21DJC Day 3 – What is Your Ideal Diet Like?

This is Day 3 of the 21-Day Journaling Challenge held in Nov 2011. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.

Empty book for journaling

Hi everyone – Welcome to Day 3 of 21DJC! :)

Yesterday’s question was this: “If you are to do something for free for the rest of your life, what would it be?“. (Read the responses here.) Some of you said you’d want to travel around the world and explore new places. Some of you said you’d want to grow and learn forever. Some of you said you’d want to pursue your passions, which may include writing, cooking, baking, blogging, developing games, motorcycling, write music, planting, fashion, recording music, coaching, caring for animals, and more. Some of you said you’d want to help others – be it to grow, to discover themselves, to be better people, or to live better lives.

3 years ago, I asked myself this very question. If I am to do something for free for the rest of my *life*, what would it be? The answer that came out is exactly what you see me doing today. It’s to grow and help others to grow. It’s to be spreading my message to the world, be it via writing, coaching, speaking, running courses, videos, or other mediums. (Essentially, what I’m doing now.) It’s to inspire others to become greater than who they are now, so they can in turn inspire others around them to be the same.

The reason why I asked myself the question is this – We only have one life to live. We have the ability in us to do whatever we want, and to succeed in whatever we want. Instead of wasting our talents doing something that we don’t even have the passion to do forever, why not spend all that energy, starting from today, in something we’re really, truly, 110% passionate about? Why not devote ourselves 110% into what we really want to do, rather than do something because we think we ‘have’ to, and do a half-assed job in it? Why not do that, and make that your career instead?

I mean, no matter how “skilled” or “unskilled” you are in it now, you only have, like, the rest of your life to develop your skills in it. It’s only a matter of time before you’re the best in that field, really. (10,000 hours is all that it takes)

In doing so, it doesn’t even feel like work. It doesn’t even require any energy to do it. It’s virtually effortless. I made that shift 3 years ago, and while there were a few months of down time to develop myself in a new field, today I’m soaking in the long-term rewards from the move. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life, and I want you to experience the joy too.

The articles in my How To Pursue Your Passion series will help you in this area.

Let’s now move on to the question for Day 3 of 21DJC! ;)

21DJC Day 3

For Day 3 today, we’re going to explore a slightly different topic from Days 1 and 2. In Day 1, we looked at what we would do if we have a million dollars. In Day 2, we delved into some of our deepest, life long passions – things we would do for free for the rest of our life. For Day 3, we’re going to look at something lifestyle-related.

The question for Day 3 is this:

What is Your Ideal Diet Like?

Vegetables wrapped in measuring tape

Would it consist of happy meals, deep fried food and junk food? Would it be prepacked, micro-waved meals from the supermarkets? Would it be laden with fat? Would it be filled with meat? Would it be rich with vegetables and fruits? Would it be specially prepared, home cooked meals made by you, for you? What would your ideal breakfast, lunch, dinner be like? How much, how often, and when would you eat every day? What would your cue to eat?

Your Task Today:

  1. Reflect and answer today’s question. There’s no word limit – whether minimum or maximum. Write as few or as many words as you want. It’s all up to what you want to express!
  2. Share your answer. After you are done writing, copy and paste your answer in the comments area and post it there.
  3. Check out other participants’ answers. Other participants will be sharing their answers too, so feel free to read and reply to their answers. This is a group course, so let’s support each other in these 21 days.
Look forward to reading your answers! :D

((Images: Empty book for journaling, Vegetables wrapped in measuring tape))

261 comments
  1. Hmmm….Ideal diet? There are so many great foods out there to choose from. About two years ago I switched to a vegetarian and then to a vegan diet. It was hard in the beginning but well worth it. My skin glows, my hair feels amazing and my energy is at an all time high. So my ideal diet would be filled with lots of fresh fruit (especially tropical) and vegetables, veggie sushi, coconut ice cream, lentil burgers, vegan sheppards pie, vegetarian chili, black bean tofu and vegan enchiladas. All this talk of food is making me hungry….yummy :)

  2. Water. Fruits. Vegetables.

  3. hmm. My ideal diet would be to eat a lot of fresh, local, homecooked meals. I like to cook myself Indian style meals and bake my own bread. Since I’m always trying to garden and grow vegetables, that would contribute to much of my diet. I would also like to learn how to collect my own wild nuts and mushrooms and things like that. Although I’m not a vegetarian, meat is not essential to my diet, but eggs and especially dairy products are. Nothing is better to drink than hot milk with honey, especially if they came from my own cow and bees!

