Also being that it's the new year I decided not to make any new years resolutions regarding weight. That said, I was watching one of my favorite cooking shows the other day, Good Eats with Alton Brown, and he looked extremely thin - like he lost about 50 lbs. Amazing! Now I'm not much on diets but this was less about what not to eat than a set of 4 lists about eating. Here they are:
Eat Daily
- Fruits
- Whole Grains
- Leafy Greens
- Nuts
- Carrots
- Green Tea
- Oily Fish
- Yogurt
- Broccoli
- Sweet Potato
- Avocado
- Red Meat
- Pasta
- Dessert
- Alcohol
- Fast Food
- Soda (soda water is OK)
- Processed meals/frozen dinners
- Canned soup
- "Diet" anything
The "eat breakfast" thing was something I've been told before by a nutritionist I saw for a while. AB suggested a fruit smoothy for breakfast, except he made this huge "by volume/weight" thingie that I'd be consuming all day! I pared it back to what I would consider to be a single serving and used V8 Fusion juice instead of Acai juice. It wasn't bad even with the soy milk. I actually enjoy liquid breakfasts so I may try this for a while. If nothing else I can get more fruit into my diet and not have to eat it as a separate item at meals. It have 4oz of fruit in it plus the V8 Fusion Juice so I may be getting close to my daily fruit servings. That's been a struggle for me.
It might be interesting to see how many of those can be combined into a delicious meal. Certainly the leafy greens, nuts and carrots could be used in salads. Yogurt could be had in a smoothy too. Sweet potatoes and broccoli I am not wild about so I'll have to investigate those for alternatives. Oily fish - meh.. not to wild on that either, but I may give it a shot. Does tuna qualify?
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