Healthy diet..?? what to eat..?
I know often the advise to help keeping our MS at bay is to follow a healthy diet but I am a bit stumped as to what that means.?!! I am a Pescitarian and in my younger days would class myself as a cook but now I can hardly stand in the kitchen long enough to get something out of the freezer.. stick it on a cooking tray and bung it in the oven before I need a sit down.. :-/ . I have to set a timer (the PIP assessor said that counted as an aid as I have to set it now as once I burnt a pan of water...!! yes I know... :-/ ) for most things in the oven. I love a salad but like all the trimmings (croutons, sauce and maybe CHEESE and or TUNA :P ) but I have to do it in several parts if there is chopping involved.. yes I have a perch stool but I can't spend too long balancing on it. I love vegetables and have organic whenever I can but my diet (Because of lack of appetite too ) consists of "Hot and Spicy" Doritos, water, sometimes cheese sarnie with salad cream and crisps, ready vegie meals (PING..) and sometimes even a bowl of cereal while watching telly.. I don't like cake so much and don't often eat chocolate (still trying to get through our Chrimbo stock.. :-P ) and very very rarely have takeaways.. So please help all of you who say you follow a "Healthy Diet" What does that consist of..? even if it is meat I can replace most things now a days with a vegie substitute..??. It's been suggested I see a dietician because of weight gain but as of yet ... NOTHING..!!! :-( might chase that up.. Best wishes y'all :D
I've come to the conclusion that it's no use beating myself up because I can't be Mrs Perfect in the food stakes. Its part of the 'if I did more exercise, perhaps my MS would be better, if I'd led a better life, perhaps I wouldn't have got it in the first place .. etc'. I'm really good at beating myself up, given half a chance. I'm sure you are too! Do what you can when you can. PS Ever tried juicing a lemon over a raw salmon steak, then microwaving for four minutes?? Really, really good!
Try to get more vegetable into every thing. They don't have to be salad! How about blobs of frozen spinage on a pizza before it goes into the oven? Frozen salmon steaks are great and can be grilled, or wraped in foil with a little lemon and oil and put in a oven for 15 minutes ( good fish oil). Tinned sweet corn is easy and tasty and goes with everything. The lowest calory snack I know is brown crackers and any type of pickles - much better for you than crisps or corn chips when you are peckish. A lot of frozen vegetarian food is full of fat and salt. You are better off with frozen spinage, a grilled chicke breast flavoured anyway you like and some couscous, which cooks itself when you put boiling water on it and is ready in 5 minutes! Hope this helps.