    • I love local, organic, and homegrown in the sense that it came from your very own yard. I have a complete weakness for farmer’s markets and whole food markets. The fresher the better! I couldn’t agree more!!

  4. This is a good question. One that I think there is lots of scope to cover. We do not need to just confine ourselves to food right? Diet can mean the food for the mind, food for the soul, food for out relationships, etc. I will just focus on food for the physical body, mind and soul.

    1) Foods for the Physical Body – Lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, balanced meal for the rest, a bit of coke to boost morale and food that I like in moderation. I must admit that I need to cut down on coke and food I like which can be very rich and unhealthy.

    2) Foods for the mind – Daily reading of inspiring and personal development books, videos that inspire, audio programs on personal development, creative planning and thinking for ideas.

    3) Foods for the soul – Higher level awareness and our place in this world, a heart of giving, the peace of doing what pleases the soul.

    Cheers

    • Jessica Vex13 13 years ago

      I have to agree with you Jimmy.. really like the no. 2 and no.3 !

    • big like :)

    • Good thought!

    • betty cooper 13 years ago

      Jimmy,
      I like the way you have thought of food for the different levels of our being.
      Makes a lot of sense to look at what we are “taking in”- even the air that we breathe, right?
      Your writing tunes me into thinking:
      “Is this nurturing for me to do, eat, breathe, think, or participate in this?”
      Thank you for expanding your consideration of how you look at food.
      It has given me something more to think about and write about and be more mindful of.
      Betty

    • Years ago someone came up with this gift idea: a cookbook, a dictionary, and a book related to spirituality, such as a devotional book or a holy book. They would be labeled Food for the Body, Food for the Mind, and Food for the Soul. I loved that and sometimes do variations on that idea when I give someone a gift.

    • plainjane2u 13 years ago

      Never even thought to expand our diet to mind and soul, great idea, thanks for sharing…

  5. A balanced one, please.

    Being Malaysians, I have the tendency to crave for almost any food from all over the world. I sometimes eat rice for breakfast, bread for lunch and cereals for dinner. Or I’ll have burgers for brunch, little snacks in the evening and possibly rice or noodles for dinner. I eat whatever I feel like eating then.

    I’m not much of a sweet tooth so I don’t crave for ice-creams, candies and chocolates as much. My food have to be seasoned with plenty of seasoning. The spicier it is, the better I like it. I am also not one to eat in small quantities (nor do I eat them in humongous proportion) . I have times when I eat like a pig and do not have a care in the world but mostly, I will try to make sure that I cut down on heavy fried food and salt.

    I don’t hold back on what I eat. I eat both to live and live to eat. :)

  6. I don’t like to cook, at least not every day, three meals a day, and snacks whether for a family or just myself. I get fed up in the kitchen, tired of the preparation time, and I hate doing dishes. I’d rather be writing, or making art, or even playing with the dogs.

    So, in my ideal world I would eat a diet of my choosing that was prepared by someone else. My ideal diet is chicken and fish, lots of salads, lots of fresh vegetables, lots and lots of tea.

    Breakfast: I usually skip it, but if someone made it for me, I’d like a bowl of fruit salad, or a yogurt smoothie, with some toast and honey and a cup of tea.

    Lunch: The big meal of the day for me. I would choose roasted, or baked chicken, with three vegetables, no rice, no pasta, no potatoes. With a fruit based dessert.

    Supper: A large salad, either a caesar salad, or a Waldorf salad, or I would ask my cook to be creative with an artisan bread on the side.

    Special treats: free trade chocolate, the occasional gourmet pastry!

  7. Simple plan developed via trial and error over many years, many forms of exercise (no time to continue any of those at present), many diets (Hollywood, vegan, raw foodist = loss of hairlethargy etc etc) and countless self-hate moments:

    1. Eat everything I love (bread, pasta, chocoloate etc) as long as the amount ingested <= energy burned

    2. Eat from desert plates only

    3. Live in urban, downtown environment which forces me to remain in motion at all times e.g. walking to Costco with a shopping cart, walking tofrom work @ 30 minutes each way also in snow drifts, walking the sea wall with the dog twice daily etc

    4. Develop motion sickness and repulsion towards cars and any other forms of motorized communication coupled with the fear of the car accident

    5. Purchase of a dog as a cheap, willing and merciless trainer: rain or shine baby or poop on the floor

    6. Prepare my own food 90% of the time: saves on cost big time while full control over fat content (have to limit all the fat to allow those daily pralines)

