Gabby Reece gave a great low down on how to incorporate a healthy eating diet creatively in your daily routine. Here top 14 tips includes:

1. Portion control - Eat until you are full. If you go out to a restaurant, get half of your meal to go. Believe me, here in the good old US of A we know how to plate a big meal. No one needs that much food at one sitting.

2. Avoid packaged and processed - In other words don’t eat food you should store in the bunker just in case there is a huge storm or war. Eat food that is going to go bad in the same calendar month you are presently living in. Your special body is alive, and needs you to eat the nutrients it needs to do its job for you.

3. Don’t nuke it. I know this is “quicker,” but ask yourself if it is normal to heat something up in two minutes to scalding hot but the plate and the microwave didn’t get hot? Did you see a flame, or doesn’t it bother you that your food gets zapped before you put it in your stomach? My favorite is take the “frozen dinner” and then put it in the nuker. Yumm. No, try dead food. May as well eat calorie-laden cardboard.

4. Go green - The more green you have with your meals (lettuce, broccoli, string beans, kale, etc.), the better.

5. Fiber - Eat it and you will make your body much happier. Bathroom, people. Food just doesn’t go into our mouths. Something has to come out, as well.

6. Eat regular meals - Remember to eat so you don’t find yourself looking for anything to stuff your face because your blood sugar has dropped and you need fuel. Please don’t skip breakfast.

7. Drink water - Forget the juices, sodas, and diet sodas as your “regular” method of hydration. Have those things be a treat or something you do now and again. Water is your best friend.

8. Get busy - When I want to snack is when I am bored. Keep it moving.

9. Experiment - Believe it or not there are “healthy” recipes that taste good. Explore and try to discover a new way of approaching different kinds of foods.

10. Notice - Recognize what you are putting in your mouth and why. Hunger? Good. Sadness? Is there something else you can do (call a friend, take a bath, go dancing, say a prayer) that will help other than food?

11. Don’t buy it and bring it home - Whatever you are trying to eat, keep that in your fridge. Why tempt yourself by stocking your fridge or shelves with food you are deciding is better not to eat?

12. Get some healthy support - Hang with people who are trying to do the same. Believe me, if you are trying to eat well, and your friend just has to make a quick stop at the drive-thru… Who needs the torture?

13. If you can’t pronounce the ingredient, then don’t eat them. Lots of chemicals. Stay away. Look for basic ingredients. Remember if they took something out (i.e., “fat free”), what did they put in its place?

14. Don’t diet - They never work, and it’s just hell. This is about creating new habits. I love food. I love all kinds of food. Cheese, fried, fast, greasy, pizza, burger, chip, cookie, pie, ice cream, canned, boxed, gooey, yummy, just like the next person.

- Better in ‘07 article

Love these tips! Of course, they are very similar to mines written here.

If I had to choose my TOP 5 Favorite for all of y’all to take with you it would be:

1. PORTION CONTROL: Very simple…eat less y’all!!
2. AVOID PACKAGED AND PROCESSED FOODS: Lack of fiber, high sodium and empty calories is NEVER cool!
3. FIBER:Staying satiated is key to making you eat less!
4. GO GREEN: Veggies have a ton of antioxidants, minerals, vitamins and fiber!
5. NOTICE: Figure out why you are eating when you are eating!

If I were YOU - I’d listen to HER!