one thing that has been working for me in my quest to at least slightly improve my health has been to try out fruits and vegetables and look for very simple 'recipes' that are delicious.

The reason is that I (and perhaps many other geeks) don't have much patience with 'physical' things. Eating is mostly an annoyance to me, I don't care about my looks that much, and I can often get so wrapped up in 'virtual' stuff that I forget how much I enjoy nature and the sun.

And at some point I figured rather than trying to 'cook properly' and give up, I should maybe start with simpler things. And that's been working pretty well.

Smoothies, for example, are quite easy to make. Or recently I developed an obsession with a very simple sandwich: bread, cheese, little bit of mayo, avocado, rucola and some salt and pepper. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but I love that stuff and eat it almost daily.

I'm nowhere close to having a proper, healthy lifestyle, but it's a start. And after three years of false starts it's quite a breakthrough!

Eating "healthy" doesn't necessarily mean your food has to be less tasty. In my bag for lunch today I have some leftover homemade vegetable lasagne, half a seabass, a nectarine, an apple, a banana and a handful of brazil nuts. I'd be very surprised if any of my teammates enjoyed their shitty sandwiches from the shop on the corner more than I enjoy what I have

The same thing happens to me. I am just starting to worry that "I don't mind not growing as old" is not the worse case scenario here, as you are implying. Apart from not growing as old, you may surprisingly fall into a situation where you can't do some activity even while young. I just screwed up my knee while jogging and it seems to take months to recover. The first day I couldn't really walk, and then the next 3 weeks (and counting) I cannot run. And I blame my sedentary life and plain lack of care during the previous decade for this. The consequences of living unhealthy are just often underestimated. It's not just about living to be older, it's also about what happens in your mid-life.