Top 10 Tips to Tackling New Year’s Eating Goals
Making and Keeping New Year’s Eating Goals is Possible!
1. Toss your bathroom scale
Your health goals should not be focused on weight. Instead, focus on building positive healthy habits that will lead to a healthy weight over time. Focus on weight, health (and usually weight) suffers. Focus on health…win-win.
2. Eat more…green veggies
Love to eat? Find a way to feast on green veggies daily. They are full of the anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory phyto-chemicals you need to defend against the aggressors of modern life: too much stress, too few fresh foods, exercise and sleep. Try to eat at least 1 cup of green vegetables a day in a meal, a smoothie or a fresh juice. It will seriously change your life.
3. Don’t count calories
Whatever you do, don’t count calories. Or fat grams for that matter. Instead, focus on making healthier food choices. More whole, fresh plant foods. Fewer packaged and hyper-processed snack foods…no matter how many calories they are. Better food means a healthier, more resilient body.
4. Eat dessert
If you love sweets, eat dessert. Make it the best quality you can make or buy, have a small amount and savour it. Denying yourself the things you love will lead you to overeat.
5. Downsize your plate
Want to eat less? Watch your container size. Eat on side plates, never eat out of a food container and never drink extra large coffee drinks. You will finish what is put in front of you. Fool your eyes by filling a smaller container and finishing it.
6. Treat yourself to a new healthy cookbook
Surround yourself with inspiration for healthy living. A new healthy cookbook, with beautiful food photographs will make healthy eating appealing and exciting. Same goes for gorgeous new sneakers or a fancy new superfood to experiment with. Living well should be fun…or why bother?
7. Don’t eat in front of a screen
Surround yourself with inspiration for healthy living. A new healthy cookbook, with beautiful food photographs will make healthy eating appealing and exciting. Same goes for gorgeous new sneakers (link to fitness article) or a fancy new superfood to experiment with. Living well should be fun…or why bother?
8. Enjoy that morning cup of coffee
Coffee isn’t actually bad for you…those caffeinated cheesecake-in-a-venti cups are! In fact, the research shows that daily coffee consumption might improve your risk of diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and even obesity.
9. A glass of wine every now and then will do just fine
If you drink, drink modestly and moderately and it will actually be good for you. Up to 1 glass of photo-chemical rich red wine a day for women or 1-2 for men is the definition of moderation. It can soothe your heart and your soul.
10. Know that getting healthier starts with accepting yourself
No matter what your current health state, release shame, guilt and general self-annoyance. You will never truly commit to being well unless you believe you are worth it. You are, by the way…in case you needed someone to confirm it.
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Small changes can make a big difference to your health. Try incorporating at least six of the eight goals below into your diet.