Healthy Food Regime Traps

Delicious steak with vegetable garnish. Chicken legs with.. vegetable garnish. And so on. Every single day. Or else?

There are still people, who connect healthy eating with the definitions “boring”, “nagging”, “painful”, “dull”. Yet, in order to turn a meal into a healthy bomb, it must be various. Many people get trapped into the one-type diets, the habit and the routine.

Repeating the same meals can become monotonous. If you want more variety, begin with the ingredients and cooking methods you enjoy and plan manageable changes. Nutritional needs are individual, so an appliance-cleaning article should not be treated as personalised dietary advice or a prediction about how a particular menu will affect your body.

The Oven Chamber Owns The Cooktops

For everyone, who decided to change their bad eating habits, but don’t know where to start.

For everyone, who already keep a seemingly healthy eating regime, but it seems nagging and boring.

For everyone, who think that eating healthy means consuming only chicken, broccoli, rice and grapefruit.

For everyone, who fears experimenting with foods.

Are you up for a change? Or you are in the process?

Congrats. That’s an important and hard step. You’ve replaced the French fries with clean oven-baked, and, instead of breaded chicken drumsticks you eat barbecued chicken fillet?

You regularly turn on your shiny cooker to steam some broccoli, whereas the grapefruit is your best friend.

You put an end to soft drinks, full of sugar. Hello, tea and water. And so on… every day.

Let’s clear something out: those foods are simply amazing and they are truly considered healthy.

But eating like that every single day and cooking in a dirty oven – that’s far than healthy now, isn’t it?

What’s the meaning of all this?

The purpose is really simple: We want to provoke you thinking about all that. If you need an advice from a qualified persona, a doctor or a dietitian, by all means, pay them the necessary attention. Don’t expect to read in this article that you should eat in a certain way, or use your oven right, in order to achieve some given results”, or even “There’s only one single truth”.

There is no final answer, because the truth is not just a single one. Instead, let’s see what happens in the mind of a professional athlete, who constantly keeps food regimes and is refuses to give them up.

Some people could go far away from being healthy in order to achieve their aims. Don’t take my words for granted, but think about them.

The Trap Of The Healthy Food Regimes

That’s great, but you need something more.

Healthy, but repetitive and unvaried – that’s not really beneficial.

The daily grind in eating can lead to:

A repetitive menu can become less appealing over time. Planning a few alternative meals may make home cooking more enjoyable without turning variety into another rigid rule.

The shortage of nutrients and the body deprivation of a wide spectre of micro-nutrients. Every kind of food has different ingredients – in some there are vitamins and minerals which you cannot find in others.

Food allergies. There are specific antibodies on the stomach’s mucosa, that have the important role of recognising and catching the external agents, before they enter the blood circulation. The monotonous eating breaks down the natural mechanism of recognition. Therefore, there are flaws in the work of those antibodies. They begin reacting with food in such a way, that they will react with an external agent. Meaning – they won’t process what’s beneficial for you.

Aim achievement lag. That could be a result from the boredom and the negative emotions, painfully connected with the familiar unanimous menu or because of the food allergies.

Why Do One Gets Into This Trap?

Probably there are many possible answers, but I will give just one – the cause for me to get into this trap a year ago.

I learnt what quantity of calories I should intake and what’s the proper amount of macro-nutrient in order to achieve my personal goals. I calculated them according to a few food sources and began eating only them.

It feels great at the beginning, because you know how many proteins there are in 200 gr of your oven-roasted chicken breasts and how many fats there are in 5 eggs. I began achieving my aims, but simultaneously I was afraid of other kinds of food, because, though healthy, I feared they can hinder my regime.

Honestly, what if I was too bored eating eggs, chicken, rice and salad – every day? I was getting there anyway.

This kept going for a while. Then again the things took the wrong turn and I reached a standstill.

I looked for the reason everywhere, but not with the foods I ate every single day during a few months.

Diverse Eating

That’s how I reached to diverse eating. I began to think more and question everything. Even what the specialists claimed that’s working.

I asked questions, I found answers. The pieces of the puzzle were falling into their places.

What’s more, we can reach our aims with more than a short set of meals, as long as we get into the appropriate caloric intake and macro-nutrient proportion.

It’s not the way you cook it, it’s what you actually eat.

The idea is to have a few sources of the main macro-nutrients and change them every day.

Have a bite of cauliflower, eggs and oatmeal today, whereas tomorrow relish on turkey, Brussels sprout, avocado and rice. Cook delicious fish on your BBQ on the third day, and so on.

Your Kitchen Is Your Temple

If you enjoy cooking at home, keep the preparation area and cooking accessories manageable between meals. Follow the oven’s instructions for fresh spills and ask about professional cleaning for deposits you cannot address with routine care. Cleaning an appliance is separate from choosing a varied diet and should not be presented as determining your eating habits or the taste of every dish.

All those are just examples, that will show easily my idea. I want to apologise to all vegans and vegetarians, that I constantly speak for meat and fish as a protein source, but I speak from personal experience and I am a meat lover.

Try a range of ingredients that suit your preferences and dietary needs. If you need nutritional guidance, use a qualified source rather than judging a food as beneficial or harmful from a vague label.

The Benefits of Diverse Eating

• Providing a wide number of micro and macro-elements for the body;
• Lowering the risk of creating deficits;
• Lowering the risk of food allergies;
• Possibility to combine different foods and spices, so that you don’t get the feeling you are keeping a regime. The main idea, in fact. Accept your diet as something, with which in the long term you will achieve your goals and simultaneously, you will be healthy;
• Finding new tastes and combinations, which will give you pleasure from eating;
• Desire to experiment in the kitchen;

How To Start?

If you think you got into the trap of monotonous eating and you see the negatives, initiate the change.

If your condition is specific or you cannot do it yourself, consult with a specialist.

Make a list of all kinds of healthy sources of: proteins, fats, carbs, fibres (don’t forget water, too).

Strive each day to have a different source for every group of the above. Make sure they are in the quantities you find appropriate for your daily routine.

Don’t run into extremes – there’s nothing fatal in that you ate pork three times this week, whereas your veggies consisted of carrots and cauliflower only. Next week you try and diverse your menu with another protein source and experiment with more vegetables.

Remember that healthy eating can be delicious and should bring you pleasure, if it is diverse and consistent with your individual needs.