niyohn

You are going out and eating with friends. If you are eating well at home and on every other meal, it is fine to splurge on one day!

The way how Thai and Vietnamese people get around this is that they add spicy, sour, and sweet falvoring to their veggies. Take a look at cooking some Viet or Thai food, they really good at making veggies taste good it is ridiculous.. You can cut down on the oil or use olive oil to make it low on Cholesterol.

Very colorful! The more color, the more nutrient diversity it has. I have to say pretty good job! Here is a run down of what each is good for you: Edamame - its chock full of antioxidants has shown to improve cardio, reduce cancer, and diabetes Cucumbers - also good for your cardio system, and reduces cancer risk Tomatoes…

In my experience it is ok to binge every once in a while, as long as you know how much it sets you back and you know what the tradeoffs are. I always think step by step change in habits make more sense than big changes...

I found this portion size estimating pretty good too. http://www.shape.com/sites/shape.com/files/u35/portionsize.jpg

I am assuming you are talking about Sundubu jjigae, like these below: http://www.thedeliciouslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/parks-bbq-soon-dooboo-jjigae.jpg If so, high end would be around 385 cals, and 1/2 cup of cooked rice is 103 cals.

That is a great idea. Chinese people put stir fried on top of fried noodles, boiled then dried noodles. So whatever works!

You could add the parts of a meal into a recipe list, save it and use that. It just adds everything together.

So not only do you want to eat foods that don't have high trans fat and cholesterol, but you want to eat things that strengthen your heart and cardio system. For example: -Oatmeal, oat bran -Fish that have high omega 3 (salmon, mackerel) -walnuts, almonds -olive oil