How is it possible that whenever you are faced with the choice of eating a healthy meal and one full of fat you always find yourself eating what is bad for you?

The problem may be in your head and the way you think about healthy food and an effective weight loss diet .

Sure, you might as well tell yourself it’s time to eat more veggies, but tell me when was eating veggies ever considered pleasant or enjoyable to your brain?

This can happen first of all because you don’t believe that you can change the way you eat.

Secondly, because you have certain beliefs about food that are really hard to get rid of.

But when it comes to staying healthy, you have to make sacrifices, and then, you can train your brain to love healthy foods.

The brain

Some scholars have tried to experiment on overweight people by checking participants’ brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging and giving them different food.

One group had a high-protein, high-fiber diet with low calorie intake per day.

Another group tried to keep only fewer calories a day by always eating the same things they were used to.

After six months, the group that changed their diet had lost 10 kilos, the one that had kept their habits only 2.

The functional magnetic resonance, however, has highlighted the fact that the brain lights up and releases dopamine in front of a nice slice of pizza or a photo of a cake and certainly not in front of a plate of vegetables.

But while in the group that changed habits, after 6 months, the brain started working even in front of healthy foods, the group that ate the same dishes also in the following 6 months did not change their mind and showed interest. only towards unhealthy foods

It is as if we were taught, right from the start, that French fries are delicious and wholemeal bread sucks.

But these conditionings can be eliminated.

Let’s see how.

Focus on the best foods

If we want to get away from bad habits we absolutely must learn what else there is to eat.

These are natural and unprocessed foods that are the best answer for our health.

Let’s see what they are.

Meat : Humans have eaten meats such as beef, pork, chicken, and lamb for thousands of years. The best meat choice is grazing cattle and not genetically modified or hormone pumped.

Fish : Fatty fish that are high in omega 3 and protein, as well as other nutrients, should be consumed every week.

Eggs : Eggs are some of the most nutritious foods on the planet – especially the yolk. They are high in protein.

Vegetables : Vegetables are essential every day as they are rich in fiber and nutrients that are extraordinary for our body.

Fruit : fruit can be eaten raw and is full of vitamins and minerals. Remember, however, to eat sugary fruit in moderation.

Nuts and seeds : Nuts and seeds are perfect as snacks because they fight bad cholesterol.

Fats and oils : Some oils, such as olive and coconut oils are perfect because they are rich in omega 3.

Are they or aren’t they a whole lot of foods?

Perfect for getting busy and changing some bad habits.

Eliminate bad habits

The step of elimination may seem impossible for many people (especially if you have an eating disorder or food addiction).

But you can try to eliminate the wrong foods right away.

Of course, it won’t be easy at first, it will take some time.

Here are some good tips.

Learn to hate junk food

Let’s learn why your brain craves junk food, also why it certainly doesn’t love it.

It’s all an advertising operation: our brain is convinced that that fat dripping food is indispensable for it, because everything comes from the propensity of TV or commercials to experience that food as enjoyment.

Then let’s also realize that many people don’t have time to cook and it’s much easier to go to a fast food restaurant.

Remove all temptations

This step is very interesting because you can also decide not to go out to eat but if we have 20 packs of chips at home and a healthy ice cream in the freezer, this is not helping us.

We try to clean up our kitchen by throwing out the door all foods that may tempt us or are unhealthy.

Making ritual eating healthy food

For many people, eating is accompanied by a certain ritual.

There are those who wake up in the morning and drink a sugary energy drink instead of coffee.

It is therefore necessary to learn to replace unhealthy rituals with healthy ones.

Instead of going to the vending machine, let’s go for a 10 minute walk eating an apple.

You can also go to a restaurant and eat healthy, non-junk food.

Learn to recognize foods

We learn to know and recognize the nutritional elements and the points for and against each of the foods we are dealing with.

This will also make it easier for you to control yourself and eat things that are good for you.

Even at the supermarket it will be easier to shop without filling the cart with industrially processed foods that are bad.

Conclusions

The journey that our brain takes is a journey that must be listened to and from which one can learn to take the measures to love each other and love each other better which is what I have been telling you for almost a year.

Habits can be changed, you have to learn to love your body and understand how it works and then have to deal with a personalized relationship with eating and food, without thinking that things that are good for others are good for you.

We must inform ourselves to protect ourselves and to love ourselves even more, this is the truth.