eat healthy

Well, I’ve stopped doing the food journal thing, but I’m eating relatively healthy. I found that stuffing myself with all sorts of wonderful (but unhealthy foods) over the Christmas break reduced my want to gorge myself on unhealthy food. Now that I’m back on a regular work schedule, I make sure that I eat lots of healthy meals throughout the day. If I get too hungry, I tend to scarf down unhealthy food. If I keep myself satisfied with healthy food throughout the day, I don’t make poor food choices. And I feel much better for it! I’m also eating out much less and bringing lots of good food to work. So, my tip for eating healthy: eat more often (not necessarily more food)!
The thing that has helped keep my evening meals healthy has been working with my boyfriend to come up with healthy meals that he’ll actually eat. The plus is that he loves cooking! So we’ve had some awesome healthy meals lately. And I take the left overs to work the next day. Yum!

I’ve started a food journal to keep track of what I eat. I put the good things on the left side of the page (veggies, whole grains, good fats, fish, etc) and the bad things on the right side (bad fats, sugars, empty carbohydrates, alcohol etc). The goal is to have all good things on my list, and no bad things. Of course I’ll cheat from time to time, but it helps to have a log of what I’m feeding my body. Now when I eat something I think to myself, “Will I have to put this in the bad column, or the good column?” It stops me from getting a custard tart for morning tea, or ducking down to the vending machine for a soda. Guilt seems to be a good motivator!