I have a love/hate relationship with carrots. Love them when they’re roasted or otherwise cooked (air fryer carrot chips are the best), hate them when they’re raw. But all the “health guru’s” say you gotta eat them raw if you want to be healthy. And because I have neither the time nor the desire to cook carrots everyday, I thought raw was the only option when it came to having carrots with my lunch. But then, my former therapist said something:
You don’t have to eat raw carrots if you don’t want to. There are other options, and you’re not going to stick to healthy eating if you keep trying to eat stuff you really don’t like.
My “raised as the eldest daughter” was skeptical. We’re supposed to be the responsible one, the one who does the things to set the example for the younger siblings. I kept eating the carrots until one day I just couldn’t stomach them anymore, and I marched downstairs and threw them in the trash. I haven’t had a single raw carrot since.
Can I let you in on a secret?
You don’t have to eat them either, if you don’t want to. I’ve settled on a strawberry banana smoothie, cucumbers (I even leave the skin on!), ranch, string cheese, and crackers for my lunch, and the best part of all?
I eat it everyday, for the most part. It’s not a struggle to get myself down to the kitchen to make my lunch, and I don’t get bummed out as lunch time approaches because I actually WANT to eat my lunch. The weight coming off is just an added bonus.
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