Maintaining Me Week 2 >>>

Nutrition

Welcome to Week 2 of Maintaining Me where the focus is on Nutrition.

Hopefully Week 1 went well and you’re continuing with your target of a minimum of 15 minutes of activity each day.

Dave McCabe has provided a new video for Week 2 which can be accessed by clicking the button below.

In the Sharepoint Folder you’ll also find PDFs provided by Dave with advice and guidance on Nutrition.

For Week 2 you’re challenged to make a positive change to your diet which you’ll maintain every day across the next seven days and into the future. Remember this is all about building healthy habits incrementally.

Some ideas about what you might do:

- Eat a healthy breakfast every morning.
- Replace some of your fast food intake with healthy options.
- Bring a healthy lunch to work.
- Replace soft drinks with water.
- Consume a minimum amount of fruit and/veg each day.
- Reduce your red meat intake.
- Add more fish to your diet
- Swap wholegrain bread, pasta and rice for white bread, pasta and rice.
- Drink less alcohol.

More advice and guidance:

10 tips for healthy eating

8 tips for healthy eating

25 simple tips to make your diet healthier

Worried that eating healthy takes the joy out of food?

Most of us know we should eat better, but we don’t do it. We are increasingly confused over nutrition with so many conflicting views, and we give scarce thought as to how we eat or our relationship with food. We can only bring about real change when we end this confusion and bring the joy back to food. Dr Joanna McMillan explains how we can change about how we think about food during a TED talk in 2014.

What's a healthy relationship with food?

Most of us are foodies. Food brings us together, and gives us comfort. But have you ever stopped to think whether your relationship with food is healthy? Give Harley street nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert’s talk your time to think about whether your food habits and you have a healthy relationship.

IMPORTANT: It’s always advisable to check with your GP before starting any new fitness activities. Depending on your fitness levels you may need to start slowly. Please take care and avoid injuries.

Remember to always check that any advice you come across online or in podcasts or books comes from qualified reputable sources before you follow it. Just because it’s online or in print doesn’t mean it’s true.