Food Groups: Starchy Foods

I thought I'd do a post educating both people with and without eating disorders, because I think that if people understood what a healthy balanced diet it, then there would be far less people suffering from eating disorders out there.A lot of people think "eating healthily" means eating fruits and vegetables etc., and cutting out fats, dairy and carbohydrates from our diet. But that couldn't be more wrong.

We need fats, fats and carbohydrates in order to live!

Our body cannot function properly without them, so why there is this whole image of certain food groups being 'bad' for you, I simply do not know.

So I thought I'd do a post on eating well. This is acording to a dietician too- I'm not just making things up!

I'm going to split this into 5 sperate posts, so here is part one...

1) Starchy Foods

(We don't call these carbohydrates, because other food contains carbohydrates as well. Starchy foods is more accurate.)

Why do we need starchy foods?

• Gives us slow releasing energy
• Keeps our blood sugar levels steady
  - This is VITAL for the whole body, especially the brain.
• Helps sleep
• Contains essential vitamins

How often should we eat them?

Shoud be a base for each of the 3 meals a day we eat.

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Examples:

Bread, potato, rice, pasta, chips, couscous, gnocchi, oats, breakfast cereals...

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Look out for the rest of the food groups over the next few weeks!

Hope this is helpful,

Hannah xox

Food for Thought #1

This is going to be a new weekly installment to this blog!

Every week I'm going to upload a picture designed to make you think. It might be a quote, a drawing, a photo- that type of thing.

And Friday, food and thought all have that 'F' sound and it goes so well with this blogs theme so I figured it matches!

It's Friday and Fridays should be FUN! So I'll post some funny ones on here too - I want this blog to help people and make them happy, and making someone laugh couldn't be more perfect. The photo below is AMAZING.

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I would love to include things sent in by blog readers- it can be an edit, artwork, a photo you've taken, or even something you've found on the internet (please also send me a link to where you got it from), or something even more creative I haven't thought of!

myjourneywithrecovery@yahoo.com

Just send me an email, with the title Food for Thought, your image, and your name/codename or whatever you want me to address you as on this blog - you can remain anonymous!
I will try to include it the next week with any luck!

I hope to receive some images in the future!

Hannah xox