Motivation to Eat Healthy –
|
In a supportive, encouraging and loving spirit, I offer you these ten gentle encouragements or tips to assist you with your motivation to eat healthy.
- Lose weight. When you eat healthy, that means you won’t be eating junk food and fast food, which are loaded with fat and salt. You’ll lose weight easily.
- Save money. Eating more
fruits
and vegetables, reducing or eliminating animal products, and concentrating on a whole foods, plant-based diet will lead to better health. You won’t need over-the-counter drugs, and you’ll find that you won't need to see the doctor or take prescription drugs so much.
- Look better. Eating well just naturally leads to looking better… not just from losing weight, but because your skin will clear up and be radiant, your hair will look shiny and grow better, your nails will be stronger, and you’ll have a happy face.
- Increased energy. Eating healthfully leads to increased energy. This will motivate you to exercise more. It’s a wonderfully networked sort of thing… more exercise leads to more weight loss… leads to feeling good… leads to looking better… leads to more happiness… leads to continued motivation to eat healthy.
- Reward yourself. When you start on a new diet program, consider setting goals for yourself. You might automatically think of weight loss… say, when you lose five pounds, you’ll reward yourself.
I like to approach it more as setting a behavior-change goal. Let’s say as part of your healthy new eating program you’re going to eliminate dairy products. You could set a goal of one week. When you’ve successfully given up dairy products for one week, reward yourself. But don’t do it with food! Buy yourself a new book or CD or DVD or a hat, or go see that new movie with your best friend.
- Set an example. You’d be surprised who is watching what you eat. Your healthy diet may provide motivation to eat healthy for your children, your spouse, your friends, even strangers.
- Good mood. Eating well consistently will help to keep your
mood
on an even keel. There are chemicals in those unhealthy foods that make people emotionally unwell. Excitotoxins are found in nearly all processed foods and cause brain and body damage. Avoid them!
- Reduce the suffering of animals. It’s unpleasant to think about, but animals suffer when they are killed for humans to eat. Factory farms and slaughterhouses and gigantic chicken farms are terrible places. If you’re a vegetarian, you know your food choices are lessening the suffering of many fellow creatures.
- Save the planet. Once again, vegetarians, you can see how your
vegetarianism
has helped the planet. John Robbins in The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Heal the World writes, “Scientists, even those writing in animal industry journals, agree that modern meat production is responsible for a vastly disproportionate amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.” Click here to learn more about how your diet choices help or hurt our beautiful Earth.
- Spiritual benefits. Eating properly can contribute to unexpected spiritual growth. This quote by David Wolfe from The Sunfood Diet Success System inspires me on my own path:
When you purify your body after several months or years of wholistic health practices and raw-food nutrition you seemingly become more in touch with infinite intelligence. This is, in my opinion, the greatest value of eating raw plant foods. The proper diet can literally unlock dormant genius as it allows one to increase the intensity of thought to the point where one can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not accessible to the average person.
If you'd like some practical support, guidance, recipes to help you on your raw food journey, I suggest checking out The Garden Diet on this page.
Starting on a new diet program, particularly if you're considering a raw food diet , can be a challenge--and an adventure. The rewards are abundant and amazing. I hope these motivation to eat healthy tips assist you on your path towards exceptional good health.
Return to the Motivation page from this Motivation to Eat Healthy page.