    7. No drink besides water: pralines over wine any time – boy, I suffer from chocoholism (incurable).

    8. Last meal before 6 pm to burn the fuel as much as posible before retiring into a nightly state of immobility and stomach putrification that converts indigested late meal into fatty deposits

    9. Accept aging (I wish I had this body that I resented so much 20 years when it exceeded the ideal by 0.5 kg), shift focus onto "inner" beauty, which I know is a bunch of crap as who would not want to be slim and young forever, but at least repeat the mantra to mask growing girth

    10. Retain old husband and appreciate him for putting up with my declining beauty

    11. NEVER, EVER weigh myself

    12. Celebrate staying constant size 8 thanks to the above diet (forget about ever being 4)

    13. Focus on the repulsive state of fashion model legs that are stick insect like with a pronounced gap in between, create "feel-good" moment with my "normal" looking legs – no gap.

    14. Prevent reading fashion model magazines at all costs, avoid waiting rooms of all sorts

    15. Focus on forms of happiness other than luring men's attention e.g. goofing around with my kids who could care less about my fatty layer

    16. Procreated already twice so no need to lure male attention

    The bottom line, my dieting system is a mix of mechanics of how I eat with how I think about the food and myself as a result of what I ingest rather than what I eat.

    I will never give up the crusty, warm, freshly baked Eurpean bread with a layer (albeit thin) of butter as this brings me right back to my childhood memories of the country fresh baked bread straight from the oven, family meal at the table under the walnut tree in the country side and feeling happy.

    Happy beats sexy for me at any moment..

    End result of being happy = long life of culinary delight with no suffering of the vegan atrociously tasting food pretending products… been there – done that..

    Live but once and live good.

    • I enjoyed reading what you have written.

    • 11 & 12 — Good advice! I never weight myself. A gym trainor asked me what the most important goal for my training was. I told him ” strength”. Would love to be what I was 30 years ago, size and weight – Not gonna happen now :)

      Smiles

    • Iwona,

      I really LOVE the image of your childhood memory of sitting at the table “under the walnut tree in the countryside feeling happy” and how the “country fresh baked bread straight from the oven” brings you right back there. I just love that image and can actually see and feel and taste that memory, and certainly I can sense the pleasure you get from that and how the fresh baked bread and aroma is such a powerful memory that nurtures you to this day! Amazing what kind of effect certain food memories can have upon us, isn’t it? I also think that when others are involved with the celebration of each other being together sharing great food, the memory/nurturing is even more powerful.

      I also love that you focus on “other” forms of happiness that nurture you. (like goofing around with your kids.)
      .
      And I love the way you think about food and yourself “as a result of what (you) ingest, rather than what (you) eat.” I think it is so important to be aware of how what we eat affects the way that we feel after we eat it. To me, taking responsibility for the effects of what I eat has on my total body/mind is the most important thing.
      Bett

      • Thank you Bett for your comment.

        I think that my diet program is the result of loving myself – finally!
        I used food in the past as a comfort tool, anti-depressant, opportunity to meet people, boredom booster, anything but the nurishment to my awesome living cells.
        Then over time (as in decades) I discovered I love myself more than anything else including food and being a big girl I can figure out different forms of leisue than sitting over a bucket of (very yummy) ice cream laced with chocolate layers and bits of nuts – oh!!!

        Eating fruits and veggies is no brainer and everyone knows it but many people eat for the wrong reasons. If you love yourself more than the piece of potatoe, which I love of course very much but way less than myself the whole solution to a long term enjoyable diet program becomes simple.

        You simply love yourself more than a potatoe – you love yourself in large doses and potatoe with small doses. That is when it finally started working for me and permamently so. (potatoes are best with fried aromatic onions of course – BUT only in small doses :-)

  8. I love burger, so my ideal diet will by a patty complete with bacon, a slice of tomatoes, some mustard and mayo, flanked by bun.

    But, aware of the consequences of taking those fantastic food daily will affect my health, I limit the taking to be twice a month, less if I can.

    Upon munching those favorite diet, I try to enjoy it as much as I can, with happy feeling and gratitude. It’s just a simple happy filled burger.

    And one more, I’ve once taking burgers for breakfast, lunch and dinner and it always taste great.

