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Of all the habits we tend to get into, few of us suffer from a healthy eating habit. Most of us have bad habits we’d like to break. We smoke, or drink too much, or eat too much chocolate. We have good habits, too, we just think about them much less often. We might hang our keys in the same place every day so we never lose them, or walk a mile after dinner every day. Those are good habits that get much less attention from us as the bad ones we’d like to get rid of. Healthy eating can become one of those good habits. It just takes a little preparation.

How often have you gone to the grocery store with the plan of eating only healthy, nutritious foods and purchased things like celery, grapes, lettuce, carrots, bananas and a variety of other produce? It’s all too easy, then, a week or so later to be throwing away many of those foods purchased with the best intentions because they’ve started to go bad.

Maybe you bought chicken breasts and fish for those healthy dinners you planned to make, too. And instead you ended up eating out almost every night because by the time you got ready to make dinner you were already starving, and didn’t have a healthy eating habit in place. Cooking seemed like too much of a chore, or it seemed too time consuming, so you ate at a restaurant.
You just didn’t have a healthy eating habit yet. But you can change that. Next time you’re ready to go to the grocery store, stop. Decide on a few meals and snacks you’ll have over the next few days or week, depending on how far you like to plan ahead. Make a list of some things you’ll need to have those meals, and stick to the list.

If you need some chicken breasts for a dinner, get just enough for the dinner. Don’t buy three packages thinking you’ll use them if there’s a chance you won’t. You can do that once you have a healthy eating habit, but not yet. Don’t buy carrots and celery thinking that you’ll have them as snacks if you really don’t think you’ll use them. If you’ll be using them to cook with, then there’s a bigger likelihood that you’ll use them up.

When you do buy healthy snack foods like fruits and vegetables, make it easier for yourself to develop a healthy eating habit. When you get home from the grocery store (or you can pick a time soon after that, in the next day or so) immediately wash the grapes and put them in a bowl, wash and chop the celery and carrots, clean the melon and cut it into chunks and do other preparation. Then next time you want a snack, you won’t be discouraged by the idea of having to wash, peel and chop. It’s easier to have a healthy eating habit when all you have to do is grab and go.

If you need to lose weight, you’ve probably looked at some healthy eating weight loss diets and groaned in disappointment each time. You’ve looked at diets that are supposed to be good for you while letting you lose weight. Some claim you can eat things like fatty cheeseburgers and even fatty milkshakes (made with sugar substitutes). While other diets claim that you can eat whatever you want as long as you keep your fat intake low. But chances are that they all restrict or forbid something you really enjoy, and you’re not looking forward to going without that favorite food.

What some people overlook is that you don’t necessarily have to follow a healthy eating weight loss diet that someone else claims is the best. You can figure out how to eat on your own. The first step is to look at how you’ve been eating. Obviously, if you need to lose weight you’ve been following a diet that provides you with too many calories. If your diet is healthy overall but you’ve been eating too many calories, then you might not even need to change the way you eat much at all. Increasing your daily exercise could be enough to help you lose weight.

If your diet needs an adjustment to become a healthy eating weight loss plan, though, you should look at the parts of your diet that seem unhealthy and adjust them. If you make too big a change from the way you like to eat, you’re setting yourself up to be unhappy with your new diet plan. Instead, try to incorporate the things you enjoy into your new plan.

Your healthy eating weight loss plan might not be able to include doughnuts 3 or 4 times a week like you’ve been eating. But the occasional doughnut as a treat might be acceptable if it fits within your allotted calories for that day. You might be able to have a substitution for a doughnut a couple of times a week, though. A whole grain bagel with fruit-flavored low-fat cream cheese, for instance, is a sweet treat that you could enjoy instead of a doughnut. It might give you the same satisfaction while remaining healthier and truer to your healthy eating weight loss plan.

If you eat a lot of sweets like chocolate, you can still enjoy them in moderation. Dark chocolate can be part of a healthy eating weight loss plan. Dark chocolate contains more antioxidants that many fruits and vegetables. So try dipping some of your favorite fruits like bananas, pineapple or strawberries in some high-quality melted dark chocolate for a powerful anti-oxidant punch that should satisfy your sweet tooth and keep you on your diet.

Almost any unhealthy treats you’re use to having can be substituted with a healthier food that gives you at least some of the satisfaction of the unhealthy treat. Mashed cauliflower instead of buttery mashed potatoes, thin-crust vegetable pizza instead of take-out and other tricks can make your healthy eating weight loss plan more enjoyable.