How can I eat healthy when I live at home with my parents, have no income and they refuse to buy me healthy food?
They are not doing a good job of feeding you, that’s for sure. Most parents fall down in some areas.Begin learning to cook healthy food on a budget. Check out Jack Monroe’s website in the UK. She does a lot of vegetarian food and works out the cost to a pennies-per-serving level. You can do the same thing!Start one meal at a time. Breakfast is a good one to begin with. Eggs, mushrooms, a bit of olive oil. Not expensive at all! Much cheaper than cold cereal and milk, for example.Figure out some meals that you can fix for yourself, supercheap. Work out the cost, calculate how much your parents are spending on processed food for you, explain the situation to them and ask for a weekly budget to buy ingredients for yourself.Also, if you’re fourteen or above you can get a job and begin spending your own money on groceries. That’s a great thing to do! When I was ten years old, I had a job teaching a dyslexic woman to read. (This wasn’t my first job, but it was when I started saving my money and making my own purchases.) I divided my money into long and short-term savings and began planning for the future.Your parents will probably warm up to this over time. Think camel in the tent. First the camel gets its nose in … then its head … neck … body … You get the idea. Pretty soon you’re eating salads, lean protein, making and freezing your own soup, etc.Congratulations on figuring this out on your own!
There is nothing healthy in my house?
Ive been in the same boat as you. Im 17. Ive tried losing when when i was 14 but since i was the only one trying, our fridge was never stocked with healthy food. If you can avoid all the junk food in your house, your golden. Ask your parents for maybe 100$ to go food shopping. Frozen veggies and fruits are awesome and contain the same amount of nutrients as in fresh. As of meats - stick to white meats and fish. Chicken and turkey. Eggs are also great for breakfast. No fruit juices or anything. Only drink water. Walking a mile and back would be good but how are you going to carry all the food through the mile? Just ask for a ride. Walk around the market and look for foods that are healthy. Go Whole grain breads and cereals. Avoid rice and pasta because they have SO many calories in such a little portion. Hope i helped a bit. As for recipies: heres something id do for a day. For Breakfast, id have an egg sandwich with whole grain bread and a cup of skim milk. Total of 344 calories. A real FILLING snack could be a 1/2 cup of Fiber One cereal (the one with 57% amount of daily fiber) with a cup of skim milk. Total of 140 calories. It sounds little, but it had 14g of fiber and that REALLY keeps you full. For lunch? Id have something like a plate of salad with Olive oil and vinegar (Just a little bit to coat the salad) with 2 cans of Tuna Fish. Total of 300 calories. Id have my fruits for a snack now. A bowl of frozen fruit and microwave them. Total of 100 calories. For Dinner, Id have another plate of salad and have 2 peices of grilled or baked chicken breast. total of 600 calories. You can switch it up if you want. Like have lunch meat with your salad. Turkey if you perfer. You have to use your imagination. Id sometimes use a can of beans with my salad. And then before bed, id have another bowl of fruit. 100 calories. Total of around 1600 calories. Again you have to use your imagination hun. Otherwise your going to get bored of it all the time. As for the salads - i like salad so it doesnt bother me having it everyday.
Do you eat healthier at home or eating out?
Definitely at home because I know what I put in the meal to make it. When dining out, you do not know how much butter, oil, sugar, salt is added to the food when it is cooked. The customer never knows what all the ingredients are in meal preparation unless you cook it home! I also think that people will be more inclined not to care so much about the food ingredients when dining out because it tastes good.
How can I eat healthy away from home without home made food?
