It doesn't matter for what reason you decide to restructure your diet. Perhaps a doctor recommended you to do this, you decided to lose weight and again put on your favorite dress that is unmercifully pressing now, or you just fell in love and want to soar above the ground not only with your soul, but also with your body. It is important to form new eating habits as quickly and painlessly as possible. What can you do to get started?
Any habit arises in a person not instantly, but over time, and this is the case with the use of alcohol, and with tobacco smoking, and with foul language. The habit of consuming frankly unhealthy food - confectionery with a high content of palm oil, chips and fries, smoked sausage, which contains hardly at least 40% of meat - has been formed over the years. The harder it is for a person who is not used to monitoring the quality of what he eats is to restructure his diet.
Healthy eating: where to start?
As terrible as it sounds, addiction to food stuffed with flavor enhancers is akin to the addiction experienced by drug addicts. Food prepared without numerous chemical additives seems bland and tasteless to those people who are already hooked on fast food. You need to understand that over time, the human body is cleansed on its own and taste habits naturally change. Remember, if you follow a diet for some time, in many products you begin to feel an unusually rich smell and taste - this is precisely the result of cleansing the body.
You can give up harmful products gradually: first, remove wheat flour products from your diet, then - sweets containing refined sugar, at the next stage - smoked meats and pickles. Replace them with fruits and dried fruits, wholemeal bread, honey, and lean meats and fish. Drink plenty of clean water - at least 30 ml per kilogram of body weight.
Why do you need to switch to proper nutrition?
In any case, the advantages that a person acquires by consuming exclusively healthy and natural food more than pay off all the dubious advantages of fast food and genetically modified foods. A person who has switched to proper nutrition gradually clears the skin, strengthens hair and nails, and normalizes weight over time by itself. Cellulite disappears in women. Such a person has a lot of energy and is ready to move mountains, and not exist in the intervals from one meal to another.
In the long term, those who adhere to the principles of healthy eating are much less likely to see a doctor than their peers who prefer “regular” food. Such painful diseases as diabetes, diseases of the cardiovascular system and even oncology are largely provoked by the fact that a person eats harmful foods. The popular saying of one of the greats: "You are what you eat" is absolutely true.
It would be wrong to think that healthy eating is an act of self-torture. Eating only healthy foods quickly becomes a habit, and good health and an attractive reflection in the mirror are an excellent incentive for further work on yourself, which lasts throughout a person's life.
