Many people are interested in how to make healthy eating a habit. The periods when we start to eat in a balanced way, then we give up – they happen all the time. There are several reasons for this.
Healthy eating can seem complicated, not tasty, time-consuming and energy-consuming, and so on.
At the same time, there are ulterior motives for staying in the situation you are in – latent benefits.
How to make healthy eating a habit and make it more balanced
only 3 components are needed:
1. Adequate knowledge of what the daily diet should be.
2. Understanding what motivates you to eat right.
3. A set of very simple actions for every day.
Now there is a lot of different information about what a healthy diet should be. They suggest there are certain groups of products, then this information is refuted. It’s easy to get confused in such a situation. You can also start eating badly for yourself. It is worth remembering that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Therefore, you need to focus on the recommendations of official sources – the World Health Organization and the Associations of Nutritionists. This ensures that the proposed recommendations are scientifically based, says Yulia Vasilenko, Health Coach.
Next, you need to figure out what motivates you to make changes in nutrition. You need to ask yourself: Why is it important for me to eat a balanced diet?
do not rush to draw conclusions from the first answers, keep asking yourself further.
For example:
Why do I want to eat a balanced diet?
– To lose weight.
Why should I lose weight?
– To look beautiful in clothes.
Why would I look beautiful in clothes?
– To please my husband.
Why do I like my husband? Is he only with me because of his looks?
– No, he loves me not only for my appearance.
Why then does the husband like it?
– In order not to feel worthless.
The presented dialogue is the result of communication at the coach session of Yulia Vasilenko with the client. As you can see from the dialogue, the incentive for healthy eating is to increase self-esteem. At the same time, losing weight or gaining weight will not increase self-esteem; deeper work with a person’s personality is needed here. Then nutritional issues can be resolved almost immediately.
ext, you need to define simple actions for each day.
For example, ask yourself what I can do to improve my nutrition. What are the 3 steps to help you eat a balanced diet? For example, it could be:
- сook on weekends for a week
- wash vegetables in advance for salads
- eat slowly
If you want to make healthy eating a habit, we suggest purchasing our Health Coach’s practice brochure. The brochure contains practical advice to help you understand and correct your eating habits. It also contains verified official information on what a healthy diet looks like and how to gradually come to such a diet.