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Ever made a New Year’s Resolution only to be disappointed in
yourself and back to your old habits by February? We’ve all been
there!
We make a pact with ourselves to live a healthy lifestyle
because we know that good eating habits will enhance our lives.
Nobody doubts the ability of healthy eating habits to improve
our health but not many have the will power to make the changes
needed to create a new lifestyle unless they have help.
You can change your eating habits and have a healthier
lifestyle without having to wreck your social status or have
your friends turn and run. The biggest reason why people fail
and don’t stick to this New Year’s resolution is that they
expect to change overnight and become perfect. If you set your
goals to high and make unrealistic expectations, you are setting
yourself up to fail.
Here are some practice tips for eating healthy and forming good
eating habits:
1. Tell Your Family and Friends
Plan a family night of making smoothies and let everyone know
they are in for a fun night. Let them know why you are doing
this. Tell them that everyone needs to have more fruits and
vegetables in their diets. This will get everyone involved in a
whole lifestyle change.
Don’t try doing it alone because you feel if you tell and then
do your late night run to McDonald’s they will consider you to
be a failure. You just might be pleased and surprised. Your
family and friends will have respect for what you are working to
accomplish and will be able to support you and hold you
accountable.
Maybe get your husband to start doing the grocery shopping and
have children start dinner – Miracles do happen.
2. Do everything you can to avoid the fast food restaurants in
the beginning. It starts with small steps and the first one you
may need to do is start cooking meals at home instead of
resorting to a fast food restaurant. If we do go out to eat, we
can make healthier choices from the menu.
It is very important when you make the decision to eat with
health in mind that you avoid your triggers.
It is nearly impossible to change your eating habits when you
visit a fast food joint often. The smell, the golden arches are
all triggers that will dissolve your resolution to eat
healthier. It is not a lack of will power that drives you to
order a “Big Mac” and fries, much of the taste and aroma of
American fast foods are chemically manufactured to elicit both
emotional and physical responses.
Even just getting a smell of a McDonald’s burger causes you to
feel hunger even when you’ve just finished eating. Everything
that’s gone into their advertising is designed to make you
associate the fast food with good times and great eating.
3. Take Small Steps: Poor eating habits are just as much an
addiction as smoking or drinking. It is pounded into our
subconscious our entire lives, and we fight it everyday. It may
be the lack of time, or the social value it promises without
having to slave in the kitchen that drives us to eat this type
of food, but we have developed these types of eating habits to
make our lives easier. The reality is they do more harm than
good.
Changing your eating habits doesn’t have to mean you have to
give up everything you love, or that you need to do all or
nothing. The best we can do is to take a slow, steady approach
to revamping our eating habits. Little steps that we can follow
everyday. Sometimes small substitutions of healthy foods for
those we know are unhealthy add up to a good start toward
health.
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