Cleaning up your diet

Over the past few weeks Ive realised (along with a lot of others) that I need to clean up my diet a bit. Travelling, working and exercising keeps you busy but it can also lead to a few good habits falling to the wayside... I realised that I needed to do a reality check and get myself back on track.

I'm a firm believer in moderation but on the odd occasion I think I was having more than a little moderation! My first step was to get my food diary back in action and take a good look at exactly what I was eating... the results weren't too scary - I realised that I needed to clean up a few things. I needed to ease back on the treat and convenience foods, add even more fruit and vegetables in and drink more water. Not hard stuff and once I was writing everything down it was pretty simple - and yes I did feel so much better - I had even more energy and could concentrate more.

Some of the simple things that I added back in included a dried fruit/nut and seed mix instead of sweet treats or more processed snacks, getting a slab of low fat chocolate yoghurts so that if I felt like something sweet at least I'd get more nutrients from it and I made sure if I was travelling that I had an entire lunchbox made up - this stopped me from buying any food out and about.

It can be hard to have the perfect diet - not even nutritionists cant manage it 100% of the time but being aware of when you are slightly straying off track and how to get back on track is one of the biggest parts of a healthy (and enjoyable) diet.