Eating well

Eating should be relatively easy and non-stressful. I propose that you should eat lot of vegetables. The reason there is that they're not dense in calories. For example, a potato rolls around 80kcal/100g and anything below 150kcal/100g is weight neutral for you to eat because you hit physical limits on eating before you end up eating too much.

To shape your eating habits, I would propose you to focus on treating your life as many small micro-habits that have an effect on where your weight is moving. Then like a sculptor, you would work on changing one such small habit at a time. That kind of work is tedious, but it can change your life.

I've got few specific tips on weight control:

• Overall, prefer diversity on your eating.
• Consider what does it serve that you eat? Is it to nutrition yourself? If not, you might want to reconsider what you do there.
• If you have hard feelings related to eating, start journaling those feelings before eating.
• Prefer fruits and vegetables if you want to eat for some reason. Pick those lowest in calorie density. This minimizes the harm of eating a lot.
• Prefer beans, lentils and grains as staple foods.
• Avoid artificially sweetened beverages. They provide short-term pleasure, that in turn encourages you to eat to reach for short term pleasure.
• Be like Odysseus, that is, plan and enforce your actions on the good times when you're thinking clearly, so that you do good decisions by default when you've got bad times.
• Make eating habits that you enjoy and learn to enjoy healthy eating.