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What are your best healthy eating habits?
I wouldn’t describe myself as someone who follows a strict diet.
I’ve never been particularly interested in turning every meal into a mathematical equation. 😂
For me, healthy eating is more about balance, variety and listening to my body.
I like vegetables and salads, and living in the Canary Islands makes lighter food especially appealing when it’s hot.
And lately?
It’s been HOT. 🥵
When the temperature is still hovering around 30°C at night, standing over a hot stove cooking a complicated meal isn’t exactly high on my list of ambitions.
Sometimes a fresh salad, some bread and something simple is exactly what I want.
I also try to eat proper food rather than constantly snacking, and I don’t believe one piece of chocolate cake suddenly cancels every vegetable I’ve eaten that week. 😂🍰
Food should nourish us, but I think it should also be something we can enjoy.
I’ve never liked the idea of labelling every food as either good or bad and then feeling guilty because you ate something from the supposedly wrong category.
Sometimes I want fruit.
Sometimes I want a salad.
Sometimes I want pizza with ham, bacon and pineapple.
Yes.
Pineapple.
I’m standing by it.
One healthy habit I’ve definitely developed over the years is paying attention to what my body tells me.
If something doesn’t agree with me, I don’t need to eat it simply because somebody has declared it a “superfood.”
And drinking enough water is particularly important here in the heat. 💧
Perhaps my healthiest relationship with food is simply that I don’t expect perfection.
Eat a variety of foods.
Get some vegetables in there.
Drink your water.
Enjoy your meals.
Don’t punish yourself for having dessert.
And please don’t make me eat something miserable just because the internet says I’ll live three weeks longer. 🤣
Life is about balance.
And occasionally balance means holding a salad in one hand…
and chocolate cake in the other.
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