Healthy
eating does not have to be dull or hard or time consuming. It does not have to
taste bland or disgusting or out-and-out awful. Eating healthfully can be a
delicious, taste-tempting, experience … if you just know how.
Getting Down To The Basics
Developing healthy eating habits
is less problematic and easier than you may think. You'll look and feel better
and be more successful if you make a habit of eating healthfully. You'll have
more energy and think more clearly. Your immune system will be more potent so
you won't get sick as often.
1. Find a food planner to print
out
2. Pick 1 food that you like to
eat that you know is unhealthy for you AND
you're ready and willing to find a healthy replacement for. Write it down in
the bad foods category.
Begin with the foods that will be
the easiest for you to eliminate. This will make it a lot easier for you. As
you advance, you'll find that foods that you're not ready eliminate now will be
easier to eliminate later as you're being successful in the program.
3. In the good foods I can substitute
column, put down as many healthy foods that you are able to think of that you
know you like or would like to try that you think would work as a replacement
for the food you're trying to get rid of. When you're working on beverages,
don't forget to add water as a healthy replacement. Refer to your list when you
want to eat something in the bad column.
4. Daily or every other day, add
another food to the bad food column and enter as many healthy replacements as
you are able to think of in the substitution column. Keep this list with you
all the time.
5. Keep adding to this list till you've
eliminated all the unhealthy foods you like to eat and eating healthfully has
become so automatic that you don't have to consider it anymore.
6. Forever keep a selection of
healthy foods and snacks that you like to eat convenient, so that when you just
have to have something to eat straightaway, you are able to make a healthy
choice.
Make the changeover to healthy
eating habits step by step at a pace you're comfortable with. Remember, this isn't
a diet. This isn't a program that you'll abandon after a few weeks or months.
You're developing eating habits that you want to last your total lifetime. Make
this a positive experience for yourself.
Make forward motion daily. Keep a
positive attitude. Give yourself a pat on the back for each step you make in
the direction of formulating lifetime healthy eating habits. Make this your
healthy eating adventure, researching lots of new and different foods. And
first and foremost, have fun!
Now's the time to get rolling on
the road to a healthier you. You'll be able to do it!
D'Vaughn
Bell, Body By Bell, Personal Trainer/Coach
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