for myself. My husband and I spend about $60 a week on cigarettes alone. That is a lot of money that could go elsewhere.. ETC,ETC. I am stupid, I am weak, I am human. I don't always do the right things. We have gone on similar things such as the food issues, whatever new way of quitting is out there, we have tried it. We don't do that anymore. Worldly things don't work for us. We know we must lean on our Lord and he will guide us through, but until we are ready to surrender, He will wait for us and love us anyways. We are good people dispite our failings. Our Lord knows we love him and in the meantime NO ONE should judge me on it and shame on anyone who does.
Anyways, enuf of my ranting here. I just get tired of the "this is better than that" stuff.
By the way, I am not cranky this morning 😉 I got a new bird yesterday and he is handsome! He is another rescue bird. I just love these guys. I have to run to Duluth today to get some more birdy supplies. That is the only thing I love shopping for.
Oh, by the way...if you check on any bird list or dog list, or cat list, etc..you will see that there are discussions there over what you should feed or should not feed your animals too....silly.
Take care and God bless, Julie

Posted by: dabanks <dabanks@...>

I just thought I would share my thoughts about this food issue. There are so many many theories out there. I believe that most of us are doing our best to maintain a healthy diet. I don't think that one person is doing it "right" and someone else is wrong. I was a vegetarian for many years. In 1998 I started eating meat. I was no more healthy then than I am now. I use lard in some foods (pie crust) and I use olive oil in others (stir fry). What difference does it make?? Some foods taste better prepared with different fats.
One diet out there (the zone) specifies eating a high protein diet, another one out there (dont' remember, but the books are all over the place) specify eating a high carbo diet. It gets too confusing listening to these so called experts in the area. I think it can really get obsessive with some people ( I know that from personal experience, I am one of them). Whatever type of diet someone is on, another person will be able to argue it because of all the so called expert advice out there. I think as Christians it is best we just simply back away from worldly advice. Anything from this world is not from God. The Lord is not going to call us to run to the whole foods coop to buy all our foods because some people simply can not afford such things. Neither is he calling us to buy prepackaged high fat foods from the grocery store either. There is a balance there and we need to find it for ourselves and chase ridiculous "expert" advice out of our minds. There are even Christian "experts" out there.. silly, if you ask me. Only the good Lord knows what our bodies need, He created us. It is up to us to ask Him and listen to Him.
I had a good friend of mine who was caught up in some "food advice of the week", say to me as I was pouring my good husband a cup of coffee, " Giving him his daily dose of poison now, eh?". I was ready to kill her. She went on a radical change in her diet listening to expert advice, got rid of her microwave, her bbq grill, her daily "poisons", threw out tons and tons of food from her freezer and cupboards lest it not be "OK" to eat. When I saw her 5 months later she was off that diet and eating all the stuff again that she had thrown away and had bought a new microwave, and she had never lost any weight from it all, nor got any healthier. Silly, silly, silly. Yes, she meant well and really thought she was doing the right thing, but I tell you, it really stung when she told me I was poisoning my husband! People can get down right nasty when they think their way is the right way and they "know" how bad things that you are doing/eating are.
I am probably the only person on this list that smokes cigarettes. I KNOW how bad it is for me. I have watched people die from it, including one of my best friends. No one needs to tell me to quit because it is bad. I choose to smoke sometimes and other times I want to quit so badly and I pray about it and end up losing the battle. I am weak. I don't always do what is right for myself. My husband and I spend about $60 a week on cigarettes alone. That is a lot of money that could go elsewhere.. ETC,ETC. I am stupid, I am weak, I am human. I don't always do the right things. We have gone on similar things such as the food issues, whatever new way of quitting is out there, we have tried it. We don't do that anymore. Worldly things don't work for us. We know we must lean on our Lord and he will guide us through, but until we are ready to surrender, He will wait for us and love us anyways. We are good people dispite our failings. Our Lord knows we love him and in the meantime NO ONE should judge me on it and shame on anyone who does.
Anyways, enuf of my ranting here. I just get tired of the "this is better than that" stuff.
By the way, I am not cranky this morning 😉 I got a new bird yesterday and he is handsome! He is another rescue bird. I just love these guys. I have to run to Duluth today to get some more birdy supplies. That is the only thing I love shopping for.
Oh, by the way...if you check on any bird list or dog list, or cat list, etc..you will see that there are discussions there over what you should feed or should not feed your animals too....silly.
Take care and God bless, Julie