Staying Focused on Healthy Eating
Depending upon your daily habits, making healthy food choices can be easier said than done. The goal is to replace unhealthy habits with newer, healthier ones, but this takes time and focus. Strive to take each day as a new day and remind yourself of why it's important to live a healthy lifestyle. How will you feel differently? How will you look? What will you be able to do? Know your "why" and you're sure to stay on track!
Keep reading to helpful ways to protect yourself against the temptation to fall—or even jump off of the healthy eating wagon—on a daily basis.
1. Don’t Starve Yourself
Eating is a basic human need, unlike most habits - healthy or not. If you choose to cut your calories in half over night or slash any specific food group out altogether for a prolonged period, you're sure to land flat on your face in no time flat. When you’re eating for good health, it's important to eat small, frequent meals throughout the day. Shoot for every 3 hours or so, and be sure to include a food with a source of protein with each meal and snack. Opt for healthy options and pay attention to portions. Eating more frequently during the day means you'll have better control over portions and choices. An examples of healthy snacks could be a Greek yogurt and a piece of fruit or 1 oz. of unsalted nuts and fruit.
2. No Excuses
The calendar is chalk-full of excuses to "fall off" the healthy lifestyle bandwagon. The fact is, a birthday is only one day - not a week - so don't let a few hours of a day throw you off track. As far as Holidays and get togethers, they, too, come and go. You are in control of your choices. You can make a healthy one, which helps you towards your goals, or you can choose to prolong this effort. The more you practice "lifestyling it", the sooner you'll be creating newer, healthier habits that will last a lifetime.
3. Stay Focused
Being mindful of your healthy eating ways is easy during the first few days. After all, you’ve spent years eating one way and now you’re changing everything up. In a week or so, however, it can be difficult to remember your desire to eat healthily and even harder to remember why you made that decision. Stay focused on your choices and why you made them to stay strapped tightly on the wagon.
4. Get on the Right Wagon
Every person’s health goals and expectations are different. If you hop on a healthy eating wagon for the first time in your life and expect to shed 30 pounds in a week, you’re going to be disappointed. Setting appropriate goals will help you stay on the wagon and help you make the next goal, as your wagon gets easier and easier to ride to the finish line. In short, set goals that excite you, but that are realistic. Achieving goals and setting new ones fuels your desire to keep going!
5. Avoid Naysayers
Always struggled with your weight? Tried every diet plan known to man without success? Then you’re going to have a lot of folks who scoff at your desire to eat healthily. Let them scoff on their own and instead, surround yourself with friends, coworkers and family who support your efforts. The more positive energy you have around you, the more successful you're likely to be. Finding others who are working towards the same goals is another helpful way to stay focused and gain support.
6. Stay Away from Triggers
The reason healthy eating is difficult for so many is that unhealthy eating tastes so good! Understanding this and understanding when you most want unhealthy food options will help you stay on the healthy wagon. Have a hard time saying no to sweets at your best friend’s house? Invite him to your place or meet at the park. Eat everything in sight when you’re lonely? Give someone a phone call when no one is around or keep yourself busy with a household task.
7. Know How to Get Back On Track
Again, living a healthy lifestyle and eating healthily means changing your current habits and adopting newer and healthier ones. Take one day at a time, beginning each day with the intention to make healthy choices. Should you "fall off" the wagon, the best way to get back on is to just do it! Admit you goofed up, recommit yourself to healthy living, and start living the healthy life you deserve once again. Remember, your "why" is your GPS to get you to where you want to be. Remind yourself daily and you're sure to stay focused and excited about what you're doing. You can do it!
Keep reading to helpful ways to protect yourself against the temptation to fall—or even jump off of the healthy eating wagon—on a daily basis.
1. Don’t Starve Yourself
Eating is a basic human need, unlike most habits - healthy or not. If you choose to cut your calories in half over night or slash any specific food group out altogether for a prolonged period, you're sure to land flat on your face in no time flat. When you’re eating for good health, it's important to eat small, frequent meals throughout the day. Shoot for every 3 hours or so, and be sure to include a food with a source of protein with each meal and snack. Opt for healthy options and pay attention to portions. Eating more frequently during the day means you'll have better control over portions and choices. An examples of healthy snacks could be a Greek yogurt and a piece of fruit or 1 oz. of unsalted nuts and fruit.
2. No Excuses
The calendar is chalk-full of excuses to "fall off" the healthy lifestyle bandwagon. The fact is, a birthday is only one day - not a week - so don't let a few hours of a day throw you off track. As far as Holidays and get togethers, they, too, come and go. You are in control of your choices. You can make a healthy one, which helps you towards your goals, or you can choose to prolong this effort. The more you practice "lifestyling it", the sooner you'll be creating newer, healthier habits that will last a lifetime.
3. Stay Focused
Being mindful of your healthy eating ways is easy during the first few days. After all, you’ve spent years eating one way and now you’re changing everything up. In a week or so, however, it can be difficult to remember your desire to eat healthily and even harder to remember why you made that decision. Stay focused on your choices and why you made them to stay strapped tightly on the wagon.
4. Get on the Right Wagon Every person’s health goals and expectations are different. If you hop on a healthy eating wagon for the first time in your life and expect to shed 30 pounds in a week, you’re going to be disappointed. Setting appropriate goals will help you stay on the wagon and help you make the next goal, as your wagon gets easier and easier to ride to the finish line. In short, set goals that excite you, but that are realistic. Achieving goals and setting new ones fuels your desire to keep going!
5. Avoid Naysayers
Always struggled with your weight? Tried every diet plan known to man without success? Then you’re going to have a lot of folks who scoff at your desire to eat healthily. Let them scoff on their own and instead, surround yourself with friends, coworkers and family who support your efforts. The more positive energy you have around you, the more successful you're likely to be. Finding others who are working towards the same goals is another helpful way to stay focused and gain support.
6. Stay Away from Triggers
The reason healthy eating is difficult for so many is that unhealthy eating tastes so good! Understanding this and understanding when you most want unhealthy food options will help you stay on the healthy wagon. Have a hard time saying no to sweets at your best friend’s house? Invite him to your place or meet at the park. Eat everything in sight when you’re lonely? Give someone a phone call when no one is around or keep yourself busy with a household task.
7. Know How to Get Back On Track
Again, living a healthy lifestyle and eating healthily means changing your current habits and adopting newer and healthier ones. Take one day at a time, beginning each day with the intention to make healthy choices. Should you "fall off" the wagon, the best way to get back on is to just do it! Admit you goofed up, recommit yourself to healthy living, and start living the healthy life you deserve once again. Remember, your "why" is your GPS to get you to where you want to be. Remind yourself daily and you're sure to stay focused and excited about what you're doing. You can do it!
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