Make it a Habit: Eating Healthy
I once attended the Victory Fellowship in UP together with Cheryl
Joy “Bajoy”. Bajoy is one of my housemate, a very good ebullient friend and
Keribells one important piece.
“It will take 21 days to make a habit” quoted by the Lecturer.
Yes, it’s hard. But we can catch-up. In this case, we are given a bookmark with
21 Bible verses for 21 days of reading and understanding. I bring the bookmark
in the office so that I can easily Google the verse for my reading and
understanding. I was able to manage the five day challenge, and I’m feeling a
lil’ contented. And so weekend came, the bookmark was left and I was not able
to read on the sixth and seventh. So the habit was break, but then we can still
catch things up. So I do 2-3 verses every Monday until finish. As of now, I
still check verses online daily.
Anyway, let’s move to habit that we want to achieve. Eating
healthy!
This is also a big challenge for me as I work in a BPO industry.
We usually sort to eating at 24-hour food chains, especially, I’m at night
shift. McDonalds, Jollibee, KFC and all others we see regularly.
I saw a post in twitter regarding McNuggets made of beef. I didn’t
read through the article, but I sorted to Google-ing the ingredients and components.
At some point, I understand everything but when tertiary butylhydroquinone pop-up in my eyes, I was like,
what in the world was that? I did some research and I’m not so sure if you
would want to ingest an additive to fuels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butylhydroquinone .
One thing I want to work
on is NOT-TO-EAT food with ingredients I can’t even pronounce.
1.
Do your grocery weekly - Get the stuffs which you can easily cook.
In supermarkets and public markets
just get something handy to avoid spoiling
Vegetables:
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You can get vegetable/s enough for 1 cooking. If you can go for
organic, a lot better (It’s just a little pricey).
Tip:
my cousin Maya, advice me to soak the vegetable for 5 minutes in 1 Liter of
water with 2 tbs. spoon of Sukang Iloko (Ilocos Vinegar). I’m not sure why but
she says there is component in sukang iloko that can reduce/eliminate pesticide
components and other unwanted elements clinging to the vegetables.
Meat / Fish
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Don’t get kilos of meat; just get enough for your consumption.
Dairy
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SM sells organic eggs (well, I hope!)
Sugar
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Use the Muscovado Brown Sugar. They say brown sugar is much
healthier, try using muscovado brown sugar. Try a spoon of Muscovado sugar and
add about 3-5 drops of water, this turns into molasses like when dissolve.
2 Do variety
With the availability of different
kinds of food items, get stuffs that you would want to try. If you don’t know
how to cook it, then Google it!
Here are some great food blogs, I
usually look into (A very good help all the time):
Whether you are too busy or whether you work in whatever time and
place, it’s not an excuse that you will eat all crappy foods you can found
everywhere. Take a time to nourish yourself and always make sure to find time
for Me-Time.
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