Find a Way

We all have concerns, doubts, constraints-- issues that hold us back from achieving our ultimate goal. I know what mine are. I don't have a license, endless money, or patience to make anything particularly involved. Essentially, my problems are the same as those of most other people my age. We teenagers, unless we have the time, don't want to spend hours in the kitchen preparing food. Most of us don't even like cooking at all. So it's usually PowerBar for breakfast and a microwaved Mac and Cheese dinner for the majority of us, with lunch as nothing but a very large snack amongst many. That kind of diet doesn't cut it for me, the avid foodie I am. There are some tricks, however, that I have found help me eat better all day long.

A lot of people say that eating at specific times every day, without fail, trains your body to accept food at that time, and only want food at that time-- Bull. Crap. I wake up in the morning, and I'm not always hungry right when I get up. I'm sometimes not hungry until around lunchtime.

I have found that I eat best when my mother keeps a few very simple ingredients always in the house, and I can use those to create whatever I'm in the mood for. All you really need is a fruit, a vegetable, some kind of protein (e.g. beans or tofu), and a carbohydrate, that way you can choose from those options whichever you're wanting. You satisfy your craving, while still eating good food.

Find a way to get good food into your house, and eat it when you're hungry... you'll end up really enjoying it a lot more!