You want to eat healthier, but you're not sure where to start, and you know you won't stick with a complete overhaul. I hear you. You've probably tried a complete diet change, and maybe you even had good results, but for some reason it wasn't sustainable.
If this is you, instead of making drastic changes, let's ease into it a bit. Time to get honest. Think about your diet. Really think. How much soda do you drink? What about potato chips, snack cakes, other prepackaged treats? Fast food? How often? Let's start there.
Instead of five sodas a day, cut down to one. Do you normally eat a half a bag of potato chips? Fill a normal sized bowl, and stop there. Prepackaged snacky cakes? No more than one a day. And if you already ate fast food today, then no snacky cake.
Yes, you can allow yourself a (reasonable, not super sized) treat every day, but just one (or two if you're weaning off a diet of nothing but junk), OR you can eat healthy all week, and give yourself a cheat day. Either way is recommended by the pros and used successfully by people wanting to make positive changes in their diet.
I know it's extremely difficult if you are raising children to put in the extra effort to cook, but it's so very important. Prepackaged meals make everything easier day to day, but this is the time to instill healthy habits. It really is. This cannot be overstated. If they grow up with unhealthy habits, they will become unhealthy and often times unproductive adults. It's a lot easier to already have healthy habits than it is to try to break bad habits. Most people never break their bad habits - they end up making excuses for them and contribute further to our diseased society. Popping a pill or injecting insulin is not a good alternative for an unhealthy lifestyle. Ask a diabetic how much fun it is. Not just the treatment but the disease. Sadly, it is inevitable for many people with bad habits because they do not possess the will to change once they are an adult.
Don't take the easy way out and set your kids up for failure. It may be easier now, but it will be much harder later in many ways. Does each meal need to be cooked? Of course not. I will cover more on this in future posts. For now let's just work on setting in stone a quality decision to live better.
So today, do the Tabata (click here) routine from Wednesday. One time through for beginners, twice if you're up for it, and three times if you really want to see changes!
As always, best wishes.
Sarah
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