Hey, I’m deciding to eat healthier and lose weight, can anyone tell me things that I should eat?

What do you like?

A good general rules of thumb is to go for whole foods first. Meat (many will say lean), fruit and veg, legumes, and look to add foods that have some added nutritional benefits like yogurt etc.

There's no magic list of foods, and no one way of eating, but generally the closer to its natural state a food is, the better it is, so that's a good start.

Finding a way of eating you can sustain and enjoy is also important, so you don't need to be adding foods you hate, or even excluding foods that you love which are not so great nutritionally if you can have them in moderation and fitting your calorie and nutrient goals, and not having them push more nutritious food off your plate.

If you're just getting started, consider taking the first week to log what you do eat, be really honest but don't be worried about changing what you eat, just get a beat on your usual intake and then you have a baseline where you can start making changes - reducing some items, adding in more veg here and there, switching to a lower calorie version etc.

I believe it's too subjective to define where we reach a consensus.

Generally people with very good metabolic health will maintain a fasting blood sugar in the 70's or 80's which requires a certain lifestyle and more than likely consume mostly whole foods.

Eat what you like, but stay within caloric goals.

Forcing yourself to eat what you don’t like is why people fail.

Your tastebuds will change during this process. You will find your way back to forgotten foods, find new ones, discard foods you thought you couldn’t live without.

I’ve been enjoying the slightest drizzle of sorghum syrup on my pancakes this week. Just that wee little thread of syrup is just enough, and it makes them so savory! I haven’t had sorghum since I was a kid visiting grandma.

Don’t try to force all the changes on yourself at once.