Making time for healthy eating
Nutrition: is it yet another burden, or our saving grace? Let’s find out.
When life is stressful, it can feel difficult to add even one more thing to your plate. Sometimes you can’t even remember to move the clothes over from the washing machine to the dryer. How are you supposed to find the time to make dinner - let alone make sure that dinner is nutritious?
Trust us: we get it. Focusing on proper nutrition does take time and effort. And when life is stressful, it might feel like it’s not the right time to add a focus on nutrition to everything else you’ve got going on. But maybe it’s precisely the right time. There are actually quite a few reasons why focusing on nutrition, despite all the crazy, can be a great idea:
Focusing on giving your body more of what it needs (i.e., fueling it properly) can help you show up better for your other responsibilities.
What kind of manager at work, or mom at home, can you be when your brain and body is running on coffee, coffee, and more coffee? While we think you deserve to eat well just because you’re you, it’s also true that it allows you to be your best self for the others in your life who are depending on you. You’ll be amazed at how much better you can feel - how much more like yourself you can feel - when you develop healthy eating habits.
“Focusing on nutrition” doesn’t have to mean weighing and measuring every bit of food.
Most of us, who just want to look and feel good in our own skin, don’t need to do all that. “Focusing on nutrition” could simply mean getting enough protein and eating more veggies. Or setting up an evening routine that limits mindless snacking. Or figuring out how to cook at home a little more. It’s all about finding a plan that works for you during the phase of life you’re in (and, spoiler alert, that’s what a nutrition coach can help you figure out!).
When so much feels outside of your control, it can feel good to exercise control over something - in this case, your eating habits.
You can’t always control the demands of your job; the needs of your family; or how when it rains, it somehow always seems to pour. But you can control what you put inside your body, and how many servings of vegetables you eat today, and what you buy at the grocery store. It can feel good to focus on something that’s within your power - and not just anything, but something that is good for you in both the short- and long-term.
We can’t wait for the timing to be exactly right. Because, let’s face it - it never will be. So why wait at all to make this investment in yourself?
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