Healthy eating

First is really commit to doing it for yourself and your family no matter what everyone else is eating/doing. YOU and they need you to be healthy now. If you don’t get in shape it will lead to increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, poor eating can lead to colon cancer, bone loss (the list goes on). What I am really saying is keep telling yourself WHY you need to do this for you. Find your reasons if those aren’t enough. Remember the L’Oreal commercial? “You’re Worth It!”

Ask your doctor if he/she can refer you to a nutritionist for a one visit consult on good eating to give you a boost. We did that for my son and it was great. It taught him a lot about salt, sugar, portion sizes (really important). If you can’t do that, head to the library. Look for the "Eat This Not That" books as a start, there is a great one for the supermarket, then go for other books.

Be brutally honest with your food log here, and measure everything. Sneaky calories add up. Your diary is for you though, only make it public if you want to or you think that will help you. If you ask a question about intake people will ask to see it, so that is incentive to be good! Also, fill out some goals for yourself. Make it real and tangible, another way to commit.

I live in a “boy’s club” – I have 2 boys (18 & 15) and my hubby, and I am all but vegetarian now (I eat some occasional seafood). When they make fun of me – and they do – I toss it right back, they are The Carnivores. Then I go on to make my food AND their food. I do what I have to do. The other day I actually got my husband to try my pea protein/spinach shake! Now, he didn’t like it, but he tried it.

IT CAN BE DONE, but do it a bit at a time. Start by keeping some fruit in the house, buy bag salad so you don’t have to make it, buy low sugar/high protein cereals for breakfast if you eat it. Switch to splenda in your coffee or tea. Make the drive thru your enemy and PLAN YOUR MEALS. Buy frozen ones till you get a handle on things. Look up the calories in some of the take out you buy, so you know what you are consuming and LOG IT. That might put a damper on things for you.
These are all just suggestions, part of a “pep talk”. Healthy eating is do-able but you don’t usually go from 0 to 60 in a day. I seriously learned a lot from Eat This Not That.
Peace.

now back to the subject i dont really know how to cook, so the easiest thing for me to do is go to the drive thru things i do know to cook i know are EXTREMELY BAD for me like pastas and fried stuff but i was wondering if any one can help out with an easy nutritional thing or something you do or something that could help me ...pleaseee
ANYTHING lol:flowerforyou:

Youtube.com has free videos on cooking lessons - just do a search. You can also find proper cutting skills, temperatures, guidelines as well. You cant be a free thing, right?

As far as proper nutrition - you need to go back to your PCP and get a referral (if your insurance is an HMO) to a registered dietician....

You have to want this bad enough to commit to it. And you have to learn how not to create excuses and hold yourself accountable without stressing yourself out...

Good luck!

I never cooked anything more than boxed mac & cheese or pasta with jarred sauce until I decided I needed to take more control over what I was eating (about 6 years ago, when I was in my late 20's). I've learned how to make simple, healthy (but still yummy!) meals, so that part is definitely do-able. I've found that if you use mostly whole foods, you can combine them in ways that don't necessarily *taste* healthy, so the whole family will often eat the same thing. Good luck--and remember that, really, YOU are the person who can help you the most! (Also, make sure to "allow" yourself some treats along with the healthy food!)

I kind of know how you feel, in that my wife is in a very similar situation as you... including the cooking. She can't even make boxed macaroni and cheese... so I do all of the cooking.

Like vegannig said, you have to make the commitment to yourself and your family. They might not like eating 'healthier' my wife still complains when we have a 'vegitarian' day, but she knows that it's for her health.

I wasn't a great cook until I just started cooking. Even if it is just small meals, start cooking. On the job training is the best way to get good at cooking, and there are as many healthy cookbooks as there are grains of sand. Pick one, I have a few if you want recommendations (at work, will look later if you'd like) and just start cooking

:drinker: I really like clean eating once I get into it.. honestly in doing this it takes my sugar cravings away.. something about eating food in its most natural form .. seems to work on so many body functions for the best