I don’t know what’s healthy any more - I need help

[sparkle789]

After years of yo-yo dieting I’ve lost all sense of what is actually good for me.
I want to start being more healthy but have a complete mind blank of what meals I should eat?
I have a bad take away habit which I need to break for my body and because it’s so expensive.
My stomach hurts all the time from binging on crap food and it’s affecting my mental health.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

[LeGrandBleu]

Well, this is quite normal because the food industry has done a great job at confusing us as much as they can.

I would suggest you add a book called in "defence of food "to your Christmas list www.amazon.co.uk/Defence-Food-Nutrition-Pleasures-Manifesto/dp/0141034726?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

You need to take a step back from industrial or commercial start again eating from the basics. Abandon Ultra processed food and go to the fresh aisle. Leave anything that says " healthy" on the packet on the shelf and pick up a packet with no more than 5 ingredients listed and possibly ingredients that do not require a factory or high pressure machines to exist.

For breakfast, a wholemeal toast (with wholemeal flour, not wheat flour + bran), an egg if you like it, rolled oats with berries, ....
For lunch, become a salad wizard with fresh lettuce (not from a bag filled with CO2 and tasteless) , radicchio, or oven roasted veggies, with maybe a small piece (half your palm) steak or chicken breast or steamed fish, for dinner a soup, a dahl, a minestrone, or even a small plate of pasta with your own sauce.

Eat bread only once a day, and try to find a real bread not the typical soft loaf with an ingredients list that goest forever. When buying, anything with more than 5 gr of sugar, leave on shelf and do a cleanup of your kitchen (fridge, freezer, cupboards) if you are really serious about changing your eating habits