Composition on reasons for recommending healthy recipes

The reason why I recommend that ordinary people prepare a healthy diet that suits their own situation is not to force you to give up "happy foods" such as hot pot and milk tea, nor to ask you to strictly count calories according to gram weight, but to give you a baseline of healthy eating without using your brain, and avoid common dietary pitfalls such as dieting rebound, random supplementation, and impaired basal metabolism. Moreover, as long as you choose the right adapted version, your sense of happiness with eating will hardly be reduced.

Don’t frown when you hear healthy recipes. You are not meant to eat boiled vegetables every day. In the past two years, I followed the trend of losing weight and made up my own so-called "fat-reducing meals". I ate boiled spinach and chicken breast every meal. After two weeks of eating, I felt nauseated when I saw green vegetables. I couldn't help showing off a meal of fried chicken and three cups of iced milk tea on the weekend. I gained four kilograms and was even heavier than before I lost weight. Later, I asked my best friend who is a registered dietitian for a recipe that is suitable for my nine-to-five job, where I occasionally have to work overtime and eat takeout, and I realized that healthy recipes are not that at all. That recipe even allowed me to buy roadside tea eggs and sugar-free soy milk for breakfast when I was in a hurry. I didn’t have to worry about making an avocado and chicken breast sandwich. When ordering takeout at noon, I could choose one meat, one vegetarian and one punch of rice. Don’t order oil-covered rice bowls. Just drain the oil on the surface of the vegetables. If I was too lazy to cook at night, I could boil corn, add a handful of blanched spinach, and add a few pieces of ready-made soybean. It only took less than ten minutes. I stick to this and never get hungry. I can still meet up with friends for hot pot or skewers every week. In three months, I have lost 10 pounds, and the critical high blood fat level in the previous physical examination has also dropped back to the normal range.

There are definitely people who want to make excuses, saying that healthy recipes are all IQ taxes. Some friends have been admitted to the hospital after following Internet celebrity recipes. This really isn’t a problem with the recipe, it’s just that you didn’t choose the right one that suits you. I have met a young girl who followed the trend and tried keto. She had gallstones and she ate fatty avocados every day. As a result, she went to the emergency room in the middle of the night in pain. Do you think this can be blamed on her wrong diet? There are indeed many dietary schools on the market, each with its own applicable scenarios: Ketogenic is indeed suitable for professional fitness groups who need to quickly reduce body fat in the short term, but ordinary people are likely to develop dyslipidemia after long-term eating. ； The Mediterranean diet is cardiovascular friendly, but it requires regular consumption of deep-sea fish and cold-pressed olive oil, which is costly and time-consuming for ordinary workers. ； Our country’s 2022 Dietary Guidelines for Residents is actually the most suitable for most Chinese people’s physiques. Unfortunately, many people think it is “not trendy enough” and instead pursue those flashy internet celebrity prescriptions.

Let’s just talk about my mother. She was diagnosed with high blood sugar two years ago, and the whole family was very nervous. She was not allowed to eat this or touch that. She didn’t even dare to buy her favorite strawberries, and she looked sad every day. Later, I asked an endocrinologist to prescribe a special diet for diabetes, and I realized that it was not completely forbidden to eat fruits. Choose low-GI fruits such as kiwis and strawberries, and eat them between meals. Eat half to one at a time. Even if you want to eat rice dumplings occasionally, just reduce the amount of rice that day to half a bowl, and it is completely fine. Now my mother's blood sugar is very stable, and she can still hold half an apple to dance in the square every afternoon. It's much better than before, where she didn't dare to eat this or touch that every day.

Don’t think that healthy recipes are a constraint. Good recipes will never control you. I have specifically set aside a "happiness quota" in my recipe, and I can have the opportunity to eat whatever I want once or twice a week. As long as I don't show off to death every time, it will not affect my overall health at all. I once had a colleague who always said that he couldn't control his mouth and couldn't stop eating snacks. Later, he discovered that because he usually forced himself to eat too vegetarian and too bland, his appetite was suppressed to the extreme and he was prone to rebound. After leaving a quota according to the diet, he drank a cup of low-sugar milk tea and ate kebabs once a week, instead of always thinking about sneaking snacks. In half a year, his body fat rate dropped by 7%, and he didn't even suffer from the recurring oral ulcers before.

After all, the purpose of recommending healthy recipes is to make you live like an ascetic. It means that you don’t have to worry about whether you can eat this or not, and whether it will make you gain weight. Wouldn’t it be better to use the energy saved to watch TV dramas and go out for fun? Really, don’t think of bland boiled dishes when you hear the words “healthy recipes”. Find one that suits you. You will find that there is really no conflict between eating well and eating well.