As a Type 1 woman, those are your go-to keywords—but they’re also a way to guide you when making healthy food choices!
Here are 3 tips to help you create an experience with food that helps you feel healthy and happy!
Resources to support you:
- 3 Healthy Food Tips to Support Your Type 2 Connection With Food.
- 3 Healthy Food Tips: Grab & Go Options for the Type 3 Woman
- 3 Healthy Food Tips to Help You Stay on Track, True to Your Type 4 Nature
- Get your meal plans from Super Healthy Kids
- Food Cravings? Overeating? Heal Your Struggles Today.
- How to Find a Happy Balance With Food
This is brilliant! Thank you, Carol! For the list of T1-supportive foods, I’d like to add fresh fruit. My favorite is starfruit! ⭐️ It’s light, crisp, fresh, and shaped like a star when you slice it! It has many disease-fighting enzymes and nutrients, too. It is truly the perfect T1 food!
That is the perfect Type 1 fruit!!
See you say light cheap fresh and the first thing that comes to mind are apples mmmmmm! Sugar Snap Peas would be good too. Salads with a light dressing. Oh the ideas are comming now!
I didn’t say cheap, but why not! If you can get light, crisp and fresh foods at a good price that’s even better.
My husband and I are both type 1s 🙂 and we like to make homemade chicken nuggets using almond flour and different spices for the breading :). Then we dip them in homemade, sugar free ketchup! So fun!
This is so true to me!!! I love light and crisp food. Lettuce wraps, salads, stir fries, even steamed veggies (I can find them organic and precut into tiny pieces, which size I tend to prefer). I like a potato chip brand called Boulder Canyon because they are GMO free and only made with potatoes, coconut oil, and salt. I also love making high-fat, low sugar ice cream- it’s my favorite treat!
I would like to have more crispness and freshness at breakfast. I have a bunch of supplements I need to take daily and the only practical way I have found to get them all in is a huge protein shake. It’s made with great ingredients and it definitely makes me feel full, but I’m so heavy when I’m done and I really dread having to drink it. Sometimes I end up pushing it off until 9, 10, even 1am. Any tips?
I can totally relate with pushing off my supplements to later in the day, ha ha! I make a daily smoothie with water, my supplements, spinach, and whatever fruit I want (lately I’ve been on a blueberry and banana kick). I don’t put any protein in it, so it’s pretty light. I eat a small bowl of oatmeal for my protein with it.
Ooh, great idea! I tried that today (taking my supplements with a smaller/lighter shake and getting my protein through some “real” food) and felt so good! Thank you!!!
I’m glad it worked for you! I’ve been doing it for a long time!
I can’t think of any light fresh and crisp foods I love off hand (except for potato chips, ha ha). However I use Super Healthy Kids recipes for breakfast, lunch and snack ideas every day. Now that I think about it, I probably do like the recipes more than my type 2 and 3 kids. Ha ha. Great tip.
Excellent tips, thank you!
I’m really in need of this series. First, I can for sure see my husbands type 1 in this. His favourite fun foods is chips and ice cream so he chooses those when he’s having a fun night. (He eats healthy otherwise). I’m a type 4 who is has deeply studied the effects food has on our healing for many many years but I am of course can dip into that all or nothing tendency. I have quite a few autoimmune issues and try healing diets. But feel the need for perfect (and I do NOT enjoy preparing food lol) so I can do it for a bit and drop because of the overwhelm. So I’m excited to hear type 4 with food more. But this is very helpful to hear the type 1 because my youngest is also a type 1 so it’s good to know what food choices match his nature. Kids and food are nothing anyone could have prepared me for. Lol. Thanks so much for lifestyle. I really value the content.
Thanks so much for this video! Resonated with me so much!!!… and made things clear as to my food choices. I indeed choose to believe that I’m restricted in other areas of my life, so food is my escape to have fun and rebel. Thanks again for the reminder!
Funny, but I was just eating lunch and listened to Carol mention light and crisp… and here I have romaine lettuce on my plate. I love it! It’s light and creates cute crack in my mouth when I eat it. )))) Always was drawn more to baby veggies vs regular “fully grown” big veggie. It’s so much fun to cook baby zucchini or carrots, or make a salad with baby spinach. I go for that. )))
Produce is easy (I have bell peppers, carrots, salad, apples, oranges and frozen blueberries in my fridge and freezer right now), but I’m a little trouble with ideas for other categories. Fish is fresh and light, maybe poultry prepared certain ways? Airy bread and crackers, thin soups.
I like adding light, crisp, fresh items to my left-overs for my lunch. I like to have a crisp half of a bagel for breakfast with fresh blueberries or fresh grapefruit, along with a half of an fresh avocado for breakfast. Thank you for your suggestions for the kid’s sites for us type 1’s, too…I need to look at those. I really liked gearing my food choices for my kids when they were growing up.
