This, home made foods taste better aswell. I like to have home made smoothies in the fridge to have as a snack, or a plain yoghurt to add fruit too. + since most fruits are high in natural sugars they get rid of your cravings also
Eating clean gets easier the longer you stick with it. Eating fast food/junk food is a habit that you need to break. Eventually you just get used to eating healthy foods. Try not to have any junk food in the house. It's easier to resist it once at the grocery store than it is every time you open the cupboard/fridge. When it's time for a cheat day, go out and buy just what you will eat on that day so you aren't tempted other days.
it does get easier once you get into a routine. Most people get a sugar craving. Fruits have natural sugars so try and replace junk with fruits. Watermelon, mango, nectarines, etc... they taste good and your body will thank you.
Take time at the beginning of the week to make (or acquire) food for meals so you don't have to resort to convenience foods. If you spend a couple of hours on Sunday night putting together some small plastic containers full of healthy food, it's just as easy to grab that as it is to grab a bunch of crap. I baked a pound or so of chicken last night and divided it up into individual containers of spinach - instant salads for the whole week. Same thing with bags of cut-up vegetables or pieces of fruit. You can buy packaged stuff, but read the labels and if the ingredients aren't things you recognize as food, don't buy it. If you don't buy it, you won't have it in the house. I'll go a step further than saying you'll get used to it and even say that after a while, healthy food (i.e. fresh, nutritious, with a minimum of chemicals) will be all you want. I used to eat fast food a few times a week and now if I eat it at all it makes me sick for days. Same for most candy and fried snacks.
I only ever eat junk food out of covnience. IE i havent eaten all day and i need to grab something quick to eat. I dont even like junk food and rarely eat it. I just dont understand the people that spend their lives eating it?
You said it yourself, covenience. Take 30 minutes to an hour to cook a meal or chuck something in the microwave for 2 after a hard day at work..? People are just lazy, as long as long as the food fills the gap they don't care what they eat.
Foreman grill fellas... Easy as **** to use, doesn't create a mess, is quick, and you can cook a meal while doing other stuff.
That's why I make chili in large quantities and put it in plastic bags in the freezer. It's a healthy convenient meal without cooking. Smoothie for an entire day takes less than 10 minutes, and that includes cleaning the blender for the next day. It's just as much lack of planning and knowledge as it is laziness.
For people with access to Sam's Club, Costco, etc., I recommend buying your meat from there. Individually seal each portion of meat in a ziplock and toss it in the freezer. You get way more bang for your buck that way. Costco steaks are amazing...
when i was in college i use to buy the bulk steaks there. i would cook them and after individually wrap them for the fridge. this way they only needed a minute in the microwave to have a tasty lunch.... they also have nice chicken breasts. the problem i have is that I am too busy with work to spend on cooking food now.
Im fairly lucky in that my parents own a sandwich shop so I regurlarly go home and bring back bags of bulk chicken breast. The thing with eating healthy is that buying vegetables are pretty cheap overall and £10 worth of veg will last me around a week or so, but buying lean meats like chicken breasts costs an unbelievable amount of money, especially at the quantities it is consumed by athletes.
Don't get me started on the price of f'kin meat :fire I don't bother with buying chicken breast any more, now buy the whole bird and cut the thing into breast, thigh, drum etc. Works out a LOT cheaper.
I substitute candy and **** like that for pineapple and other fruits. I only eat dole since the other kind adds pineapple sugar but that kinda seems excessive since it's already pretty sweet. I also eat red grapefruit and apples. If i do crack, i'll eat something like a reese's peanut butter cup since it has about 5 g of protein if i recall correctly. I still have the occasional soda but not more than one on that day and only if it's around lunch since i do my workouts in the evening. We have a lot of sodas from the middle east left over on my ship where they use cane sugar and not high fructose corn syrup which takes forever to break down. Not quite as bad but still worth limiting.
