Eat it first. Start your meal by eating vegetables. It will fill you up with the good stuff first. It can take our stomach 20 minutes to feel full, so it’s good to front-load healthy food so you are less tempted to go ravenous on protein, dairy, carbs, and dessert.

Eat plenty. During your one main meal, eat as much vegetables as you want to feel full. Cook them to your liking, as long as the vegetables are the main ingredient.

Eat colorfully. Vegetables are the best food group to find colors. Green is obviously the best (spinach, kale, zucchini, green beans, etc.), but eating a variety of colors is good. Orange (carrots, sweet potato), red (bell pepper, beets), yellow (cauliflower, corn), purple (cabbage, eggplant).

Vary it up. It can be boring to eat the same thing over and over. Make a list of vegetables you can eat. Research different ways to cook it in different recipes – roasted, sauced, sautéed, blended, juiced, mixed as salad, etc.

Watch out for bad foods pretending to be vegetables. Any processed foods claiming to be vegetable (e.g. veggie straws) is likely inferior to actual whole vegetables. Also watch out for potatoes because, although a plant, it is better categorized as carb.