You are searching for that recipe. The One. The one that will make you eat vegetables every day…
Here it is.
It is now in your power.
Your Welcome.
Before we get to that, let’s talk about excuses. Here they are:
- I don’t feel like it.
- I don’t like them.
- I am tired, it’s been a long day.
- I need a reward for getting through the day.
- I’ll start tomorrow, later, next Monday.
- My parents didn’t raise me that way, therefore my taste buds are set. I will never like them. It is too late for me! Save yourselves!
First, you don’t have to feel like it. You don’t have to like it. You will never feel like it, you will not do it tomorrow. You won’t. You said that before, right? Probably yesterday. Now is the only time. The result you want is to eat vegetables every day. Do it even though you don’t feel like it. Motivation comes after. Motivation will come once you do it, even though you don’t feel like it. Habits are created that way. Habits are meant to get easier with time. Not start easy.
Taste buds can change at any age. It takes 12-14 tastes for our taste buds to adjust. Your taste buds can adjust as an adult. Try it. Taste it. Chew it. 14 different occasions. In order for this to work-you do not need to eat the whole serving. Create the habit first, without expecting to like it.
The French are famous for their cuisine, being thin and eating their vegetables. This did not happen on accident. They have a whole process of getting children accustomed to vegetables from an early age at their partially government funded nurseries, called creches. The menus are very carefully selected to choose a variety of vegetables.
Motivation comes after.
Now for the recipe.
THE LAST RECIPE YOU NEED:
- Choose the meal. Stay consistent. Pick a vegetable.
- Add a vegetable to your meal. Every day. Even though you don’t feel like it.
- Do it anyway. You will not feel like it. Power comes when you do it when you don’t feel like it. Pick an easy enough goal- (thus 1 serving, not even the recommended half the plate.)- that you will not put it off. Come on, it is one serving. Just do it. You are after the habit. The habit says, ‘What vegetable are we eating?’ Not, ‘Should we eat a vegetable today?’
- Put it on your plate.
- Taste it. You probably will finish it.
- I suggest frozen. There is 2 less steps involved in being successful. You don’t have to wash or cut them, just cook them.
- *Tip: Buy just enough, not too much. How many times have you decided to eat healthy, bought a bunch of vegetables, and watched your money go moldy in the fridge? This is surprisingly frustrating. We are wired on pain and pleasure. Your brain now says, ‘don’t do that, we lost money last time.’
–I have heard this process from many people. They don’t consciously realize that they created a PAIN association with vegetables by losing money. Add it to the list. - Every habit is created with a trigger and a reward. Good and Bad. ‘Bad’ food already has a built in reward. Food releases feel good chemicals in our brain, especially fat, salt, sugar and the combination of those together. I highly recommend this book as one of the best nonfiction/self help I have read. More on the power of habit from the book, Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.
Here is a link to the book if you would like to purchase it from Amazon. I am an amazon associate and I get a small percent if you do. Thank you.