10 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Eating Habits
Ok plain and simple today. Here’s 10 surefire ways to improve your eating, diet, nutrition or whatever else you want to call it.
That is 10 things to do when you aren’t fasting!
1. Reduce your intake of processed carbohydrates. This is pretty much anything that’s in a bag, box or can.
2. Which means…Eat more green vegetables. No interpretation necessary.
3. Same goes for berries. Eat more berries, frozen are fine (and cheaper)
4. Get more Omega 3′s. Get a supplement if you need to as well as eating more fish (especially salmon)
5. Drink more green tea. I tried three new ones on the weekend. Like two. Not a bad strike rate!
6. Set goals. Dax Moy is the king of getting stuff done!
7. Drink less juice, soft drink and alcohol. See point 5.
8. Don’t add sugar to your tea of coffee. Actually, don’t add it to anything!! It will just make you fatter.
9. Make small changes and keep to them. If you improve one thing every week and stick to it think of how much better you will be in 6,12,24 weeks.
10. Think long term and be consistent. See point 9. You don’t need to change everything at once. Make sustainable and consistent change.
Let me know if there’s something you would add to the list. Your number one way to instantly improve your eating.
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6 Responses to “10 Ways to Instantly Improve Your Eating Habits”
Kelley on June 3, 2009
Love points 5 and 7, which makes me think of one thing that helped me which was drinking more water. Once I focused on drinking plenty of water it helped me realize that I was sometimes thirsty instead of hungry. The more hydrated I am the more control I seem to have over my eating.
Mickey on June 11, 2009
Great tips. I think too many people start out making drastic changes and trying to be 100% perfect. Then, when they slip up they think they’ve totally blown it and quit. I always stress progress not perfection.
james on June 14, 2009
Progress not perfection, I like it.
mpowell on June 17, 2009
Two words: Green smoothies! Quick, easy, tasty, filling and CRAZY healthy! AND you can accomplish several of James’ terrific suggestions from this post: Add frozen, organic berries, kale (or spinach or collards, etc. good to rotate your greens, cuz’ of the alkaloids) and seeds (chia, hemp, pumpkin, sesame, etc.) for EFAs. Heck, you can even use green tea for your liquid (David Wolfe & Daniel Vitalis always use teas for their liquids)! Then you’ve got the first 5 of James’ suggestions…all in your blender!
james on June 18, 2009
I like your thinking! Easy way to tick off a heap of boxes in one hit.
mpowell on June 20, 2009
Thanks! I only get smart when the goal is to lessen work! Ergo, the love affair with the mythical green smoothie!