Creating Balanced Diet Goals
Creating a new diet can be an overwhelming undertaking. Even with the best intentions, diet goals can sometimes seem just out of reach. The key to having success with achieving any goal is to create a plan that doesn't require drastic life changes. When target outcomes are too ambitious it is easy to lose motivation along the way. One approach is to take what you are already doing currently and make simple modifications. For example, if you order out for dinner four days a week and cook meals at home three days a week, instead of setting a goal to cook meals seven days a week, reduce the amount of times you order out from four to three, then eventually decrease to two days and so on. Although it may be over the course of several months, in time, you will reach your goal of cooking meals at home seven days a week. Let's apply this technique to another example. A popular goal many people set for themselves is to eliminate sweets from their diet. If this is your goal, instead o