Diet Tips
- Fitting Your Favorite Foods
Into Your Daily Diet
The purpose of this exercise is to
identify foods that you love
and fit them into your daily
diet without causing a Diet
Disaster. What did you
have to eat today? Did they fit into the
food groups (fruits, vegetables, proteins
- including nuts and eggs, dairy and grains).
Now
- about those cupcakes, cookies,
cakes, donuts, muffins and so
forth... There is another
element in the daily diet that
we need: FAT. Therefore, - so don't panic
if all your favorites didn't
fit into the Daily Food Groups.
Examples
of how a healthy diet might look are listed
on the first line in the chart below. The
second line contains examples of what may
be 'favorite foods' that contain fat, yet
also contain ingredients that are healthy.
Food
Groups »
Grains
Fruits
Vegetables
Protein
Dairy
Healthy
Options
Cheerios
Apple
Baked
Potato
Sausage
Mozzarella
Cheese
Fattier
Options
Cheerios
Breakfast Bar
Apple
Pie
French
Fries
Peanut
Butter & Crackers
Cheddar
Cheese
The
key is MODERATION and choosing
those favorite foods that will
best fit into the Basic Food
Groups. The closer to 'HEALTHY'
that your favorite food is,
the better!
