Eat and live healthier


Eating A Healthy Diet

What is eating a healthy diet? A healthyexcellent donut bakery shop. These
diet should include eating a variety ofdonuts are fresh out of the oven by 5:30
foods from the basic food groups. Thea.m. and I want to tell you these things
basic food groups are:are absolutely delicious. The baker is
Â- Protein (meat, eggs, legumes)one man who says he will take his recipe
Â- Dairy Productsto the grave, will not even leave it
Â- Fruits and Vegetablesbehind for his only daughter, not that I
Â- Grains (breads and pasta)wanted the recipe or anything. I was
Â- Fats and Sweetscontent filling the donuts, stacking
It is more difficult than you realize tothem in the shelf, sneaking bites here
actually eat a healthy diet. You mightand there. And the real treat was it was
end up eating a whole lot of yourSaturday, the shop was closed on Sunday.
favorite foods and not enough from oneWhatever was leftover this day we could
of the other groups just because youall take home at closing. I took 100's
don't like that particular group ofof donuts home that year.
food. You might be pressed for timeI worked for this donut shop about one
almost all the time and you are forcedyear, and had so much fun getting fat
to opt for convenience over quality whenand eating all those forbidden donuts.
you get hungry.It was fun while it lasted, but all good
You need do some planning in order tothings seem to have to come to an end
really maintain a healthy eatingquicker than you want them to.
pattern. It takes effort to eat theFrom the time this donut shop opened in
recommended daily allowances from eachmy area when I was around 20 years old I
food group. You will need to lookwanted to work there. I never really
closely at what you are eating now andcould work in this little donut shop
then make plans to implement healthierbecause I always had so much better
eating habits.paying and nicer jobs. There came a day,
Keeping a food diary of everything youhowever, when I transferred into the
eat and drink for one week should besame town where this little donut shop
sufficient enough to tell you if you arewas and it was easier for me to at least
on the right track or if you need towork part-time there.
make some changes.It was a Saturday morning job. I did not
For example, add a yogurt as a snack ifmind getting up at 3:00 a.m. to be there
you find you are not meeting your dailyby 5:00 a.m. on Saturday morning because
requirement for milk servings. Add someI knew first thing I was going to make
strawberries or other berries (berrythe coffee and start sampling those
fruit is better because they containdelicious donuts. It was a very personal
more antioxidants) to your cereal totreat and reward for me for about a
obtain an extra serving of fruit. An 8year. I only earned about $50 on this
ounce glass of orange juice everyday canday. The treat was seeing how those
serve as another serving. An 8 ouncedonuts were prepared "in person" and
glass of cranberry juice everyday cangetting to sample all of them. Boy did I
serve as another serving. I can't standhave a good time in that job! I still
tomato juice, but if you can stand it, awant to go back to that Saturday morning
small can of tomato juice serves as onejob. I just still have other things more
vegetable serving. If you are pressedinteresting to do and Lord knows at age
for time, adding these quick and easy50 now I don't need the extra fat, sugar
items to your daily routine can help youand calories.
meet the daily requirements for eachIt would be too much of a temptation to
food group.overeat again and probably really get
The new dietary guidelines recommend 2myself in trouble. I did end up with
cups of fruit and 2 and /2 cups ofteeth that hurt more during that year I
vegetables per day. You ought to be ableworked and ate at the Donut shop! I told
to meet that requirement fairly easily.my dentist, well the reason might just
Set a weekly goal for yourself andbe this donut shop I been working at
continue to maintain your food diary.every Saturday.......Food is one of
Weekly goals could be as simple as tolife's great pleasures.
order a salad for lunch instead of yourIn conclusion here, you can make simple
regular French fries, or to bring aenough changes to your daily diet to
favorite flavor of yogurt to work everymeet the requirements for a healthy
day.eating pattern. That donut shop had the
Once you begin to really think aboutbiggest, roundest, cinnamon rolls I ever
your diet, keep the diary, make changessaw.............and blueberry cake
where necessary it begins to get easierdonuts just would melt in your
to meet the new daily recommendedmouth.........
requirements for a healthy diet.Anyway, I am really on a personal
A special note for those of us who havejourney now to turn myself around and
a sweet tooth is just simply limit howeat healthier. You can do it too!
often you eat those "forbidden" types ofThis article is FREE to publish with the
food.resource box.
I live in an area where there is an



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