Watching YouTube videos seems to wake up many desires I have to do things. I have just watched a "groceries haul" and it reminded me how much I love cooking. I miss having my own kitchen and going groceries shopping thinking about all the yummy healthy dishes I would make for my family, boyfriend and myself. I go even further by imagining how radiant and healthy they would look, receiving compliments from other people.God I feel insane.
Second note, I have reached a conclusion related to eating healthy. Many people try and give up because they simply think it is too difficult or too drastic to even keep up. One thing I have noticed is: it doesn't matter how difficult it sounds at the beginning, your body will change if you continue to try! This is because it is only normal to NOT be able to change your diet completely after an inspirational desire to eat healthier. Every time you try, your body is experiencing something new. After a couple of times, the body starts to get used to it. Only up to this point, you have made a big step! All you have to do is to keep it up and continue to change your eating habits gradually. Your taste buds will start to appreciate cleaner flavors and you will feel a difference, either in your weight, skin, digestion, or even pooing has become smoother! Whichever it is, once you have achieved it, tasting food you used to love (especially in restaurants) it will taste very different: too artificial, complicated and salty. If those are not your thoughts, your taste buds requires more training and time to adapt, which is not a big deal.
I cheer for those who continue to beat poor eating habits and killing most (if not all) of the junk food. There's a a tip which helped me incredibly. I went to Parma, Italy to visit a close friend a few years ago. Parma is a little place that's not TOO well known (in comparison to Rome and Florence) so I had the chance to taste some local food. I ordered a panini with sparkling fruit wine and OH MY GOD it was the best panini I had IN MY LIFE. It didn't have anything fancy in it, but everything was just so fresh. I could taste the saltiness of the famous Parma ham, fresh crunchy lettuce (it was even a little chilled I guess from being washed) and tomatoes in a just out if the oven bun. I noticed I enjoyed clean flavors so much more than I thought (growing up in an Asian family doesn't give you much room for simple dishes). So I started to train my taste buds, since it was much harder to get ingredients as fresh as that restaurant in Parma, at the phase we live in. I trained it to detect freshness in food, less processed, less seasoned... And I must say I a, eating a lot healthier than my college life.