Good advice about healthy eating that I read in a magazine at work
Don’t think of it as a diet.
I read this all the time and I think it’s sort of trite, but, like all cliches there is some truth there. For me, if I can’t have pizza on the regs or have to stop drinking Coke, then it’s a diet. But there are so many negative connotations to the word “diet”: that it’s restrictive, that it has to be difficult, that food should not be tasty. That’s the beginning of the end, I’ve found, if that’s how you think about eating healthier.
Harness your frustration and anger.
We should be angry about how unhealthy foods are marketed relentlessly. Images of foods of chemically-enhanced and chemically-fabricated foods are constantly in our faces. Get pissed off, man! And then use that anger to get driven about learning how to make even tastier snacks that don’t have 7-syllable chemical words in them.
Learn to cook, explore the grocery store, try new things.
Seriously. Cooking and trying new ingredients adds an intellectual element to food that distracts me from actually needing to eat. At least for me, food can sometimes be an emotional crutch, but sometimes just reading about how to do it soothes me and gives me something to look forward to.
