How To Stay Motivated To Eat Healthy

Eating healthy is almost always on top of everyone’s goals when it comes to fitness goals and health goals.

Yes, it can be easy to get distracted with tons of tasty but nutritionally-void foods that are easily accessible wherever you go.

Staying motivated to eat healthy doesn’t have to be complicated and difficult. Healthy eating habits should be a part of your healthy lifestyle, something you do every day, not something you have to force yourself to do.

So, I’m sharing practical tips that can help you stay on track toward your healthy eating goals, and reach your goals without torturing yourself, by staying motivated to eat healthy diets and healthy foods that make you feel good.

How To Stay Motivated To Eat Healthy

Keep A Journal

Keeping a journal of the meals you’re eating can help you stay motivated. When you put everything on paper, and see the foods you’re eating, you can see how healthy your diet is, and it’s a great reality check that helps you stay on track.

Clean Out Your Pantry

If losing weight is one of your goals when it comes to your diet, cleaning out your pantry from junk food can definitely help you stay motivated.

If you like junk food, and you have it in your pantry, it can definitely be difficult to stop yourself from eating it when you start craving it.

So, to prevent that, don’t have any unhealthy foods in your pantry. Oftentimes, when you don’t have it, you won’t even think about it - when you’re hungry, you’ll take a healthy snack from the fridge or your pantry.

But when you know you have it, you start thinking about it, and it becomes much harder to stay on track.

Make Realistic Goals

An amazing way to stay motivated is to set realistic, small goals, that you can reach relatively quickly (not in a few days obviously, but those goals that don’t take months and months to be reached).

Seeing results is probably the best motivation you can have.

So, if you set a huge goal, that realistically can’t be reached soon, you might lose motivation, as you’ll be checking for results daily, and after a while of not seeing them, you can lose motivation.

However, if you set smaller goals, when you reach them, it will be such an amazing feeling that will help you stay motivated.

Prioritize Healthy Meal Prepping and Planning

Having meal plans can help you stay motivated because you’ll always know what you’re eating that day, and it will be much easier to stay on track.

When you’re hungry, and don’t know what healthy meal you can eat, it can sometimes become overwhelming. 

So by meal planning and meal prepping healthy recipes, you’re helping yourself stay motivated even when you’re busy.

Include fruits and vegetables in your meal plans.

Another reason why this is a great way to stay motivated, is because having a clear meal plan can actually help you with weight loss, as you’re taking the time to create balanced meals created to help you reach your goals. And as we already said, reaching your goals is the best motivation to keep going.

Enjoy Foods In Moderation

When you think you can never eat a food you like again, it can be difficult to stay motivated.

So, don’t deprive yourself of the foods you like. Just eat them in moderation. If you want this to be a lifestyle, build healthy habits, and not a short-term thing, finding something you can actually do forever is the key.

So, is never eating pizza in your life again a sustainable thing? No, it’s probably not.

If you like it, it’s okay to eat it every now and then - it will help you stay on track because you won’t be craving it.

Just make sure you’re eating a healthy and balanced diet generally, and an unhealthy food every now and then won’t be the end of the world.

Seek Support From Friends And Family

Ask your loved ones to help you on your journey.

They can help you stay motivated by reassuring you you can do this when you’re about to give up, they can join you on your health journey, and they can try to make it easier for you.

Keep Nutritious Foods Within Reach

Having nutritious foods within reach is a great way to stay on track. Like we mentioned, if you have junk food on hand, you’ll probably eat it. But if you have nutritious foods instead, that’s what you’ll eat.

Reward Your Success

Don’t forget to celebrate your success! Seeing results is so rewarding, and you should definitely celebrate it. It will most definitely help you stay motivated to reach your next goal.

Find Great Recipes

There are tons of amazing and delicious healthy recipes out there, so take the time to find recipes that look great to you, and that are healthy.

Having delicious recipes to look forward to is great for staying motivated.

Think About Your Reasons

When it starts being hard, remember why you started your health journey in the first place, and think about your main reason. 

That can help you stay motivated and not give up.

Get A Planner

Getting a meal planner and planning everything nicely in it can help you with motivation. Just the act of planning everything out in a nice planner where you’re able to lay everything out helps with the motivation.

Prioritize Your Health

Remember that health is the most important thing in the world and that it should always be our priority. So, motivate yourself to be healthy first and foremost.

Find What Works For You

Healthy eating isn’t a one-size-fits-all kind of thing. In order to stay motivated, you need to find a plan that works for you, and that you can actually enjoy.

It shouldn’t be something you’re making yourself do, it should be something that you actually enjoy and want to keep doing.

So, find what works for you.

Watch Inspirational Content

If you like watching mukbangs, or food YouTube videos, watch the videos where people are eating and preparing healthy foods.

If you watch them eat and prepare unhealthy foods, you’ll start craving them more. But watching them eat healthy stuff will help you stay motivated and eat healthy foods yourself as well.

Make The Food Look Good

Unhealthy food can often look more appetizing, and we all eat with our eyes first.

So, spend an extra minute or two to make your healthy meal look good - it will make you more excited to eat it.

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