My history of eating habits

I didn't used to have good eating habits. I can remember about 20 years ago when my husband and I first got together, we used to eat frozen fish sticks, Kraft macaroni and cheese, hot dogs and macaroni and cheese. The number one thing that was a staple in our house was Kraft macaroni and cheese. We also used to eat out at fast food restaurants a lot, it didn't help that I used to work at McDonald's, so not only did I usually eat breakfast and lunch there but sometimes dinner as well, depending on my shifts. We maintained this bad habit for about 7 years and then discovered that we really liked to cook. We didn't have a lot of money when we met so most of what we ate back then was based on what we could afford. Once we started experimenting with different recipes and cooking we started eating a little better. We still had a long way to go, we were at least eating more home cooked meals and less fast food, we also reduced our quantity of processed foods by a lot. The real change came about 10 years ago when all of my health issues started developing; we knew we had to make the change. I started reading more about my health conditions and what I needed to do in order to keep them more under control and live a healthy life. The key to making major changes in your life is to start slowly and just read about it, pick one thing and work hard to change that habit before you try to change another habit. I think it is good to make a list of things you would like to change in your lifestyle and keep that posted, maybe, up on the fridge. Then each month introduce another change, if monthly is too fast go every couple of months. You really have to adjust it to what you know you would do, but the key is to have the list posted and maybe along side each item set a goal date that you would like to have this task accomplished by. This will help hold you more accountable to your tasks. Work hard at making an honest effort to change these habits, don't allow yourself to say "Oh, I will push that one to next month because I am just not ready to do it", make yourself try to stick to it. But again, don't do too much too fast, you don't want to set yourself up to fail, keep it realistic, but keep yourself accountable as well. Once you have developed your new habits you will notice a difference in how you feel, I may be slight but wait until you start adding more, you will be amazed at how much better you feel. Then when you decide to revert back to an old habit you will notice how bad you feel. One good example is, I stopped drinking pop, every once in a great while, I will have one, and I can’t even finish it, it makes me feel so bloated and miserable. Remember the key is to take things slowly, don’t do too much too fast and hold yourself accountable. You can do it!!