5 tips for creating healthy eating habits (and feeling physically good) in 2022
CBC
After indulging in holiday treats and rich foods for a few weeks, it's tempting to want to make big changes to our diets in the new year.
If you really want to change your eating habits, however, it's important to start small, said Amirah Oyesegun.
The recent UPEI foods and nutrition graduate cautioned against an "all or nothing approach."
"I'm not the biggest fan of making new year's resolutions," said Oyesegun, who is currently doing their placements to become a dietitian.
"I just don't think setting those strict resolutions is healthy."
Instead, Oyesegun offers these five realistic tips for how to approach food and your body in 2022.
"A lot of people think of wanting to transform their bodies in the new year … into something that their bodies aren't," said Oyesegun.
"I think it's really important for people to focus more on all the amazing things our body does for us. Like, since conception, until this very moment, your body has been working and has not taken a day off."
Oyesegun said they learned during their UPEI degree that you can be healthy in any body.
"Your body size … it doesn't equate to health," they said.
"My schooling in nutrition really shaped and changed a lot of the misconceptions that I had surrounding food."
They recommend that instead of trying to transform our bodies, we focus on how to better enable our bodies to do the amazing things they already do for us.
This can be difficult, said Oyesegun.
"The most challenging thing is all the, I call it noise, from diet culture," they said.