Fruit and Fruit

Sundae · 03-05-2009, 08:56 AM

She has not asked me anything about my current diet.
This really is the softly softly approach, to encourage a healthy lifestyle long term.
Most people get referred to her because they have heart problems, diabetes, or some other sort of obesity-related issue (as opposed to just obesity, like me, but I requested this). It seems to be assumed that they have never addressed their eating habits previously.

My 5 a day really does vary. Part of the recommendation here is that they must vary - there was an issue with a baked bean manufacturer (or maybe one of the supermarkets - I can't remember) having misleading labelling.

I regularly eat:
Carrot
Baked beans
Orange juice
Cabbage
Apple
Banana
Mixed berries (frozen)
Onion
Peppers
Tomato
Spring onions
Potato
Sweet potato
Lettuce
Courgette
Strawberry
Peas
Sweetcorn

More occasionally (once a week or less)
Melon
Cherries
Spinach
Aubergine

ETA - Mum & I are cooking from the WeightWatchers and Slimming Wold cookbooks and various online healthy eating sites. Seriously, we are vegelicious as well as the additional fruit (which Mum is better at that I am). Every dinner has veg in and beside it. I may not always meet the target in the strictest daily sense, but in a week I am confident I meet it.

I do see what you mean re the different benefits from the fruit though.

limey · 03-05-2009, 09:43 AM

An apple a day is halfway there, isn't it, to your current goal of 2 a day.
Add a smoothie now and again for breakfast ... a banana occasionally, the odd glass of orange juice, a handful of cherries and you're there ...

jinx · 03-05-2009, 10:10 AM

Suck it up and eat the 2 fruits would be my vote. The reasons for that recommendation are; not couching your diet change in negatives (stop eating this, that, and the other thing), and also it acts as replacement for something else you'd likely eat that would be less healthy (I need a snack... cookies? no, I've got to eat that other piece of fruit still).

I'm with you though, I eat a lot more veggies than fruit.

03-05-2009, 08:56 AM	#1
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	She has not asked me anything about my current diet. This really is the softly softly approach, to encourage a healthy lifestyle long term. Most people get referred to her because they have heart problems, diabetes, or some other sort of obesity-related issue (as opposed to just obesity, like me, but I requested this). It seems to be assumed that they have never addressed their eating habits previously. My 5 a day really does vary. Part of the recommendation here is that they must vary - there was an issue with a baked bean manufacturer (or maybe one of the supermarkets - I can't remember) having misleading labelling. I regularly eat: Carrot Baked beans Orange juice Cabbage Apple Banana Mixed berries (frozen) Onion Peppers Tomato Spring onions Potato Sweet potato Lettuce Courgette Strawberry Peas Sweetcorn More occasionally (once a week or less) Melon Cherries Spinach Aubergine ETA - Mum & I are cooking from the WeightWatchers and Slimming Wold cookbooks and various online healthy eating sites. Seriously, we are vegelicious as well as the additional fruit (which Mum is better at that I am). Every dinner has veg in and beside it. I may not always meet the target in the strictest daily sense, but in a week I am confident I meet it. I do see what you mean re the different benefits from the fruit though. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac Last edited by Sundae; 03-05-2009 at 09:05 AM.

03-05-2009, 09:43 AM	#2
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	An apple a day is halfway there, isn't it, to your current goal of 2 a day. Add a smoothie now and again for breakfast ... a banana occasionally, the odd glass of orange juice, a handful of cherries and you're there ... __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

03-05-2009, 10:10 AM	#3
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Suck it up and eat the 2 fruits would be my vote. The reasons for that recommendation are; not couching your diet change in negatives (stop eating this, that, and the other thing), and also it acts as replacement for something else you'd likely eat that would be less healthy (I need a snack... cookies? no, I've got to eat that other piece of fruit still). I'm with you though, I eat a lot more veggies than fruit. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

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