eating well

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Setting Nutritional Priorities

 

" As for diet, it's not what I eat. It's what I don't eat. I haven't eaten fried

foods, white bread, or anything with sugar in it for at least 20 years. . . "

--Diahann Carroll

 

On reading this, you may feel that if you could keep your looks - have a career

like hers, you might be willing to be as self-disciplined. But short of that,

you don't see yourself being that careful. It's true that never having fried

foods or anything with sugar or white flour could make you feel pretty deprived

and on social occasions downright anti-social. However, you can benefit greatly

as far as your looks, weight, and health by cutting down drastically on these

without staying away from them completely.

 

~ Don't have any sugar or white flour or anything made from these at home. Don't

deep-fry anything at home.

 

~ Avoid fast food restaurants where they have no healthful alternatives.

 

~ If you eat lunch out, think of salad plates instead of sandwiches - better yet

take your own lunch.

 

~ Let your friends know what you're trying to avoid. If you're at someone's home

for dinner, and the hostess has made the dessert, take just a very small

portion.

 

~ You don't have to have a whole dessert just to have a taste of something sweet

after a meal. A waitress in a hotel dining room told us she had had as many as

five people share one dessert.

 

So that you don't feel so deprived that you decide to just forget trying to be

careful of what you eat, plan to have something occasionally, like once a month.

Be selective . Don't just eat that dessert, or whatever, because " it's there. "

It should be some-thing special or something that you are really in the mood

for. One way to decide whether it's something you really want: Imagine that it's

late in the evening and it's cold, windy and raining hard. Would you go out to

get whatever it is you're thinking of eating?

 

-Bev Mittelman, BS, CNC

 

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