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**Insex** · June 15th, 2008, 05:07 PM

Welcome to EF, Arcoiris74.

What I find to be very helpful when attempting to eat healthier is to never let the junk food in the home in the first place. That is, when you go to the store, stay away from the junk food sections. Walk along the outer ring of the store, that's where all the healthy foods are. The middle sections of the store is where they pack all the junk foods, frozen foods, sodas, ect.

You'll quickly find that if you never let junk foods get into your home, and all you have is healthy food choices in your refrigerator and cabinets, then you'll be able to resist temptation to eat unhealthy foods because they won't be available!

If you can't stand the taste of raw vegetables in your salad alone, then add a little bit of salad dressing to the mix. Sure, a lot of health experts recommend to stay away from salad dressing altogether, but that's only because they assume people are going to run with it if they say it's OK to include salad dressing and make their salads into dressing soup. If you put no more than a tablespoon of salad dressing in your salad and mix it up, you can make your salad quite tasty and healthy.

Another thing you can do if you don't like the taste of raw vegetables is to steam them. A lot of people prefer the taste of steamed vegetables to raw vegetables.

There are tons of other recommendations the other members here can give you for fruits and vegetables. The main thing to do is to remember that this is a lifestyle change. You cannot view eating healthier as a one-time deal that takes place from this date and ends precisely on this date. To experience the benefits of eating healthier you'll have to make this an ongoing process that will continue for the rest of your life. The longer you eat these new foods for, the more accustomed you will become to their taste.

June 15th, 2008, 05:07 PM	#3 (permalink)
Insex EF Busy Bee offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: California, USA Posts: 2,327 Thanks given: 10,895 2,376 thanks in 916 posts Rep Power: 20	Welcome to EF, Arcoiris74. What I find to be very helpful when attempting to eat healthier is to never let the junk food in the home in the first place. That is, when you go to the store, stay away from the junk food sections. Walk along the outer ring of the store, that's where all the healthy foods are. The middle sections of the store is where they pack all the junk foods, frozen foods, sodas, ect. You'll quickly find that if you never let junk foods get into your home, and all you have is healthy food choices in your refrigerator and cabinets, then you'll be able to resist temptation to eat unhealthy foods because they won't be available! If you can't stand the taste of raw vegetables in your salad alone, then add a little bit of salad dressing to the mix. Sure, a lot of health experts recommend to stay away from salad dressing altogether, but that's only because they assume people are going to run with it if they say it's OK to include salad dressing and make their salads into dressing soup. If you put no more than a tablespoon of salad dressing in your salad and mix it up, you can make your salad quite tasty and healthy. Another thing you can do if you don't like the taste of raw vegetables is to steam them. A lot of people prefer the taste of steamed vegetables to raw vegetables. There are tons of other recommendations the other members here can give you for fruits and vegetables. The main thing to do is to remember that this is a lifestyle change. You cannot view eating healthier as a one-time deal that takes place from this date and ends precisely on this date. To experience the benefits of eating healthier you'll have to make this an ongoing process that will continue for the rest of your life. The longer you eat these new foods for, the more accustomed you will become to their taste. __________________ Practice makes permanent.