Healthy eating tip 1: Set yourself up for success
To set yourself up for success, think about planning
a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps rather than one big
drastic change. If you approach the changes gradually and with commitment, you
will have a healthy diet sooner than you think.
Manageable
portions of meats, People do not over consume meat!
· Simplify.
Instead of being overly concerned with counting calories or measuring portion
sizes, think of your diet in terms of color, variety, and freshness. This way
it should be easier to make healthy choices. Focus on finding foods you love
and easy recipes that incorporate a few fresh ingredients. Gradually, your diet
will become healthier and more delicious.
· Start
slow and make changes to your eating habits over time. Trying to make your diet
healthy overnight isn’t realistic or smart. Changing everything at once usually
leads to cheating or giving up on your new eating plan. Make small steps, like
adding a salad (full of different color vegetables) to your diet once a day or
switching from butter to olive oil when cooking. As your small changes become habit,
you can continue to add more healthy choices to your diet.
· Focus
on how you feel after eating. This will help foster healthy new habits and
tastes. The more healthy food you eat, the better you’ll feel after a meal. The
more junk food you eat, the more likely you are to feel uncomfortable,
nauseous, or drained of energy.
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Every change you make to improve your
diet matters. You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to completely
eliminate foods you enjoy to have a healthy diet. The long term goal is to feel
good, have more energy, and reduce the risk of cancer and disease. Don’t let
your missteps derail you—every healthy food choice you make counts.
· Think
of water and exercise as food groups in your diet.
· Water.
Water helps flush our systems of waste products and toxins, yet many people go
through life dehydrated—causing tiredness, low energy, and headaches. It’s
common to mistake thirst for hunger, so staying well hydrated will also help
you make healthier food choices.
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· Exercise.
Find something active that you like to do and add it to your day, just like you
would add healthy greens, blueberries, or salmon. The benefits of lifelong exercise
are abundant and regular exercise may even motivate you to make healthy food
choices a habit.
Start on tip one; tip two will follow in 48 hours!