What you focus on gets bigger! Take your focus off food!
So, if what you focus on gets bigger and your focus is on food, your appetite increases and can’t be satisfied.
This is where meal planning is key. It can be so laborious but make the time to do this once or twice a week and it will get quicker and easier.
Sit down, plan what you’re going to have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. You can do this for you and/or for your whole family. If your trying to eat more fruit, veg and protein for example, you can plan this out. I only plan 2-3 days then put it on repeat.
Repetition is the mother of skill – Dani Johnson
If you’re interested in macronutrients you can plan this in an App like MyFitnessPal. Start on a new day, enter the new meal, then click the ‘Nutrition’ button at the bottom.
Then go shop your list. Stick to it. Each day plan and prep for that day’s meal. If you’re spontaneous and adventurous like me this can be tough to stick to but be boring for a minute and stick to your list.
This way you think about food once for the week; meal plan, shop then go on auto pilot.
Fill your mind with other things like your goals and your purpose. Not food! What you focus the about gets bigger. Keep your focus in the right place. When I would always think about food, I’d want more and more and not necessarily healthy options! The less I think about food the more functional purpose it has! In fact, when the thought of food would cross my mind it would be a spark of inspiration, a healthy option to improve what I’m already doing, then I refocuse on where I am and what I’m doing.
Let food feed your belly a few times a day not feed your thoughts all day long!