Whats the easiest way to make a healthy diet plan if your hispanic?

[apple24]

I am hispanic and I don't know how to cook. Honestly, I don't mind learning but I can't figure it out.. There so many rules in eating healthy but I am hispanic so I still eat foods that aren't so healthy. Like eating to much read meat with white rice and toritia. How do I make recieps that are healthy but are what I always been eating like stay traditional. I am willing to try vegtables even if they gross me out but it better than suffering.

[Pyrofox]

just learn to mix the vegtables in with the meat and tortila and rice and beans. Drink more water than you think you need its hard to get over hydrated easy to get dehydrated. Just balance what you eat out. 15 -20 minutes walking also can help with stress if your lazy just jogging for shot periods once or twice a day can help with weight control.

[SmoMan]

I guess the “easiest way” is to ask someone to do it for you but nobody knows your specific nutritional needs as well as you do yourself. I would suggest you take a class (one semester) and work out your own diet plan. Sure it will take longer and be more work but you will have a plan custom made to your needs.

[apple24]

I already did... It just so much... I have to follow the guideline first so I start writng done whole grain i need about so so ounce and then i wrote what kind of thing i can eat like popcorn and bread and then I had to find recipes that fit with that and then ugh... Its just so much... and I don't have that much money like 20 dollars and I want buy every week so I have everything I need. Its hard and I wonder if there was a short cut.

[SmoMan]

There is no shortcut to taking care of your body. But you can start with smaller steps. Home cooked food is always going to be better for you than fast food, or even a sit down restaurant. Learning to cook can be pretty overwhelming but you can find videos for everything you need on YouTube. Planning a menu for a few days or a week and shop for the week all at once. If money is an issue (like it is for 99% of us) plan your meals out accordingly. Get a whole chicken and use it for like 5 different meals rather than getting chicken breasts. Stuff like that

[apple24]

ok, thanks you very much!

[SmoMan]

no problem, hope that helps.

[Dtegesd123]

just eat less. Have portion control. I don't think there is anything in mexican traditional foods that's too unhealthy for you.

[apple24]

Red meat is!

[Dtegesd123]

it is but, if you only eat 1/4 pound of it per meal, its not that bad

[apple24]

It is bad plus we eat enriched flour too much think of all the bread, white rice is in everything we eat!!!

[Dtegesd123]

eat brown rice then, again white rice will only be bad for you if you eat too much in one sitting. a small bowl of white rice 3 times a day will not make you fat. you could switch to brown rice or beans

[apple24]

see when I make brown rice it awful it get all mushy or it to hard!! I really don't know but I'll try again I guess! Then the brown rice taste to dull same goes with pasta... it tastes gross.. I am going to try this week!

[blondfrog]

Your race has nothing to do with it :D lol

[apple24]

Yes it does!! Its navie to think my race has nothing to do with my diet! I grew up with this race and I eat what i was given. Hispanic people eat different then let say Asians. They have culture tradition like we eat beans and hard chesses a whole lot... soup I bet you never even tasted because you arenot my race! Culture and how you grew up is what you eat and what you find most of... That it!!! Stop piss me of!

[Dtegesd123]

man this girl is negative

[apple24]

@Dtegesd123 No I am not!!! I just hate how some people can be so damn naive!!! Its like saying fat girls need to workout and eat healthy well what if she has a certain diet that she was taught as a child and doesn't know what!!! Ugh! whatever! I quit!