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It never requires you to count the grams of food on a scale every time, nor does it require you to completely quit "happy foods" such as milk tea, hot pot, and barbecue. Instead, it requires you to satisfy your appetite as much as possible and match the types and proportions of long-term nutrients ingested with your own body needs and daily consumption. The ultimate goal is to keep your body in a comfortable and energetic state, rather than tossing yourself to meet a unified "health standard."

I have been doing private nutrition consulting for almost 5 years. To be honest, I have seen too many people interpret these four words too rigidly. What impressed me the most was a little girl who came to me for dietary adjustment last year. She had just graduated and worked in Internet operations. In order to achieve the so-called balance, she bought a food scale with an accuracy of 0.1g. Each meal must have 150g of broccoli and 120g of chicken breast. She was anxious about one more or less bite. As a result, she lasted for 18 days and ate three meals of fried chicken and bubble milk tea. After eating, she felt so guilty that she induced vomiting. Finally, she had a stomach problem and went to the hospital. Oh, by the way, she later adjusted her diet plan and now eats hot pot once a week, and she lost 8 pounds. Her aunt was also right. Don’t you think it’s interesting?

Speaking of this, some people must want to ask, with so many dietary standards on the market, such as the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents, as well as the recently popular low-carb diet and Mediterranean diet, who do you listen to? In fact, there is no absolute right or wrong, and the logic of different schools is inherently different. The traditional dietary guideline is a general template for the vast majority of ordinary healthy people. It is about eating more than 12 kinds of food a day, 25 kinds a week, covering all major categories such as grains and potatoes, vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs, milk, soybeans and nuts. Don’t exceed the amount of oil and salt. If you don’t usually have special needs and don’t want to spend too much time studying your diet, just follow this general direction without getting too stuck.

Last week I went to eat Chongqing hot pot with my friend who ran the half marathon. We had nearly two plates of tripe, fat beef and crispy pork. I also drank half a cup of iced milk tea with 30% sugar. The little girl before would probably have been so anxious that she couldn’t sleep. However, I ate cold spinach, steamed pumpkin and an omelette at noon the next day to make up for the dietary fiber and vitamins I lacked the day before. My weight was measured and my fasting blood sugar did not fluctuate for a week. How can there be any saying that if you eat the wrong meal, all your efforts will be wasted? Balance is to look at the overall intake for a week or even a month, not to compete with one meal.

There was a lot of quarrel on the Internet before: some people said that low-carb is the true balance, and eating carbohydrates means gaining weight; others said that a vegetarian diet is the healthiest, and eating meat is not good for the body. To be honest, I have encountered corresponding beneficiaries and victims of both. There is an insulin-resistant client who followed the doctor's advice on a low-carb diet. After three months, her fasting blood sugar dropped from 6.8 to 5.4, and her previous problem of being sleepy was much better. However, there was also a little girl who worked in the design industry who followed the low-carb trend and only ate boiled vegetables and chicken breasts every day. She didn't visit her aunt for three months and went to check the hormone luteinizing hormone, which dropped to the warning line. This is because the long-term lack of carbohydrates and fat intake has directly disrupted the endocrine system. The same is true for vegans. An old professor of nutrition I know has been vegan for 12 years, and all the indicators in his annual physical examination are green. He will consciously supplement B12, iron and Omega3, but most ordinary people eat vegans blindly, eating white porridge and stir-fried cabbage, and end up with anemia and hair loss.

It really doesn’t need to be so complicated. Office workers can achieve a similar balance by ordering takeout every day. When I'm busy, I often order takeout. I usually choose a steamed/stir-fried meat dish, a green leafy vegetable, and half of multi-grain rice as the staple food. I don't drink the thick white soup provided by the store because it's too oily. I switch to free lemonade. When I'm hungry in the afternoon, don't just eat potato chips. Add a small orange or a handful of plain nuts. The nutrition for the day is enough. If it’s easier to cook at home, just take a plate that you usually use to hold vegetables. Put half of it with vegetables, a quarter with proteins such as fish, poultry, eggs, and beans, and the remaining quarter with staple food. Just mix some quinoa with rice or steam two pieces of sweet potatoes. You don’t have to be precise to the gram, just roughly the same amount is enough.

My biggest feeling in the past few years is that a balanced diet is never a shackles on life, but a safety net. You can drink milk tea if you want, and eat barbecue if you want. As long as the food variety is rich enough most of the time, you don't feel uncomfortable, and the physical examination indicators are normal, then it is the best balance for you. After all, besides supplementing nutrition, when we eat, don’t we just want to be happy?