Can’t believe how spot on you are about blood sugar. I’m hypoglycemic and really have to watch it & make sure I’m eating healthy meals regularly so I don’t get too “hangry”. My mom said when I got crabby when I was young, she’d give me some orange juice, and then I’d be back to normal. I’d also note that I’ve noticed when I’m at my ideal weight, I tend to (as a colleague once observed), “eat like a bird”…small bits at a time, but all day long. Aka “light” meals. My coworkers who I went to lunch with at one point were concerned about how supposedly “little” I ate for lunch (not realizing I usually ate my leftovers only 1-2 hours later). There have been times where (following the advice of Eastern medicine for my body type) I’ve tried to eat more at lunch & dinner so I’m not hungry again an hour later & snacking all the time, but that method seems to pack on the pounds for me…light meals often it is. Any other T1s relate?
Oh yes! All my life I have had to watch my blood sugar and make sure I don’t get to hungry. Currently, my allergies are making it worse, so I have had to really be careful. I also “eat like a bird” and can’t stand that full feeling when I eat more. To keep me on track and not get distracted I finally had to buy a wrist watch that has three daily alarms; one for lunch, one for afternoon snack and one for bedtime snack. It has helped a lot!
Right now my struggle is making food fun and interesting, otherwise I get distracted easier and decide I am done too soon. I am very excited to look through the Super Healthy Kid’s website and find some fun healthy recipes!
I’ve always been a light meal person as well and do the same thing with my lunch. I’ve had the same problem when I try to eat more at lunch and dinner. I a lot of diets nowadays recommend eating 5 meals a day and that works perfectly for me but I don’t think it’s universal. I easily eat 6 mini meals a day.
I relate so much to all of this! I have always had problems with blood sugar. 6 years ago I lost a lot of weight by doing a low carb diet and it was nice to be able to go long hours without eating and not having sugar cravings while having a cheat day but then something upsetting happened in my life and I gained it all back. I’ve tried all kinds of diets and eating plans to lose the weight again….but I just hate all the rules. Plus there are so many different opinions on health and diet…i just find it overwhelming and I jump from one program to another trying to find what fits me best. Im going to apply some of this tips to my life and see if they help! 🙂 I also find that Im not a huge fan of meat. I don’t hate it but I just can’t stomach eating it three times a day. Any other Type 1’s like this?
i don’t eat a lot of meat either but still enjoy the taste of it so, i will eat i guess more randomly when i crave it or feel the need for it. My issue is bread and dairy i know i should give both those up, i don’t have celiac disease as far as i know cause i can handle eating gluten with out getting all kinds of sick, but i have the hardest time loosing weight because of it! and it doesn’t matter if its sprouted , whole grain or white. i also feel sometimes overwhelmed by all the possiablities of diets, but in my gut and heart i feel whole foods is the way to go cause you have cooked meals if you feel like warm food , or eat raw food, or eat vegan and meat or eggs if they grass fed , organic etc….. i really have used eating junk food as my fun escape many times and my husband would say don’t you think you would have more fun and freedom being healthy etc. its funny it took Carol to make me see more of the light , when my husband has been telling me for a while, but he’s a 3 energy so maybe his words didn’t hit my type one Language and carol just knows what right words to motivate me etc….
I could have written this!
Wow i just got a big AHA moment , i have felt impressed to eat whole foods, but even with researching online i found it difficult to master eating just whole foods. you put everything into a better perspective for me and I thank you for that Carol! and i will be checking out that website you mentioned, cause boy i struggle trying to make it work for and with my kids as well. the food that i most enjoy for crisp and fresh , are snow peas, sugar snap peas, carrots and peppers and apples, i do find celery boring but i don’t mind the taste so im going to challange my self to find a fun way to eat celery!
I just had celery last night for dinner, a bit low on veggies! Lol! My favorite fun way to eat it making “ants on a log” with either cream cheese or nut butter spread on it with raisins on top. Especially in winter it is like a ray of summer!
My mother-in-law, who I think was a (T4)S1 like me, used to fill celery with a mix of (8 oz.) cream cheese—it could be whipped to make it lighter,— (7 oz. can) crushed pineapple, and (1/2 C.) chopped walnuts. Delicious! Of course, the recipe could be switched up, in typical T1 fashion!… like using Greek yogurt instead of cream cheese (strained to thicken, if you’d like to fill the celery, or left as is to serve as a dip,) or chopped fresh or dried fruit instead of canned, or other nuts/seeds instead of walnuts. The possibilities are endless!
