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Originally Posted by Realtor 1
I consider myself to have a balanced lifestyle. I work out 4-5 times a week for 2 hours and.....thats it. My diet sucks as I am always eating out, attend most flames games which is a minimum 2 beers.
Point of my story is that exercise alone has been able to counteract every other unhealthy lifestyle choice I make. Nothing replaces exercise and it has to be the easiest thing to change as it becomes enjoyable after a month or 2.
Everytime I think about changing my diet I read something new about a "bad" food. Joe Rogan recently had a podcast talking about how America gets the worlds garbage coffee because regulations won't allow it anywhere else. Who would have thought a cup of coffee could be a problem.
Some other interesting points made... good quality thread!
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Not sure how old you are, but I used to do the same thing. I always thought that my activity level would easily counteract the garbage I put in (and it was a lot). That was until I was told I had high cholestorol, high blood pressure, and gout. At the time I was about 6' tall, 190lbs, and quite fit.
What I learned is that there is an ungodly amount of crap in the food we eat every day, and even though you follow a healthy lifestyle you're still at just as high risk as the fat guy eating chicken wings every night. North America is going to be riddled with heart disease from all the processed foods that are found EVERYWHERE these days.
Everyone's different, but it's food for thought.