When I can afford it (time, money, and energy wise) I eat a balanced diet. Otherwise I eat whatever. My mom usually cooks dinner, but her meals are VERY carb-heavy. A typical meal it something like chicken and rice and corn. Or steak and bread and potatoes. To her, "vegetable" means "anything that comes directly from a plant" even if it's corn or potatoes. Last night was chicken and cornbread and baked beans.
Lately for lunches I've been making some of those pasta-on-the-side or rice-on-the-side things and adding chicken and vegetables to make it at least somewhat healthy.
I'd love to do keto again, I felt AMAZING on it and lost a ton of weight. But it's expensive, because meat and vegetables are both expensive.
When I live on my own, I had a much better diet, since I could use the kitchen whenever and however I want. I usually had tuna or chicken or something for lunch, and fish or chicken with vegetables and a bit of rice for dinner. Still not perfect, but much better than now. Snacks are my downfall...I'm currently gorging myself on puppy chow.
I rarely eat breakfast. I try, but I either forget or feel like crap and don't want it. I'm NOT a morning person, and I feel physically ill most mornings. Once I'm up and around it's fine, but the thought of eating...NO. I've tried to do shakes, bars, yogurt, nothing really works. I've even tried just some V8 Splash for breakfast, and although it's tolerable, it's not exactly healthy. But then i get to be STARVING by 10am and at that point I can't eat because I'm covered in various animal excrement and food just doesn't work in that environment. If I get a real zoo job in a different department, break time is at 10am, so that would work out perfectly - I could bring breakfast and eat it at break when I'm hungry (the entire zoo except for my department and the restaurant/guest services goes on break at 10am and 3pm every single day for 20-30 minutes with very few exceptions).
I feel like if I had a more set schedule with work, I'd be a whole lot better at eating right. And if I had my own kitchen to do what I want in. And more money. When I was on food stamps for 6 months a few years ago I actually managed to eat a pretty balanced diet.
When I was giving plasma, I ate a lot of protein out of necessity. I think I should start doing that again (both the plasma and the protein, because the plasma pays for the protein
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