My Top 5 Tips for Starting Your Health Journey
"Your health and wellbeing should be your #1 priority, nothing else is more important" ~ Robert Cheeke

- Forget calories, focus on portion sizes & nutrition- yup, you heard that right!
Counting calories becomes an endless calculation game, bypassing your inner hunger cues. So instead, portion out your food per serving size. Visually seeing what one serving portion of your food looks like, is very helpful in building up those inner hunger cues.
2. Get active, every day
If you’re just starting out, go for a 20-minute walk every day. Get the blood flowing, and the body moving, to reap in all the positive benefits of exercise.
3. Load up on those leafy greens for one meal, every day
Fill your bowl to the brim with leafy greens, topped with healthy fat, lean protein, and whole-grain carbohydrate. Ensuring you have one healthy nutritious meal a day, starts to create a habit. Habits over time become your routine, easy and sustainable.
4. Start your day with a fiber-filled breakfast
Some great suggestions include oats with fresh fruit, eggs with whole grain toast, or a smoothie
5. Get rid of the all-or-nothing approach immediately
There is no such thing as failure unless you give up trying. You had fried fast food for lunch? Okay, then for dinner have a well-balanced meal that has some veggies in it. Just because you had a not-so-healthy meal does not mean the day, week, month, or year is ruined. Each time you eat is a chance to incorporate some nutritious food. Everything in moderation and no more negative self-talk. How you talk to yourself matters the most, remember that always.
