Home is the Haven for Eating

We often talk about eating on the run and how difficult it is to eat healthy, but what about eating at home. These days many people work out of their house on a consistent basis, whether we’re talking about stay at home parents or business men and women. Think about it. Where do you have access to all of the foods you desire, and endless amounts of it? Where can you eat an entire bag of trail mix or a whole plate of leftovers? In your home!

When people are out and about every day, working in an office or traveling, they may struggle to make healthy choices, but when you’re in your house every day your options are more plentiful and the servings are never ending. Being at home means you can eat what ever you want, when ever you want, and no one is around to see or notice. Being aware of your at home eating habits can help you set up guidelines to help you balance your food intake.

Tips For The Home
1. Keep junk foods that you shouldn’t be eating out of the house. When the wrong things are so easily accessible it’s more likely you’ll make bad choices. There will be times when you just have to have some ice cream. Instead of buying it ahead of time for those “just in case” situations go get an ice cream cone…you’ll end up eating less!

2. Plan meal and snack times. In your mind set up the times when you are going to have your next meal. If you don’t do this it is too easy to graze all day and trick yourself into thinking you didn’t eat very much because you never had a big meal.

3. Portion out your foods, even though you’re not leaving the house. Each night place the amount of food you should eat in baggies and containers. If you’re eating leftovers it’s too easy to finish them off if you don’t have them separated into servings. We all do that, don’t we? Who wants to waste that last little bit of food?

4. Have a glass of water with you at all times. We hear a lot of patients say that when they are at home their water intake decreases. So pay special attention to how much you drink, it will help to keep you from eating when you’re not hungry!

Every situation is different, so if these tips still have you struggling to moderate you’re food consumption in the house, let us help. I’ve worked with a wide array of clients. Coming up with tips and tricks for getting nutrition under control has been a major part of my job. For every excuse you have why it won’t work for you, we have an answer why it will!