Favorite eats
What is your favorite things to eat. My kids always ask me about many things what is your favorite movie, snack, meal…. they always want to know one thing that is my favorite. I really can’t answer the question I usually like more than one thing. Take fruit there are bananas,peaches,pears,plums, cantaloupe yum I mean how can you chose one favorite and I left out so many! What about veggies, I like many of mine raw. Baby carrots,celery, cucumber,broccoli mostly. Then some veggies I like steamed or sauteed in 100% extra virgin olive oil. To me, it is amazing how many people do not like veggies. It is even hard to ask them why. They must have had a bad exprience with them and now something that can really help them live life better is a hinderince to them. I did have a few bad dealings with undesirable plates of veggies growing up, but now after much reading and study of good nutrition, I really enjoy most all veggies. But there solutions for people who have had vivid memories of bad dishes of over boiled veggies. I have been thinking about junk food recently. Really what is the draw beside taste. It prabally has too much of many things. To much grease, salt, msg, hfcs, sugar,( i do have a 76 point list of why sugar is bad for you.maybe I share in future) or a combination of many more things. These Just put weight on us, slows the metabolism, makes us more hungry, not letting us stay away from the doctor and we’ll spend more on those co-pays. What about eating better. Sweet eat fruit what is your craving? Stay without surar for three days and you will crave sugar much less or not at all. We all complain of co-pays medical bills medical insurance if you can afford it.So if you feed the body the right things the body has a tendency to repair itself. If the body has a built in repair mechanism and all you have to ddo is feed it correctly, why would you not do it. Can’t do it on your own then get some help.
I can help you with a good deal of information, point people in the right direction. In have read and studied about nutrition for the last 12 years, do I know all, NO. But I have a great deal of resources to help, including doctors, scientists and a Nobel Prize winner.
People who want to change what they eat for thier regular diet and want to eat healthier, thier first question usually will I be hungry. 98 % ask this question. It comes from not knowing how to eat better. And one of the biggest mistakes is not having enough protien in you, not a lot at one time but throughout the day. Many people want to eat a breakfast that will last then from morning to mid-afternoon and then eat one big dinner and all done for the day. This is a great way to gain weight and lose energy during the day. Much better would a good breakfast, good lunch a dinner on a smaller than usual dinner plate with a 8 oz glass of water before dinner one snack mid morning and one snack mid afternoon. Also half your body weight in ounces of water per day. If you do not drink that amount of water work your way up to that amount. Changing your eating habits takes a little getting use to. You have to get off the automatic cycles you have placed on yourself for so long. You have to make a list or a schedule or a good plan for your meals until you get use to a new way of living and new patterns in your eating habits. You will have to be concious of what you eat but not to dwell on it or you will be hungry just dwelling on food and it could get you off course.
In the next post will get into types of food for planning what to eat.