Coming back to this 6 months later, courtesy inspiration from some other threads (like this and this).
Some recent efforts:
– Adding a salad at the start or an extra vegetable to the mealitself even when I’m not inspired to, to make it a force of habit (Salad of the Day thread was for both inspiration and some accountability / guilt). I might switch to a small bowl of vegetable-heavy soup when I’m not feeling a salad.
– Adding legumes / beans, cooked with an added vegetable where possible (this was one of the things I remember from Always Hungry / David Ludwig – legumes / complex carbs for long-term satiety; the other is that fat is the only thing that fools the brain & resets the dastardly set-point). I ate beans for breakfast/brunch yesterday for the first time, and enjoyed it. But it could also be a bowl of soup
– Cutting my carb portion slightly, but, more importantly, pre-cooking & refrigerating most carbs for the boost in insoluble starch.
Good luck and keep at it (to everyone trying to eat more healthfully for whatever reason!
