For those who eat healthy?

What do you typically eat? What is a healthy breakfast? What is a healthy lunch? What is a healthy dinner?

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I usually eat healthy for breakfast and it goes downhill from there.

I will either eat steel cut oats with almonds or walnuts and sometimes blueberries and a splash of almond milk or eggs of some kind...hard boiled for work paired with a greek yogurt(you have to be careful with yogurt though...a lot are full of sugar and aren't "healthy "...stick to plain and add a few berries ) or if I am home a vege scramble or omelet.

If I am doing a healthy lunch it's a salad with grilled chicken.

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I don't try to eat healthy, but I try to plan my meals around my workout. But basically, my breakfast can be a boiled egg with half whole wheat toast, or plain oatmeal with blueberries. Then, after I work out and if I get home in time, I'll have a smoothie. Either spinach, berries, whey protein; or cucumber and pineapple. I like to mix ingredients and I add flax seeds, just because I read they were good for you.

Sometimes for lunch I have a chicken noodle soup. And then from there it goes down hill, since I cook dinner and I taste here and there and sometimes I don't have dinner because I'm full. But my ideal dinner would be a piece of chicken and some salad with spinach. For some reason I don't like kale that much.

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So to me, healthy eating means trying to maximize the nutrition of the food, avoid empty calories, avoid too much sugar, but have a lot of healthy fats and fiber, and enough protein.
So some healthy breakfasts include a variety of fruits (whole fruit instead of juice), oatmeal (steel cut/ not instant / not sweetened), high-fiber cereal with low fat milk, eggs or egg whites w/ veggies cooked in olive oil, cottage cheese, plain Greek yogurt.
For lunch and dinner, I like a lot of veggies (not too much potatoes or corn).. such as spinach, kale, yams, beets.. ... also all types of of beans for fiber, lentils, quinoa, whole grain bread 3+ grams of fiber per slice if I have a sandwich), brown rice. Salads like romaine and arugula with oil and vinegar as dressing. I like a plant based diet so not too much meat but I like skinless chicken breast or lean beef for protein, turkey meatballs, etc. avoiding hot dogs and processed meats/ cold cuts or something fried like nuggets. Fish is great especially salmon for the omega 3's. Generally everything is cooked in olive oil. Avocados for the healthy fats. Nuts and seeds are great for the fiber, protein, and healthy fats.

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I try to eat healthy most of the time. Meaning at least 5 days a week. all 7 when I’m trying to lose weight.

Breakfast:

1 egg & 1 egg white scrambled with spinach
Multigrain English muffin with 1 tbsp of cream cheese or jam

Plain Greek yogurt w tbsp of peanut butter (i use PB2 a lot these days ) in it, a cut up banana and crushed almonds - sometimes throw some blueberries in there too


Lunch:

Low sodium turkey breast
American cheese
Mustard on light rye bread
1 serving of pretzels or another low cal crunchy snack

PB & Banana on a multigrain round bread w apple on side

Salad w grilled chicken & all kinds of veggies. Balsamic & olive oil

Homemade soup


Dinner:

Usually a lean protein, large serving of veggies and 1 serving of carb (sweet potato, brown rice, white potato cubes and sautéed w onion, or couscous) sometimes salad on side

Salad w veggies and chicken

Turkey chili

Veggie stir fry w brown rice

Multi grain pasta (one serving) w chicken, broccoli and cannelloni beans w grated cheese on top


I’m always looking for new recipes. Skinny taste is helpful when trying to find healthy options.

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"Healthy " to me is a realistic, practical diet not extreme

Moderation
Clean/minimal ingredients and processing
Do not deprive/moderation
Stay within budget (no organic for me)

Ideally all meals should include fresh veggies (half plate), whole grain, lean protein

Snacks should be fruits veggies raw nuts small amounts of fat like cheese

Good fats daily (monounsaturated)

Tons of water
Sweets to a minimum

I will go out to eat drink wine vodka beer nachos and enjoy it cause most of our welll being is all in our feelings and thoughts!

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Breakfast: Plain Greek Yogurt, 1/2 cup frozen berries, 1 tsp chia seeds

Lunch: Baby spinach, grilled chicken, any other vegetables I have around, and ranch dressing

Dinner: This is the hardest for me to eat healthy because I'm eating with my husband. I eat whatever, but try to make healthier substitutions (Protein Plus pasta instead of regular pasta), add as much vegetables as possible, and keep my portions under control.

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I've tried to start eating a lot more plant based lately.
Breakfast is steel cut oats with nuts, banana, hemp seed hearts, and a few chocolate chips.

Lunch I usually just munch on nuts or seeds with raisins, veggies with hummus, or an apple with peanut butter. Sometimes leftovers or pbj.

For dinner we have eaten limited meat and dairy lately. We do chickpea pasta, veggie chili or soups, lots of beans. We have fish probably once a week, salad with grilled chicken, and occasionally beef or pork but I try to do smaller portions than we used to and prepare them with more veggies and less cheese than we use to eat.

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I have quaker weight control oatmeal with a banana every morning. I put it in a little pyrex dish with water and refrigerate overnight and eat it cold- it's pretty good!

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I just eat clean as much as possible which to me means whole foods that come from ground or animal, limiting processed foods, "white foods" (potatoes, white bread, white rice) and fatty meats. I feel like if you eat this way the options are endless, you're just cutting out the junk. I'm not crazy, I definitely eat candy, cookies, pizza, alcohol, frozen foods here and there but I try to keep to 80% clean and workout most days the week.

