 Eat several well balanced meals each day and enjoy what you eat. Fresh fruits and vegetables are a plus for the body. Have several courses with each meal (not necessarily large courses) and walk away from the table for a few minutes between courses. This way your internal system will have time to let you know when you are full. Eat protein-rich foods first. This allows your stomach acids to go to work digesting the protein. Eating carbohydrates as the first course will create an alkaline condition in your stomach and that interferes with protein digestion; and protein is very important to your body's well being.
 Do eat until you are full and satisfied. Guilt, moral and physical suffering do not lead to happy, well balanced people. An unhappy person tends to end up on a starvation-overeating treadmill. And that is no fun at all; in fact, it is miserable.
Protein is necessary for the repair and renewal of each cell in our bodies - all 70 trillion of them. It is best to avoid overcooked protein. Meat, fish and eggs, etc., which are cooked until they are dry are in essence scar tissue. Over done protein becomes
cross linked. It is like someone's skin, who has spent decades in the sun, leathery and cracked.
 Your liver doesn't know what to do with it. It has to work overtime to produce the enzymes to break this stuff down and the end product is not anywhere near as good as it could be. That means your skin and organs will not have their full strength and elasticity. So, whenever possible, cook your eggs on low heat and don't let them become over done. The same applies to all protein rich foods.
Minimize refined carbohydrates. They will add weight on you faster than anything else. Fresh fruits and vegetables contain necessary enzymes and they are virtually self digesting. Plus you won't experience the sugar "high" and subsequent let down that happens after eating refined sweets.
 Fat and oil intake: Low fat and especially low fat/low protein diets are harmful; very harmful. Oils and fats help us to digest our food, lubricate our tissues and joints, dissolve certain toxic accumulation and help to give our skin a healthy glow. Olive oil, fresh almonds and flax-seed oil are among the best. Minimize margarine (butter is better) and do not cook with it. Be cautious in you handling of polyunsaturated oils. Cooking with a polyunsaturated oil rapidly turns it into a rampant carcinogen.
However you decide to proceed, be gentle with yourself. Enjoy what you eat. An anxious person tends towards the extremes of over or under eating. Balance is the key. Allow yourself to have fun. Take it a little easier. Remember, the aim is to increase your health and well being so that you can lead a long, full and satisfying life.
(Based on Net resources)
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