Fast food and restaurant prepared foods are often processed and unhealthy. Even though we feel we deserve a break from the annoying chores of home cooking, we do, but we can limit it to once per week as an investment into our health.<\/p>\n

2. Replace one snack with a fruit<\/h3>\n

For those of us who love to snack, we typically have an arsenal of our favorites and we gorge on these sweet treats as a way to treat ourselves. You don’t have to get rid of every ‘bad’ snack in your home, just trade out one of your favorite snacks for a fruit the next time you go grocery shopping.<\/p>\n

If you normally buy Oreos, a pint of fudge brownie ice cream and sour cream and onion potato chips, you can still buy the ice cream, potato chips but instead of\u00a0 buying the Oreos, buy a bag of grapes instead. Freeze the grapes and snack on them when you’re craving a sweet treat.<\/p>\n

Each time you go grocery shopping, you can replace a different processed food snack with a fruit and before you realize it, you will come to enjoy your new fruit snacks just as much as munching on the unhealthy ones.<\/p>\n

3. Read the labels of food you buy<\/h3>\n

Getting into the habit of reading the labels of the food you buy will change your life for better and for worse. Look for the ingredient called high-fructose corn syrup and if you see it, return the item to the shelf. Once you start reading food labels, you’ll start to feel more health conscious… and guilty. But eventually, if you are the type of person who loves yourself, your eating habits will also reflect that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have asked yourself this question over and over again as you gaze into your full length mirror shaking your head at the belly bulge that appeared one day and never went away, unlike the lying ass man who promised you that he would love you forever and ever. Unfortunately, there is a reason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1375,34],"tags":[1442,1443],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":{"0":"post-7688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"category-lifestyle","9":"tag-weight-loss","10":"tag-womens-health"},"yoast_head":"\n