*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.

[monkey_magic]

Hi Grandy,

U could cut them up, sprinkle some olive oil and salt on them and bake them in the oven.

[Ggrand]

Hello Magic...

Thank you so much...

I am going to give that a try tonight...I’ll let you know how how they turned out..💚.

Grandy

[Lillylane]

This is a great recipe, thank you so much for sharing it!

LL

[Mum Chris]

Hi grandy

I love chokos boiled and served with butter and salt and pepper but I think most people are same as you. You can stew with apples and sugar and they take on the flavour of the fruit. Many apple pies were made with this trick.

MC

[Airies]

What an inspiring thread. Hope I’m not intruding. Day 1 for me for drawing a line in the sand. I’ve exercised all my life. Unfortunately now over 50, bad food choices, inability to do what I used to do, a few falls lately and medication has not helped. Anyway find this thread inspiring and if it’s ok to pop in now and then I hope I inspire others

[Guest_1055]

Hi all,

Sure its alright Airies.

Never eaten chokos myself. Cute looking fruit though. Did you like them Grandy?

And just thought I would update where I am at with eating etc.

I am eating crunchy pink lady apples a lot. So yummy at the moment.

It's been over 3 weeks since I have eaten any junk food. I feel physically so much better because of this. My foggy head has gone, emotionally more stable too.

I have been drinking fresh extracted juices, smoothies and experimenting with new salads. And also eating baked pumpkin too. I did make a new soup, but didn't like that one.

Tonight I made... I am not even sure what you call them. They were fun to make.

I used rice paper and rolled up fresh vegetables and hummus in them.

It was my first time using this rice paper. I softened it with water to make it pliable. Then spooned a small amount of hummus, then popped in the cut up vegetables, then rolled it up.

Rough recipe

Rice paper

Hummus

Shredded raw cabbage

Shredded carrot

Shredded baby spinach

Red capsicum cut into thin stripes

Fresh corriander

I also made a raw taco salad the other day. So yummy. And so colourful. I used crushed walnuts with a few spices added to make it taste mexican. Plus other salad ingredients, including raw organic corn.

[Airies]

That recipe sounds divine and simple, I like simple and don’t profess to being a cook.I’ve started to log my foods again using the My fitness app. Late in the day is my problem and the confectionery aisle in the supermarket. It’s all or nothing for me.

I’ve started having wheat box, prunes and bran and milk for breaks, a couple of pieces of fruit for lunch and baked beans , corn and peas and bread for a very early dinner and bed by late arvo as my wife works, not a fan of Winter and I’d rather be in bed..

i do love the sound of that recipe and will try. Nice and healthy.
thanks again for the warm welcome

[Ggrand]

Hello Everyone...

Shelly..I did try the Choko’s, they were okay but no wow feeling...Still bland tasting....

Your recipe sounds yummy...I love what can be used to fill the rice paper wraps...There’s no limit to what can be used...coriander is something that I tried on a Vietnamese roll a few years ago...I started growing some last year...

I like went bix..but not the traditional way many people have it...I like it with butter...then sometimes vegemite, other times peanut butter, with honey and jam...makes a healthy snack...

Airies....I like winter better then the hotter months...one reason I like it is that daylight saving is over and it gets dark fairly early.....plus it’s nice to snuggle up into a warm comfy doona...

Tonight I’m having pumpkin soup...I made earlier this morning from my pumpkins that have grown in my yards....nothing much goes into my pumpkin soup...except pumpkin, a carrot, a stick of celery and some fresh garlic...

Mum Chris...I haven’t given up in Choko’s as yet...I want to try stewing them with apples next time I make an apple pie...thank you for sharing that here...

Kind thoughts everyone...with a hug..

Grandy..

[Guest_1055]

Hello LL,

Think you were talking to me or maybe not. Anyways you are welcome

[Guest_1055]

Hello Airies,

Oh yum, prunes are so good. I haven't eaten them for ages. Maybe I will buy some.

The confectionery part of a supermarket is not my friend either. Friends love us. Chocolate especially trips me up in such a bad way.

I read this a whole ago. It made so much sense to me. It is not us that really wants to eat the junk food. I thought about it deeply, and I really don't. But what actually wants it and sends out those loud cravings is the bad and unhealthy bacteria living in our gut. It's their food. Sounds so gross. Don't feed them, they die. Eat loads of foods that have the good and useful bacteria. Fruit and vegetables.

And another yum. Baked beans.

My husband likes vitabrits (so similar to weetbix) with tinned peaches on them. Ah he eats around 6 of them for breakfast. If I ever eat them, which is extremely rare. I place 1 in a coffee mug, then just pour a tiny bit of soy milk in there. Just fun to eat whilst holding the handle of the mug.

Shelley