5 Tips to Keep You Eating Healthy All Day

5 Tips to Keep You Eating Healthy All Day
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gregory_L_Gomez]Gregory L Gomez 

One of the main reasons for weight gain is there is often too much food and drink entering the body - far more than is needed. If these extra calories are not burned off in some way through exercise and working out, then all that excess will simply find a place to settle somewhere on your body.

Depending on how you currently eat, drink, and snack, it may or may not be difficult for you to develop healthy eating habits. This is one of the main reasons why sticking with a healthy eating plan will help keep you from taking in too much sustenance. Use these five tips to help keep you eating healthy all day and you will soon find yourself free from soda, junk food, and other unhealthy items.

5 Simple Tips To Keep You Eating Healthy All Day Long

1) Plan Out Your Day
Having a planned eating agenda will help take away the need to purchase food from a fast food place, restaurant, or vending machines. Often food and snacks found at these places are too unhealthy to eat on a regular basis. Plan out what you will eat each day to help stick with a healthy eating agenda.

2) Prepare Healthy Travel Snacks 
Having snacks prepackaged in containers or zip-loc bags stored in your refrigerator/freezer makes it really convenient and easy to grab when you are in a hurry. By getting into this habit, you will ensure that you will be eating healthy all day long not just at your three main meals. For some great ideas for simple healthy snacks, check out this article "10 Healthy Work Snacks".

3) Have Emergency Meals
It's a good idea to keep frozen meals stocked for emergency purposes. This way on the days you don't feel like cooking for whatever reason, instead of going out and spending an excess amount of money to eat far too much food for one meal, you can simply whip out one of these 300-400 calories meals and not ruin your day of healthy eating. If you do not have any leftover meals already stored, keep Lean Cuisine or Weight Watchers meals stocked since both offer a wide variety of choices so it will be easy to find options that appeal to you.

4) Water Always at Hand
If you are not a daily water drinker, get in this habit as soon as possible! This is by far the number one practice to develop and maintain a healthy life. Once you get used to drinking water throughout the day, especially at meals, this 0 calorie beverage may be the key to your weight loss journey. Ditch the calorie and sugar packed sodas and stick with water.

5) Unhealthy Items Not In Your Kitchen
Stop buying all those potato chips, crackers, ice cream, cookies, and especially soda. These items provide literally no nutritional benefit and end up just being tons of calories and sugar your body doesn't need. Stick with healthy snacks that are easy to grab and munch on and you will soon find that you really won't miss all that other junk. 

Start using to these 5 simple tips to keep you eating healthy all day and you will soon take complete control of your health and nutrition. All it takes is a little effort and a willingness to change and you will see your health slowly come back into proper form. It will take willpower to avoid temptations you may have gown accustomed to eating, however once you develop new healthy habits, the unhealthy stuff will soon be things of the past.

Gregory L. Gomez, M. Ed, has been teaching 5th grade in the LAUSD for 13 years and has now embarked on a journey to lose weight, eat healthier, and finally get in shape! Follow his progress on http://healthychoicesinlife.com as he strives to lose 60 pounds through dedicated exercise and healthy eating. Get a FREE monthly Healthy Choices Newsletter along with FREE Healthy Eating Ebook at [http://healthychoicesinlife.com/programs]http://healthychoicesinlife.com/programs.

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