5 simple tips for adopting a healthy diet

To feel good in your body and to age healthfully, a healthy diet is an important element to be observed. Here are five tips to start the process of a healthy diet.

Keep a diary of everything you eat, especially between meals, at what time and in what state of mind.

• This is the ideal way to get a clear and comprehensive view of your habits after only a few days of observation.
• Prepare an assessment and note your times and/or your risk behaviour.
• You can then take the necessary measures and rebalance your diet if necessary.

Be more modern: keep a digital food diary. Rather than note them, photograph your meals with your laptop if you do not have a handy device.

• Every day, save the photos in your computer.
• With one click, you will have a very clear vision of what you've eaten that day. Look closely: your nutritional errors should be obvious!

Every day, exercise. Step on the scale and weigh yourself. This could help inspire you to lose weight.

• During a diet, people who check their weight daily lose twice more weight than others.
• The positive effect continues after the diet and also helps to maintain weight. So, do not hesitate, and get out your scales pronto!

Award yourself with stars. This may sound childish, but it works. Try it! Buy good, adhesive brilliant stars.

• Each time you resist a temptation (like a potato chip packet or a chocolate bar) or eat a meal that could be described as "nutritionally flawless", paste a star in your journal.

A beautiful array of stars can only encourage you to continue your efforts!

A diet to lose weight, yes, but which one? Do not wait until you are advised to try one diet over another. Whether it is a very low-calorie diet or another that focuses on protein, a large percentage of people abandon such diets within months because they aren't sustainable.

• Over the long term, the type of diet is thus far less important than the discipline required to follow it.

In conclusion, to develop good eating habits, write down everything you eat in a journal (paper or electronic), weigh yourself daily, congratulate yourself for your good choices and avoid extreme and unrealistic diets.