Lee Haney Quotes

I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

I like meat and carbohydrates.

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white flour as much as I can - I go for grains and brown rice instead, and I pick lean meats, like chicken or turkey, over red meat most of the time.

My favorite dish is brown rice with lentils, roasted red and yellow peppers, and fennel, with a sweet potato and a salad on the side.

Make sure that when you look at your plate, it's a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of color on there. You want to make sure you have whole grains and protein. It should not be beige in color; it should be green and bright red, and orange and yellow.

I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.

I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.

I like quinoa and brown rice, and I try to do that over a lot of white flour bread, even though I love that kind of bread.

I think broccoli is one of the must-have foods, as it contains multi nutrients and is high in vitamin C. Sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrates, and fish, too, is healthy. There is nothing that I have on a daily basis, as it becomes monotonous.

I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.

You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

I'll cook a batch of brown rice or quinoa and keep it in the fridge, so when I get hungry, I can easily dress it up with olive oil, lemon, and salt and pepper, and then add veggies.

I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.

The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

No fruit. No veggie.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway.

I stick to lots of protein and veggies and try not to eat so many carbs, even though carbs are my favorite. I eat healthy things like quinoa, and I add fresh juices to my diet to get extra vitamins.