The Road to Healthy Eating Begins with a Single Step
Making a change to healthy eating habits can feel like a daunting task. What can you eat? What can’t you eat? Where do you begin? Relax—good health doesn’t have to be complicated
Pick a Healthy Habit
Starting small is the best way to create bigger, lasting changes toward being healthy. Drinking water, for example, is a great first step on your road to good health. Get into the healthy habit of drinking water when you get up in the morning. Experiment to see how water works best for you. Do you find you like your water cool or a room temperature? Personally, my healthy habit is to float a ring of lemon in hot water to start my day.
Listen to Your Body
Listening to your body and learning to interpret the signals is an important part of being healthy. Try this. The next time you’re feeling hungry, have a glass of water instead; your body may be giving you a signal for water, not food.
Learn to discern between nourishment and habit. As you begin to nourish your body with a healthy diet, cravings for the unhealthy will start to decrease. Be prepared to move beyond your old habits—it might sneak up on you. Shortly after I began taking hot water with lemon first thing every morning, I found I was re-heating my coffee several times through out the morning, then still pouring out nearly full mugs of cold coffee. I finally realized that in adding that water to my morning routine, I had naturally and effortlessly diminished my desire for coffee.
Remember…
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Lao Tzu
Category: Healthy Eating
April 17th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Funny!!! Just the other day a nutritionist friend of mine was telling me that she tends to find that she is usually more thirsty than hungry and feels very satisfied after having a glass of water instead of eating. I am aware that I need to make an effort to drink more water, especially now that the warmer days are coming.