Your environment strongly affects your behaviour. For a good example, look no further than your kitchen.

Even if you know to eat colourful vegetables everyday, heck even if you *want* to eat colourful vegetables everyday, if there aren’t colourful vegetables on your counter or in your fridge it’s not going to happen!

That’s why this week we focus on creating your health kitchen.

Luckily even small changes can make a big difference. To start with consider the first law of the kitchen:

If a food is in your house either you, someone you love, or someone you marginally tolerate, will eventually eat it.

Whether it’s eaten as a planned meal, as a special celebration, as a late night snack, or as an unplanned stressed-out binge, it’s going to be eaten.

So the best way to improve your nutrition is to stock up on the food and the drinks you know are healthy for you. Have healthy foods readily available and ready for you to eat.

Everything else? Well if it’s for a special occasion only buy it on that occasion. Or if it’s a once in a while treat, go out for the treat, rather than bringing it home to your nutrition sanctuary.

Let’s say you like ice-cream on the weekends. Well, instead of buying a carton and keeping it in the freezer to tempt you every single day, don’t buy it at all! Just head out to the local ice-cream shop instead.

This way the temptations stay outside your home.

Hopefully you’re getting the message. When your kitchen is a healthy eating zone it’s a lot easier to make good choices.

That’s why a kitchen makeover helps you stay in control and on track.