DragonBits
Well-Known Member
I see a lot of men state they eat incredibly clean, or variations of that.
I know I don't eat clean, but I am not sure how unclean I am.
I don't have what I think of as a typical diet, meaning I can't say what I am going to eat day to day. It varies too much.
My wife is Thai, she makes Thai food, she doesn't eat beef or drink alcohol, while I do, my mother lives with us, she is 91 and likes deserts and bread, I pretty much can eat anything.
For instance, I like tacos make them at home, and changed from beef tacos to pork tacos, with all the spice I add its a little hard to detect a difference in taste. I accidentally made a pork hamburger, right away I could tell the taste difference.
I make ham and egg sandwiches on white bread, keep them for breakfast, that seems half clean but white bread and extra lean ham I don't think count as clean. Usually I try to eat an apple with that, it keeps me fuller longer.
I love pizza, white castle hamburgers, macaroni with butter, whole fish, rack of ribs, lot's of Thai dishes usually with Jasmine rice. Thai dishes tend to have a lot of veggies, not as much protein as USA dishes as it is cut up into the dish.
Love chili con queso with marguerites, not sure if cheese is clean or not.
I do tend to eat skinless chicken breasts, but I coat them with rice flour and fry them.
I used to enjoy a typical high carb House of pancakes breakfast, pancakes & syrup, eggs, hash browns, bacon, but the last 10 years or so all that sugar makes me a little nauseous. So I tend to avoid that sort of breakfast.
But I still like hash browns with eggs, but nothing additional outside of coffee.
Pizza really spikes my blood glucose the most, though it gets to 177 which is too high but not crazy high.
Tonight I am thinking either a hamburger or strawberry chicken salad. I use some sort of bread on a hamburger, but nothing else outside of mustard.
Reason I am thinking more about this, I am out to lose weight and bring my blood glucose down. My recent A1C was 5.8% and fasting BG was 109. Fasting BG has always bounced +/- 10 from 100, but this is the highest my A1C has ever been, typically A1C had been between 5.4-5.6%. I am making the assumption if I lose 15 lbs, my BG will go back down.
I have lost about 6 lbs down to 163 lbs, 5.4 and 66 years old. Maybe put on 2 lbs of muscle, so 8 lbs of fat.
What sort of food do people who eat clean typically eat?
And are ribs, hash browns, extra lean ham, lean fried skinless chicken breasts clean?
I know I don't eat clean, but I am not sure how unclean I am.
I don't have what I think of as a typical diet, meaning I can't say what I am going to eat day to day. It varies too much.
My wife is Thai, she makes Thai food, she doesn't eat beef or drink alcohol, while I do, my mother lives with us, she is 91 and likes deserts and bread, I pretty much can eat anything.
For instance, I like tacos make them at home, and changed from beef tacos to pork tacos, with all the spice I add its a little hard to detect a difference in taste. I accidentally made a pork hamburger, right away I could tell the taste difference.
I make ham and egg sandwiches on white bread, keep them for breakfast, that seems half clean but white bread and extra lean ham I don't think count as clean. Usually I try to eat an apple with that, it keeps me fuller longer.
I love pizza, white castle hamburgers, macaroni with butter, whole fish, rack of ribs, lot's of Thai dishes usually with Jasmine rice. Thai dishes tend to have a lot of veggies, not as much protein as USA dishes as it is cut up into the dish.
Love chili con queso with marguerites, not sure if cheese is clean or not.
I do tend to eat skinless chicken breasts, but I coat them with rice flour and fry them.
I used to enjoy a typical high carb House of pancakes breakfast, pancakes & syrup, eggs, hash browns, bacon, but the last 10 years or so all that sugar makes me a little nauseous. So I tend to avoid that sort of breakfast.
But I still like hash browns with eggs, but nothing additional outside of coffee.
Pizza really spikes my blood glucose the most, though it gets to 177 which is too high but not crazy high.
Tonight I am thinking either a hamburger or strawberry chicken salad. I use some sort of bread on a hamburger, but nothing else outside of mustard.
Reason I am thinking more about this, I am out to lose weight and bring my blood glucose down. My recent A1C was 5.8% and fasting BG was 109. Fasting BG has always bounced +/- 10 from 100, but this is the highest my A1C has ever been, typically A1C had been between 5.4-5.6%. I am making the assumption if I lose 15 lbs, my BG will go back down.
I have lost about 6 lbs down to 163 lbs, 5.4 and 66 years old. Maybe put on 2 lbs of muscle, so 8 lbs of fat.
What sort of food do people who eat clean typically eat?
And are ribs, hash browns, extra lean ham, lean fried skinless chicken breasts clean?