Eat a bit of EVERYTHING!

Hi,

     So the first advice I would like to give to maintain a healthy lifestyle is NOT to do a diet. This is the worst way of putting on weight. You might have heard about the Yoyo theory which refers to when women deprive themselves to loose weight but after a certain time they can't do it anymore and start eating all the food that they were deprived of and gain even more weight than they had lost. Then they feel bad and start the diet again and the whole vicious cycle starts again.
     Therefore, what you need to do is to eat a bit of everything. By everything I do not mean eat everything offered in the caf, I mean every different kind of  nutrients your body needs. What follows is how much you should eat of what:

     -complex carbs: 3 servings
     -fruits/veggies: 5-8 servings
     -dairy: 2 servings
     -protein: 3 servings
     -GOOD fats: 2 servings
     -2 servings of red meat weekly is enough

     This should help you have an approximate idea of how to balance what you eat  during the day: if you had meat for lunch don't get it for dinner, if you had a lot of rice for lunch don't go crazy on carbs for dinner etc.

source: "the dorm room diet" daphne oz