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