  9. I used to eat all the fried stuff, KFC chicken and the skin, chicken liver and hearts, rendang, lodeh (all the Malay/Indonesian food cooked with coconut milk), loads of coffee stirred with condensed milk, keropok, epok epok, potato crisps, ice cream, etc. But since being diagnosed with high cholesterol ten years ago, I’ve become conscious of what goes into my mouth. I’ve stayed away from most of the fried stuff or animal organs and all the unhealthy snacking. Nowadays, my meals would be along the following lines:

    Breakfast
    Wholegrain oats, plain, no milk or sugar
    Black coffee, no sugar

    Mid-morning
    Plain crackers
    Fruit
    Water

    Lunch
    Sandwich (cheese or tuna or grilled chicken or egg)
    Salad (lettuce, tomato with olive oil)
    Green tea or fruit juice

    Dinner
    Brown rice
    Steamed fish or chicken curry, etc.
    Stir fried vegetables or tofu
    Fruit
    Water

  10. My ideal diet would be food which is low-carb, low-fat and high-fibre. It doesn’t matter whether I get this food from outside or I cook myself; the main point is the dishes selection on our plate. I take pleasure in eating a lot of vegetables (I love colors on my plate), fresh fruits and white meat; and drinking milk and plain water. I used to practice this blood (type) A diet rather strictly few years back. On top of that, I seldom touched junk food; do not drink alcohol and smoke.

    Sadly, since I moved to Malaysia (although I am still a fussy eater when it comes to the menu), I have become more like a carnivore here. I have been eating red meat and processed food for the past year and binging on junk-food more often than I ever did. I know it’s wrong but I find it challenging to get back on the right track now. One day, I want to return to my previous blood (type) A diet lifestyle which is heavy on vegetables, fruits and free of red meat.

    Also, since I have gastric problem, my eating method is always several small meals a day. It is proven that eating 5 smaller meals a day prevents me from painful gastric irritation, makes me feeling full all the time thus easier to maintain my weight and gives me better digestion. I always feel healthier that way. My husband always asks me to eat bigger portions three times a day so I won’t feel hungry so fast. But this just doesn’t work for me. I have to eat smaller portion otherwise I’d have upset stomach. My idea is I just stop eating when I am full. I don’t make my stomach takes in food more than its capacity.

  11. More fish , vegetables and fruits. followed by heaps of water. Less meat!!!

  12. A blend of “veganized” (I’m a veg) ethnic foods. Maybe a combination of at least 50% raw, 50% cooked. Fruits, grains, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fungi…ex.

  13. Of course, my responsible side says, “I would have a personal chef to cook me fresh, organic, mostly vegatarian meals every day” comparable to the most perfectly healthy and delicious food I’ve ever eaten in my life at this restaurant: http://www.greensrestaurant.com/

    But, my bohemian side says, “Indian food, pizza, soda, chocolate shakes, and cheeseburgers!”

  14. I love food. One of the few things that make me proud to be Italian.
    I love cooking my own food like an alchemist, as much as trying new restaurants.
    Food is culture: every place I travel, I try local specialities.

    My ideal diet is against any -ism, simply be conscious. Know what you eat. No food is ethically good or evil, pure healthy or junk. Just find what’s better for you. Experiment. One day I can eat like a pig, the next day fasting. I only need to learn to chew slowly.

    Spaghetti, Argentinean cow, Sashimi, French fries, Tiramisù. Wine is divine.

  15. I eat my ideal diet 90% of the time now and it entails lots of fruit and veggies, whole wheat pasta, whole grain bread, a large variety of grains, beans and lentils, nuts and seeds, along with poultry, seafood, fish, beef/pork, eggs, 1% milk & milk products, tea and a lot of water daily.

    The other 10% is used on what I think of as my ‘extras’….fries, DQ Blizzard, fried chicken, potato chips, buttered popcorn, the odd vodka & 7, some processed foods.

    I don’t deny myself any food, I just have the 10% in moderation.

