Create a Diet Plan for Yourself!

Healthy Eating is Only Natural: Change Your Mindset...

Making that decision between an unhealthy food choice and a healthy food choice is simple if you have a self made plan.

Just the other day I had extended conversations with three different people about diet plans. I found myself listening to a vegetarian who wanted to spruce her diet up with wise meat choices, without risking leaving her predominantly vegetable based diet in ruins. She didn't like seafood and refused pork, chicken, and any other white meat. 

She had been craving red meats, but was concerned about stopping her dieting lifestyle. I simply told her to create her own diet plan and move towards enjoying the foods she was craving. She immediately pipped up that she was afraid her vegetarian friends would detest her choices. 

I found this absurd, but told her that if she was worried about her friends looking down at her for making a conscientious change in her diet, then she should find new friends.

I find people are more concerned about staying under the banner of their diet plan than finding their way into the glorious world of self created diet plans. 

Atkins is one of those diets that people become attached to for the namesake of it. Vegans, Vegetarians, Pescetarians. Paleolithic and the many more, all seem to like having a label stuck to their diet plan, more than taking their own path down a lifestyle of their own choosing.

What this article is about, isn't about changing from one diet to the next, but rather changing your mindset and creating your own diet plan that still allows for healthy eating choices.

A diet plan that is structured to your desires, but keeps you on a strict diet is something hard to find. So instead of looking for a fad to pop up, create your own.

That said, I'm proposing that dieters can construct their own system of food enjoyment that can combine certain aspects from other dietary regiments into a dietary plan molded around their needs. 

What I am not proposing is that dieters who need to be on a certain diet for medical or health management, like diabetics or crones affected dieters, should change their regiment. This article is for the otherwise healthy eaters, who are stuck in a mindset of living under a label of a diet plan.

Number One: 
Look at the foods you enjoy eating and combine those foods into your regiment. 

For an example. if you are a predominantly vegetarian based dieter that craves red meats, then incorporate those cravings into a well thought out self designed program. 

For the red meats you crave, let them be healthier choices of animal. While we all know beef is an under-par fattier meat choice, think about Venison, Antelope, or Buffalo. These can give you better choices as far as fats verses proteins and a way to cure that craving for red meats, healthily. 

Worried about that wild game taste? 

Let me tell you from experience, Antelope and Venison can be far less gamier than beef if you can get the select cuts that don't have that game taste your thinking of. The filet cuts are delicious and since these animals are far less fattier than cattle, you will have an excellent protein rich source of meat for your meals. 

As an avid hunter, I have butchered many deer for my family. The prime cuts are the hind quarters and the back strips. These are far less gamier and have an excellent texture. So keep that in mind.

Number Two: Supplement your diet with Seafood. 

Protein rich and an excellent source of nutrients. Seafood has a fantastic place in any diet. Unless you're against shellfish for religious reasons. Otherwise, fish, bivalves, invertebrates, and shellfish can add themselves to any diet easily. 

These choices are heart healthy and when eaten raw in certain productions, they can add to your digestive needs. Raw Ahi Tuna for an example can give you a perfect source of digestive metabolism increases while giving you added nutrients. 

I have meet people who believe in a "Asian Pacific" diet that combines a vegetarian and a seafood aspect in a diet plan which allows for a satisfying approach towards resolving protein needs and vegetarian needs. Basically giving the eater a quantified abundance of choices that are both very healthy and crave curing.

Number Three: Make your own Diet Plan around your likes and desires. 

Think outside the bowl! Stop living under a label and create a diet that works for you! 

Don't get trapped in that lifestyle or friend-list of similar eaters. Stop worrying about what people will say, think or do about your own diet. I find many people are more worried about what others think, than what they eat. So stop! 

Sit down, get out a pen and some paper and create your own menu choices. Be diverse and don't hold back for social reasons. If you love beef, add it in. You don't have to eat it every day, but once a week isn't going to kill you. 

If you want to eat shrimp but you're afraid a fellow Vegan named Nancy at work will shun you for bringing some cocktail shrimp to work, well....I'm sorry but, Nancy can go ______ herself! Eat that shrimp baby! Don't think about what people will think, think about what your body is craving.

I learned a long time ago that if your craving a certain food, it's not always just because you like that food, but rather your body needs something that your craving supplies you with. 

I had a friend whose wife found herself eating pebbles out of their garden. 
Why? She was a hardcore Vegan, and pregnant. She was becoming anemic, and her body was craving a source of iron not found in her diet. Yes... I am not kidding... She asked me what she should eat, I told her to have a nice thick steak once a week and take some vitamins. lol! 

No really...some diets are not all that good for you, and you should supplement yourself with foods that give you everything you need.

As a rule of thumb! 

I have said this to many people and I will say it now... 

"God gave us canine teeth for a reason, and it wasn't to kill carrots!" CJAK 

Just think wisely and create your own diet 

It's that simple. Think outside the bowl and create a diet structure that works for you. Heck, name it after yourself, but whatever you do, eat wisely and enjoy what you eat!