Create Healthy Eating Habits for Life: Focus on 3 Key Things

Do you ever feel that you're not able to create healthy eating habits that you can use in your daily life without it feeling challenging or laborious, especially challenging to maintain? Maybe you're jumping from a plan to a plan or trend to trend, or you have an idea of what you need to eat to be healthy, but you struggle to follow through on being consistent and eating healthfully in that way every single day, 365. And you may be feeling a little stressed with making food choices, or you might be finding it challenging to nourish yourself while also having a nice balance to enjoy yourself and enjoy food. So if any of this sounds like what you're experiencing right now, keep watching because I'm gonna share three things that you need to do to create healthy eating habits. When you have all of these three things working together in a nice synergistic way, eating healthfully can become so much easier, more aligned with you, and also more enjoyable for your life. So give me a yes below if improving your eating habits is something that you wanna do, and it's something that you're working on right now or that you wanna work on in the future. For those that are meeting me for the first time, hi, I'm Mikkel Kuinga. I'm a registered dietitian, founder of Nutrition Stripped, and creator of The Method Membership. And I'm really happy to have you here. I'm here to help you eat more mindfully, plant-based whole foods on a daily basis, and make it easy, mindful, and enjoyable. And I'm gonna share with you today three things that make up my philosophy on nutrition that I focus on with my members, that I focus on with my clients and myself that help create healthy eating habits that really fit into their unique daily lives. So the first thing is, of course, knowing what to eat to nourish your physical body so that it can function optimally and at its best. And I focus on doing that through eating an abundance of plant-based foods or foods based in plants. Now, it's no secret that plant-based foods and whole foods provide us with so many vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and nutrients that support our over well-being. And all of these contribute to how you feel on a daily basis, how you show up, by keeping you nice and satiated or full, keeps your focus sharp, your energy stabilized, your hormones balanced, supporting your digestion, and the list goes on. They also contribute to your long-term health with so many studies showing that these powerful plant-based whole foods can improve heart health, can reduce inflammation, can stabilize blood sugar, can prevent diabetes, maintain healthy blood pressure, support our digestive system and our gut microbiome, cardiovascular health, and support our immune system. And the list goes on. So if you wanna take a deeper look into the specific foods that you should be eating to ensure that you're getting the right mix of macronutrients and micronutrients in your daily diet, then download my free guide for creating healthy eating habits where I dive into these recommendations and I also, of course, wanna give you something tangible. I give you some simple meal ideas too. Now, to me, eating an abundance of plant-based foods does not mean that you can't enjoy all foods. You can absolutely focus on eating plenty of plant-based foods and still have plenty of room to enjoy other foods that you like to And we do this through the second pillar of my nutrition philosophy, which is really honing in on how to eat. So we covered what to eat and how to eat. Most people only focus on what to eat, but they never take a step further and explore how they're eating. And the way that we do that is through mindful eating strategies. Now, mindful eating is all about creating balance and having the freedom to enjoy all foods, but doing so in a mindful way that you're really treating your body well. So through this practice, we bring more awareness, we bring more positivity to your experience around food, around mealtimes. And the key here is using your body signals to make the best choices based around what you wanna eat and what you need. So for example, a lot of my Method members joined my membership because they were feeling like they were struggling a lot with the things like feeling certain foods were bad or good or eating when they were bored or feeling out of control around certain foods or situations or something similar to that degree. But once they start using these mindful eating practices, they notice their body's natural hunger cues, their satiety cues, their behaviors, their thoughts around food. And when they have these really powerful insights, it helps them create healthier eating habits for life by making those small changes that better align with what they want to feel and when they're eating it. So it's using this whole practice that you can become more balanced and eat those nutrient-dense plant-based foods all the time that I just shared that are so important to our health. And at the same time, also fully enjoy the dessert that's really rich that you enjoy, that you get a lot of pleasure and enjoyment after. Is that something that you'd like to experience? I hope so, because it makes it so much easier to create healthy eating habits that are long-lasting and it helps you stick to those habits because you're not restricting yourself and you're not creating that lack mentality. Instead, you're learning how to navigate situations that we all experience in our daily lives and you also learn to listen to what your body truly wants, what your body truly needs, and honoring that so you feel aligned. So the third piece of my philosophy for creating healthy eating habits with ease is to have the skills that you need to put all of this into practice into your daily life. And the way that I like to do it and that you can do it is investing some of your time and a little bit of your energy into learning some really, really simple cooking techniques and also some skills that help make it more efficient and also more enjoyable in the kitchen. So have you ever felt like cooking is really overwhelming or too time-consuming or intimidating? I know that it can feel that way in the beginning, but by learning just a few key skillsets in the kitchen, you will not only save so much time, but you will also enjoy learning about it a little bit more and you'll get some pleasure from it. And I can say from both personal and professional experience and witnessing all of my Method members that when you start to enjoy this process of cooking, you're going to be so much more likely to stick with those healthy eating habits and you can make healthy food really fun and something exciting to eat. Now, if you can focus on these three things, one, eating an abundance of plant-based whole foods, two, practicing mindful eating, and three, learning a few cooking skills, you can create healthy eating habits in a really easy and enjoyable way, I promise, all without needing to eliminate any food groups from your diet or from what you eat on a daily basis or without following the trends or the fads or the diets. So if this sounds like something that's manageable for you to do right now and that you want to do right now, let me know by giving me a big yes in the comments and share your biggest takeaway with me. I love connecting with you and our global community, so let me know what you think below. And if you liked this video, be sure to subscribe and hit the bell for more videos like this and watch all my other videos that come out every single week linked here that can help you put these three practices into place in your life. I hope that you have a really beautiful day and remember, health is a daily practice.