Weight-Loss Dealing w Overeatting family.

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AprilRosedw

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How do I eat healthy when I'm on a limited budget and menu?


My family does not buy the healthiest food and they do not like to cook.
I like to cook and prefer to not eat meat.

I'm 5'6 163 pounds. I was 187 last year and have been making progress.


How do I discuss my healthy habits/lifestyle change with my family?




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We are on a limited budget and healthier foods are expensive. They like to eat unhealthy, example microwavable foods, big portion sizes, fat fat fat. It would be fine if they ate in moderation but they don't.
They eat 30 chips of Doritos plus 4 slices of roast beef and 2 slices of cheese sandwich plus 5 cookies 2 cans of pop.(soda) Either they overeat or don't eat at all.

I'm a picky eater.
If I know something is unhealthy, I won't eat it. And, its hard because almost everything is unhealthy.

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Any food ideas would be great. I want to start a next day menu plan but I never know what we will have and won't have.
It seems whenever we do buy healthier food like yogurt or fruit, its disappears so fast. I try to eat healthy but everyone else overeats and they eat the limited healthy food and the unhealthy food.

I love being active. I run and walk about 30 miles per week.

I recently started to schedule my running.
I run, M,W,F.
I walk, T,TH,F, S.
Sunday is my rest day.
So, I should be eating my recommended daily percentage of protein and fiber.
 
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Try this: Its insanely effective.

Get posters of ripped men and hot shaped women and put em in visible places. get cheap equipment like a Gym Ball, Medicine ball and some free weights.

Getting motivated is the most vital part in my understanding.

its always cheaper to eat healthy stuff over junk food. brown bread, vegetables, chicken, egg whites, etc.

At the end of the day let them visualize themselves being super sexy and surrounded by men/women. with that in check, there is nothing to worry about.
 
It's really hard to focus on healthy eating when your family doesn't want to or doesn't care. I know that for me, my housemate wants to support me, but doesn't care about what he eats and even that makes it harder.

There are a couple of things here:

Your options here are really to either eat completely separately from your family, or to convince them to eat healthily with you. If you like to cook and they don't, then what will probably have to happen is that you'll have to take responsibility for cooking healthy meals for everyone - it might not be fair, but you have to work with what you've got.

Either way, you just need to sit down with them and be honest that you don't want to eat unhealthy food and you're not going to do it.

The other thing is that you said that healthy foods were expensive, but then you mentioned that your family eats things like Doritos and so forth. Doritos are insanely expensive. Junk food is expensive. When I stopped buying junk food and starting buying healthy food, my grocery bill dropped by nearly 1/3. I think people fool themselves into believing that it's too expensive to eat healthily and it becomes an excuse.

Sure if you buy specialty products and all organic food and so forth, it's expensive. But you don't have to be "gourmet" to be healthy. I can get bags of frozen veg at my grocery store for $1 a bag. I can buy a whole chicken on sale for less than $5. You can buy fresh fruit and veg in season very cheaply.
 
Now granted I don't have anyone besides myself, but the budget thing I can definately relate to :)

Like kara wrote, bags of frozen veggies are made of pure winsauce, they are cheap, you can eat kilo after kilo of it without actually getting many calories and its healthy :) I.. Hmmm.. i mean I'm used to eating really shitty food healthwise and I've found that using some buillong on the veggies will make them taste sooo much more unhealthy (chicken buillon is what I use) without adding much calories.

Canned tuna is pretty cheap, mix with avocado and some lemon juice and you've got some cheap well tasting healthy food (where I live at least)

Canned tuna mixed with a little creme fraiche and some chili is very tasty

Buckwheat is very cheap here, unsure about where you live tho.

Quinoa is cheaper than rice and pasta, yet it has much healthier carbs and complete proteins even :)

Hmm thats just off the top of my head, but I'm in the same money situation as you so if i figure out more ways to get cheap healthy food I'll definately post it here :)

anything made of chicken and frozen veggies :p
 
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