good diet suggestion

When we are depressed we either eat too much or too little. We eat for comfort, or we have no appetite as we are so miserable.

If you can face up to it, even feeling so wretched, try eating at least some ‘healthy‘ things – go and buy some fresh vegetables, fruit, fish. In general, if you can train yourself to eat well when you feel well it will help carry you through the bad times. Don’t just go for the tinned food, the take-away, the snacks. Go to the market, where you will get better value. Try and get local produce, the stuff the supermarket won’t buy because it isn’t round enough, or flat enough. Go to the market at the end of the day to get reduced prices. ‘Organic’ carries the stamp of health but is expensive, and may not be relevant; after all, it is a stamp of diminished value now – with the ‘organic’ take-away the ‘organic’ bar of chocolate. Tinned foods and pre-packaged foods are a damned sight better than no food, but they usually contain too much salt and sugar, not enough of the vitamins fresh foods would provide and artificial taste enhancers to make you want more.

It is easy to get overweight if you’re depressed and the two then interweave – low self-image leads to eating and eating leads to low self-image.

Try and break the cycle. Sometimes it’s easier to DO something rather than STOP doing something. Go to the gym and start getting fitter and then eat better when you’ve started feeling the benefit. It doesn’t take genius to eat better, prepare wholesome food or cook something halfway healthy, and, once taste buds have readjusted, it tastes much better anyway… what you call a win-win situation.