I have lived away from home for 5 years now and here are a few things I've picked up along the way.Convert to brown rice instead of white rice. Brown rice has healthier carbs.Same goes with bread, brown instead of wheat (white).Try and have a different fruit everyday, or maybe a combination of fruits, whatever you can get your hands on comfortably. Avoid a build up of citric fruits only - they'll cause problems for your stomach by acid build-up.Have green tea instead of regular tea or coffee.Have muesli/oats with milk for breakfast. Easy to keep and very high in nutritional value.Have a glass of warm water first thing you wake up and last thing before going to sleep. It has many benefits and it's especially advisable to have it with a spoon of honey/lime/both.If you're fine with eggs, keep them handy. You can cook them easily and they're a healthy option for a quick meal.Dry fruits are some kickass stuff. You can use them for munching (if you need to) and also have a combination of different dry fruits daily. High nutritional value, easily available, slightly expensive.These are things you can/should eat/drink to maintain a relatively healthier lifestyle. They have little or no cooking involved and are really easy to consume. I apply all of it to my life and it has worked really well for me. However, this isn't the end of it - you must also avoid certain things in order to live healthier. Junk food, oily food, fried foods, fatty foods, etc. can be completely avoided.Hope this helps. :)
If my house has no healthy food I don’t eat until there is (which is not often). Should I just eat the processed food? Is starving or eating junk more harmful to your health?
This is a processed food- can fish.Use the fish as well as the oil in the can to fry my favorite Greenfish.This is another processed food- yeah that guilty sinful junky SPAM.Slice them.Rice, any veggie in the fridge, seaweed.Spam sushi.Or add tofu, egg, spring onion, any leafs. Noodles know the harmony.This is not only processed, but preserved, pickled- kimuchi.Chop chop chop.Fry fry fry.Processed food is a fantastic invention which changed human history. From the moment our ancestors learned to use fire, and later salt, wind, smoke, and all resources to process food, we human gained the ability to absorb nutrition and energy much more efficiently, to travel further, and even to have bigger and smarter brains.There is no such a thing- junk food. There is only junk quantity, junk frequency and junk balance.When I’m hungry, I am angry. When life is yummy, life is happy. Food in need is life indeed.(Images are from the internet.)
Why am I eating healthy but still not losing weight?
It doesn't matter what food you are eating, if you are still consuming more calories than you are burning you will not lose weight. You need to exercise. That is absolutely required to be a healthy individual. Dieting without exercise isn't healthy and it makes you lose weight much slower as well. There is no such thing as not having the time to exercise. That is a fully loaded peice of BS. You don't have time NOT to exercise. It is absolutely vital to your health. Not exercising is just as bad for you as stuffing your face with nasty food (if not more so). Everyone on this planet should exercise and everyone on this planet has the time. It's other things you don't have time for. I don't know what you mean "perving on you". Stop making dumb excuses and go get a gym membership. And no, I think it's more than clear losing 15kg in 20 days isn't realistic. Losing 15kg in 4-6 months is realistic. -Connor
For people who eat very healthy, what do you do when you go to someone's house for the weekend?
I do nearly all of our meals at home in an effort to eat well and frugal thanks to lean finances. Being a reasonably good cook and baker makes some friends and relatives a bit nervous in inviting us for dinner, but, as I remind them, DH & I love their company first. Please cook what makes you happy and we’ll partake. I keep my mouth shut while I’m chewing. A few happy nommy noises never hurt either.Manners first. On the flip side, it’s good manners to inquire if there are any foods your incoming guests need to avoid or if there are changes in the diet. The latter issue haunts those of us in our waning years because we are trying to tighten the diet and improve the odds of easier health. Since this is family there’s no reason why you can’t drop in a casual manner that there are recent adjustments to your diet for health reasons. If this doesn’t start an expanded conversation in “what do you need?”, then roll with the thought that a weekend of naughty food memories isn’t going to near hurt you within a month of meals that you’d prefer.Give over to making memories of family socializing and eat small portions of your worry foods. And stop worrying. Oh, you certainly could bring a small container of food to share. An enthusiastic introduction to a new recipe you offer to make … warn ahead if this is good, the cook at the other end might be over-thinking plans … might be accepted warmly if you introduce as a meal to share and not a meal to substitute.