Leaving Food on Your Plate

Leaving Food on Your Plate Leaving food on your plate is a great habit in situations where you are not in control of your serve size. You will be more likely to leave portions of higher fat foods at occasions such as parties or dining out and to restrict your intake of highly desired foods…

What is Your Eating Style?

What is Your Eating Style? Another factor that can influence whether you eat appropriately is your eating style. You may be an emotional, habitual, social, or restrained eater: your style is a product of your knowledge about food and how you respond to different eating cues. Use this four-point scale to indicate the degree to…

Making Inappropriate Eating More Appropriate

One of the most valuable strategies you’ll gain from us at Eviole is the ability to recognize inappropriate eating habits and transform them into healthier choices. As part of this journey, you’ll develop a critical habit before every meal – asking yourself, “Is this choice appropriate?” If the answer leans toward “appropriate,” that’s your green…

How to Distinguish Between Hunger Cues

Although you may think that your decision to eat is spontaneous, it’s quite predictable and often influenced by cues such as people, places, circumstances, thoughts, and emotions. Eating cues are factors in your life that influence you to eat when your body is not actually hungry. Depending on the situation, it may be appropriate or…

The 10 Principles of Goal Setting

Well set goals are: 1. Realistic Set goals that are within realistic reach: if you set goals that you won’t be able to achieve, you set yourself up for failure and disappointment. Setting a more realistic goal and then achieving it, is more likely to lead to a sense of success and consequent maintenance of…