eating healthy-how?

Question

I know so much of the what I need to do, cut down sugar, eat meals throughout the day and healthy snacks. What I don't understand is how people do this. I am extremely riddled with health issues including an eating disorder. I feel that if I felt more love for what I ate, I could help so much. I heard the Oprah crap about the green drink and I know I couldn't drink that. What do normal ppl do. People who get up at 530 for work, days fly by and they can barely take a breath let alone drag their *** to the gym? Id love to be a vegetarian but with my anemia and vitamin issues I cant risk that at all. Plus, to boot Im a super pickey eater! help!

Answer 1

Start off slowly, not trying to change everything at once because you will become overwhelmed.

The first thing is you have to get the eating disorder under control, that is very important.

Next, begin with your snacks, make them healthy; a piece of fruit like a Granny Smith apple with a smidge of sunflower seed butter (very good for you and filling).

Make sure you are drinking water, substitute that for a soda (very bad for you, all chemicals and sugar).

Then, later move on to your main meals. Start with breakfast, they don't call it the most important meal for nothing. Have protien, it is necessary to get you going; an egg with whole grain bread and a pat of butter or organic jelly, apple, green tea.

Move on to lunch, again, you need protien; a small chicken breast broiled with some lemon juice, a veggie or salad with oil and vinegar dressing, water.

Dinner can be lighter; small bowl of pasta with no salt tomato sauce, veggies, a slice of good sour dough bread (whole grain) or add some turkey meat balls.

Answer 2

I don't mean to be harsh, but it sounds to me you have exactly the opposite attitude of what it took me to get my eating under control. I joined a gym and the manager (a well known trainer of champion body builders) laid it out for me:

1) Not every meal is a fiesta. Most meals should be just fuel for the machine, not a delight for the palate. You don't have to eat things you hate, but the "super picky eater" stuff has to go. Have a TINY (1-2 bites) portion of something you LIKE at the end of the meal as a reward, but mostly eat stuff that's merely tolerable -- not particularly good. That way you eat from hunger, not to delight your senses.

2) Never fill your tank. Just take on enough fuel to get you to the next gas station 3 hours down the road.

When I finally got my head and heart wrapped around this advice, I got my weight under control for good. And my exercise regimen consists of a brisk 30 minute walk 4 times a week, with hand weights.

When I work early shifts, I pack myself a breakfast, and 3-4 snacks the night before. I eat the breakfast on the way to work so I can sleep later. I save money by preparing my own snacks, like making a healthy bran-raisin bread, cutting into squares, wrapping each square, and freezing them INSIDE a plastic box. (If you freeze it just in the plasic wrap, it get frost on it.)

I also set up a weeks worth of quart bottle of home-made unsweetened mint tea and so on. If you do a "set up" for next weeks lunches on your day off, then you merely "assemble" your lunch each night -- you don't have to actually prepare it.

If you can't bring yourself to sit down and eat a bowl of plain oatmeal -- and I mean cooked in water, not milk -- then you're not really hungry. Don't eat until you're so hungry that you're willing to eat foods you aren't crazy about and everything else will take care of itself. Indulge your OTHER senses -- perfume, music, silk underwear, or whatever. But when your life revolves around the fleeting sensation of taste, then you have an unhealthy obsession.

Answer 3

breakfast: inexperienced vegetable,pea,milk,a work of wheat bread lunch: two sorts of inexperienced vegetable,rice,fish or marine meals supper: one million different form of vegetable, bird egg, soup and silvervine