How to maintain a balanced diet

The key is not to rely on willpower at all, nor to completely overthrow your original eating habits. Just embed balanced options bit by bit, force yourself to eat boiled vegetables every day, and intake by grams. 90% of people will not survive a week.

A while ago, I was helping my best friend, who couldn’t live without heavy takeout food and ordered a cup of full-sugar milk tea every day, to adjust her diet. At first, she heard from a blogger that she should give up sugar and oil, so Dunton brought boiled chicken breasts and broccoli. On the third day, she hugged me and cried and said she wanted to eat hot pot. Then she turned around and showed off a butter hot pot and added two cups of milk tea. In fact, she ate more than before. Later, I asked her not to stop eating anything, but to make two small changes: when ordering the spicy hotpot, I took the initiative to add a portion of green leafy vegetables, changed the milk tea from full sugar to three-thirds of sugar, and changed the pudding added to grass jelly with higher dietary fiber. After two months of making these changes, she lost four kilograms in weight, and her face that had been prone to acne was mostly healed. She didn't feel like she was "persisting", so she just ate it naturally.

There is a lot of quarrel on the Internet about this now. One group says that if you want to be balanced, you must strictly follow the recommended amount card of the Chinese Diet Pagoda. The ratio of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in each meal must be accurate to 3:4:3 to be considered up to standard. It is almost useless.； The other group said that there is no need to be so serious, as long as the difference is about the same, there is no need to worry about the details. Both of these statements are correct in the corresponding scenarios. If you are a freelancer with plenty of time, it is no problem to spend time on accurate proportions. But if you have to work overtime from 9 to 6 every day, and it is after 9 o'clock when you get home from get off work, how can you have the energy to use a food scale to weigh the vegetables one by one?

To be honest, when I was working on a project and stayed up all night for a week, I just had instant noodles to deal with it, without any regard for balance. Later, I slowly figured out a little way that didn't cost much energy. There are a few basic items in the drawers at home and in the office that don’t need to be processed all year round: plain daily nuts, vacuum-packed ready-to-eat corn, lightly braised quail eggs, and a few long-lasting cherry tomatoes and apples. If you are really in a hurry and don’t have time to cook or order takeout, grab corn, add two quail eggs, and a cherry tomato. All three major nutrients are available at the same time. It is much better than just ordering fried rice with high oil and salt, and you don’t need to spend extra time preparing.

In fact, to put it bluntly, adhering to a balanced diet is very much like saving money. If you ask yourself to save all your monthly salary from the very beginning, and you are not allowed to spend even half a dime on entertainment, then you will have to retaliate within half a month, and you will not be able to save money.； It is better to save 10% of your salary every month. If you occasionally want to buy expensive skin care products or eat a good meal, you don't have to feel guilty. In the long run, your general account will be healthy. Even if you occasionally get greedy and drink a cup of full-sugar milk tea, don't feel that all your efforts have been wasted. One meal will not affect your long-term nutritional status at all. Just turn around and eat vegetables and staple food normally for the next meal. The biggest fear is that the can will break and you will go back to the high-fat and high-sugar state of the previous meal.

Oh, by the way, don’t blindly follow others to eat whole grain meals. When I had a bad stomach, I ate brown rice for a week and went to the hospital for pain. The doctor said that people with weak stomachs are not suitable for eating too many grains. Replace one-third of the white rice with whole grains that are easy to digest, such as steamed pumpkin and steamed yam. The effect is the same. There is really no need to treat your body harshly for the sake of "balance".