We all make poor decisions sometimes with food. Hey it happens! What's important is to try and eliminate those occurrences or at least minimize them to very few. The reason for this is it becomes a bit of a vicious circle. When you eat poorly you are disappointed with yourself and beat yourself up for a poor decision which leads to doing it over and over again.
The good news is it only takes a few weeks of consistent behaviour to form a new habit. (that's with anything) Pay attention to when you have a craving for something. Most people are creatures of habit so it should come up frequently enough to find a patter. For some its at 3pm in the office and you head off to the vending machine for that perceived "pick me up". The best thing to do is change that habit by replacing it with something new. So if you head to the vending machine at 3pm, head to the water fountain and take a walk around the office instead.
HERE ARE 7 TIPS TO HELP YOU STEER AWAY FROM JUNK FOOD.
Make healthy foods your treat. Stash some frozen grapes in the freezer and finish off your dinner with some tasty grapes which will give you something sweet without kick starting those sugar cravings. Find your favourite fruit and replace your usual sugar cravings with a tasty tasty fruit.
Store healthy foods front and centre. Make sure to keep healthy foods on the counter and easily in the middle of the fridge. A great easy snack is to cut up red pepper into slices so you can dip it in hummus when you have a craving to eat. Junk foods are super easy to rip into a bag and devour it, so take 5 minutes at night to plan the next days healthy snack.
Everyone knows their trigger foods and none of them are good. If you are drawn to Oreo's or Doritos and you're walking down the grocery isle with them on the shelf...just keep on walking by. Hey I said keep on walking! When you know what sets you off and it's bad for you just make a decision to keep it out of the house. If you've had it before you know what it tastes like and you can give it up. Yes you will survive. (Abba was right!)
You don’t need to ban junk food from your life. As long as you eat healthy 90% of the time you’ll be good. One method is to eat clean during the whole week & then use Sunday as your cheat day. The more frequent you eat healthy, the more you’ll have adverse effects to junk food. Taste adapts. In time you're cravings for junk food will become less and less and soon you’ll be looking forward to your next healthy food.
Replace processed foods with homemade meals made from scratch using whole ingredients is the best way to ensure optimal nutrition. This will automatically cut out the vast majority of refined sugars, processed fructose, preservatives, dyes, other nasty chemicals, and many addictive ingredients from your diet. This will allow your body to depend less on sugar and more on fat as its primary fuel—provided you eat enough healthy fat, that is. As a result, you will no longer crave sugar to keep you going.
Make a plan! This is a tricky one for most of us as most of us really aren't used to making plans and if we are then we don't necessary stick to them very well. Have it written out on Sunday night what you need to buy for the week and what you are going to make for meals that weeks. Google websites for meal planning to give yourself a little help. There are even fees apps for meal planning. Don't get hung up on technology though. Writing a list is best because it ingrains in your mind what foods you should be focusing on.
Now the most important part is to have a great "why" to change. We all know our own reasons but is it strong enough? Everyone keeps doing the same thing wether it's in business or personal until the "why" is powerful enough to give us that will power to change.
There will only be change when you decide it's time!
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