Eat healthier for your happiness, one step at a time

March 25th, 2009 | Published in Motivation, Personal Growth

Believe it or not, what you eat changes how you feel about things. If you want to feel good more often, eating well will be a huge step in making that happen.

Now, I believe in making healthy and happy habits work for your lifestyle. Making the move from unhealthy habits to healthy habits is a big one, especially if you eat fast food all the time. So take it in small steps! Seriously, eat an apple after breakfast every day for starters. I can almost guarantee that you will feel better in a week or so.

There are lots of weight loss programs and millions of diets to choose from. I think that unless you are training to be a serious athlete, getting to a healthy weight can be a gradual and relatively easy process – granted, it will take some will power and it won’t always be easy to choose the healthier paths – but concentrating on being healthier rather than counting calories has definitely worked for me.

Learn the basics about how food affects your mood. Choose one simple thing to change about your diet. Add vegetables to one meal a day, or like I suggested before, have an apple with breakfast. If you are overweight, eat a quarter less of every meal. If you are underweight, examine your diet and try to add a little extra something nutritious to each meal and make sure to eat until you are full. Take the change in small steps, and those will add up faster than you would think.

The goal here is to let your body find it’s own natural, healthy state. If all you do is make one small change to your diet every 2 weeks for the next year, you will find that you will look and feel significantly better. Give a test run and see if it doesn’t work for you.

What are your expriences with eating healthy? What are things that you could change? Leave your thoughts in the comments.