Beginning Nutrition
- Make Life Long Changes
- Practice Mindful Eating
- Focus On Real Food
- Sugar Is The Enemy and So Are Liquid Calories
- Don’t Have Cheat Days
When eating, just eat! Be mindful. And avoid trying to multi-task while snacking or even eating full meals. See if you can catch yourself this week in the moment and be intentional about popping out of it!
Next, before you eat any food, give it’s list of ingredients on the label a quick skim. You don’t even have to change any eating behaviors at this point, just be aware of the ingredients that are in some of the common foods you are eating.
As we progress in the coming weeks, we’ll want to compare foods and get to more and more *real* foods. In general, the less ingredients listed in the food, the better.
When you are making an unhealthy food choice, be aware of what you are doing, but don’t punish yourself or call it a “cheat”. Say “I am making the choice to eat this food item, but the next choice I make will be a healthy one.”