EATING HABITS: HOW TO EAT HEALTHY FOOD

Changing out eating habits to healthy eating is not an easy task comparing to eating junk. It takes time and your dedication but it definitely has got remarkable benefits towards a healthy lifestyle.

Due to our every day hectic schedules, we tend to ignore our eating habits and get attracted to the marketing tactics of the food and beverage companies which provide quick and easy consumable products. Also, we consume unhealthy street junk food a lot.

Following all these unhealthy eating habits, we regret every day and tell ourselves that “I should start eating healthy” but in reality, we never implement such a thing.

So, if you are looking to change to unhealthy eating habits to healthy eating habits then please these:

Drink more water

The first and most common advice is to drink more water. Now, what does water do in a body? Why it is necessary to drink water?

See our body is consists of 60% of water and helps to transport vitamins and minerals to different cells and organs of the body, also maintains body temperature. By drinking more water, your body will function properly and keeps you well hydrated. But it’s not that staying hydrated keeps you from overeating, sometimes you feel hungry, but in fact, you are thirsty. So, there is no harm in drinking a glass of water. Drink as much water you can in your entire day.

Buy smarter

Whenever you buy a product, first of all, your eyes go to its cover but the main story lies when you flip around the product and check the nutrition label. Nutrition label tells us about the nutrition facts of the product, such as the number of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals.

However, nowadays many of the product contains unhealthy ingredients and some artificial mixing, that makes the product unhealthy. Thus, before you buy any product, read the nutrition label carefully, and buy smartly.

Keep healthy snacks handy

The easiest way to make sure your entire means of staying on track is to keep healthy snacks with you whenever you go out or travel somewhere. Healthy snacks like yogurt, banana, apples, oranges, almonds, and so on. You can keep any kind of healthy snacks with you, whenever you travel somewhere and if you have enough time before going then you should prepare a meal. For example, if you are a non-vegetarian, prepare a chick salad meal or if you are a vegetarian, you can prepare a meal with processed cheese or chickpeas.

Select meals that contain high protein because it will help you to recover your muscles throughout your entire day.

One piece of advice, keep a ball of salad in the kitchen every morning. So, whenever you enter the kitchen, your attention must go to that salad bowl so that your day starts with a healthy meal and it will be a reminder for you to stick to the healthy eating habit.

Cook at home more

Many of us have the habit of eating outside food from a restaurant or a shop, considering how it is cooked and the hygiene factor, outside food is definitely unhealthy comparing to a home-cooked meal.

If you want to eat healthily, then buy the required raw material and invest some time in cooking. When you are going to prepare a meal yourself, you know what you are going to put in it to make it healthier and if you buy from outside you don’t know what they are putting inside it. So, cook at home.

Learn meal preparation

Meal preparation is much like planning your own meal ahead of time which will save your lot of time and also it be will helpful in portion control and avoiding unhealthy eating habits. Prepare your meals based on your fitness transformation and in portions with balanced nutrition required for the transformation.

Create a meal plan

A meal plan will help you to eat better save time and money. Follow below tip secret in your meal plan.

• Choose the main source of proteins. Proteins like chicken, fish, processed cheese, chickpeas, soybeans and etc.
• Add some five seasonal vegetables and make sure that some of them are easy to cook and prepare. Also, choose a method that you can cook all the veggies at one time.
• Be sure you include salad or green leaves
• Add at least two grains or kinds of pasta like brown rice or whole-wheat pasta or brown bread.
• Add dairy products like yogurt or butter.
• Add one or two fruit.
• Now that we have all the ingredients, make a note and write down all the carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and other ingredients and calculate them. So, you will get what you are going to eat in your entire week.

Give yourself a break

If you following these rules strictly or most of the time, then occasionally you eat a slice of pizza or brownie or any cheat meal you like. A cheat meal once a week will not affect your healthy diet plan.

We all need to relax a bit, so if you need a fried chicken go for it because most of the time people think eating a cheat meal will affect their healthy diet plan. No, you are wrong but at the same time you are right as well, eating too much of it will affect your healthy diet plan. So, whenever you are eating your cheat meal, monitor how much you are eating.