As we get ready for the start of our Happiness Project (be sure to join us!), we spoke today with Jeannie Keenan of My Health Care Manager about small daily changes we can make in order to enjoy future long-term health. We concentrated on making changes in our food choices. (You can listen to our show via the player at the bottom
of the post.)
I spoke of how I structure my meals during the day: Three meals with snacks at 10ish and 3ish (I’m snacking on Greek yogurt with blueberries, walnuts and honey right now). Vegetables as a snack does not appeal to me, so I use fruits as snacks and incorporate vegetables with lunch and dinner.
I also mentioned that I gave up my daily Diet Coke about a year ago and noticed that I curbed my cravings for candy. I think we crave what we eat: When we eat well, we crave more of the food that’s good for us. When we eat not-so-well, we crave more of what’s not so good for us. When I eat Doritos, I crave them. When I each fruit, I crave that.
How about for you? What healthy habit works for you?
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Donna W
Listening now…hey how about starting an online zumba workout class for us shutins???
ok, I started making changes about 3 months ago and have taken off some pounds, I don’t know how many, doesn’t matter. I eat in the a.m. some scrambled eggs with ketchup or fruit/fruit salad, lunch could be hard boiled egg, or veggies and dip, depends on what is here. Might be a salad. Supper fish and veg or salad, or chicken.
Snacks, celery with peanut butter, or apples and peanut butter ( she is talking about that lol) Like popcorn, though seem to be losing my taste for it yay!
lately we like orange jello with mandarin oranges which we find very satisfying on all levels.
have to have a whole grain bread, with margerine usually every day, at least once.
make potato salad in the summer, or a whole wheat pasta salad.
there are other things from time to time, like we had spaghetti when company was here last weekend
ok, she doesn’t use dip, but hummus, I don’t like that, if I am going to eat lots of veggies each day, got to have some dip with it. eventually I will find something else to use, or create my own recipe, for now, I am ok with it.
and water! and coffee
Donna W
oh yes, love whole wheat pitas stuffed with veggies or fish!
and this all started changing after I heard Jamie Oliver say that these overweight individual were abused by food. That was the key phrase light bulb moment…I have always said that “food was my friend” even though I knew that was a false statement, but I had no positive catchy phrase to override it, until Jamie said that, and bingo, food has almost always abused me since I was a child…not anymore!
Donna Ryan
I love pizza…Im from New York lol…and icecream too….
but I also like watermelon….great idea….
We dont eat red meat much at all anymore…mostly turkey, chicken, pasta with vegetables and fish…..lots of soups…
I love sauteeing tri color peppers….the fragrance of peppers frying is wonderful….the best fragrance is stuffed peppers in the crock pot made with turkey chopmeat and brown rice cooked in marinara…..they are WONDERFUL and a healthy dinner…
I must say my portions could be smaller at dinnertime…I must really work on that….
and I must just go to sleep when Im tired…sometimes I want to stay up and read something or watch television…and I then grab a snack which Im not necessarily hungry for but eat because I want to stay awake….now I just try to forget the show and hit the hay….