How are your eating habits?

It’s something I’ve become really passionate about.

Please don’t follow all the bullshit new diets that pop up every day.

Take a look at The Healthy Eating Plate designed by Harvard: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/

I try to meal plan every week. It helps that the app I'm working on (AvoToast) is for creating and following meal plans. I used to be 50lbs heavier, so I know what happens if I don't plan and just eat whatever.

My secret weapon is the Instant Pot. It's so easy to cook a lot of fairly healthy meals with little effort. I also try to meal prep on Sundays, both lunches for the week and sometimes pre-prep dinners. I love meals that you can toss in a big bag, toss in the fridge/freezer, and pull out and dump straight into the Instant Pot when I get home. I also have a few recipes (like mini meat loafs) where I can prep them Sunday, toss them in the fridge/freezer, and go straight to the oven each night. I'm lazy as heck, so I try to find ways to make my lazy choices healthy.

I've been following the Paleo diet for about 7 months. It helps me feel much more focused, my sleep time improved, and of course I lost some weight. I highly recommend this diet!

I've recently moved to the US from Canada to help launch a US office. It is impossible to eat healthy down here. Canada has a much better selection for inexpensive and healthy food.

I try to plan my week. I don't make a calendar but I try to do all the shopping for the week in one day and manage that.

With this I can always have "healthy things" at home not causing me to fall into the temptation of fast food.

While I eat healthy meals with solid nutritional profiles, I'll often forget a meal or two if I'm engrossed in solving a problem. So in that sense, I guess I intermittently fast, too!

I've been doing Intermittent Fasting (a.k.a. IF) for 6 years. I will never go back. I fast for 18 hours and then eat within those 6 hours. It will completely change your body composition and give you so much more energy in the morning.

I also combine it with IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros). Based upon whether I am trying to lose fat, gain muscle, or maintain, I calculate how much protein and fat I need for the day, and eat the rest of the calories in carbs.

I get to eat what I want (but I choose to eat healthy foods) and not have to count calories.

It's fantastic.

I'm not really planning my meals or following a diet ... but we always buy "in-time" or for at least two days. We also cook meals for more than two servings so that we can bring it to the office next day.

Goal: Keeping it simple, and healthy.

I don't eat after 9pm. My first meal is at noon or thereabout. I make a 1/3-lb hamburger patty (80/20) and eat it plain or with a slice of cheese. Later in the afternoon I make a modest-sized shake with Huel (a no-soy soylent), whole milk (sometimes cream) and a banana. For dinner I eat whatever, no real restrictions but I try to stay away from fried foods. Overall it's working for me. My energy, focus, concentration are definitely better than when I was eating a grain-based breakfast.

I moved away a few months ago and have started meal prepping on Sunday night with enough food for the week. A batch of sandwiches, curry, and rice. I eat the same 2 meals every day for 7 days. Always delicious, haven't gotten sick of anything yet. The best part is that my food costs are typically under $3CAD a day.

I also started intermittent fasting, and have found it has helped my mental clarity during the day. I have lost over 20lbs in the past 2 months from it as well, and feel better than I have in years.