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Oct 2007
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How do i eat healthy?
Ok, so im not fat in any way but i have issues with high cholesterol (6.7) and now found out i have issues with my insulin.
My doctors have all been telling me to diet and i really should listen to them, I really should.
But i am soo not a fan of salads and veggies. I love my meat and i love a can of coke or two a day.
How do i get my brain into loving what i have not for 31 years? how do i get motivated to start exercising when i dont even feel i have 1hr to spare a day? (full time work, 4hrs travel a day) or am i just making up all these excuses coz im lazy?
I think baby steps, why not try and cut out one thing a day? Or if you are craving lollies have grapes instead. Completey skip the chocolate and soft drink isles when food shopping, if you dont have it in the house its way harder to get a hold of! HTH and good luck!
I agree with baby steps. Cut out one thing at a time. Make your portions smaller of the things you shouldn't eat and have bigger serves of the things you should. Research what a serving actually is (eg, a serve of red meat is supposed to be the size of you palm only, a single serve of cheese is about the size of a matchbox...). Know what is in the foods you eat, look on the back of packaged foods at the lables, most importantly at sugars- fuctose, sucrose, glucose ect..., salts- sodium, fats- trans fats (very bad), polyunsaturated (ok), saturated (bad) ect....get to know what a healthy day of eating is (look at the healthy food pyramid, though that is only a guide!)
It takes time to change habbits of a lifetime. Be patient and do things slowly. It HAS taken a life time to create these issues, it will take time to change your mindset and thinking. They say it takes at least 30days to change an ingrained habbit to a new habbit. Try to replace eating unhealthy foods with doing other things, like going for a walk or reading a chapter in a good book.
Good luck, it will be tough, but your health is much more important than having that sugar rush or whatever it is your body craves. When you do get there, you will feel better for it!!
Coke is so bloody addictive, that's why you find it hard. Go cold turkey for a week and you won't even miss it. I used to really NEED a glass of diet coke coz I felt so uncomfortable and bloated without it. I only drink water and tea now.
I also HATE salad, would rather go hungry. Do you like roasted veges?
Coz I think that's the tastiest way to do them, eat them with rice and steak or chicken or fish. DH loves veges since I started roasting.
Do you like potato salad? Chuck heaps of veg in that. Peas, rocket, some grated carrot, whatever you can find!
I think the easiest way to change your diet is to learn a new healthy recipe every week. Not necessarily a recipe, but a healthy combination of foods that make one great meal, and just incorporate that into your week, and in a few months you will find it so easy to whip up a healthy meal that you enjoy every night.
Also, if you can, try to make food the one thing you don't get money conscious about. So when you are out shopping, you feel ok to spend a ridiculous $9 on a sandwich rather than $5 on a stunner deal from HJ's..
This really helped me to stop eating fast food.
Alos, just oen week of healthy eating will stop your body craving crappy food. It's really true.
I prefer to go hungry and wait till I get home to eat my leftovers than grab a Mc Chicken. Honestly. But if you saw me a year ago, I was eating fast food like 4 days a week.
Good luck. It helps to envision the fat/sugar oozing out of the food, can really turn you off it.
Hi, do you know what issues are with your insulin? do they mean you have problems processing it? that is insulin resistance? If that is the case, like me, you need to eat only Low GI diet, or medium GI is ok too. Any other diets when having insulin issues do not work, I have tried this for over 15 years only to find that I have insulin issues myself, I can only lose weight on the low GI diet (lost 15kgs before conceiving my first child) Google Glycemic Index and it will come up with the list of foods that are low, medium, high GI. eg, the only rice to eat really that is ok if you have insulin resistance is Basmati rice or wild rice. With bread the best bread to eat is sourdough or multigrain only. My hubbys cholesterol was 7.9 , did they give you meds for the cholesterol? he had to drop all cheese and other fats from his diet, he only is allowed red meat twice a week the rest has to be fish or chicken. Ps, I dont like salads either hon, there is lots of food you can eat that are low GI, there is a new Lo GI potato from coles so you dont have to give up white potatoes anymore. San remo pasta is the lowest GI, dont be fooled by people saying eat wholemeal pasta wont make a difference at all either brown rice, waste of time if you have insulin issues. Happy to send you some links via pm if you want more info.
How do i eat healthy?
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