So what is proper nutrition? In my opinion, the most proper food is that which suits a particular person. And who will determine what exactly is suitable for this particular person? The man himself or the doctor? If there are no problems with being overweight, then we can assume that a person eats properly. Just guess! Because the normal weight, like the good condition of the skin, hair, nails, vivacity and lack of pain, is not yet a health indicator. If a person does not know what is harmful food, what you can eat, and what you can not eat, then talk about health early. Perhaps just the "cleaning systems" of the body are very good at dealing with the so-called harmful food, and you still do not think about what you can eat or what you can not eat.
Listen to your instincts!
Personally for me, there are no useful and unhelpful products and I do not bother about whether I eat right. I eat what I like and what I want, but what I do not want, I do not eat, if it is a thousand times useful. If you pay attention to pets, it is the "nobles" who have not atrophied the mechanisms of protection from harmful food, distinguish between what you can eat and what you can not eat. Cats, for example, eagerly eat vegetables and do not want to eat fish. And if the animal for some reason does not want to eat a favorite treat so far, maybe there is something in it, and we should also follow their example?
Slastenam to the note
It is believed that people are starting to gain weight from sweet fizzy drinks, chips, breakfast cereals, etc. Honestly, I do not drink any carbonated sweet drinks, I just do not like it, I rarely eat chips, and I do not know what dry breakfasts are. A person with a healthy, not perverted taste, spring water will taste better than a sweet soda, which "hits" at once for two purposes - supposedly "saturates" the body, causing a sweet taste reaction, as if carbohydrate food comes, and harmless carbon dioxide - increased secretion of the stomach . And even children ask for water when they want to drink, not "soda", and they know very well what is harmful food, what you can eat and what you can not eat. They are for the time being prompted by the body. But over time, they learn from their parents, gaining other eating habits. Need I say that "following" the mineral water with insufficient organization, will go and chips, and quick breakfasts, and anything?
Muesli, despite being invented as a healthy food, is harmful. Candied fruit (candied fruit), flattened cereals instead of whole grains and sea of sugar - all this is supposed to be filled with milk and having fun.
Food as a philosophy of life
About healthy nutrition, in contrast to harmful food, many people say, and no less than "healers" and naturopaths tell us what you can eat and what can not. But of all the tips, everyone should choose their own recipes for healthy eating. I have a glass of water for a breakfast with a break in an hour, with a pinch of salt (following the advice of the popular healer Mironov), then a glass of water with a teaspoon of honey (well, I love honey), then a sandwich with spread and cheese. I do not like butter, I like it, for some reason, it smells of cow ... I like vegetables and fruits very much, but I do not eat them as often and not as much as I would like. Macaroni, porridge - in small quantities. I love fried potatoes, fry it usually at night, I eat up and go to bed. This happens once a week, not more often. Maybe it's a bad habit, but I really like fried potatoes and this is one of my little weaknesses. At the same time, I often tell myself that if I ate as much as I really wanted, then I would not have put on the toilet for a long time, and my weight is 49 kg with 156 cm of growth, and it keeps at this level for 25 years, least. Here, probably, also the natural greed plays a role. I believe that much is not only harmful, but also expensive.
Self-control tricks
It's funny, maybe, but I'm very good at controlling it myself - I have to make a living by myself, no one will feed. Although the other time zhor sorts out that he is ready to eat all day, not focusing, how much time passed between meals. Of course, I blame myself for this, gently scold, love, but I can not do anything. But to control yourself is very simple - pick up your favorite recipes, and if you want to, but do not want to load yourself, then boil a thick kiselek and eat it during the day if desired. Charge is mandatory, for me the most convenient time is late evening, or simply so it is more convenient, or because I'm trying to shift the "night owl" to the evening when I feel the best way. The main thing is to drink plenty of water, but only on an empty stomach. Water, after eating, after eating, especially warm, worsens digestion.
About mono-nutrition with "useful" products
My girlfriend last three months has planted herself on a strict diet - eats in a day, that is, one day does not eat at all, the second one eats only buckwheat, in what quantities - did not specify. During these three months, she dropped 16 kg (the original weight - 65 kg, after 3 months - 49 kg). Now we have the same height and weight, but it has a much larger skeleton and what remains of it, I can only guess, because I will see it only in a month. To my question "Why so cruelly to treat yourself?" She replied that now she "beauty" and she still needs to lose three pounds. This attitude to your body can be detrimental to your health, and it worries me very much. Sometimes it's more dangerous than letting yourself eat harmful foods, not understanding what you can eat and what you can not. But we know that all the problems sit in our head and, if a person has thought of getting rid of weight, superfluous or in general, then only a psychiatrist can help and then, not always. After all, how many girls have ruined themselves with a hunger diet ... Proper nutrition is a food that is beneficial to the body, not something that destroys it. A reasonable person is able to determine what food is harmful to him, according to his own feelings, and that he needs to eat and what not. As I think, no advice to him in this regard is not needed, because he will still eat whatever he wants.