"Eating Healthy"?

[not2late]

I'm having a late lunch (very late---thanks Boss!) and thumbing through the August Prevention Magazine. Anyhow, here's a statistic they have on page 76.

% of US adults who consider themselves to be healthy eaters = 64%

% of US adults who are overweight or obese = 64%

Okay, before I went on Atkins I was a low fat vegetarian/vegan and then moved onto a low fat diet. So if someone asked me, was I eating healthy, I would have said "yes". But I was also gaining weight on my "healthy" low fat diet.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

[ErinRachel1021]

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I've never been one for donuts, chips, fast food, etc. I've always been about fresh food. Fresh veggies, fresh meat, fish, etc. The difference was, I drank juice like crazy, LOVED pasta and had a love affair with ice cream. Overall I would have said I was a healthy eater.

[Heidi3]

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like you Megs I was a low fat veg for years and honesty while I was running I stayed thin...however I also was anemic as Helll!!!!! my hct was 27 at one point!!! and I was sick all the time ..I even got strep throat over and over again!!!....so when I hit the wall and stopped running and guess what? ...the low fat veggie diet I was on did not keep me thin!!! I ballooned up to 159lbs ....

yes I thought I ate a healthy diet ...I always cooked my food but the meals I prepared had a lot of starches and not much protein or fat to it at all ....

now ..I do eat a healthy diet ...I feel good and my body had kept his weight for a while now ..with out a struggle I have just stayed where I am ...

my lab work has all been good my HCT is back up to 34 and I have not had so much as a cold this past two years

so I think what I thought was healthy eating ..was not ...and now what I feel is healthy eating ...actually is.....

[not2late]

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Erin, Heidi good points....

This makes me wonder what really is "eating healthy"? That is, is our individual definition of "eating healthy" different/same as what "eating healthy" for our bodies truly is?