My #1 Nutrition Tip

Want to eat healthier? Try this simple hack

"I want to eat better but I don't know where to start."

"I can't control my eating."

"When I'm stressed, I eat too much junk food."

If you've ever had any of those thoughts -- and most of my clients have! -- mindful eating is the first place to start.

What is mindful eating?

It's eating slowly, without distractions. Taking your time to enjoy your food and noticing your body's hunger and fullness cues.

It might sound really simple, but it's another one of those fundamentals that many people overlook. [Review some of the other basics here.]

Often, we're eating at our desks, in our cars, in front of the tv, or while we're scrolling on our phones. When we're not paying attention to what we're eating or how much or how we're feeling, it's ridiculously easy to eat a lot more than we planned.

Eating mindfully -- even without changing anything else about our diets -- is the first step to better nutrition.

Many people want to jump right in to restricting certain foods or counting calories or macros, but for most of us, eating mindfully is a much better way to adjust our intake and learn our body's cues that tell us when it's time to eat and when we've had enough.

If you want to improve your nutrition but the idea of "dieting" sounds painful or too hard, mindful eating can make you more aware of portion sizes as well as what you're actually consuming -- and understanding where you are is the first step to determining where you want to go!

If you feel like you can't stop eating once you start, or you overeat at certain times, mindful eating will help you become more aware and help you notice your fullness cues better so you can stop when you want to.

The health/fitness/wellness/weight loss industries tend to make it seem a LOT more complicated than that in order to sell solutions, but you truly don't need a special diet, a calorie tracking app, or a cleanse to upgrade your nutrition.

All you have to do is eat mindfully. Take your time, pay attention to what you're eating, and stop when you're almost full.


**Eating mindfully is one of the basic skills my nutrition coaching clients learn. If you'd like to learn strategies to help with mindful eating, including how to manage stress eating, or if you need some accountability, online nutrition coaching is for you! Sign up here.