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Tip 1: Honesty is the Best Policy

Author icon Published date icon 08/29/16

Blog Post Series  Nutrition  

Learn how to track your eating and find the best foods for yourself in this blog series entitled Seven Tips To Balanced Living.

  This is the first post of a 7-part blog series called Seven Tips To Balanced Living that shares specifically how our family has improved our living habits, living them out on a daily basis, so we could get our health under control.

Tip #1: Eat What You Normally Eat for a Week BUT Journal It

Eat completely normally. Your goal this week is simply to observe yourself and your normal eating habits. Every time you eat or drink something, write it in a journal. Or, if you are tech savvy and really want some hard data, go to my-calorie-counter.com1 (don't worry it's free) and track your eating habits, drinking habits, and in the notes, write down how you felt after eating the food (energized, happy, tired, bloated, constipated, etc.).

A word of caution, when journaling food, it's tempting to cut out foods you would normally eat, or if you "slip up" you might want to conveniently "forget" to journal it. Remember, this is meant to be a representation of your real daily diet, so don't cheat yourself by being dishonest about where you are.

At the end of the week, make a list of foods that you think make you feel good, and those you think make you feel not so good. Try to keep the foods you are suspicious of out of your diet for a month, then re-introduce one at a time and see if you feel good or bad after eating it. Be honest with yourself. Are you eating more caloric foods than you should? Are you nourishing your body with whole foods, or are you filling it with empty calories and processed food-like substances?

Write your top three goals for health, and post them prominently where you will see them often. For instance:

  1. Lose 10 lbs by Christmas
  2. Be able to walk a mile without getting winded
  3. Feed my family only healthy, whole foods

Keep your goals simple, yet descriptive and keep going no matter what!

  Seven Tips for Balanced Living: Tip 2: No Oil in the Engine is Bad

  Please see the related Wellness Resources we have provided to support the Seven Tips for Balanced Living series. You will find recipes, grocery shopping list, shopping tips and other useful tools to move you down the path of better nutrition.
1 https://www.my-calorie-counter.com
Libby Wright, author of Your Healthy Life Concierge blog

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Libby Wright, mother of four who homeschools, is an original founder of SupplementRelief.com in 2010. She suffered through challenging diseases including Interstitial Cystitis, Graves and Lyme. After years of little progress with traditional medicine, she pursued integrative medicine, applied what she learned, and got healthier. She became passionate about wanting others to experience the same "relief" she had come to know, and SupplementRelief.com was born. She is now managing her illness with a lot of prayer, a lot of nutrition/supplements, and a little prescription medicine. She has been able to resume her normal life and, while there is no cure for her particular conditions, she is able to cope, enjoy every day, and encourage others.

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