What is Your Healthy Diet?

I can only speak for weight control because I've never been overweight. I have been over what I like to be and have altered my eating to lose a few kilos from time to time (I'm doing this at present with the aim to lose 4 kilos, 3 to go).

My diet mainly consists of fruit (2-3 serves a day), veges, which I have in salads, frittatas, stir fries, roasted; naturally sweet Greek yogurt (which is lactose free releasing the glucose and making it deliciously sweet); high protein bread or rice cakes; peanut butter, vegemite (Aussie), cheese; chicken or fish, eggs, legumes; chocolate protein bar; coffee and tea (black for hot drinks and green for iced drinks); treats when I feel like them, including alcohol. I prefer not to deprive myself of anything, but fortunately my favourite foods tend to be not so calorie dense. I believe in eating a wide variety of food for nutrients, phytochemicals and to help out my gut flora I don't believe in restricting any foods that I enjoy, but by choice, I rarely eat fried foods, takeaway, and I don't eat red meat.

What do you like to eat rosestring? Can you work it in at a calorie deficit to lose weight?

I just saw the med diet pyramid in another thread and I agree that my diet naturally tends to fit quite well. Fortunately that's the way I like to eat and I do love my food!

Do you cook rosestring? I cook quite a bit but usually nothing that takes up a lot of time. On a Sunday, I might make a chicken and veg lasagne that will last until wednesday for lunches. I often use bottled sauces and frozen veg to save time. I work 5 days a week with 2 hrs travelling time so I'm pretty time poor. At night I might stirfry some chicken with veges and bottled sauce and a small amount of rice or noodles.

One of the best things I ever bought was an airfryer. It helps me make yummy dinners in no time!

Stuff like chicken and pork usually get cooked in the oven or crock pot instead of sautéed. That said, I do eat less meat and more beans. I've dramatically cut down on bread and pasta and I eat out rarely. I eat more veggies and eggs.

But you're going to have to look at your diet and see where you can make changes. You're more likely to stick with your diet if it's foods you enjoy. Maybe you won't find it as easy to cut out bread, maybe you'll find it easier to give up full-calorie cheese or the occasional cookie.

Same stuff I ate before but in moderation. For example, when I was 10 kilos heavier, I would eat up to three packs of cookies a day (ver low point of my existence), now I still eat cookies every day, but just what the package says a portion is... Same with Kit Kats: I can't buy them here so I store them every time I happen to pass by a Duty Free, right now I must have like 3kg of them and I only eat two fingers at breakfast.
And junk food (ex. McDonald's) is something I still have and I just make it fit.

I count my calories, and I base my meals on the starchy foods I enjoy. So lots of rice and beans and potatoes and pasta and cereals for me

I lost 20lbs before I got here, and another 36 after I got here. Hanging at goal now.