4 Actionable Tips To Make Eating Healthier Easier In 2020

Wanting to adopt a healthier diet is a noble goal, but as most of us realise, it's a lot easier said than done. While it's still early in 2020, there's plenty of time left for you to rescue your new year health goals by following a few simple but effective tips and healthy habits.

Here are 4 actionable tips you can use today to make eating healthier easier for you in 2020 and beyond.

Group up with friends and family

One of the biggest hurdles to adopting a healthier diet is your own willpower, since it's very easy to convince yourself to give into cravings by making up an excuse. It's well known that teaming up with other people is an excellent way to keep each other focused on the end result and provide support when the going gets tough.

Having an outside perspective can help prevent you from tricking yourself into making poor choices, especially if you've had a bad day and are more susceptible to trying to cope with comfort foods that aren't very healthy. In turn, it will also be your responsibility to help keep your fellow dieters from giving into their own cravings.

You can group up with family members, roommates, your partner, or even just one or two of your co-workers – as long as you all make an equal commitment. If one or multiple other group members begin to falter or not take it seriously enough, it may cause you to lose faith as well.

Learn to cook more interesting dinners

Part of adopting a healthier diet should include cooking healthy dinners at home with fresh ingredients. However, if you don't know a lot of recipes, you're going to end up cooking the same dishes over and over again.

If you eat the same thing too often, it won't matter how good it is, you'll get bored of it eventually. If you want to keep eating healthy food fresh and interesting, then you should try to collect and learn as many new recipes as you can.

There's plenty of great resources both online, and physically in the form of cookbooks that you can refer to. To get you started, have a go at making spiral pasta with tomato cheese - it takes less than 30 minutes to prepare and you can spice it up with chilli if you're feeling brave.

Follow some health food blogs

If you want to get some inspiration to help you in your pursuit of a healthy lifestyle, then you should try following some media related to healthy eating. There's a huge variety of blogs, vlogs, social media pages, and other platforms where you can connect with a community of influencers and passionate health food advocates.

Connecting to a community surrounding healthy eating will make the process of adopting a healthier diet a lot more enjoyable as you make new friends and get insider tips. It will be harder to fall out of healthier habits if you feel like you'd be falling behind your new friends or letting down a community you've recently become a part of.

These blogs and social media profiles are also going to be a great place to learn about new recipes, kitchen appliances, and get a chance to enter competitions or participate in giveaways. All of this helps to make eating healthier less of a chore, and more of an adventure that you can become engrossed in.

Eat a big breakfast each morning

Unhealthy snacking throughout the day is one of the hardest habits for many people to quit, especially if they have low energy at their jobs and rationalise a sugar or caffeine hit as necessary to get through the day. While these sugary snacks and afternoon caffeine hits might help make the workday a little easier in the short term, they are going to have a negative impact on your overall health.

To avoid having low energy in the middle of the day and resorting to snacking, simply eat a more robust and protein-rich breakfast. If you need to wake up earlier to do this, so be it - you'll get more energy out of having a big breakfast than you will with an extra hour of sleep.

Conclusion

Eating healthier in 2020 and beyond doesn't need to be difficult if you follow a few of the tips listed above. Remember to consult your doctor before making any drastic changes to your diet.

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