Following is an overview of five simple changes you can make to dramatically improve your diet.

Step #1: Eliminate Unhealthy Habits

A habit is a repeated pattern of behavior that you engage in with little conscious thought an automatic action. The first step in breaking bad habits is to recognize this phenomenon that habits are something you do with little thought and change it.

Step #2: Eat Meals Properly

Eat all meals in a calm, quiet environment at a relaxed pace. Enjoy the experience of eating instead of rushing through meals or eating while doing something else.

Step #3: Eliminate Unhealthy Foods

Junk foods are not naturally pleasing to your body and are often consumed more out of habit than for pure satisfaction. Strive to eliminate hydrogenated fats from your diet and replace/strictly minimize consumption of refined carbohydrates

Step #4: Keep Your Word

When you make a commitment to change your lifestyle and improve yourself in some way, the success or failure of that commitment is riding on whether you will actually do what you say you are going to do. Keeping your word is not only crucial to the success of your commitments, it is crucial to your self-esteem.

Step #5: Eat Like a Champion Athlete

You cannot eat an ordinary diet and expect to perform at your peak. As a dedicated fitness enthusiast, you demonstrate a healthy commitment to exercise and a balanced lifestyle. Eating a healthy, whole foods diet is an essential component of your training program and peak performance goals. Utilizing sports nutrition supplements to consume easily digestible, high-performance calories before, during and after exercise can greatly assist your performance and recovery.

Brad Kearns, 41, of Auburn , California is noted speaker a noted speaker, author and coach in the endurance world for nearly two decades. During his nine-year career as a triathlete, he was one of the world's top ranked professionals, amassing over 30 wins worldwide on the pro circuit. Career highlights include a remarkable streak of seven victories in a row, a world duathlon series championship, two national triathlon championships and a #3 world ranking in 1991. His www. Bradventures.com offers a healthy, holistic approach to performance nutrition, personal coaching and healthy, balanced lifestyle practices.

By: Brad Kearns
Coach / Athlete
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