    • Jacquie I love your recipe for ‘Ideal Diet” especially “I don’t deny myself any food, I just have the 10% in moderation.” I wish I knew that 8 year ago… But times change and so do people, I am more focused on eating better for my body type rather eat what other people tell me to eat based on science or whatever. I feel great when I eat right. Don’t you?
      I think its obvious you do because you have a healthy, portioned and balance nutritional diet. All KUDOS to you hun. All the best xx

    • Perfect! I couldn’t agree with you more! :D

  16. Pat Fuller 13 years ago

    My ideal diet is pretty much what I am currently eating each day. I eat mostly raw foods. Nuts and dried berries. Peanut butter and bananas on tortillas. Apples, grapes, smoothies with yogurt, blueberries, and broccoli. salad mix with bell peppers, kirby cucumbers, grape tomatoes. and beans. Almond milk. Whole grain cereal and bread. Occasionally a boiled egg or omelet. Once in a while, I do enjoy a meal at a restaurant. Then I will eat fish or chicken and soup. I also eat a small piece of dark chocolate. My vice is coffee. I drink 4 or 5 cups a day. I also like green tea.I buy organic when I can find it at a decent price. I try to limit meat and milk as much as I can. Sometimes I cook a sweet potato in the microwave and I use tofu in soups and stir fries. Probably 90% raw and 10% cooked.

  17. My ideal diet would be based on a variety of healthy foods, including fruits and vegetables, seafood, chicken, and lots of tea (which I already drink every day!).

    If I were to make my perfect meal, breakfast would have to be pancakes, fried eggs, bacon, orange slices, and tea. Lunch would be cream of broccoli soup (my favourite). I have always loved variety with dinner, but definitely something with shrimp, cooked vegetables or stir fry and rice would be amazing, and dessert would have to be butterscotch ripple ice cream with chocolate syrup.

  18. My ideal diet should consist of 80% Fruits and vegetables, 10% White meat and 10% whatever I choose to eat. I know for me I would feel better, prevent my health issues and make me feel like I have more energy.
    Sometimes, I have to remind myself that “Food is important for your mind, body and soul” especially when I eat emotionally which is a drag…

    Right now, I eat when I am hungry and opt for fruit and vegetables, rather than looking for convenience of “happy meals”. :)

  19. Anshuman Singh 13 years ago

    My ideal diet is any food that makes me feel more energetic after the meal and I don’t feel laziness. That means its more of green vegetables, few hot chapatis with a little butter, and a nice seasonal vegetable dish.

  20. I’d return to my vegetarian diet & eat amazingly delicious fresh food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I live at home with my parents and it’s extremely hard to not eat meat. I definitely don’t eat as much as they do, I do choose carefully, but lately it’s been even harder. I would drink water infused with lime (because I’m such a fan of lime water) and I wouldn’t drink cow’s milk. I’d also stay away from frozen tv dinners and all fast food. I would make my own french fries in the oven, cook meals for myself and freeze the meals for the rest of the week. Oh wow, I would love it! https://personalexcellence.co/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/idea.gif

  21. My ideal diet would be, a scheudaled extremely healthy diet, that contains no carbs, no fat, lots of raw food, lots of fruits and vegis, and blenty of water. I would like to add a multivitamin too. I would like to exersice daily, get blenty of sleep. I also would like to have a relaxation weekly routine too. I also would like to add milk to my diet, coz I dont drink much. Thanks

  22. Traditional food from around the world: mexican, ethiopian, indian, japanese, peruvian… mmmm!

    And PIZZA!

    I love food so much. I wish it didn’t make me gain weight!

  23. It would be a paste, unchanging and laden with everything essential, that I could eat at all times of the day with no planning or preparation.

    Food brings me little pleasure.

    I suppose I miss out, but it’s also very easy for me to eat healthily, because I’m not easily tempted. I am very close to my perfect practical diet now. (I’ll save the paste for my dreams.)

    I eat zero processed food, close to 100% organic. Carbs under 200g/day. Ample protein and healthy fat. It works.

    I’ll digress and say that I was a ovo-lacto vegetarian from 1999 until 2005. I don’t believe it’s morally wrong to eat animals, but I dislike it very much. Today I only eat humanely raised and slaughtered animals. Anyway, I was tired all the time, gained weight and developed high cholesterol on the vegetarian diet. Pasta and dairy are the likely culprits. I was always hungry, and those helped me to feel full.

    My friends all said I was a terrible candidate for vegetarianism. I tried for 6.5 years to prove them wrong. In the end, my health was suffering too much, so I switched to humane meat and feel much better, physically, at least. But respect to those who’ve gone veggie :)

  24. What is Your Ideal Diet Like?

    It would contain vegetables and fruits. I will eat the vegetables with rice though. It will be home cooked.

    What would your ideal breakfast, lunch, dinner be like?

    My ideal breakfast would be chapatti with Aloo Bhazi or fruits like: apples, banana, mango and pears.

    My ideal lunch will be rice with veggies.

    My ideal dinner will be also rice with veggies and sometimes I will eat fruits later.

