6 Self-Care Boundaries To Create Today

Boost your food consistency and ensure a successful food lifestyle with these proven habits.

At Healthy Nest Nutrition, we help clients make positive changes around their relationship with food. This includes habit building, creating consistency, saying no, saying yes, reframing alcohol and diving into food therapy. Each of these self-care boundaries and light-touch aspects of food can make or break your plan. Getting clear on your strengths and boosting your weaknesses is super helpful for consistency and success.

Use these self-care boundaries to boost your food consistency and ensure a successful food lifestyle:

1. Stick Up For Yourself

Your voice matters. But you need to use it to speak up for yourself, especially when it comes to food. Whether you’re at a party, ordering in, or deciding which restaurant to go to with friends, family or colleagues, it’s important to advocate for yourself and make sure you have accessible nutrition and food choices that fit your plan. This is a practice and it gets easier the more you do it.

2. Prioritize Healthy Habits

August is National Wellness Month. It’s a great time to focus on self-care, stress management, and healthy habits to improve overall well-being. When something feels good and nourishing in your body, listen to the cue and keep it up. Consider it a gift to yourself.

3. Meal Prep

Yes, meal prepping for the week ahead is a form of self-care. Building in calendar time for food prepping, planning, shopping and cooking is a gift that keeps on giving. Meal prep gets a lot easier with time because it’s a lot easier to manage a busy week with food prepped and ready to eat or cook so you don’t have to scramble when you’re really busy.

4. Savor Mealtime

Prioritizing the social aspect of dinner and slowing down to enjoy REAL food, your loved ones and community is a true gift. No matter how busy your home life is, try and take the time to chew, appreciate and digest. This promotes good digestion, social connection and longevity. Start with one to two slow dinners a week and find your sweet spot.

5. Take a Walk

Take a beat and walk for 20 minutes before or after dinner. Moving is very powerful for hormone balance, blood sugar balance, insulin sensitivity, and mental well-being. Just 20 minutes helps both mental and physical health. Movement keeps you engaged and present to the moment, which includes food decisions around your next meal.

6. Listen To Yourself

Only you can choose to listen to your inner self. Sometimes others talk louder and you have to weed out the noise. You have a choice to listen to yourself, but don’t really have a choice to demand responsibility from others (friends, family and/or colleagues). This is also a practice that gets easier when you do it. What do you need in your next meal to feel good? Veggies for fiber, vitamins, etc.? Protein for fullness and balance? Healthy fat for meal satisfaction? YES, YES and Yes, please.

Sometimes better nutrition is more about the food and life frameworks you’ve created for yourself. Are your boundaries helping or hurting you? We get into it in our Custom Nutrition Program. 

Reach out for a complimentary consultation to see if Healthy Nest is right for you.  The Custom Nutrition Program includes 4 weeks of menus + recipes, up-to-date science, and help with planning, prepping, quick cooking, hydration, exercise and stress management. It’s the real deal and will help you get to your best diet and lifestyle.