New Diet New You!

Taking that first step into totally revamping your diet and improving your eating habits is a hard thing to do, but not impossible. It is necessary to eliminate starchy, carby, and sugary products from your diet.  Eating bad foods with empty calories only makes you feel more hungry, and if your aim is to improve your nutrition, boost your health, and empower your wellbeing then you need to start a complete diet overhaul. Major diet and lifestyle overhauling can be a daunting process, but it will certainly have a life-changing outcome. In order for the transition and diet re-organization to run smoothly, you need to take baby steps. Therefore, follow these tips diligently and your wellness and the nutritional journey will surely be less intimidating and more fruitful.

Revive Your Pantry

Deciding on where to start makes some people procrastinate without any specific reasons. However, when it comes to starting your new diet regime, you should first start with overhauling your pantry. Very often we resort to some food items in the pantry just because we subconsciously know that we have bought an extra bag of chips or jar of jam. Since the aim is to revamp your diet, you need to get organized and start by kicking out the bad food from the pantry and fridge and stocking it up with healthy fresh produce and nourishing staples. By rearranging your pantry, you will always be surrounded by quality and healthy foods which will help you stay on track with your overhaul. In a way, this also represents a mental challenge. The more determined and patient you are, the better and more solid the results will be.

Purchase Quality Foods

After you have cleared out your pantry, fridge, and freezer of any processed and refined foods, it’s time to go shopping. Another obstacle will be not to succumb to purchasing unhealthy items.   The best way to do that is by focusing on buying only food that has come from the ground, tree, the land, and sea. Some pantry staples like almond bars, quinoa, nuts, spices, and similar are a wise choice to have in order to take a quick grab on a healthy snack when you are in a hurry.  For a complete diet overhaul, the best solution would be to shop for healthy products at independently owned greengrocer’s shops, farmers markets or any other local organic store.
Revamp Daily Food Intake

When it comes to preparing your meals, no matter the chores and obligations you may have, you need to leave out the processed and prepared foods, and fast food options.  Do your best to prepare fresh meals at home, and if necessary take them to work for lunch. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and a great way to start your day is with a nutritious bowl of oatmeal topped with your favorite fruit.  If you don’t have time to prepare a nutritious meal, there are companies like Hello Fresh that can make and deliver your foods to you.  If you are exercising, then you might need a more energetic food intake in order to give fuel to your muscles. There are many companies that can help you create a diet plan for muscle gain that is high in calories and with a higher ratio of carbohydrate and protein. Therefore, you will never miss out a healthy meal. Preparing more food from scratch is a powerful way to cut salt, fat, and calories from your diet.

Healthy Snacks Only

In order to get premium results with your new diet regime, you must eat moderately, chose nutritious products, and consume fresh and healthy foods.  Don’t starve yourself, or avoid eating throughout the day and then order a pizza overnight. You must choose your food meticulously, have a minimum of three meals a day and two snacks in between. Yes, snacking is allowed, but the snacking habits should be utterly reshaped as well. There are plenty of healthy snacking options for you to choose from. Raw almonds, cashews, macadamia nuts,  pumpkin and sunflowers seed, unsalted peanut butter, the list is endless. If you are used to having dessert after lunch or snacking throughout the day, go for healthy chia seed pudding with goji berries and almond milk. Or a delicious smoothie with natural yogurt, cinnamon, and raw cacao powder.

Listen to your Body

Always listen to your body. When you finally transform your diet, avoid eating hydrogenated fats and deep-fried foods that contain harmful compounds, you can say that you are on a perfect path of maintaining positive and healthy eating habits. Probably up to now, you have discovered that your body feels over-saturated, your stomach bloated and upset when you eat deep-fried foods. By listening to your body you will notice how revived it will become after you have kicked out or at least swapped out snacks, sugar, refined flour and sugar products, processed, ready-made and fast foods.

Hydration is Key

There are many drinks that can have an extremely negative impact on your body. By eliminating all kinds of sugary drinks and sodas, you will detoxify your body from the inside and out. Many sodas, flavored waters, juices, and sports drinks contain refined sugar that can only do more damage then satisfy your thirst. When you are focusing on completely overhauling your diet, the only thing that you should be drinking is plain water. And lots of it. Drinking minimum of two liters of water per day works miracles for your body. It detoxifies your entire system, cleanses your body, refreshes your skin, and it even helps to shed pounds. What more can you ask for?

To get on track for your best wellness and to become healthier and happier, you need to introduce some changes in your diet. By implementing these tips you will certainly achieve your overhauling goal.  Good luck!

Guest post by Helen Bradford.

Author: Autumn Murray

Autumn has over 20 years of achievement in the hospitality industry where she was Director of Public Relations and Community Affairs for InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). She is a locally published writer/author/editor for several Atlanta media outlets and is a leading contributor to Divine Lifestyle, an online lifestyle blog. Autumn is an abuse survivor and has a passion for writing about overcoming the obstacles of her past and sharing her experiences of how she is now thriving as a wife, mother, and entrepreneur. She hopes to help others see her vision that no matter what happened in the past, the present and the future is ours to shape into what we want it to be. Autumn believes in the mantra to Choose Love in every aspect of her life.

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