Breakfast -
2 eggs and fruit or 6 egg white omlete with turkey, veggies and sometimes cheese.
Oatmeal with fruit and nuts
Whole grain cereal and low fat or almond milk
Whole grain pancakes with banana
Plain Greek yogart and fruit

Lunch
Lean and green meals
Any kind of lean meat or fish with lots of veggies
Sometimes do a carb but not if I had it during the morning

Dinner is also lean and green and whole grain carb or sweet potato.

Lean steak and veggies and sweet potato
Turkey tacos or lean meat tacos
Chicken and veggies with quinoa, faro, brown rice, etc
Fish
Lamb
Really anything.
Naked chicken parm (baked without breadcrumbs)
Spaghetti squash

I am not a big salad with grilled chicken person. I don't really like salad, prefer my veggies cooked. I do a salad maybe once a week, probably less.

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My breakfast, lunch, and snacks are similar each day.

Breakfast
old fashioned oats
fat free milk
peanut butter
banana

Lunch
shredded chicken with salsa, corn, and quinoa

Snacks
vanilla greek yogurt with granola
carrots and cucumber
pretzels and chocolate covered raisins (not healthy, but oh well!)
Apple
I usually have a treat after dinner and it is not healthy, but I make sure to be aware of the serving size.


Dinner (varies)

I think one of those most important things is to realize portion size. I started using a food scale in May and it has been life changing.

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I try to eat a lot of vegan food. But I also eat a lot of eggs too. I don’t eat meat or fish and try to minimize my dairy intake. Organic raw nuts and beans.

I’ll roast chic peas and kidney beans w EVOO and sea salt, roast them for over an hour and I’ll eat plain or on a salad. I also roast pretty much any veggie. Brown rice and I’ll fill w veggies and also an egg to hold together.

Dairy and wheat inflame the body, doesn’t mean I don’t eat them but I am aware and try to avoid.

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To me, it's seems like healthy is subjective.

Nutrient dense, to me, is healthy.

I sautee free-range chicken over ghee or coconut oil with some green beans, butternut squash, maybe kale or spinach, and some tomato. A little fresh basil, and some pink salt.

I rotate different veggies & fresh herbs like parsley & dill & cilantro. zucchini, & potato. I mix it up. I'll eat any of this for any meal including breakfast. Sometimes I make it all ahead of time, and just warm it up for a quick bite.

But I'll also eat all of this cooked in bacon grease, or duck fat. To some, that may not sound healthy, but it is to me. Fat doesn't make me fat. My body loves it, and keeps me fuller for longer.

I love plantains, as part of a meal, and as a snack. I sautee them in animal fat, coconut oil, or ghee.

I love sliced up potatoes baked to a crisp, with avocado on top, and sometimes bacon on top of that. So good, high fat, and healthy - to me.

I make my own dressings using minimally processed ingredients thrown together.

What I consider unhealthy is processed & refined sugars, refined starches, refined foods.

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Oh, this is a hard question to answer. Like a previous poster said, I think healthy is subjective.

I recently lost about 25 lbs from stress and not being able to eat and from medication. My only goal right now is to put on a bit of weight, but to do it healthily. When I weighed more, my main goal was to watch my portion size and to not drink so much. Thank god I saved all my skinny clothes!

What I eat:

Breakfast:
A piece of fruit, sometimes with yogurt. I also sometimes have sushi or a piece of whole grain bread with cheese or ham. I’m just not a big breakfast person and sometimes skip it.

Lunch: Leftovers from Hello Fresh the night before.

Dinner: a Hello Fresh meal.

Hello Fresh has excellent portion control. You just need to check the calorie count and adjust accordingly. Their meals usually are a protein, some veg, and potatoes. That’s how it is in Germany, at least. There is a meal once a week that is high in carbs (burger or curry with Naan). I find that it suits me perfectly and I get my nutrients.

Bottom line is I usually have protein with veg.

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Eating healthy to me is a way of life. I was never a junk food person, I don't typically like to eat crap. That doesn't mean that I don't indulge...even though I'm not big on junk food per se, I LOOOVVVEEEE Chocolate! And french fries might be my most favorite food, but I limit them. And a holiday or special occasion, I will have whatever I might feel like having and will definitely have some cake ( as long as it has chocolate in it, lol)
But a typical day is the following and I rotate it so not everything listed in one day!

Breakfast: eggs, all of the egg, none of this egg white nonsense, vegetables - every meal, steel cut oatmeal with blueberries, non fat greek yogurt with berries, Vans whole grain waffles (1) with fresh ground PB on it. Very rarely, a Kashi type of cereal with almond milk.

Lunch: Grilled Chicken, Vegetables, hard boiled eggs, tuna, Salmon or other fish. Maybe once a week boars head low sodium turkey, Low carb, higher protein tortilla wraps, hummus.

Dinner: pretty much like lunch....grilled chicken, salads, vegetables, sweet potatoes, lean steak, Turkey burgers.

Snacks: Quest bars - taste like ass, but you get used to it and they fill you up. Fruits, hummus, Vitatops,Halo Top, Popcorn, Almonds

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For those who eat healthy?

The problem with Keto is that once you start eating carbs again, you gain easily because you just add in the carbs and not know how to count calories.

Signed, someone who lost 100 pounds on Keto and gained it all back

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For those who eat healthy?

Jmmmm... not eating a bag of candy is healthy... somedays are better than others i used to eat so healthy... not so much since heing pregnant and having I love food