Eating Habits Can be Changed

I’m not talking about fad diets or diets at all really. I am talking about little things, about changing habits.

When you were a child you had to learn to stop sucking your thumb and biting your nails. How is that any different than changing unhealthy eating habits as an adult?

When I was pregnant with my son my husband wouldn’t let me put salt on my food. Cooking with it was fine but a salt shaker on the table was not. As a born and bread American used to putting salt and tomato ketchup on anything to hit my plate, not using salt was hard. But it was worth it.

After a few months I didn’t notice the absence of the salt shaker and now I’m surprised when guests ask if we have one and have to go digging in the back of the cupboard to find it.

Given the amount of salt added to most foods we eat, be it dried pasta, bread, cheese, cakes or just about anything, being able to NOT add more salt is great. I am really happy that my husband helped me break the habit. That’s all it was, a habit.

The next one is going to have to be salty food like crisps (“potato chips” to Americans) or salted cashews – my favourite. I’m doing well. A bag of crisps lasts unopened in the cupboard longer than it ever used to. Previously it would be downed before we got it home from the store, but nowdays I sometimes even forget it’s there.

So, forget the fad diets. Attack your bad eating habits one by one by treating them like the bad habits they are. Make a list of the foods or ingredients you eat that you shouldn’t, be it salt, sugary food, chocolate bars, dumping salsa on everything, whatever it may be you can beat it.

Work through the list one by one. It make take some time but it can be done without expensive health foods or dubious pills. It’s no different to the little girl who had to stop biting her nails, it’s just a habit.

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