Question: How Hard Is It To Eat Right?
Answer: Easy, Just Get the Right Foods & Eat ‘em.
How tricky is that? You don’t have to absolutely love everything on the list, do you? Just eat it. If you’re remotely interested in being healthy, slim, fit and looking good, you’ll find a way to stick to it 90% of the time.
That’s all it takes. Apart from that, you’ll soon see that you can eat astonishingly well with only a few basic foods. In fact, with a little care you can make them into regular gourmet dishes. If anything, the effort of eating right is less than eating badly. But mainly it’s just different.
Double-Danger
The main difference is that eating badly means that it’s more or less inevitable that you’ll also eat too much. WHY? Because eating badly means eating food of a poor nutritional quality. Naturally, this cannot be satisfying because it doesn’t nourish you properly. And because you aren’t nourished you ‘need’ to eat even more in an attempt to feel satisfied.
In other words, eating badly means that you crank yourself up with even more poor foods. As a result, you over-eat in an attempt to make-up for the lack of nourishing food content. When you eat the wrong things you end-up over-eating.
To put it another way, the double-danger in eating too much rubbish is that you over-eat and under-eat. You over-eat rubbish and under-eat quality. The trick is to do the opposite: eat more and eat less. Put simply:
Eat Less - Quantity
Eat More - Quality |
This isn’t a ‘diet’ because it will leave you satisfied in a way that is impossible with foods of a poor nutritional value. And it’s not really very hard to do.
Science or Science Fiction?
Eggs used to be out. So, every other recipe used egg whites yet chucked away the good stuff in the yolks. Now they seem to be back in. Coconut oil used to be a concoction of the devil. Now it’s back in a big way as long as it’s non-hydrogenated.
Oily fish with omega 3 used to be the bees-knees. Now we’re not so certain. Whole grains and cereals used to be brilliant for fibre. Now they make you bloated and give you allergies.
In other words, it’s sometimes hard to get absolutely certain on all this. And it would be easy to give up on and concentrate on chocolate and fries. But that’s still a mistake. Because a basic list of really good foods is well-known and the list is stable.
Your Basic 90% Food List
Lean Proteins
• Eggs.
• Lean meat: turkey, beef etc.
• Protein powder.
• Cottage cheese.
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Starch
• Grains: Brown Rice.
• Cereals: Oats, Rye, Quinoa, Barley.
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Protein & Oil
• Fish.
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Reds
• Peppers, tomatoes.
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Protein & Carbs
• Lentils, beans, chic peas.
• Nuts and seeds.
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Greens
• Broccoli, Savoy cabbage, Spinach, Peppers etc,
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Oils
• Olive oil, coconut oil. |
Other
• Salads, yoghurt, berries, bananas.
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Strategy
1. Limit starches and cereals.
2. Eat moderately 5, 6 or 7 times daily.
3. Lean protein and at least one green and red at every meal.
4. Snack with nuts, seeds, berries, bananas and yoghurts.
5. Drink plenty of water.
Tips
• Instead of a bed of rice or spaghetti for your chilli con carne or curry, try a base of cauliflower chopped small and/or carrots sliced thin.
• Lentils and/or minced Quorn are a good mix for a basic non-meat chilli con carne. Add a touch of Tikka Masala Paste (eg Patak’s).
• For your sweet tooth eliminate your usual poisonous concentrations of sugar and fat and substitute Delicious Muscle Bars or Commando Cake. Remember that these are so much more substantial than anything remotely similar in the shops. So they can stand-in for a meal occasionally. For my fast, easy, delicious recipes, click here.
• Drink plenty of water.
FIVE Definite Don’t You Dare’s
1. Don’t start a drastic calorie-reduction diet; you’ll get fatter. If you have any doubts at all about this, click to my article Diet Voodoo right now.
2. Don’t cut carbs out, you need them.
3. Don’t cut fats out, you need them (but see below).
4. Don’t waste your time thinking you can diet yourself fit, it’s impossible.
5. Don’t waste your time thinking you should diet yourself slim first before you start working-out to get fit.
TWO Bonus Don’t You Dare’s
1. Make sure you completely eliminate transfats from your diet. To learn more click to this bantransfats article.
2. Control your salt intake.
How To Handle Food Cravings, Temptations and Other Evil Desires
• Do something different for a few minutes to let any temptations pass.
• Drink more water.
• Munch raw carrot with nuts for a sweet and tasty but nourishing snack.
• Eat a banana.
• Make your own snack-bars for the freezer
• Snack on other good stuff such as berries and yoghurt.
Naturally, for some of these you will need to have PLANNED AHEAD. The availability of good food rather than the poisonous stuff won’t happen by itself. In other words, you know the situations and times when you might fail. So have the answers ready when they occur. Plan for failure and you’re less likely to fail.
Is that so hard?
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