I found this article while working on my coaching page. I love the idea of setting yourself up to make healthy choices. It has always been my belief that if you make the right choice in your mind before you are presented with a bad situation, then you are more likely to follow through with what you know is right. Making better choices can be as easy as choosing the right size plate or only having healthy options to choose from. These are some of my personal favorites from the article:
1. Use Smaller Plates "Bigger plates mean bigger portions. And that means you eat more. According to a study conducted by Wansink and his research team, if you made a simple change and served your dinner on 10-inch plates instead of a 12-inch plate, you would eat 22% less food over the course of the next year."
5. Display Healthy Foods in a Prominent Place. "For example, you could place a bowl of fruits or nuts near the front door or somewhere else that you pass by before you leave the house. When you’re hungry and in a rush, you are more likely to grab the first thing you see."
10. Applying Environment Design to the Rest of Your Life:
"You can take this same approach to almost anything in life. If you want to make a bad behavior more difficult, then increase the number of steps between you and the behavior.
Meanwhile, if you want to make a good behavior easier, reduce the number of steps between you and the behavior. For example, if you want to make it easier to go for a run then lay out your shoes and running gear the night before you exercise. One less step between you and your workout."
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