Tip of the Day

This is my first tip for this blog. I have learned many new things during the start of my journey, many tricks that have helped me along the way.

If you are like me (and I  know many overweight people are), you barely eat vegetables. I sincerely did not enjoy vegetables. I even removed tomatoes from my burgers as they took away from the real burger taste. I did not eat salads at all.

For me to switch my diet from a highly processed, to a more natural one I needed to start including lots more vegetables. How did I start getting around that? I started making vegetable/chicken soup (from scratch).

To make the soup I had to first go to the supermarket and expose myself to the vegetable aisle (which I had always by-passed). I was amazed by all the different varieties of vegetables there are, many I had never eaten, let alone seen.

Every couple of days I would make soup, using different vegetables. It was like an experiment for me, almost a game. Having my taste buds pick out the different tastes, the different textures. I started adding more and more vegetables as I went along. Onions, celery, squash, carrots, leek, pumpkin, green peppers, leafy greens, culantro, different roots, green beans, corn, etc).

Slowly but surely I started appreciating the different tastes. Now I can make myself a simple salad and enjoy it.