How do I cook healthy food that also tastes good?

Liesel: How do I cook healthy food that also tastes good?
I’m about 50 pounds overweight and while I want to loose weight, I don’t want to sacrifice my taste buds. For me, food is the spice of life and I’d rather be fat eating good food than skinny eating bland food. Of course, I’d rather be skinny eating good food! So far every “healthy recipe” I’ve tried tastes like crap. Does anyone have any techniques to share, or at least stories of how you lost weight without giving up the so-called “spice-of-life,” AKA food?

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Answer by Homesick ♫Top♫ ♪Contributor♪
When I lost weight, I changed nothing except portion size. Decrease your portion size. If you dont feel full, drink more water. water will become your best friend when you lose weight.Pretty soon, you’re metabolism will change and you will start to feel fuller faster. And dont forget. EXERCISE EVERYDAY!!!!! Dont expect a noticeable difference if you dont exercise. I used to shudder at that word and now I feel sinful not exercising lol. If you dont exercise, your weight loss program may fail.You will lose weight slower and you may get discouraged because of the slow progress. I used to get tired within 5 minutes of running. Now Im training for a marathon. 🙂

Enemy Number One: Dont eat out. No soda or juice. If you get tempted, drink water to make you full.

Its a good time to hydrate yourself. The more transparent your urine is, the more hydrated you are. Try to drink as much water as you can so that you’re urine is clear. That number of cups should be your goal everyday. This will also influence the amount you eat. My tip is if you dont have a cup of water by you every hour, get one. When you get tempted to snack, drink it. Limit what you eat.

Oh yeah. I lost over 100 pounds. 🙂
I know its shocking. Yes it freaked my friends out. I could even fit into some of my friends’ (who are girls) jeans. And guess what?? I had the same food. Deep fried?? no problem. Its all portion control. But I will admit. I used Lent to jump start this lifestyle change.

Answer by ckngbbbls
Homesick has some great advice.
I would like to add a comment.
Always have a large tossed salad before every meal. It gives you much chewing satisfaction and will fill you up with some of those 5 a day veggies you should be eating so your smaller portions will satisfy you more.
Make the salad all about the veggies you put in it, but skip the croutons,bacon bits, shredded cheese and heavy dressing. Instead, dip your fork into some salad dressing and then into the salad so you still get the flavor of the dressing but not so many calories. Or use a lo cal dressing, Most of them taste okay but I have found that if you go with the lo cal version of dressing, you really need to buy name brands. Most store brand diet dressing taste like…..well, not good.