Tips To Kick The Junk Food Habit!

Tips To Kick The Junk Food Habit!

If you’re going to break a sugar habit, it’s going to take time, patience, and willpower.

If I can do it, so can you!

Here we go:

1. Clean all the junk food out of your home.

There’s “unconscious eating” to worry about which is when you just grab a bag of fried carbs while you’re sitting in front of the TV and stuff your face for no reason. If you don’t have access to the junk, the only bag you’ll be able to grab will be filled with baby carrots. If someone brings some junk over for a dinner party, enjoy it with them and dump the rest when they leave.

2. Eat 80% clean.

Relax with that other 20%. Just because your kitchen cupboard no longer looks like a movie theater concession stand doesn’t mean you can’t live it up sometimes. When I made my first big push to clean up my diet, Friday was Cookie Day. I ate like a saint 6 days a week, but every Friday I had a giant chocolate chip cookie. Knowing I had Cookie Day to look forward to made all the veggies on the other days much more palatable.

3. Make a comforting ritual out of eating healthy.

The fact that Cookie Day was a ritual was also quite helpful. The 21-days-to-form-a-habit thing has no scientific backing, but eventually a behavior pattern will set in.

4. Carry healthy foods with you at all times.

If you carry a purse or a backpack, throw an apple or some raw nuts in there. In this Fast Food Nation, it’s pretty easy to find yourself in situations where you’re hungry and, shucks, you just have no choice but to buy a donut because that’s the only thing you have access to. You don’t have that excuse if there’s a snack in your pack.

Here are a few to consider:

Fresh fruit
Dried fruit
Raw nuts
Whole-grain crackers
A Shakeology packet

5. Discover new, yummy fruits and veggies.

There’s a lot of weird, healthy food out there. Sometimes, we avoid fresh produce because we’re either bored of the same old oranges or there’s a stigma associated with particular produce. If this is a problem for you, buy fruits and veggies you don’t recognize. If you don’t know how to prepare it, do an internet search for “(produce name) + recipe.” You might stumble on a new flavor that completely blows your mind.

6. Binge on healthy foods.

I’m probably the only person who will ever give you this advice since it’s a wee bit questionable. Every once in the while, something emotional triggers me and I need to eat junk. When I feel this happening, I hit the fridge and “pre-binge” on healthy foods, mainly fruits. Sooner or later, the ice cream or chips come out, but by that point, I’m so full of broccoli or spinach that I’m not physically capable of doing too much damage. Dysfunctional? Maybe, but a vast improvement over the alternative.

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