*Trigger warning* Eating for Health and Wellness

[Guest_1055]

I have been struggling eating and eating healthy foods over the last couple of weeks. I really do not want to go back further to how I use to eat, that is eating junk food, takeaways, copious amounts of chocolate, processed junk and comfort eating.

Finding it challenging to stay motivated to actually prepare what I know helps me feel better mentally, emotionally and physically. Plus I have been feeling overwhelmed with other stuff happening in my life, which somehow makes it more challenging. The old unhealthy comfort eating thing is coming back. And I think I am getting concerned and scared about that. I so much do not want to go back to how I use to be. I was so sick. Plus I now have some physical things not right in my body , so I need to be more careful and mindful of what I eat. ( Pre cancer cells , high blood pressure )

I was eating really well since Febuary of this year, it’s just the last couple of weeks I haven’t.

So I would like to use this thread to help me be accountable to Beyond Blue people. So like a diary where I can post and report what I eat. And also any healthy eating tips, motivating strategies to help eat better or anything related to healthy eating for our bodies including our mental health.

[Guest_1055]

Made some homemade hummus and spread that on some toast.

Made dinner tonight. I am responsible to prepare meals for 2 others. They both eat meat. Some days it is more challenging then other days. Today I am super tired and everything seemed like such an effort. Motivation almost nonexistent. I got through the preparations but slowly. It took me ages to simply peel, cook up and mash some potatoes. I did just did things in small steps. It just seemed overwhelming other wise.

I ended up eating some mash potato, pumpkin, and other veg with mushroom gravy.

The dishes are not washed.

[Guest_1643]

yummm homemade humus

i often have no energy for dishes or tidying up

i feel great when it's done but it is enormously hard at times

[Guest_1055]

I hear you about the dishes Sleepy. I have not been sleeping well, of which I know you can relate to. It makes everything seem so much more challenging. Glad I ate some vegetables though.

Did you eat some nutritional food today

[Guest_1055]

Okay I really desire to loose weight. I want to loose 20kg-25kg. This will get me into a healthier range. I hate the way I feel carrying all this weight around. I hate the way clothes look and feel on me. Having this fat on me affects how I think about myself. I call it what it is "fat cells". All this unnessary fat may cause other health problems. Which causes me sometimes to be scared about it all.

I will weigh myself tomorrow.

[Guest_1055]

Just been eating toast and hummus today. The hummus I make has chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic powder, vegan "chicken" stock powder, cumin, cashews, nutritional yeast and water. Then blend all up..

I already feel bla.. from eating all the toast

[Guest_1643]

hi shelll

i was given some organic apples and they have been amazing, sweeter than anything !

I ate 2 today... and a big fruit salad with natural yoghurt

I had a pot of tea (loose leaf) with sugar and milk

and some felafel with side salad... really yum

I also had a bowl of rice with egg noodles

i had a cookie as well which came in a gift from a friend

it was pretty yum. I don't think too deeply atm about what i eat and often end up with junk. It's whatever is given to me or the ppl around me are eating.

My friend recently gave me these apples and they have been delightful. It makes me wander if organic produce can taste so much better. They were sweet and tangy like no apple i've had before!

[Guest_1055]

Organic fruit and vegetables often taste so much better. Apples are very yummy. There is a small section of fresh organic veges in woolworths and coles now. I often buy the organic baby spinach from coles as it is on the list of the "dirty produce" the ones heavily sprayed with pesticides and the like.

Ah fruit salad super yummy.

I am waiting for another pot of soup to finish as I write this. Late dinner I know. It was the best I could do.

[Guest_1055]

Soup turned out okay. I put too much of the chilli flakes in it though. It felt nourishing all the same.

At the moment in my life soup appears to be the easiest thing to make and eat. And I am getting a few serves of vegetables plus lentils. The vegetables are soft, so it is more pleasant on my mouth (which some days it aches) I eat it luke warm. I make enough to last about 3 days.

I now have some pumpkin, so I will use that in my next soup.

I am hoping tomorrow to make a smoothie of some kind.

[Guest_1643]

sounds good to have the soups and the smoothies - so many fruits and veg .

today was again really bad and so stressful but i loved the fruit salad and yoghurt. Such a thick, wholesome greek yoghurt.
I also had few cups of tea which I drank without mindfulness.
i find it hard atm to eat a lot of fruit and veg, and even harder to eat proteins. I do not eat enough good fats or protein

[Guest_1643]

i feel like hummus, tahini, avo, yoghurt, nuts, oily fish, (salmon) would all be really good for my mood

i read a study once that eating salmon regularly had an impact on depression in women...

it's expensive and probably a food that just sits there when i buy it, but when it's prepared, i enjoy it.

and avacado as well is such a beautiful thing to have in one's diet... just a simple avo on toast at home would probably be really good. And good cheeses like feta, haloumi...