Staying Healthy Through the Stress

[Horb]

Yeah, I stay away from diet anything. Mainly because I've found it either gives you cancer (as does apparently everything these days) and the taste is just not worth the cut in calories or sugar. It never crosses into a "good for you" realm. 

 

I'm not a huge tea person -- despite my best efforts -- but I'll have to give it another go. Does anyone drink those Naked drinks? They have veggies and fruit based ones. They seem legit. 

[despejado]

Yeah, I stay away from diet anything. Mainly because I've found it either gives you cancer (as does apparently everything these days) and the taste is just not worth the cut in calories or sugar. It never crosses into a "good for you" realm. 

 

I'm not a huge tea person -- despite my best efforts -- but I'll have to give it another go. Does anyone drink those Naked drinks? They have veggies and fruit based ones. They seem legit. 

 

Yeah, but the Naked drinks are like a small meal calorie-wise... They might be good as a replacement for a snack or something, mostly because it's the juice of whole fruits & vegetables.

[Katia_chan]

Yeah, I stay away from diet anything. Mainly because I've found it either gives you cancer (as does apparently everything these days) and the taste is just not worth the cut in calories or sugar. It never crosses into a "good for you" realm. 

 

I'm not a huge tea person -- despite my best efforts -- but I'll have to give it another go. Does anyone drink those Naked drinks? They have veggies and fruit based ones. They seem legit. 

 

I can't preach tea highly enough--but I might have a minor addiction to it (someday I'll post a picture of my tea shelf).  It's like a frightening hobby almost...

 

If I'm craving something sweet, I'll do tea with some sugar, because the pinch of rock sugar I put in my tea is still less than what's in my coke.  The Lacroy sparkling water is good too, if you have a bubble-craving.  Consistency of pop, but no sugar.  Carbonation has its own evils, but when nothing but fizz will do...

 

...on that note, I am so sad--I got off drinking pop for so long.  And now I have a roommate who drinks it all the time and she's (unintentionally) rekindling my craving for it.  So not cool...I avoided it for so long just by being cheap and not wanting to pay for it.  I'm kind of hoping whoever I end up living with when I move is a health nut.  I am, despite my efforts, a chameleon when it comes to my eating habits.  What is there, I will eat.  If someone I'm living with is a healthy person, I'm more likely to do it too.

 

Not that my bad decisions are other people's fault, but this is just how it goes.  It would be nice to live in a healthy environment where good choices weren't such a constant battle.

 

One last thing, because I am all over the place today.  Healthy snack/meal...asparagus. Just enough olive oil to very lightly cote it. Oven for like 10 minutes.  I can stand there and eat that stuff out of the pan.  Pair it with a little fish or chicken, and you're having a good day.

[iExcelAtMicrosoftPuns]

Y'all!

Weekend came and went without a blog. Life happens.

Commenting to add to the praise for tea.

Iced tea with a lemon. I make it by the half gallon.

Horb, what don't you like about tea?

[Horb]

I've tried so many and haven't found one I liked. I'm still searching tho!

[iExcelAtMicrosoftPuns]

I've tried so many and haven't found one I liked. I'm still searching tho!

Well.  I'll make an assumption: if given the choice between water or tea - you'd pick water.

So when comparing the two - What specific flavors or "mouth-feels" do you not like about the teas you have tried?

I ask because there are cool ways to address each.

You can ice tea and muddle some mint and lemon in it.

You can serve it warm with a splash (1.5 ounce or so) of milk.

You can add honey or sugar or agave syrup or maple... whateva! you can add it.

You can mix varietes.

add orange zest.

So is it the floralness of teas? the astringency of them? what don't you like?

 

[Katia_chan]

Some of the herbals have less of the "tea" taste, which helps some people.  And as Bowties said, nothing wrong with adding a bit of milk and sugar.  It's still better than pop or most juices, at least in the sugar department.  Also, depending on what teas you've tried, check how long they've been steeped.  I hated my mother's lipton tea, until I was an adult and realized that she let the stuff steep for about fifteen seconds.  When I learned how to steep tea properly, things changed.

 

Also, here is that blog I'd mentioned a few pages back.  Not "health food" persay, but a lot of natural recipes with quality ingredients.  There's a recipe for coconut lime turkey tacos that I've been told I must try.

 

http://thenutritiouskitchen.com/

[mmorrison]

Yeah, I stay away from diet anything. Mainly because I've found it either gives you cancer (as does apparently everything these days) and the taste is just not worth the cut in calories or sugar. It never crosses into a "good for you" realm. 

 

I'm not a huge tea person -- despite my best efforts -- but I'll have to give it another go. Does anyone drink those Naked drinks? They have veggies and fruit based ones. They seem legit. 

 

Those Naked drinks are sugar bombs. Every 4 grams of sugar is a whole spoonful's worth. Do that math, and you will swear off those things. If you can finish one of those, it might be time to try getting your body off sugar for a while to break the craving (which will help with the juice fiending, too--it does for me). When I don't want water and can't afford another $3 kombucha, I like club soda with a splash of juice, or a glass of water with a slice of fruit in it (citrus fruits, apple, pear, watermelon). But if you are drinking sugary stuff, you'll need to break the addiction first before anything else will taste good.