How to Eat Healthy

I have been struggling to adjust my diet for three years. From the time I got gastroenteritis when the seasons changed, and my BMI was stable at 27, I have now passed all physical examination standards. The deepest feeling is that healthy eating is never a numerical card standard of memorizing dietary guidelines, nor is it an ascetic practice of completely quitting milk tea and hot pot. The core is to find a nutritionally balanced rhythm that matches your own life rhythm.

I followed the trend of my colleagues in the office and tried a low-carb diet for three months. I only ate one punch of staple food every day. At first, I was really happy that my scales fell off quickly. However, after two months in a row, my aunt was not allowed to do it. I went to the nutrition department and found out that there is no standard answer to the controversy about whether to reduce carbohydrates. Office workers who can’t sit still consume less carbohydrates. Replacing refined rice and refined noodles with grains can indeed alleviate the problem of sleepiness after meals. However, if you go to the construction site every day or do strength training four or five times a week, if you don’t eat enough carbohydrates, you will lose muscle and lose concentration at work. I later adjusted my staple food to steamed corn in the morning and a bowl of rice at noon. If I had a date at night, I would eat half a piece of sweet potato. The hypoglycemia problem of dizziness and trembling hands at 3pm never happened again.

Friends around me always ask me if I have given up milk tea completely. How can I? Last week, I went to Chunxi Road with my best friend and ordered Bo Ya Juexian, which has less sugar. But I won’t drink a cup as water every day for three days in a row like before. When I am greedy, I will order a cup of three-point sugar to relieve my addiction. If I drink milk tea that day, I will take the initiative to serve less than half a spoon of rice at dinner to free up the extra sugar. It is much more comfortable than holding back for more than half a month until I overeat three cups at a time. In fact, our body is like a small processing factory that works every day. You don't need to stuff high-priced "high-quality ingredients" such as imported avocados and deep-sea fish as supplements every day. As long as you don't stuff it with a bunch of fried ice drinks one day and starve it so much that it can't start working tomorrow, you can give it the raw materials it needs in a regular and rationed amount, and it will naturally run smoothly.

There has been a long-standing argument that "you must drink eight glasses of water a day." I had to drink eight glasses of water a day. I always had to go to the toilet and still had edema. After asking friends who do nutrition research, I found out that the earliest version of this statement had already included the water in the food. If you drank soup and ate half a piece of watermelon that day, you don't have to drink eight glasses of water. People with poor kidney metabolism will be burdened by drinking too much. Usually, just touch the cup and take a few sips, and drink slowly, as long as you don't feel thirsty. I always have washed cherry tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs in the refrigerator now. When I work late and am too lazy to turn on the stove, grabbing two tomatoes and an egg is much better for my stomach than ordering takeout with high oil and salt content, and I won’t be so full that I can’t sleep for half the night.

To be honest, there is no one-size-fits-all formula for healthy eating. Feel your body's reaction. After eating, your stomach will feel comfortable and you will be online all day long. This is the most suitable healthy way of eating for you.