Easy Tip For Keeping Good Eating Habits

The best tip I have on keeping your diet healthy and free of temptation. It's not as hard as you're making it out to be.

Here's the Tip

When you read an article titled like this, you'll usually see a cheesy image of a snack drawer or pantry. But that isn't what this article is about. Once junk food is in your house it's usually going to get eaten. That's just how it works. You know that food is there so you tempt yourself and will eventually eat it. Like gravity, it'll happen.

The above scenario is a mistake. A losing battle. The REAL battle you need to win happens at the grocery store, not at home. What you purchase at the grocery store is what eventually fills your belly. Obvious right? Well, far too many don't use this easy trick of X-ing junk food out of their lives. It's simple: Don't have junk food around the house in the first place. Make junk food tougher to obtain.

That junk food craving all of a sudden is less appealing when you know you must drive to the store to get the treat. Raise the lengths you need to go to gain access to bad habits. This not only applies to dieting, but any bad habit. Any bad habit - make that habbit more difficult to achieve. Too much beer? Don't have it in the house. Too much video games? Get rid of them.

I used to be a huge candy junkie. Like, huge. At some point in college I just stopped having it around because I realized I just munched on it all the time not even really being aware of it. I haven't looked back since. In the candy aisle at my local grocery store I reminisce of my candy-inhaling days, but I know I'd regress right back into the habit if I purchased it. So, I move on. Next aisle.

Just try it. Next time you're at your local grocery store, just pass on that huge bag of candy or other snack food. You won't miss it NEARLY as much as you think you will.