13
Jan

Healthy Eating Habits Final Installment

Written by fitmanplus

This is my final post in the Healthy Eating Habits series. If you haven’t read the others then I suggest you do so, they are The Way to Healthy Eating Habits & Healthy Eating Habits Part 2. Now I have gone through a few different concepts that will help you on your way to healthy eating habits. None have been really hard, they just have to get done. Now I will share the final 2 factors and you can start using them all together and see the results for yourself.

Habits
Being able to break bad habits is another important part of starting to eat healthy. No I don’t mean habits like biting your nails or smoking, I mean bad meal, snack and drink habits. It is way easier to be unhealthy because everywhere you turn, there is another fast food restaurant being built. Now, the way you start to rid yourself of these, is to figure out what your unhealthy habits are. My worst habits were from snacking, any little snack I had was bad for me. I stopped buying unhealthy snacks, now anytime I snack; I am forced to eat good things. Once you figure out what the habits are, you can find out how to work on deleting them. If most of your habits are at home, only keep healthy things in the house. I have learnt by experience that if there is any type of junk food in the house it will get eaten before the healthy stuff, always.

It is all the automatic unhealthy choices you make that affect you the most. No matter what type of habit you have, you always have to be committed to breaking it. Say you eat lunch ‘out’ every day of the week. Well, not only is that very costly, but also usually always unhealthy. A very simple technique to interrupting eating out is packing your own lunch. It may take a bit more time to prepare and put together at first, but with time it gets easier then fast food.

Organization
Two little things called organization and preparation will help you out 10 fold when you start trying to eat healthy. Yes you read it right, Organization and Preparation. There are a few different aspects to it, but in the end of this you will be a wizard at all of them. See the thing about my mini course tips is that each one is as important and simple as the next. This makes your success rate that much better.

So when I say stay organized this is what I mean. If you have junk in the house it will get eaten right, well be prepared enough to have all the bad food gone and make sure all healthy food is on hand. The concept is very easy, but you have to be organized to pull it off. So you want to start making lunches instead of eating out, then you’ll need to organize your meals and be prepared enough to have all the food available. Like I said, very simple, you just have to put it into effect.

One thing that helped me out with this is, I would take one night on my day off, and write out what I was going to do each day for lunch. I would then make sure I had all the needed food at home ready to go. I would also pre-cook some things. If you are making a nice dinner, make a bit extra and use it as a lunch through the week.

As I was saying above, none of these concepts are hard to do but you actually have to do them to see the effects. I challenge you to see the results. If you want to start eating healthy then doing these will defiantly help you on your way.

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2 Comments

  • Parth Shah Said:

    Good stuff once again. I’m trying to get my mom to stop making certain foods. Indian families are big on rice, which isn’t something you want to eat while loosing weight. I recently began training my father and gave him a diet. He eats basically anything that’s lying around the house, so me and my mom need to work together in order to get rid of all the junk.

  • fitmanplus Said:

    Hey Parth, yeah I suffer from eat anything too, but I have been able to teach myself to choose wiser. With the rice thing, maybe see if your mom would use whole wheat rice instead of the regular white rice. It will probably be hard to cut out rice fully, but the whole wheat will make it better for you!

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