What on Earth are You Eating?

Funny how we often spend more time, attention, money and energy on what we wear on our bodies than what we put in it to nourish and sustain it.

As a kid through to my twenties I was very slim with a super fast metabolism. I could eat what I liked without paying a price – or so it seemed.  It was only when I saw a doctor a few years ago that I began to realise how unhealthy and damaging my diet was – even though I’d been vegetarian for many years. I thought she was going to tell me to cut down / out the sugar as I have a sweet tooth. The first thing she did say was to cut out takeaways and the packaged foods which are full of salt.

I really paid attention for the first time to the very low nutritional value of much (some say most) of what’s on our shelves. My best friend has encouraged me to eat 50% raw food and start juicing for precisely these reasons.

So I decided to act on something I’d had in mind. Though I do and can cook, I – like many people – don’t often cook. I’d always said that the one luxury I might treat myself to one day is a personal chef to make me healthy nutritious meals. As chance would have it my neighbour grows much of her own produce and cooks healthy meals – I realised that I had found the candidate.

My lifestyle is busy and I realised it was worth paying someone to prepare me one healthy meal a day – usually lunch. I now prepare a fairly healthy breakfast including fruit and have started having lighter evening meals. My diet is still not perfect and I still enjoy a cake, however my diet had improved drastically and my body spots the foods that have little or no nutritional value and is naturally guiding me to ease up on them.

• What’s your diet like?
• What should you eat more of / less of?
• What could work for you?
• What simple changes could you make?