Good health starts in the grocery store. When you get back at your house, “If it ain’t there, you can’t eat it.” Buy healthy, nutritious foods at the store and you will have healthy, nutritious foods to eat at home. Funny how that works.
Make sure you are in the right frame of mind when you go to the grocery store and don’t go until you can get into that frame. Don’t go when you are hungry, mad, feeling sorry for yourself, or unhappy. These emotions are likely to direct you to high-cal, high-fat comfort foods. Go when you are feeling strong and dedicated to good health. Make a list before you go if that helps you buy what you need rather than what catches your eye.
The grocery store is a great place to read labels. Want to know which bag of chips is better for you? Check the label. Look at the calories, fat, sodium, etc. This is the place to do side by side comparisons to find out what you want to put in your body and what you want to leave on the shelf. The more you read the labels, the smarter you will become about the healthiness of the foods.
And just think of the women (or men) you can pick up with smooth lines like: “Excuse me, have you seen a low-cal version of these cheesy puffs?” Gets them every time.
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