Great idea! The possibilities are endless! I like the idea of switching it up with yogurt. Kind of reminds me of our favorite holiday cheese ball recipe; cream cheese, crushed pineapple, green pepper and chopped walnuts.
Oooh, how about jalapeños instead of green peppers for that sweet and spicy thing!
I like to put hummus in celery too
VItamix blender to mix all the good stuff into ONE DRINK. Light, fresh and quick. So fun and healthy. I’m super happy eating an alkaline diet with green juices, smoothies, dips, and soups from whole foods. Life changing. At 62 I found MY FOOD.
Kim, would you mind emailing me some of your recipe/meal ideas? Countrylivingmama @ gmail. com
Thank you!
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Butter leaf lettuce 🙂 Home made baked french fries or kale chips. Whole fruit has been a massive healing to me – hope this inspires someone else! The quick bursts of energy I get from fruit power my career each day – fruit NEVER, ever makes me crash! Grazing on fruit and veggies all day has been massively healing to my adrenals too. I don’t even crave sugar or caffeine as long as I’m doing fruit and using honey as my sweetener – life is sweet and happy again without all the heavy crashing!
I now wouldn’t dream of going a day without my a.m. spinach/blueberry smoothie – it keeps me going all day.
Heather, I’m afraid I’d gain weight by eating too much fruit. I have about 25 lbs to lose already.
Thanks, Carol, for giving me more to ponder on how to support my oneness. Another type 1 word I associate with food is random. In this case, to me, random equates to variety and choices. I love to have lots of choices and would prefer to have a couple weeks between eating the same food again. I find that grocery shopping more frequently is supportive to me.
For dinner, crisp fresh salads with sauteed chicken, baked salmon, or grilled steak on top…popcorn for a healthy snack!
I manage my diabetes and celiac disease with a grain-free ketogenic diet. One of my favorite comfort foods is cheesy riced cauliflower (cooked-to-super-soft riced cauliflower, shredded cheese, butter, salt, and a bit of cream). It lets me keep losing weight while satisfying a mac-n-cheese comfort food craving.
Since it’s Summer in Australia… I’m loving frozen grapes. Such tasty cool morsels of yummyness!
My “aha” moment was about making my food simple, fun, and easy. As I watched, I realized that I eat the cleanest when I bring a brown bag lunch, instead of eating at our cafeteria. And what makes my brown bag lunches fun is making it into a picnic; packing nice cutlery, a cloth napkin or place mat, and having a variety of foods — not just a sandwich and an apple.
My other “aha” moment was the understanding that simple carbs lowers my energy. So THAT’S why I feel so down all the time! I’m going to have to sit and process that for a while.
Even with a (T4)S1, I can relate! I looove salads and soup. That is one of my favorite lunch combinations. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned, yet, is adding a spritz of citrus, or fresh herbs, or a topping of crunchy raw vegetables to cooked food just before serving. That, to me, adds a light, fresh, and crisp element!
When I need a crisp thing to eat that isn’t produce, I like rice cakes.
First off, thank you for this video!!!! I have been feeling tiered, down, and not myself this week. I have noticed in the past that I will often go through these “funks”, and now I am betting it has a lot to do with my food choices. I am a terribly picky eater mostly because of texture, but even so I really hadn’t noticed until you said it that I am really drawn to light, fresh, crisp food! Simple and easy foods too.
I have been wanting to try and make better food choices but wasn’t sure where on earth to start. I am thankful to now be able to connect the dots on why I enjoy and why I am more easily drawn to certain foods.
Thank you for the reference and link for Super Healthy Kids, I am excited to try out some of their recommendations.
This confirms what I already really knew about myself. I can’t tell you the number of times I have tried the ketogenic diet, only to feel that it is so heavy to my body, to my spirit as a whole. I have felt like there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t stick with it! Honestly, I can’t seem to stick with any diet. I’m fine for a couple of days, and then I can’t seem to stand the structure, so off I go. Then I feel guilty because I have made no headway toward my goals. Carol, would you please give me some advice?
Now I know why I’m so drawn to plant based !
I’ve found that the best diet for me is one low in refined carbs and sugar but high in healthy fat and protein. I was a vegetarian almost vegan and was on the brink of having to take cholesterol medicine. I gave up refined sugar, and ate (free range) red meat and eggs almost every day and my cholesterol dropped to normal, I lost 30 pounds (even eating 70-80 grams of fat a day) and I was way healthier than when I was a vegetarian. I lost too much weight though so I want to bring back this way of eating but add in more real whole grains to keep some weight on and add more balance to my diet.
If you blend low fat yoghurt with frozen berries and refreeze in cupcake papers you have yummy cakes and they take ages to eat! Frozen grapes are lovely
Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples. Have more FUN!!!
I had no idea my tendency for low blood sugar problems was part of my T1ness!