A top researcher in health motivation, Michelle Seger, has found that if you ask someone why they exercise, “they’ll say because it’s healthy.”
But, when researchers dug a little deeper, they found that people really exercised because it felt good. People who exercise regularly do it because they’ve learned to enjoy it. They get immediate pleasure and satisfaction from it. That’s really why they do it. And, the same holds true for food.
We Eat Food Because It’s Tasty
We eat food over the long-term because it tastes good and we enjoy it. At Real Healthy Habits our dietitians tell our clients that they NEED to eat delicious food. And, luckily there are a lot of delicious foods that just happen to be healthy. Of course, there are a lot of delicious foods that aren’t healthy. But, there are a lot that are! And, we’re going to focus on eating yummy healthy food.
Stop calling food healthy
And we’re going to stop calling food “healthy. ” Because healthy is really a dirty word. That’s just the nature of the word in English. According to Karen Lebilion in Getting Kids to Yum, in French healthy means “fresh.” Who doesn’t want to eat fresh food?