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S/O Of Eating Right- Your Best Tips
What are your best tips for eating better?
Mine:
Make pre-portioned bags of smoothie ingredients. For us, after a run, a smoothie was the best thing EVER. But sometimes we would completely go overboard on the amount of stuff we put in making them huge portions and high in calories. I make packets with frozen fruit, frozen yogurt and usually ice cubes made from some juice (like cucumber) that are right around 200 calories per pack. I put them on the counter right before we leave and when we get back they are the perfect consistency for making into smoothies with a little bit of water
Instead of ice cream sandwiches from the store I make my own, lower calorie ones for a treat on a hot day. I use 1 rectangle broken into two squares of graham cracker and put 1/4 C homemade one ingredient banana ice cream in it with a little bit of PB2 mixed in. The banana ice cream is really only frozen banana that has been whipped in a food processor until it looks like ice cream. It's only about 80 calories per sandwich
Re: S/O Of Eating Right- Your Best Tips
For me, I just have to eat as many whole, fresh foods as possible. Anything else just slows me down and makes me crave more junk. Toward that end, I buy more fresh produce than I think I'll eat and then challenge myself to eat it all.
As much as I hate it, I also find it helpful to make a loose meal plan once a week. I don't restrict myself to eating specific meals necessarily, but I do plan and shop so that I have at least a week's worth of healthy options for all 3 daily meals. It takes a bit of work, but helps both the diet and the pocketbook.
I always have healthy snacks in the car (crackers, trail mix, fruit, or granola bars) in case I get hungry when I'm out and about. That way I don't stop and buy the first time I see because I'm ravenous.
I use a nutrition scale as much as possible. It's really helped me understand appropriate serving sizes and cut down on white rice (my downfall).
TTC #1 since May 2010. BFP #1 - 5/31/10; m/c on 7/22/10
Started seeing RE in August 2011
5 IUIs: BFN; IVF #1 - Success! BFP - 7/25/12