Don't Die GET Healthy

Read The Recipe
Yes that would be the first step, wouldn't it? Read it - all of it, carefully. Make sure that you have all the ingredients in the ingredients list. Make sure that there aren't any ingredients required by the text of the recipe that aren't mentioned in the ingredients list (a major faux pas, but it happens to the best of us).
Look at how the different ingredients need to be prepared. Do the onions need to be chopped, diced, irradiated with alpha particles, soaked in 12 year old Australian wine for six days and nights, or what? The difference between halved tomatoes and diced tomatoes can make or break a dish. How you prepare your ingredients is half the battle.
Next, does the recipe call for tools? How specifically? Generally if a good recipe mentions a tool very specifically there is a reason. If its a really good recipe that reason will be spelled out. By the same token if the tool is only mentioned vaguely or not directly mentioned at all then you should be safe using whatever you like.
Next comes timing. How long will it take to prepare the various ingredients? How long will it take to prepare the whole recipe? This can be important. You don't want to put the biscuits into the oven at the same time as the turkey - one of these items will be finished a long time before the other and both are best served warm.

Prepare Your Ingredients
Alright. You have all the tools and ingredients you need, you have the recipe handy, and you're ready to cook. First things first, you must prepare your ingredients. If you need half an onion diced, a bell pepper in strips, and two potatoes cubed you don't want to be doing that while trying to cook. It will only distract you and create an unnecessary opportunity for you to make a mistake. Cut, chop, cube, and dice everything before you begin cooking. It will make you happier in the long run and the happier you are the healthier you are. If the recipe calls for a preheated oven, this is probably the time for that as well (see note).
Now that you have all your ingredients prepared, glance at the recipe once more. The term divided may be used which means that the item will be used more than once during preparation, so this is an important reason for CAREFULLY re-reading the recipe. Make sure you haven't forgotten anything. Now you can continue to cook in accordance with your recipe.
Feel Free to Play
Yes, recipes are a good and necessary thing. They allow us to acrue knowledge about cooking. However, as a Mr. Einstein once put it, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Even if you know nothing at all about cooking stop and think about what you are doing. A little bit of creative thought can make a dish made from any recipe an original masterpiece.
Basics Diet Stuff
Every one wants to know my big secret to the diet world. The secret is disaplin, not a magic pill in a magic bottle. Here I go with the cause and effect thing again. You know what is good for you and what is bad.
A healthful diet brings many benefits. It can reduce constipation, help avoid cancer and heart disease, control weight, and avoid diabetes. A healthful diet can have effects on mood.
In choosing a healthful diet, you must start with two important concepts:
Your diet choice is no good if you fail to follow it.
Your diet choice can not make up for smoking, lack of exercise, or any other bad habit.
You have to control your self . Remember the twinlie is not smarter then you so don’t let your mind trick you. Don’t woory in all my studies I’ve yet to even hear of a story about a twinkie standing up and walk into someones hands.


Following your diet
Not everyone is trying to lose weight, but as an example, suppose that you are. Suppose that you eat a delicious deep-fried mars bar. Would you consider this a failure? If you would consider yourself as having failed, then you are doomed. You will give in to your craving, then give up on your diet because you consider yourself to have failed. Perfectionism will be your undoing.
With a different attitude, you won't have this problem. Get yourself in the habit of making good dietary choices. At each meal, you should be looking for good food to eat, with little concern for poor choices made previously. When faced with a yummy deep-fried mars bar, you can eat it without the guilt of having broken a specific diet. For your next meal, you'll probably choose something better, but you might just have another tasty deep-fried mars bar. It's OK as long as you don't make a habit of it or give up.
You will have difficulty following your diet if you don't like the food. Below, you will find some general advice on cooking tasty healthful food. To some extent you may need to adjust your idea of what tastes good. For example, if a creamy sauce like creme Anglaise is appealing to you, learn to associate it with something icky such as pus squeezed from a wound. Just imagine that it is such a thing, and soon you'll not be wanting it.
You will be very unhappy if you fight the urge to eat. In some people, unhappiness can bring on eating binges. If you wish to lose weight, filling up on low-calorie vegetables like celery and mushrooms may help. Beyond that, you'll just need to increase your activity level. As an extra incentive, increased activity often makes people feel good.

Non-diet concerns
Diet is hardly your main problem if you won't exercise. As with following a good diet, exercise is best if you can work it into your daily schedule. For example, you might choose to live on the top floor of an apartment without an elevator. You might choose to walk to work instead of to drive to work. Most people can't stick to a consistent exercise program. If you do like running though, Dean Karnazes has shown that you can burn off 35,000 calories (about 83.5 deep-fried mars bars) with a 262-mile (422 km) run.



Balance
Humans are made for a diet consisting primarily of vegetables, but not without meat. Fresh leafy green vegetables are most important, but also eat the yellow vegetables. Starches (bread, grits, pasta, potatoes...) are tasty, low-cost, and not terrible for you... but they do have a high glycemic index which can promote diabetes and they can cause a build up of gas in the digestive tract. You can do very well by planning meals as small servings of meat with heaping piles of vegetables. Add fat and oil as needed for energy, rather than using sugar for this purpose, but add herbs and spices for taste.
Specific tips