What to eat?

jmkejbm

Is there any suggested meals here at myfitnesspal? Where are the healthy meals I can choose from?

AJ_G

Is there any suggested meals here at myfitnesspal? Where are the healthy meals I can choose from?

Depends entirely on your view of what a "healthy meal" is. You can go check out the Recipes Forum to find some meals you might like.

george7527

You can make any meal healthy by making few changes eg cut off fat, use olive oil or use none stick pan ect

commtry

Not sure about anything you can choose from. I suggest to try and count how youve been eating, and adjust from there what you need to change in your eating habit. Veggies are good for you, we all know that. The rest comes with calorie intake, and what nutriets you truly need.

amblight

What I did, I took a week or so where I ate pretty much as I used to, logged it all carefully, and then evaluated which items made me go over either my calorie goal or my macros - and then I could much more specifically look for alternatives. For instance, if I could see that most of my fat came at breakfast, time I looked up low fat breakfast ideas. And if If I found my dinners were crazy calorie dense, but very low protein, I looked up high protein, low cal dinners.

bwogilvie

If you're on MFP to lose weight, like most of us (at least at first), there's no easy answer. You need to make lifestyle changes that you can live with indefinitely. If life without a 10 am doughnut isn't worth living, then you need to factor that snack into your plan.

As Michael Pollan (among others) points out in his book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, there are many healthy diets in the world. Pollan's advice boils down to this simple set of principles: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." By "food" he means things that would have been recognized as food a few generations ago, not processed food products full of unpronounceable ingredients with health claims on the packaging.

If you're looking for specific recipe suggestions, a few websites I find useful are:

Post Punk Kitchen (http://www.theppk.com) - vegan cooking and baking
Cooking Light (http://www.cookinglight.com) - website associated with the magazine
Rick Bayless Recipes (http://www.rickbayless.com/recipes/) - Mexican-American cooking from the chef of Frontera Grill
Epicurious (http://www.epicurious.com) - Condé Nast's recipe site, associated with Bon Appétit (and Gourmet, before that magazine ended its run)

JesterMFP

The beauty of calorie counting is that you get to eat whatever foods you like. You set the agenda. Whether you want to eat all foods in moderation, or eat only "healthy" (whatever that means to you), if you stick to your calorie goal (assuming it's right for you) you'll lose weight. So, eat vegetarian, or Paleo, or low fat, or whatever you feel like. Or, post a thread on the forums asking people what healthy eating is, and you'll get a ton of conflicting opinions.

IIIIISerenityNowIIIII

Vegetables are extremely low-cal, so just try to eat more veggies and less pasta and sweets.