Training your TASTEBUDS!

Training your tastebuds?? YES! It can be done! Addicted to sugar and salt?? Well, you've sorta had something to do with that, BUT you can change it around! You see, when you consume things like processed food and diet sodas, you train your tastebuds to need, crave, WANT a level of sweetness or saltiness that comes with these unhealthfully enhanced products of artificial flavor. Oh yes, see diet soda is very very bad, and I see you right now eyeing one, so put it down! Those artificial sweeteners in that soda will actually cause you to consume more calories throughout the day because you've set your tastebuds on a craving binge. DIET soda? Baloney! Nothing diet about it!
And those frozen meals, prepacked dinners, cakes, cookies, and muffins with a shelf life to the next millenium? Processed food! That's why the trendy word right now is WHOLE FOOD! It means something that when you read the label, you can digest (totally a pun intended ;) what the ingredients are.

" Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible, before being consumed. Whole foods typically do not contain added ingredients, such as salt, carbohydrates, or fat. Examples of whole foods include unpolished grains, beans, fruits, vegetables and non-homogenized dairy products"

So are you ready to train those tastebuds to taste the rich complex flavors of REAL FOOD? Of course, you are! Start at your grocery store today by picking up fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, lean meats and lowfat dairy. And as far as those processed food aisles go, avoid them because if it's not in your cart, then it's not going home with you, and then it's not in your pantry to tempt you to consume, correct? So avoid that overprocessed snack aisle and frozen food section (unless you need some froz veggies) Do this for 2 weeks straight, thinking, consuming, only foods that are what I like to call "of this earth". Before you eat something, does it have a gazillion ingredients on the packaging that you would have to "Google" to find out what they are? Then put it down. Eat those WHOLE FOODS, and in no time, you won't only reduce your cravings for the not so good for you stuff in half, but you will actually find that eating them is less satisfying because your getting into the habit of retraining your tastebuds for the really good stuff, that's good for you!

Enjoy your weekend and remember it's all about Being- FIT4U :)