How do I support healthy eating habits?

Eating a nutritious diet offers numerous health benefits that are both short and long term.

 Too often we are preached at in relation to what we should and shouldn’t eat, which can be both overwhelming and stressful, especially if we find ourselves not being able to stick to particular diets and eating regimes.

 The most important thing when it comes to our diet is to listen to our body and to develop a healthy relationship with how it communicates with us. Remember that what's good for one person, is not necessarily what's good for another, which is why listening to our own body is the best guide we can have when it comes to healthy eating.

The way to get started with this is simply to notice how we feel after eating certain foods. Some foods might leave us feeling light, energised and clear headed, other foods can leave us feeling heavy, uncomfortable, racey or foggy.

 Sometimes it's not about the food choice so much, but the quantity and or the way we eat.

For example, do we eat on the run or find ourselves picking in the kitchen whilst preparing lunch boxes or dinner? Do we eat mid-meeting whilst focusing on the topic and not the act of eating itself? Are we rushing our meals, or do we actually take the time to eat free of outer impositions or thoughts about what we 'need' to do next?

All of these things will influence how food affects your body, so it is definitely worth taking the time to explore how them.

 Building a relationship with feeling what your body needs in way of nutritious food rather than eating what you like to quench emotions or satisfy cravings brings about a very different relationship with food and one that will support your overall vitality and wellbeing.