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Tips and Tricks for Eating More Vegetables
When I was a teenager, my mom engaged in a lot of yo-yo dieting. She just lost and gained the same 20+ pounds, year over year. She was forever trying this new diet or that. Weight Watchers worked for her for a while, but she couldn’t do it forever, and so she’d soon gain all the weight back. In addition, she would always reward herself for losing X number of pounds by eating dessert or some other high-calorie treat.
One of the things this taught me was that I was never ever going to diet. If I needed to lose weight, I made lifestyle changes. Anything less would just put me on that identical path. It’s part of why I follow a keto diet, to make sure that I eat healthy and keep the weight off.
One of the other things that my mom’s constant dieting taught me was to like vegetables. Vegetables don’t have a lot of calories and yet can fill you up. So we ate a lot of them, which wasn’t necessarily the norm for the early 1970s.
My daily goal is six (yes, 6) cups of vegetables per day. This includes two cups of leafy greens, two cups of sulfate vegetables (think broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and so on) as well as two cups of “colored” vegetables, which is all fruit, carrots, celery, cucumber, etc.
I still eat meat. And offal. And fish. I try to eat “tail to snout” as it were.
