8 healthy eating habits to embrace in 2023

Your eating habits play a crucial role in your overall health and well-being. Small, consistent positive steps toward healthy eating can make a big change in a year. In her recent Instagram post, author and nutritionist Dr. Nandita Iyer shared some healthy eating habits for 2023 that you must include in your lifestyle.
She wrote:
Tune into your body. Understand your hunger cues so you can eat when you are hungry and stop when you feel almost full.
Eat slowly. Chew every mouthful until it is liquidised. Research has shown that fast eaters are twice as likely to gain excess weight.
Tackle mindless snacking. We often indulge in binge eating for reasons other than hunger such as boredom, loneliness, stress and anger. Tune in to the root cause and address it with non-food tools. Food should not be your only coping mechanism.
Eat the healthiest foods on your plate first so you will be up with high-quality calories at the start
Stock up on good quality fresh produce and nutrient-rich groceries. This means whatever you cook with them will have nutritious building blocks and they will be good for your health.
Balancing your plate is more sustainable than counting calories and logging all the foods eaten every day. Eating should not become a chore.
A rough weekly menu plan helps ensure that your meals are a good balance of complex carbs, proteins and fats, and using a variety of seasonal produce.
Make room for treats as a part of your diet. Abstaining from foods that give you joy will lead to unhealthy cravings and binging. Sit down and enjoy the treat mindfully to experience the maximum joy out of it.