I’ve been “eating healthy” for a bit over a year. The basic guideline is, “don’t eat anything that converts easily to sugar”, so, hardly any carbs, no sugar, no wheat no potatoes, no rice. I mostly avoid root vegetables. And I don’t eat fruits that are sweet.
I went about seven months with hardly any fruit at all, but in the last six months I have occasional berries, and about 3 apples a week.
My big snack is celery with almond butter, I get an almond butter that is fresh ground and has nothing else in it- no sugars, no oils. no stabilizers.
I do eat a lot of pistachios and almonds, both unsalted. And I have pretty much gotten off cow milk, I like unsweetened almond milk instead.
Turns out milk has a lot of sugar in it, all that lactose.
I do not avoid healthy fats: olive oil, grape seed oil, avocado, walnut oil. And I do eat protein: eggs, lean meats, fish.
From Christmas 2012 to mid September of last year, I cut myself down to about 1600 calories per day. Since then, I have been stable at about 1900 calories per day. I lost 60 pounds over the course of 9 months last year.
It isn’t hard for me because I realized I needed to make a complete lifestyle change in my diet so that I can be healthy and available for my kids.