Healthy Eating: Getting Support When Changing Your Eating Habits

Overview

Having support from people in your life is one thing that helps make healthy eating a lot easier.

Support for healthy eating can come in many different forms. It might be:

• A friend who notices how you're eating better.
• A family member who doesn't tempt you when you're trying to eat less of certain foods.
• A coworker or neighbor who plans, makes, and enjoys a healthy meal with you.
• Someone from a healthy-eating class or support group who shares recipes or just listens.

The kind of support that's right for you is whatever helps you with your goals. So ask yourself:

• What healthy eating goal would I like to work on right now?
• What situations make it hard for me to eat healthy foods and meet that goal?
• In what ways can people in my life help me with those healthy-eating challenges?

It might help to write down your ideas.