Diet Discovery

Where is he getting the junk food or the money for the junk food?! If you’re giving it to him, then you only have yourself to blame. Just tell him that whatever you’re serving is dinner, and that if he doesn’t like it then he doesn’t get to eat anything else for that meal. Who’s in charge in your house – you or your kids?
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Ingredients:

* 1 pack softened cream cheese
* 1 stick margarine.(its low fat)
* 1 pack Good Seasons mild Italian dressing (dry)
* 1 loaf rye bread
* 2 cucumbers, thinly sliced
* Dill weed for garnish

Method:

1. In a pot combine cream cheese, margarine and dressing mix.
2. Refrigerate overnight.
3. Spread on each slice of bread, top with cucumber slice and sprinkle with dill.
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this is healthy.it has margarine which is vegetable fat so try this!

Thinking back to being a teen myself, cravings for fat&starches&sugars was a phase, though not for everyone.

tips: I shifted my choosing "junk food" more towards healthy foods, by finding healthy foods with taste. I used to love buckets of ice cream or ice cream bars. Discovered I equally enjoy frozen blueberries – 3 cups, appr 200 calories (instead of the 1000 or so with icecream bars of same amount), I chew them when they are semi-frozen solid, little sweetener; delicious, for me anyway. Instead of candies – pears – dip them in sweetened cinnamon, bite, dip, delicious. Mashed banana on a stick, then frozen, afterwards in a form/mould covered with chocolate milk and extra cocoa, allowed to refreeze again – 300 calories instead of 600, plus all the crucial amino acids regular ice cream bars lack… Pasta with gobs of cheese – instead, half a head of iceberg lettuce (or entire head if I’m famished), cubed; with some starchy elements such as 1 portion pasta bread cubes, etc, with vegetables like zuccini grilled red peppers onions, some meat, tomato paste or canned tomatoes (if you have garden or farmer’s market near by, then fresh tomatos – this is only because of the extra taste vine-ripened tomatoes add regular supermarket versions lack), cooked spaghetti squash, etc… with grilled (to almost crisp) cheese on top, slide this entire thing onto the cubed lettuce… etc – 2000 calories reduced to 700, and delicious, and quite filling (volume wise). (edit : or popcorn instead of chips – crunchy, tasty, fewer calories per same volume or eating time – in short, common sense too)

The other minor tidbits I found useful was getting enough potassium (and reasonable sodium amounts), B-complex, zinc, magnesium, selenium, omega-3-6-9s, calcium, vitamins A&D. In short, the vitamins and minerals help in so many ways, including healthy metabolism; the omega acids actually aid the liver in metabolizing fat, all fat including the bad one, provided the liver isn’t burdened by eliminating too many other toxins… I also try avoiding certain combination of foods, such as high amounts of both carbs and fats – the carbs quickly convert to sugars, raise insulin, which signals the body to store the fat, in couple of hours hunger returns craving more. Conversely, either I consume mainly someting sweet (reasonable amounts) or high in fat&protein low in carbs (again, almost reasonably), but try avoiding combining the two in a single day (though I love donuts, an example of indulgent food which cannot be divided into carbs and sugars, instead I consume "sensibly" by compensating for the 3000 calorie binge the next day with a 500 calorie menu)… Yet another nifty ritual I found useful is starting my days with anything rich in protein – the first thing in my empty stomach sets the types of cravings I have throughout the day and how often; conversely starting the day with sugars or starches sets me up for perpetual craving of more and more every couple of hours, consuming much, deriving little, storing most as fat…

summary: above is a specific illustrative minor example of healthy eating, tips & tricks, suited to my tastes, obviously other people’s will vary. The intended point here is one needs to find alternatives one can actually live with, not just struggle to endure hating every single healthy bite of it. And yes, I do also indulge junk food among other unhealthy substances, just sensibly. Again, these are not intended as step by step processes or recipe examples, just pointing out the possibilities. Though I would again stress the point, at least as it was true for me, growing kids and teens do crave fats&sugars, at least I did, in quantities. Regards, Pat.

For specific realistic diet-related lifestyle plans, if you can’t design your own, I would strongly suggest professional advice. Other than that, trial&error is what got me to discover what works for me. Hope this inspires some ideas of what’s realistically possible. Sorry for the verbal deluge, was trying to offer ideas, and there are simply so many – was choosing haphazardly few of the many examples as they came to mind.

edit : one other fairly important point as this relates to parent-child "power-struggle" : don’t know how many adults here still remember their *youth (*actual youth, not the time-skewed/edited version "we" often tell our kids), but power-struggles often fail to resolve anything. If a kid is pressured, coerced, threatened, given ultimatums, etc… just to solve an eating issue, I have yet to learn of times when it did anything more than fuel rebellion or lead to failure. Rather than forcing healthy diet in a militant fashion, equating parent’s acceptance of their child with attached implied conditions, and such, (even if the child is overweight) – try a gradual transitional approach, at least until the alternative foods are approved, and never attach conditions to your love for your kids even if only unwittingly implied. Not nutrition-related edit, but one as equally important given how eating habits can also have psychological components.
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have you ever seen cook yourself thin ? Its a programme on at the moment where they give people who are over weight alternatives on there faviourte meals, generally they are the unhealthy options like chocolate and takeaways and things like that. And they either do the same meal but a a healthier version or give a alternative which is just and tasty but is lower in fat and calories.
http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/cook-yourself-thin/
It has all the recipies and if you have virgin you can watch it on catch up.
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Put your foot down and don’t take that fat ass to McDonald’s everytime he whines.
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Common sense.

you have to make attractive food than your child will definitely like that make it color full by adding some interesting food ingredients like we are having three colors in capsicum – green red and yellow and one more thing that make sure it has to be tasty less spicy.
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