    How much, how often, and when would you eat every day?

    Well, currently, I am doing whatever I wrote above, but I also I eat meat sometimes instead of my ideal diet.

    • How much, how often, and when would you eat every day?

      Sorry, I did not understand the question before. So I am answering it again. So here’s the answer:

      I will eat in the morning, afternoon and at night.

      In the morning I would eat two chapattis with Aloo Bhazi or/with some fruits.
      In the afternoon I would would eat some rice with veggies.
      For dinner I would eat some rice with a lot of veggies or/and I would eat fruits.

      Currently, I am doing whatever I wrote above, but I also I eat meat sometimes instead of my ideal diet.

  25. Thomas Mead 13 years ago

    Pretty much anything that wasn’t prepared by me.

    I’m pretty lazy when it comes to food, I just can’t be bothered. I’d rather buy it than cook it myself. I guess I’m a little intimidated by cooking, as I’m not very good at it, so should learn it a bit more.

    Chicken is clearly the best source of protein in the world. It’s protein right? It’s the best. Could eat chicken all day man.

  26. Karman Warner 13 years ago

    Non-Calorie Chocolate that burns weight whenever I eat it. :rolleyes:
    ;)
    Now That would be perfect. :dance:

    However, since that is not in the realm of reality I would have to say that my perfect diet includes a little bit of every type of food. I don’t like to be bored in any way shape or form so my perfect diet is a variety of all types of foods. :grin:

  27. What is your ideal diet like?
    OMG…I just finished a couple of oatmeal cookies and drinking a diet coke. My diet definitely needs improvement! A very unexpected question… I didn’t want a full meal for lunch. So yes, this definitely needs work!
    My ideal diet would be something like….
    A good breakfast would be any of the following:
    • Oatmeal with fruits
    • Egg white omelet with English muffin
    • 2 slices of toast w/Peanut butter and a cup of coffee

    Mid morning snack: fruits or trail mix

    LUNCH:
    • Salad and a sandwich
    • Veggie wrap
    • Stir fry
    • Veggies and some protein
    • Nice crisp green salad w. fish or chicken
    • Bar b q.
    • Fish
    Trying to avoid fried foods.

    Mid afternoon snack:
    Trail mix/peanut butter and a slice of toast

    DINNER before 8pm
    • Salad
    • Stir fry
    • White egg omelet
    • Wrap

    Beverage: water, water, water
    1 cup of coffee in the morning!
    And perhaps I can splurge one day a week/weekend
    On the upside, I’m eating more fruits and vegetables this past week and cutting back on rice.

  28. My ideal diet would consist of all organic raw foods and be a full vegitarian.

  29. ganeshmuthiah 13 years ago

    My ideal diet is to stay aware and practice food that balance my body mind and spirit.
    Lately, i’m interested in treating my body as vehicle and trying to refrain from eating food which create problem in long run.(Thanks for the numerous visit to hospital (dad).)

    I’m undecided at this moment with the following choice.
    1) Practice vegan for full life
    2) Fast alternate days
    3) mixture meal (less Meat/ more Veg & Fruits) based on activities i do. (Demand and Supply of energy)

    So far i have minimize the intake for salt, sugar, oil and trying very hard to stop spicy food.

    Fresh veg and lots of fruit will be my ideal but i got to do more research as this is total change on eating habits.

  30. Ton Cabiao 13 years ago

    Another tough question!

    I guess answering the question requires looking at my current diet and see how I can move it into my ideal diet.

    My current diet consists mostly of protein (in other words, meat and poultry) though I also eat fish from time to time. For breakfast, nuggets, corned beef, hotdog or fried egg are the kinds of food one can regularly see in our plates. Sheesh, I feel guilty right now just because my current diet is too far off from my ideal diet. My mind tells me that my ideal diet should include mostly fruits and vegetables and unprocessed meats.

    I think many readers of PE are vegans or vegetarians. I was hoping i could switch too. Not radically but maybe more of eating mostly fruits and vegetables and occasionally meat and poultry. Looking at it, the problem that I have with vegetables and fruits is they get spoiled faster than other food. Switching to fruits and vegetables means more trips to the grocery store and me and my wife has to find time to do that. Besides, we don’t know a lot of dishes with veggies so another task is to research :)

    To wrap it off, two tasks for me 1) For healthier me, do more trips to the grocery 2) Research new dishes. I am now planning to make a project for this. Maybe a small mini project for me like eat healthy for a week.

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