Inspire me to eat healthily

[Gwenhwyfar]

I know I should eat healthily and have my 5 a day (currently struggling to get just 1 despite being 90% vegetarian), but even though I know it, I struggle to really understand it if you see what I mean. I know scientists say you should eat fruit and veg and that ideally it should be way more than 5 and I presume that's based on studies of people who've developed certain illnesses, but it's not something I can SEE or FEEL like I can with other things. When I've made an effort myself, I haven't seen any improvement.
I can see that overeating makes you overweight. That's clear.
I can feel that too much sugar rots your teeth. I can feel that happening, but I just can't see the damage I'm doing by eating cheese sandwiches and the like.

I hear people saying things like 'I haven't been eating healthily, I'm craving fruit/veg now' and I'm quite confused by that or 'you may not be overweight, but you'll be really unhealthy inside'. I don't really know what they mean by that.

Can anyone help make it more 'real' for me rather than just something people say.

Thanks in advance.

There was an episode of the Food Program recently which discussed the correlation between diet and mental health. That might be worth a listen?

Thanks. I've found one from July. Is it this one?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l1wp

Yes that's the one. Can't believe it's from July but now I think about it may have been sipping wine and wearing a linen dress and flip flops...

It's good. Thinking it will help against anxiety and depression is more persuasive for me than something like preventing Alzheimers in 40 years.

I think that's a very good way of looking at it.