How to mix healthy recipes

In fact, there is no "standard answer" that is universal across the Internet. The most suitable healthy recipe for you is essentially a combination of "nutritional coverage, adaptability to your physical condition, and your ability to continue eating for a long time." Without any one of them, it is not considered good.

I used to adjust recipes for a Chongqing friend who dislikes spicy food. She had copied the Internet celebrity's "lose 5 pounds in a week" boiled vegetable recipe. After eating it for three days, she couldn't bear it and ran away to eat butter hot pot. Instead, she gained two pounds. Later, I helped her replace all the boiled vegetables in the recipe with stir-fried ones with half a spoonful of olive oil, and the bland boiled chicken breasts with grilled chicken legs marinated with a little chili powder and Sichuan peppercorns. She continued to eat for two months without getting tired of it, and her weight has stabilized by 6 pounds. At the end of the year, her blood lipids were more normal than before during her physical examination.

Before I talk about it, many people have asked me whether low-carb water or full-carbohydrate water, which is a hot topic on the Internet, is healthier. In fact, there is really no absolute right or wrong. For people who have insulin resistance or high blood sugar, appropriately reduce the proportion of refined rice and noodles and replace them with whole grains such as brown rice and quinoa. The effect of controlling sugar and stabilizing body weight is indeed good. ； But if you have to run a lot of fieldwork every day, or if you are preparing for the student party exam and use your brain a lot, you should ensure enough carbohydrate intake. Otherwise, you will be hungry and dizzy in the afternoon, which will affect your work and study status, and the gain will not be worth the loss.

For most ordinary people who work from 9 to 5 and don’t have much time to cook, there is no need to think about healthy recipes too complicated. To be healthy, you have to make every meal look like a food blogger. Grab a hard-boiled egg, a box of pure milk, and half a stick of corn before going out in the morning. The breakfast you put together in 5 minutes is much less burdensome than the heavy oil hand cakes you bought in a hurry. ； If you can only order takeout at noon, you don’t have to choose the ridiculously expensive light food bowl. An ordinary two-meat and one-vegetarian set meal, be sure to add less salt and oil. When eating, chop two bites of vegetables before eating meat, and eat the staple food last. Blood sugar fluctuations will be small, and it will be less likely to fall asleep in the afternoon.

In fact, putting together a healthy diet is a bit like putting together Lego. The basic four pieces of "high-quality protein, complex carbohydrates, sufficient dietary fiber, and a small amount of high-quality fat" are enough. The remaining parts can be adjusted according to your own preferences: if you don't like broccoli, you can replace it with lettuce, if you don't like deep-sea fish, eat braised dried beans. Even if you have eaten balanced meals for five or six days in a row this week, it is perfectly fine to meet up with friends for hot pot and a cup of iced milk tea on the weekend.

After all, recipes that can be eaten comfortably for a lifetime are truly healthy recipes that are good for your body.