Too little water and too much water is equally bad because it disrupts the equilibrium in your body and damages the cells inside your body. 

However, whatever “too much” and “too little” is relies solely on you. 

I don’t believe in the 2-liter rule and mindlessly guzzling down water when you don’t need it. The body is perfectly capable of telling you when you need to start drinking water—it’s called thirst. I believe that if you’re thirsty then drink, if you’re not thirsty then don’t. No need to carry a gallon of water with you everywhere you go and shove a water bottle in your mouth every other minute. 

Awuh, those allergies suck! I can only imagine what it’s like to live with common allergies. :( Sorry dear. However, you’re not completely hopeless!

First of all, being “paleo” does not mean that you have to eat a ton of fat! Most people simply prefer incorporating more fat and less carbs because it makes them feel better. But since you have type I diabetes, I’m not sure how that works out. You’ll have to experiment and see what makes you feel better, ya know? From simply eye balling it, I think you’d probably be better off eating moderate fat and more carbs (as well as paleo-approved seed like grains). But then again higher fat can cause a slower slower of the carbs you do eat. I’m not really sure.

As for fat intake… there are tons of food that you can eat actually. Meat being the best source of fat you can get. If you have access to grass-fed red meat EAT FATTY CUTS. Game meat is also amazing, like deer and bison. But if you don’t have access to grass fed or game meats, then don’t go for the fatty cuts. Also fatty fish and seafood is awesome for you… mackerel, herring, sardines, SALMON♥♥ nom nom nom.

You can cook your food in organic coconut oil which is really really good for you. You can also use olive oil (I don’t cook with it much because it has slightly higher PUFAs especially if it’s rancid). But I use a good EVOO to drizzle in my salad occasionally. Olives themselves are a good option.

I personally would ditch the nonfat greek yogurt and opt for other forms of dairy like goat milk products if you’re not allergic to those. Or you could try organic clarified butter (ghee) which removes most of the casein from dairy. If you can handle that without any reaction then that is a really good healthy choice.

I really hope this helps dear!

Thank you!! :3 I followed you back, dear. :)

As for advice, all I can suggest is you push yourself faster when you sprint. Work on decreasing your time within the same distance. Also, sprinting uphill against resistance will help you gain strength to spring faster.

As for long distance, that comes with practice. The more you run long distance the more endurance you gain. Also with distance, you can’t exert yourself hard. You need to pace yourself and figure out which stride suites you best that won’t exhaust you.

I hope this helps! :)

Hahahha omg! WHen I read this I literally thought of the movie Bring It On Again (wow way to flash back like 100 years, right?)

I love these kinds of personal preference questions actually. :)

Recently I’ve been experimenting with veggies a lot to get used to the taste. The more natural you eat the more exposed you are to the true taste of veggies. The more often I eat veggies I used to hate, I kind of acquire a taste for them. For example mushrooms. I used to HATE mushrooms with a passion and now I put them in a lot of my dishes.

• Eat your favourite veggies raw. The sweeter veggies works best with this IMO. Things like carrots, tomato, cucumber, and bell peppers! As well as salads, spinach, lettuce, arugula, etc.
• For veggies you’re not a huge fan of, find a cooking sauce or method you really like, and mask the veggies in that and marinade them for an hour or so to soak in the flavour. Or put them into soup! Soup (veggie chunks and even purees are good to get a large amount of veggies in one bowl).
• For everything else there’s grilling or roasting. Things like squash, asparagus, broccoli, zucchini, etc. All they need is a sprinkle of salt & pepper, or seasoning of preference, and some melted grass fed butter or garlic olive oil! nomnomnom. There are sooo many options.

For me personally, I love a good red pepper & onion & veggie medley stirfry with a tangy semi sweet sauce. Orrrr a salad with literally every single vegetable in my kitchen, topped with grilled chicken and some kind of dressing. I could literally live off of those two things. :)

No one’s claiming that eating before bed makes you fat moreso than what you’re eating. Fact remains that your body digests better with light physical activity following a meal, and sleep is meant for repairs and rest, not for digesting. Again, the human body cannot digest correctly at night and does a half-assed job of both sleeping and digesting. If someone needs a full stomach to sleep, a light snack or a glass of milk will do. More than that is asking for inefficient sleep.

I see you haven’t posted either of my asks. Is it really that hard for you to post something in which someone who disagrees with you expresses herself more intelligently and with more sense than you’re able to? Wow, I see you’re really looking out for your followers, censoring things so that they get the idea that you’re right instead of being able to make an informed decision.

Again, because you and your followers don’t get the fucking message and you still can’t handle being wrong (boo hoo ya twat). It is not healthy to eat before bed. Working the night shift has nothing to do with it. Calories, food, your digestive system, no they don’t know the hour on the clock, but people are justifying eating their midnight snacks with the excuse that calories don’t tell time. Being active on the night shift is different from the typical nighttime acitivity of SLEEP. Morons.

