Eating Healthy SUCKS!

Don't consider it a diet. The term "diet" means, in your head, you think you can do it for awhile, stop, and go back to the way things were and expect everything to be fine. Diets are temporary things. If you want a permanent change, then call it what it is: a permanent change.

Don't eat foods you hate, take foods you love and find ways to make them healthier. Check out hungry girl... she may use a lot of chemical substitutes but its a great way to get started eating healthier. Start cooking on your own instead of eating out. Keep the old junky food as an occasional treat. You can do it.

There is also a really great magazine that my daughter and I love called Clean Eating. We found it originally in the magazine aisle at Safeway and after buying it for a couple of months and finding plenty of really great healthy recipes, that I got a subscription. The recipes are easy to make and we find three or four every month that we really love and make over again. It's not hard to eat healthy and it doesn't mean you are giving up great foods - we made a healthy Chicken Parmesean and a healthy pasta Alfredo just this week! The recipes aren't hard, either - so simple that my 15 year old has begin making dinner (which is double cool for me - healthy and I don't have to cook!! Bonus!)

Some of the other posters have been right in saying that you need to teach your children healthy habits when they are young. I've seen some folks happily post in different forums that they were proud to have made great eating choices for themselves then say in the very same breath that they fed their kids chicken nuggets !! Yes, they made a good choice for themselves, but I don't see how that is helping their kids??!!??

Good luck!

You're not a lost cause! Start with just making a better choice for one of your vices. I didn't start to focus on weight again until last week. However, my family started making healthy choices a few months ago. We started with trading butter for soy butter. My kids actually like it better. Our next step is conquering BBQ sauce

Please research Soy that you are giving to your kids!!! Soy is not good for you at all.............

Butter is all natural and saturated fats are not bad for you either!!! That is all lies and myths for the greater agenda the government and Big Pharma is selling and has been selling for years and years............

To the Original Poster:
If you like butter, mayonaise and cheese.............research either the Primal Blue Print or the Atkins Nutritional Approach.

You do eat vegetables and beef, chicken, or pork?? Other kinds of fish????

My sister and I both live a Primal lifestyle and it is great.

Check out Marks Daily Apple.

Soy is fine for you, about 9000 years of Asian cultures have proven that. However extremely high exposure to it is most likely not a good thing thanks to the phytoestrogens.
This is especially so in developing bodies. Most people will never see any issue eating soy regularly unless they decide to literally have soy in every single thing they eat (soy milk, soy butter, soy yogurt, soy mayo, soy lunch meat, etc). Likewise, there are issues in infant formula since it is the child's only source of nutrition. That's why all whey based formulas are supposed to be exhausted before giving an infant a soy based formula. The estrogens contained can really screw up hormones during critical development periods.

I do agree overall though, real butter, cheese, and mayo are fine. The issue is people use too much of them! Portion control is huge. If portion control is a problem, try to find things that you can use more of in the interim until you have trained yourself to eat healthier portions.