What foods are healthy while also tasting good?

IMO, it's not so much that individual foods are healthy or unhealthy, it's the total quality of one's overall eating in terms of nutrition and calories.

In the most simplistic sense, any combination of foods that adds up to close to your nutritional goals and totals close to your calorie budget on average over a day or few could be considered "healthy".

Realistically, it's probably ideal - and more filling - to get most calories/nutrition from things like meat, fish, veggies, fruits, whole grains. Choose any in those categories that you like.

It's a fairly common thing, I think, to use something like an 80/20 rule: Roughly 80% of one's calories coming from those kinds of foods, roughly 20% from things that aren't as high in nutrients or low in calories . . . but without really stressing over it being exactly 80 and exactly 20, more a concept than a formula.

Permanently cutting out all foods that taste good may not be a viable plan, unless your tastes change . . . which they might, because that does happen for some people after a time.

Maybe consider having some actual hot Cheetos, if you love them that much, but eat a smaller portion, and/or eat them less often? If you're unable to eat them in moderation, that's a different question . . . in that case, you might have to put them off limits for a while and hope for that "tastes change" scenario.

Another option would be to start experimenting with something like home-popped popcorn, flavored. If you web search, you'll find recipes for popcorn that allegedly taste somewhat like hot Cheetos. There are also recipes online for combining seasoned popcorn like that with a smaller quantity of actual hot Cheetos, which reduces the callories per cup of the stuff. I'm not saying you'd love those options, but it's something to try. I made a recipe for Doritos-flavored popcorn, and while it didn't taste exactly like Doritos, it was pretty good.

In some ways, figuring out how to lose weight and keep it off is a long series of experiments like that, finding ways to eat that are satisfying but not so overwhelmingly calorie-dense and nutrition-poor.

As far as sweets, some people go to good-quality dark chocolate, in small portions. For some of us, me included, it works best to use the oindividually wrapped small ones. For more nutrient-dense sweets, sure, fruit, but also consider unsweetened dried fruit. That's more calorie-dense than whole fruit, and less filling because of less water content, but some types are very sweet. Some people like sweets with non-caloric or low-calorie substitute sweeteners, though I admit I'm not personally a fan.

For reasonable health, we need reasonable overall nutrition, and we need to reach and stay at a sensible level of body fat. Some people do best if they make radical, revolutionary change. But that's not the only possible way. Gradually evolving in a more positive direction over a period of time is also a possibility.

For me, just logging what I was eating led me to recognize some easy cuts, things that just weren't worth the calories they cost me, once I knew what the calorie cost was. I didn't necessarily totally stop eating them, but ate them less often or in smaller portions or both. I could either use those freed-up calories to accomplish my calorie goal, or reallocate them to foods I liked eating that made a better contribution to nutrition, kept me full longer, or whatever the need was at that point.

There are quite a few possible scenarios.

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No..in my opinion you're not going to find healthy alternatives to stuff like Cheetos. You have to start eating healthy and start feeling better eating that way til you crave those foods and not the ultra processed junk. Just my opinion!:D