It’s August 6, and I should be 2 days into step 4 – the 10
week course from “The Willpower Instinct”.
Instead, I’m pretty much back on step 2 – creating a new eating
plan. I intend to borrow the book from
the library tomorrow and starting up step 4 anyway, but for now, let’s take a
look at step 2.
Creating a new eating plan was about 2 things – reducing depression
and increasing foods that fight cancer.
In my research, I found lists of foods and activities that do one or the
other. I have found only a handful that
do both.
1. Bell peppers
2. Blueberries
3. Broccoli
4. Carrots (cooked)
5. Dark green leafy
vegetables
6. Flax seeds
7. Pink grapefruit
8. Spinach (raw or
lightly cooked)
9. Tomatoes (cooked
or processed)
10. Strawberries
11. Whole grains
Of those, there are 3 I don’t particularly care for – 2, 6,
and 7. That still leaves me with 8
different foods and food types that I can add to my current diet plan to
improve my health.
What to do next?
There are a few things I could do:
1. Go on a hunt for recipes that include these things.
2. Search my current recipes for ways I can incorporate
these foods into them.
3. Choose one of the foods and spend a week on figuring out
ways I like to eat it.
Any of these would work.
Off the top of my head, the three main ways I can see of
doing this easily are soups, salads, and stir frys. The problem is I’ve tried to do such things
in the past, and the results weren’t always tasty. Recipes are a good way to take care of
that.
Obstacles? First, I
don’t care much for cooking, so whatever I do will have to be really easy. Otherwise, I won’t keep doing it. Second, my husband doesn’t care for most of
these, so whatever I do will have to either be side dishes for our joint meals
or separate meals.
The next step in creating my meal plan is finding easy
recipes for small meals or side dishes that include at least one if not more of
these foods.
