Teele Grouse - One simple thing that changes everything when it comes to nutrition

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Teele Teder

Journalist and nutritionist.

Nutritionist recommends: one simple thing that changes everything about nutrition everything

Can you imagine choosing a life partner who just happened to be in the right
to be close in time or to settle for a car that was just cheap or to take
against a job offer where they just needed a person? We choose very
carefully and consciously the partner, the car we drive, the profession that
interests, employer, and clothes we want to wear, but one very important aspect
we often leave life completely to chance.
I too used to be the one who, at a good moment in the office, realized that my stomach was empty and only then started looking for a solution to the problem. Most likely, I then accepted any “daily special.” At the same time, you don't have to be a clairvoyant to know that the stomach gets empty several times a day. I didn't think about it or plan my meals in any way. Maybe I thought about which 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's probably in my genes or maybe I have some disease that causes it. One of the two, definitely!
Once I even went to a nutritionist, but it was not a pleasant experience.
Of course, because he 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 at that time they weighed only a hundred grams. And how triumphantly I stepped on the scale at the nutritionist's office. I had indeed managed to lose two kilos compared to the last time - mainly due to lunch and the water I didn't drink. At the same time, by that moment I had had a dream in my head for almost ten years that this year I would lose weight - whether for my birthday, Midsummer, or Christmas. When one holiday arrived, I smoothly set a new deadline for myself. I was aware that I had a goal to achieve a healthy weight, but I forgot about it every
once I ate.

By today, being a nutritionist myself, it seems to me that the question isn't even
actually 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 started to change when I realized that I have a choice between two paths - either continue making the same promise and self-deception until the end of life, considering the fact that extra kilos keep adding up and clothes that hide my body as well, or 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 actually healthy. For example, snacks that you can find on the njom.ee website.

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