Mike Geary set me this email and I thought you might find it interesting, he explains how he eats healthy food most of the time without having to disipline himself.

“First of all, I don’t always eat perfect, but if I do cheat, it’s only a couple times a month and only when I eat out.  I never keep any junk food at all in the house.  And even when I do “cheat”… I still never eat french fries, soda, donuts, or candy.

How do I stay so disiplined? I don’t really think it’s about discipline for me.  Instead, I have something in my head that makes the thought of eating junk foods not appealing at all to me. In fact, it even goes a step beyond junk food just not appealing to me…

My mindset is that junk foods actually appear disgusting to me and I’ve no desire to eat them at all. I actually crave healthy foods instead.

So it made me think… Why do some of us see junk foods and not crave them at all (and even view them as disgusting), while others see junk foods and cannot resist the temptation?

That’s a tough call…and when it comes to how our minds work, things can get complicated.

For me personally, I think the reason why junk food is so revolting is that I’ve spent so many years reading about all of the negative effects that these foods have on your body… and digging into the actual science and the negative cellular reactions that they cause. I have ingrained in my head over the years that these foods are pure evil and therefore, I have no desire to eat them. In fact, my dislike of junk foods is so deeply rooted at this point in my life, even the smell of deep fried chicken or donuts sometimes can make me feel sick, whereas the smell of a healthy meal makes me feel energized.

I never realized that this was the reason that I eat so healthy on a regular basis. Everyone always said I just had “discipline”… but now that I’ve actually thought about it more, I’ve discovered that it’s not discipline, but rather that my brain views junk foods with such a negative view, that the thought of eating junk food almost makes me feel sick.

This is interesting indeed. I’m not a brain-science expert, so I can’t explain exactly how to adopt this type of mindset. All I can say is… keep continually educating yourself on nutrition and how different types of foods are processed and react in your body.

Hopefully, by learning exactly what is going wrong in your body when you consume trans fats or excess processed sugars, perhaps that will help you to view junk foods in such a negative way that you no longer crave them at all.”