Oh, anons who send “hate” (see also: anyone who disagrees with miss perfect here) get their asses handed to them? That’s why you can’t post my asks because you literally don’t have the ability intellectually to come up with a response. You’re a sad, sad egotistical little girl.

OH NOES REVENGE OF THE BUTTHURT ANON ROUND 3!!! 

I’m just going to assume you’re the same insecure anon who got their ass handed to them the other day. And who thinks they’re the next best thing after God, tiramisu, and Harry Potter since you “express yourself so much more intelligently and are obviously more have more sense than anyone else on tumblr”.

I lol’d.

And if this is 2 different anons, you deserve to be grouped together to be honest. 

1. Get over yourself.
2. I don’t care about your lack of literary skills when all you do is force me to repeat myself over and over again because I’ve already debunked your shred of an ~argument~
3. I don’t sit around all day worrying about anons and their asks.
4. Your ask is neither more nor less important than the 21 asks that were submitted before yours.
5. Don’t you have anything better to do than to stalk out my blog for hours, desperately waiting for me to answer an ask?

I lol’d again. 

Anyway, let’s get down to the facts. 

• Not really sure where you’re getting your “physical activity helps digest food” claim. I did a quick search and found zero documentation to back that up except for one article (http://chestofbooks.com/health/nutrition/Dietetics-4/Rest-And-Sleep-And-Digestion.html#.UU3mnhxfEvt) which references a book published in 1905… LOL! Yes let’s rely on 100+ year old information.
  
  Digestion is part of the parasympathetic system. Meaning when it’s activated, other parts of your body are down regulated and relaxed. Blood rushes to the stomach and away from parts of your body that don’t need it like your muscles in your legs and arms. This is why you get sleepy after a large meal. It’s to help you better absorb and aid in digestion. From a physiological viewpoint IT MAKES SENSE YOU WOULD GET TIRED. Most of your blood supply is going towards digesting that meal. Otherwise, if physical activity were to “aid in digestion” then you would feel overwhelmed with energy and would easily be able to run a marathon. But no. Exercise, even light exercise, is advised not be done within a short period of time of a meal. If you start being active during digestion, you’re taking away those resources and forcing blood to go to your limbs instead of towards digestion. This screws with digestion. 
  
  So no, it’s actually better to relax after a meal and let your body do its thing. Millions of years of evolution makes this obvious through your body’s natural behavior! Even animals in the wild take naps after eating meals.
  
  What you MAY be referring to is physical activity in general helps aid in digestion. This is likely true. I’ve heard that regular physical activity AS PART OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE (and not at a specific point in time immediately after a meal) will help with bowel movements, reduce heart burn, etc. 
  
  So um yeah, not really sure where you were going with that one. Derp.
• The body doesn’t simply heal itself during the night. It heals itself during the day as well. The moment you have ANY injury, the body begins to metastasize cells for regrowth and repair. And LOL @ thinking digestion steals the spotlight for all 8hrs and doesn’t let the body do anything else. LOLOLLOLOL. Ignorance is bliss, eh?
• Besides… how are you supposed to heal your damaged muscle without any amino acids in your body for a full 14 hours since people like you stop eating at 6PM? Eating before bed may not be for everyone, but it sure is a hella good time to refeed some protein in order to aid in recovery. I mean… you eat protein after a workout right? Why the fuck wouldn’t you eat it before you fast for 8+ hours while your body “does the most healing during the night”. Hurrr durrrr.
  
  PS: Do a quick search on the clinical study that concludes males who ate their biggest meal in the evening had better nutrient absorption and more increased muscle mass than males who ate earlier in the day.
  
  I believe my point here has been thoroughly proven.
• I agree, not everyone can eat before bed. Some people become restless and lose sleep because when nutrients get absorbed this can excite the body. These people should not eat immediately before going to bed. However, that is completely beside the point of the image, and this entire argument. The argument is “eating at night does not make you fat”. Not “eating at night has no negative effects on the entire population”. 
  
