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How to change your food habit

 


Human beings are mere slave of habit. You prepare the same food again and again. But if you’re so serious about your health or healthy food, you have to shake off and think differently. You may get used to your old food habit. It’s so tough or challenging to have or form a new food habit, if you want to just eat healthier. You may have set your mind, “I will change my unhealthy food habit.” But the old habits can’t be removed so easily.

Here are some tips or steps by following which you can omit your bad or unhealthy food habits and make a new one:

  • Strong mindset: Mindset is one of the most important thing for doing or acting a new thing or work. Set your mind strongly to omit your bad habits and form a new healthy.
  • Making a list of eating anything: Keep a diary to you. Write down everything you eat, even a small morsel. This helps you to find out your unhealthy habits. Also, you will be able to know your consumed calories and the amount of calories you need.
  • Focusing your habits: Focus on your made list. Find out those items which you overeat. Try to avoid them.
  • Consume smaller parts: When your plate is full or overloaded with various items, it’s hard to control yourself from consuming. It will attract you to eat. So, whenever your dish or plate has less foods, you won’t be attracted. And thus this is noticed helpful.
  • Eating not more than one serving: Try eating on serving. Because after eating first serving, you may take some other favorite dish and start eating. This is not healthy.
  • Replacing the unhealthy habits: One of your bad habits may be eating while watching TV news or any movies. At this time, you may eat very fast which is very bad for your health. Avoid such distraction. Because those forces you not to focus on how much and how quickly you eat.
  • Only eat when you are actually hungry: Try avoiding eating at that time when you don’t feel any hunger. If you experience hunger along with emotions, do some other activities which is non-eating. You may talk to your friend or go out for a little walk. By doing this, you will feel better than previous.
  • Meal planning: Plan for your meals. Your plans must contain healthy foods. This is to do to ensure that you are eating healthy and well balanced foods.
  • Having a small target per week: This appears so helpful. For example, you have set a target that you will eat vegetables as much as possible. So, you need to consume more vegetables. You may take vegetables in your meal in several ways. Like breakfast. You may eat sandwich as breakfast. Take some slices of cucumber instead of jam or other stuffs. Not only for breakfast. In lunch or dinner, you have to follow this.
  • No over expectation: Don’t expect much that you are eating healthy. It takes time to gain this. The time may be a month. Nothing is gained so quickly.

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