One health trick I swear by, and it involves eating more

If you want to get to your health goal, avoid the feeling of deprivation at all costs.

But how do you stick to a health plan, one that is truly healthy without deprivation? I have a trick that will completely change your mindset, and will help relieve some of the stress a health plan can cause. The trick is to counteract the feeling of deprivation through

…….Abundance

I want you to stock your fridge and cupboards with all the amazing fruit and vegetables you can find. This includes buying largely what you would usually consider “too much”.

When you have more food than you think you need, this creates a sense of abundance, this abundance will provide you with a challenge “how do I eat all this healthy food?”. The challenge to eat all these amazing diverse foods gives you the motivation you need to eat healthy. After all you paid for all that food so you would not want to waste it.

You will find your brain will go into overdrive finding a solution to ‘how to eat’ the abundance of food you have in your fridge, this will naturally drive you to find creative ways at every mealtime to fill your meal with more fruit and veg.

At this point you may be thinking “well isn’t that expensive and wasteful?”, the truth is you will find you are actually saving money through reducing overindulgence and overeating of less nutritious expensive foods, and takeaway options. Being less wasteful is the challenge; eat the food and you will not waste it.

It is very likely you are not eating enough fruit and vegetables.

It is actually very hard to eat too much fruit and veg, in fact most of Australia (and the world) are no where near hitting their recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables; we are just all used to consuming such small amounts of these foods.

Need some proof, let’s look at some Australian fruit and vegetable intake stats:

Source: ABS 2015d

• In 2014–15, 50% of adults and 68% of children ate sufficient serves of fruit, and 7% of adults and 5% of children ate sufficient serves of vegetables.

• For adults aged 65–74, 60% had a sufficient fruit intake, and 11% had a sufficient vegetable intake.

• For children aged 2–3, 97% ate sufficient serves of fruit and 20% ate sufficient serves of vegetables.

• Overall, 5% of adults had a sufficient intake of both fruit and vegetables. Women were more likely to eat sufficient fruit and vegetables than men (8% compared with 3%).

Only 7% of adults are eating there recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables!

The good news is once you have formed all these new habits, these foods will just become part of your regular everyday routine, and you will find it much easier to consume this new volume of fruit and vegetables, which will help you to stay focused on your health goal.

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https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/australias-health-2018/contents/indicators-of-australias-health/fruit-and-vegetable-intake