  You won’t even consider looking on the other side of the fence. Some people NEEEDDD to eat immediately before bed. THey NEEEDDD to fall asleep on a full stomach. Otherwise they won’t be able to fall asleep at all. Or they’ll wake up in the middle of the night to grab a snack. This is not a one-size-fits-all piece of “common wisdom” that people shouldn’t eat at night. DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU. But I assure you, eating at night is NOT the cause of fat gain. <—- and that’s the fucking argument. Learn to read. Moving on.
• “No one’s claiming that eating before bed makes you fat moreso than what you’re eating.” — Dude, that’s the entire point of the image. LOLOL. That’s the entire point of the argument and you messaged me because you disagreed.
• “the human body cannot digest correctly at night and does a half-assed job of both sleeping and digesting” — LOL you’re an idiot. This is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. More idiotic than the time someone said “when you sit or sleep you don’t burn any calories.” WHY DO YOU THINK YOU GET SLEEPY (AND MANY PEOPLE FALL ASLEEP) AFTER EATING A NUTRITIOUSLY DENSE MEAL. LOLOLOL I’m laughing so hard at you anon. Really, I am. It’s 2:41AM here and I am snorting like a piglet.
• “More than that is asking for inefficient sleep.” — How can you even justify this kind of claim. Every one is different. What works for you might not work for someone else and vice versa. If someone wants to eat a steak dinner with loaded mash potatoes, grilled asparagus, and a slice of cake 20min before going to sleep, and if they sleep like a fucking baby for 8 straight hours GOOD FOR THEM. THEY SHOULD KEEP EATING MEALS FIT FOR A KING AT NIGHT. AND GUESS WHAT? IT WONT MAKE THEM FAT (assuming they’re not eating crap the rest of the day and watching tv all day).
• “ Is it really that hard for you to post something in which someone who disagrees with you expresses herself more intelligently and with more sense than you’re able to?” - Nothing that you have said makes sense or is scientifically backed up. Nothing. LOL

Here you go anon, you deserve it! good job, well played. You’re welcome to come back for round 4.0

LOL, I think it’s because they believe they somehow burn the food they eat throughout the day.

For example given the analogy: you put $500 into the bank (aka you eat a 500 calorie meal), then immediately after the bank account starts to drain the money you put in at a steady rate (the body starts burning the exact calories from the food eaten relative to the speed of your metabolism). At night, you put $300 into the bank and go to sleep (aka you eat a meal before bed). They think that only $100 of the money is going to get depleted, while the other $200 dollars becomes frozen assets that can’t be used if it doesn’t get depleted by the time you wake up in the morning (aka “excess calories” get stored as body fat). They think that if they don’t reach the $0 mark by the end of the day then any remainder after that gets stored as fat (aka the calories in-calories out crowd).

LOLOLOL. It’s so hilarious. People don’t understand that the body simply does not work that way as an even exchange system. It just doesn’t. And it makes me sad they choose to remain ignorant. 

Sigh. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother repeating myself. By the way, thank you for your input! :D

Eating isn’t what’s going to get you fat, hun. Ya know? 

Worrying about food is going to stress you out.

And stress can cause weight gain. 

Just eat. Eat clean, eat healthy, eat enough to sustain yourself so you have energy to wake up in the morning, do what you gotta do throughout the day, put in effort to stay active, make time for play, and then have a yummy treat once in a while. 

Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. They require little to no training. While a dietitian goes through a vigorous program to at least SOMEWHAT learn about the “science behind food” (even though science has only grazed the tip of the iceburg with that). 

A nutritionist =/= dietitian. 

1. Don’t buy cookies; don’t bake cookies.
2. Throw out all the cookies in the house.
3. DON’T BUY COOKIES.
4. Limit these things to SPECIAL OCCASIONS* (birthdays, weddings, going out to a fancy restaurant that charges $100 for a filet mingon)
5. Eat more protein, veggies, fruit, and healthy fat to curb any cravings for cookies. If you don’t get your cravings under control, everything else won’t help you because you’ll just say “fuck it” one day and binge on these things.
6. It’s okay to have these things once in a while (idk once a week or so?) 

Yeah, that’s my advice. I found going paleo has helped with my cravings because 1) Lots of protein, veggies, and a lot of healthy fat leaves me super full I can’t even think of stuffing a delicious slice of tiramisu into my mouth… and tiramisu is my favourite! 2) Low-carb (and by low carb I mean 50-100g a day) has helped me manage carb/sugar cravings since my blood sugar isn’t all over the place. 3) Cutting out ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL junk food completely for a couple of weeks has helped some cravings subside as well. I just didn’t care for them anymore. I only crave really really high quality junk food like an amazing homemade apple pie or a fancy tiramisu from a fancy shmancy restaurant that you know will be sex in your mouth rather than some half-assed dessert you picked up at Dunkin Donuts or the super market. Hope this helps! :)

I agree that if eating late causes someone to become restless, or decreases their quality of sleep, or makes them uncomfortable bloated in the morning then they should not eat late.

But not all people have problems with eating and going right to bed. Some people have the opposite problem: they can’t go to sleep without a full tummy. 

For either group, they’re not going to gain excess weight simply due to the SOLE FACTOR OF EATING BEFORE BED. That’s the whole point of the freaking image LOL. No one is arguing if it’s right or wrong to eat at night. 

You get fat from what you eat and your lifestyle choices—not from the time at which you eat.