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Journalist and nutrition adviser. (Photo: Diana Unt)
Nutrition adviser recommends: one simple thing that changes everything about eating
Can you imagine choosing a life partner just because they happened to be nearby at the right time, or settling for a car simply because it was cheap, or accepting a job offer just because someone was needed? We choose our life partner, the car we drive, the field of study that interests us, the employer, and the clothes we want to wear very carefully and consciously, but one very important aspect of life we often leave entirely to chance.
I used to be the kind of person who one fine moment in the office would suddenly notice that my stomach was empty and only then start looking for a solution to the problem. Most likely, I would have settled for any “daily special.” At the same time, you don’t have to be a seer to know that the stomach empties several times a day. I didn’t think about it or plan my meals in any way. If I did think about it, it was probably about what food I would reward myself with after a hard workday. Weighing more than a hundred kilos, I didn’t understand why I was overweight. It must be in my genes or maybe I have some illness causing it. One of the two, for sure!
Once I even went to a nutrition adviser, but it was not a pleasant experience.
Of course, because they wanted to change my lifestyle. When the day of the next appointment came, I decided just before going to choose potato chips instead of the usual lunch because they weighed only a hundred grams at the time. And how proudly I stepped on the scale at the nutrition adviser’s office. I had indeed managed to lose two kilos compared to the last time—mainly due to lunch and not drinking water. At the same time, by that moment, I had had a dream in my head for almost ten years that I would lose weight this year—whether for my birthday, midsummer, or Christmas. When one special day arrived, I smoothly set a new deadline for myself. I was aware that I had a goal to reach a healthy weight, but I forgot it every time I ate.
Today, being a nutrition adviser myself, it seems to me that the question is not really that we don’t know which food is healthy. Broadly speaking, we all know what is rather healthy and what is not. The question is rather why we don’t eat that way? I believe everything starts with taking responsibility. Things in my life only began to change when I realized I had a choice between two paths—either to continue making the same promise and self-deception until the end of life, considering that extra kilos keep coming and clothes that hide my body as well, or to truly take responsibility for my food and well-being.
Nowadays, taking responsibility is easier than ever because, for example, some foods that used to be classified as sweets are now quite healthy. For example, snacks you can find on the njomfoods.com site.
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