My Tips to Start a “Healthy Eating” Regime

Hello smiley faces. I hope you all are doing great. Today I am going to share with you some of my tips to start a “healthy eating” regime. Without further ado, let’s jump right into it.

1. Give away all the unhealthy food– If you have unhealthy food around you, you will most probably end up eating it. So scan your kitchen (especially your fridge) for unhealthy foods and donate it to a needy and hungry person. If you can’t get rid of all the unhealthy food a time, just do it in steps. Start with the fridge, move to kitchen drawers and cabinets and lastly move to your “secret food storage” places (come on everyone has one :D)

2. Make a point to buy only healthy foods – On your next trip to the supermarket, skip the chips, farsan, fizzy drinks and frozen foods section. And go ahead and buy healthy cereals, grains, sprouts, oats, fresh vegetables and fruits.

3. Remember healthy food ≠ bland – Many people have the conception that healthy food is not tasty. That’s not true my dear friends. I personally think that all you need to make a food tasty is few spices and salt, maybe a little bit of oil too. In India, we have so many varieties of spices and masalas. Use them to make your food tasty. Also if the presentation of the food is good, anyone will eat it. So present healthy food in an appeasing way ;)

4. Find healthy alternatives – Finding healthy alternatives to their unhealthy counterparts is a difficult job, but it’s not impossible. Deep frying can be substituted for shallow frying or roasting in the oven. Sugar can be substituted for dates or jaggery or even honey. White flour (maida) can be replaced with whole wheat flour or multigrain flour and so on. I can write a whole article on this :D

5. Don’t ever go out on an empty stomach – Yes friends, this trick just works like magic. If you are fully fed, you won’t be tempted to eat at one of those unhealthy roadside food joints/ restaurants/ pizza stores/ ice-cream corners. Because if anyone overeats, he/she has to bear the consequences next morning (unless you have some magical digestive herb) :D

6. Share the unhealthy food – I have observed that if you eat alone, you tend to eat more. But if you share your food with some of your friends, you tend to eat less. So the next time you order a pizza make sure you invite 3 of your friends. This will make sure you eat just one portion of it and not the whole pizza. This trick will work only if you order the same amount of food that you were going to eat all by yourself, not 4 times of what you wanted to eat.

7. “All is well” mantra – Whenever you are tempted to eat the unhealthy food, just say, “All is well. You don’t need this food”. This mantra might work for all those who deal with the problem of emotional eating. Whenever I am tempted to eat anything unhealthy, I tell my brain and also heart, “The food is stale and it’s made with karela (bitter gourd)”. That’s because I just hate stale food and karela and that helps me to avoid that food :D

So friends, these were some of my tips for all the newbies who want to start a healthy lifestyle. I have been following these tips and they have worked for me. Even though I might cheat once in a while, but still I can call myself a healthy eater. You will see some more healthy tips and tricks and recipes on this blog in near future. So stay tuned for that. If you found this article helpful or if you have any other tips, then let me know in the comments down below.

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