Let's Eat Well 605!

Healthy foods are vital to wellbeing and improving your own livability! Many people focus on depriving themselves of “forbidden pleasures.” That not only adds stress, but also adds unnecessary guilt when you allow yourself to be human! Try focusing on nourishing your body rather than taking away favorite foods. By adding healthy foods into your daily routine, you will crowd out the less healthy foods that are calorie dense. By telling yourself to eat more healthy food people are more likely to follow through and recognize how good they feel by increasing their healthy food consumption.

Does eating more sound like something that you might be interested in? Not sure how to start? Try making half of your plate non-starchy vegetables. This fills half of the space with very healthy and low calorie foods! Eat that first, before enjoying your richer foods. This will prevent you from force feeding veggies at the end of the meal after you’ve eaten (possibly past) full on heavy foods like protein and starches.

Take notes on how you feel today, and compare those with how you feel after just one week of increasing your vegetable consumption. You might be amazed by the results!

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Non-starchy Vegetables
Try them all, raw or cooked! These foods pack a ton of nutrition with very few calories in every bite!

Asparagus

Beats

Bok choy

Broccoli

Brussel sprouts

Cabbage

Carrots 🥕

Cauliflower

Celery

Cucumbers

All dark green leafy vegetables 

Eggplant🍆

Fennel

Green beans

Jicama

Leeks

Lettuce

Mushrooms🍄

Okra

Onions

Parsnips

Peppers 🌶

Pickles 

Pumpkin

Radicchio

Radishes

Snow peas (in a pod)

Spaghetti squash

Spinach

Sprouts (all kinds) 🌱

Summer squash

Tomatoes 🍅

Water chestnuts

Watercress

Zucchini