Healthy foods still not making it into your mouth?? Try these ideas!!! Healthy foods & semi-healthy foods!!

Healthy foods like fruits and vegetables can be apart of your daily meals if you surround yourself with them!!! I like to try different vegetables and fruits but to make sure that I am eating healthy, I keep them in my house. You will be surprised what you can will yourself to eat when you have in your presence. Set a budget for you and your family to eat on and load up on healthy foods and what I like to call semi-healthy foods. These foods are what you like to eat but you know they are not the "healthiest" foods but they are better than eating fast food all the time. My semi-healthy foods include Cool Ranch Doritos and jello. Sometimes a low sodium turkey on a multi-grain sandwich can be paired wonderfully with a few chips!!!!  I think we get caught up in going from 0 to 60 when we are trying to make changes that we forget those changes can be subtle. Another semi-food that I love are snack bars with almonds and dark chocolate.....yuuuuuuuummmmmy!!!! Keep in mind that you are not a figure competitor so your food choices may not match some of these meal plans you may see in magazines!! Eat with a sense of reality and remember you like what you like, you just want to make healthier versions of it. I hope this helps   Lisa:)

Variety in my food choices helped me make better food choices!!! Are you going back to unhealthy foods because you're bored with your healthy choices?

When you think of eating healthy or changing your eating habits for the better, do you typically think of the basic fruits, vegetables, protein, healthy carbs?? Do you think that all you can now eat is broccoli, carrot sticks, baked chicken and fish? Eating healthy comes with such a messed up perception that eating only a certain way and certain types of food is considered eating healthy. When I STOPPED adopting this mind set, my eating became both healthy and fun!!! I discovered in my haste to want to eat healthy and follow someone one else's way that I needed to do it my own way and create variety in my healthy eating. I'm not the chef of all chef's so I use prepared sides like 3 beans salad, chickpea salad, and macaroni salad. I also like to spice my veggies like sprinkle my tomatoes with oregano and pepper then add them to spinach. Eating healthy is still about eating outside of the "healthy list" that you see on the internet and making it your own. So be creative in your quest to end or at least minimize your relationship with the fast food industry!!! I hope this helps



Lisa

Help..."I want to Eat Healthy but its soooo hard because bad food is sooooo good" conversation

Finding it difficult to eat right or even want to change your unhealthy habits? Do you fall under that category of try it for a couple of days but when I go back, I feel like I failed? Join the crowd of people everyday who struggle to find the balance between healthy eating (and trying to maintain it) and unhealthy eating (and trying to minimize it all while still loving it). For those of us who grew up eating what our parents cooked and then strayed from the path as we grew up and begin to make food decisions for ourselves. Don't you wish it were just that easy to crave a salad as badly as your crave greasy, crispy, melt in your mouth french fries? Don't you need that little voice inside of your head to take a back seat when you pull into the fast food drive thru?

SOLUTION TIME!!!

Eating habits are lifelong processes, changes, trials and errors that will go through stages and growth. You will learn how to "tweek" your habits, moderate your choices, critique your new habits, strive to keep the changes you've made afloat, and repeat all of these actions. What you shouldn't do or shall I say what I had to learn NOT to do is compare my eating habits to that of my healthier eating counterparts as well as learn that my journey is mine for a reason. This thought process came from badgering myself and feeling like a failure if I ate fries. I decided that my journey would be more of an exploration of different things I could INCLUDE or EXPERIMENT with as oppose to what I shouldn't be eating. I had to understand that my cooking skills were limited so I needed to learn more. I discovered that boredom of what I was currently eating was driving me back to my unhealthy ways.

Here are a couple of things I've learned so far:

1. Be willing to try different sides and add them to your meal. I like to go to different supermarkets and find different "already made in the deli section" sides that I could eat.

2. I learned that I needed to try or experiment with different meat choices and make an effort to have two or three meats cooked and stored in the fridge so that I had a variety.

3. I learned how to make my "fast food" at home and healthier than the fast food places in my community

Start with these things or create your own rules about how to become a healthier eater!!!

I hope this helps...

Lisa Philpot