so I’ve never been great with my diet. Just wanted taught any better growing up, and miraculously my BMI’s always been pretty average. But recently I’ve been trying to eat more fruit and “hide” more veg in my meals. I realized the kids gonna grow up and I’ll have to set an example, but I admit its been a slow start. Got some blood test results and turns out I might need to pick up the pace a bit.
I’m fine in my 30’s, but the numbers wont be so fine as I get older. Blood sugar a tad high (but not alarming) and good cholesterol shit bad cholesterol high (didn’t know there WAS a good cholesterol).
Anyone been in the same boat and got some tips or hacks that helped you on your journey?
Make a clear distinction between ordinary food and celebration food. Make lists even. Ordinary food should be healthy and full of fruit & veg/nutrition etc. in accordance with the guidelines. Limit ‘ordinary’ alcohol. Celebration food is once a month at most and is anything you desire in whatever quantities. Sugar and chocolate are high on the list of celebration food only. As is pastry. Then go back to ordinary the next day.
Best advice I can give for sticking to a diet is to do ‘delicious’ rather than ‘healthy’. Lots of regional cuisines have recipies for delicious AND healthy food from cheap ingredients.
PS. kelpies are good at disposing of failed experiments. I speak from personal experience here.
Good advice. I’m gonna start slow, make sure there’s at least 1 serve of fruit and 1 of veg every day and build from there. Tonight’s salmon, brown rice and salad was a solid start.
Never did take to brown rice - but you do you. I am a sucker for wholewheat bread and use it a lot as the carb component of a meal instead of pasta etc. Bolognaise on diced bread is yum imo. Good luck on the healthy eating.
Swap full cream milk for light. There’s very little difference. Keep butter to minimum (that one hurts me). Deep fried foods are occasion foods. Same as icecream and cream.
My daughter drinks lactose free milk. Coles has lactose free light milk for $3.10 which she prefers. Aldi also has lactose free milk and a longlife one as well. I know that’s not what you asked but maybe that might help.
Maybe find fruit and veg you like, or at least like better than others and start by including more of them in your diet. As your palette adjusts then add in other fruit and veg that you may not have liked previously. If our palettes are overloaded with processed foods, salt, sugar, fat it can skew our taste buds. Flavours that are herbal, peppery, sour, earthy, citrusy, nutty, can seem odd or intense. Finding ways to cook veg to make it shine is a skill too. For example Brussel sprouts are delicious roasted, but repulsive when boiled. Eating good food shouldn’t be a chore, it’s one of life’s pleasures!
That’s just it, I grew up on steamed veg so learning to embrace it was tough. I’d never had lentils till I moved out of home either. Now I kinda love ‘em.
so I’ve never been great with my diet. Just wanted taught any better growing up, and miraculously my BMI’s always been pretty average. But recently I’ve been trying to eat more fruit and “hide” more veg in my meals. I realized the kids gonna grow up and I’ll have to set an example, but I admit its been a slow start. Got some blood test results and turns out I might need to pick up the pace a bit. I’m fine in my 30’s, but the numbers wont be so fine as I get older. Blood sugar a tad high (but not alarming) and good cholesterol shit bad cholesterol high (didn’t know there WAS a good cholesterol). Anyone been in the same boat and got some tips or hacks that helped you on your journey?
Make a clear distinction between ordinary food and celebration food. Make lists even. Ordinary food should be healthy and full of fruit & veg/nutrition etc. in accordance with the guidelines. Limit ‘ordinary’ alcohol. Celebration food is once a month at most and is anything you desire in whatever quantities. Sugar and chocolate are high on the list of celebration food only. As is pastry. Then go back to ordinary the next day.
Best advice I can give for sticking to a diet is to do ‘delicious’ rather than ‘healthy’. Lots of regional cuisines have recipies for delicious AND healthy food from cheap ingredients.
PS. kelpies are good at disposing of failed experiments. I speak from personal experience here.
Good advice. I’m gonna start slow, make sure there’s at least 1 serve of fruit and 1 of veg every day and build from there. Tonight’s salmon, brown rice and salad was a solid start.
Never did take to brown rice - but you do you. I am a sucker for wholewheat bread and use it a lot as the carb component of a meal instead of pasta etc. Bolognaise on diced bread is yum imo. Good luck on the healthy eating.
Swap full cream milk for light. There’s very little difference. Keep butter to minimum (that one hurts me). Deep fried foods are occasion foods. Same as icecream and cream.
I dont do too much dairy anyway since I cant. When I do its a rare treat for lactose free cheese.
My daughter drinks lactose free milk. Coles has lactose free light milk for $3.10 which she prefers. Aldi also has lactose free milk and a longlife one as well. I know that’s not what you asked but maybe that might help.
Worth checking out, thanks.
Maybe find fruit and veg you like, or at least like better than others and start by including more of them in your diet. As your palette adjusts then add in other fruit and veg that you may not have liked previously. If our palettes are overloaded with processed foods, salt, sugar, fat it can skew our taste buds. Flavours that are herbal, peppery, sour, earthy, citrusy, nutty, can seem odd or intense. Finding ways to cook veg to make it shine is a skill too. For example Brussel sprouts are delicious roasted, but repulsive when boiled. Eating good food shouldn’t be a chore, it’s one of life’s pleasures!
That’s just it, I grew up on steamed veg so learning to embrace it was tough. I’d never had lentils till I moved out of home either. Now I kinda love ‘em.