You forgot water. It's a good base for lots of reasons. It's simple. It's cheap. It nutritious.
As I said, you can eat whatever you'd like in addition to this, but starting a habit of eating simple, cheap, nutritious things everyday is a great way to lose weight. It satiates and provides nutrition. It will give you energy and leave less room in your diet for garbage.
And again, as I said, there are many routes to achieving proper nutrition.
isolated food-like product (protein).
An essential macro-nutrient in a simple, quick form.
Water is excellent, though I have doubts that it's nutritious :-)
is a great way to lose weight
I am sorry, are we talking about ways to lose weight? I thought we were talking about a general, to borrow a term from paleo people, Way of Eating, the goals of which are much more wide-ranging than just losing weight.
If you want to lose weight, I feel an excellent starting point is "Eat less, exercise more". Start there, then adjust as needed.
A bit more specifically, in my experience carbs do not satiate well (unless you eat enough to fall into a f...
The most recent post in December's Stupid Questions article is from the 11th.
I suppose as the article's been pushed further down the list of new articles, it's had less exposure, so here's another one for the rest of December.
Plus I have a few questions, so I'll get it kicked off.
It was said in the last one, and it's good advice, I think:
This thread is for asking any questions that might seem obvious, tangential, silly or what-have-you. Don't be shy, everyone has holes in their knowledge, though the fewer and the smaller we can make them, the better.
Please be respectful of other people's admitting ignorance and don't mock them for it, as they're doing a noble thing.