Eating for Health : Special Diets
In choosing a healthful diet, you must start with two important concepts:
Your diet choice is no good if you fail to follow it.
Your diet choice can not make up for smoking, lack of excercise, or any other bad habit.
Following your diet
Not everyone is trying to lose weight, but as an example, suppose that you are. Suppose that you eat a delicious deep-fried mars bar. Would you consider this a failure? If you would consider yourself as having failed, then you are doomed. You will give in to your craving, then give up on your diet because you consider yourself to have failed. Perfectionism will be your undoing.
With a different attitude, you won’t have this problem. Get yourself in the habit of making good dietary choices. At each meal, you should be looking for good food to eat, with little concern for poor choices made previously. When faced with a yummy deep-fried mars bar, you can eat it without the guilt of having broken a specific diet. For your next meal, you’ll probably choose something better, but you might just have another tasty deep-fried mars bar. It’s OK as long as you don’t make a habit of it or give up.
You will have difficulty following your diet if you don’t like the food. Below, you will find some general advice on cooking tasty healthful food. To some extent you may need to adjust your idea of what tastes good. For example, if a creamy sauce like creme Anglaise is appealing to you, learn to associate it with something icky such as pus squeezed from a wound. Just imagine that it is such a thing, and soon you’ll not be wanting it.