How to make healthy eating more exciting

Weekly technique

By Weight Watchers

Published 21 March 2023

How to make healthy eating more exciting

Dinners at your favourite restaurant, weekend brunch with family…some meals just feel different. Let’s help bring that special-event energy to your nutritious go-tos.

Try this!

1. Make your meal sound delish. Call it something you’d order from a restaurant. It’s not just salad, it’s crisp spring veggies tossed with juicy chicken, egg crumbles, and a bright, lemony vinaigrette. 2. Set the table—and the scene. Break out nice dishes, cloth napkins, and background music. Plate your meal as if you were going to photograph it. 3. Savor the experience. Sit and eat slowly and mindfully, focusing on your food and company, not TV or TikTok.

Let’s dive a little deeper…

Not every meal has to be a vibe. But you also don’t have to just accept it if your healthy-eating routine starts to have the same energy as brushing your teeth. Borrowing what makes “special meals” so fun, festive, and appealing helps restore some of the luster that can get lost over time.

So try serving your Points®-friendly tacos with decorative napkins and margarita glasses. Or create a romantic candlelit date night to complement Tuesday’s sesame salmon courgetti bowl complete with a fancy menu. Research suggests playing around with ambiance and using sensory or nostalgic words to describe foods can increase how much we enjoy what we eat.

Bottom line: Your routine and go-to foods keep you on track. But thinking differently about them—how you serve them, where or how you eat them, what you call them—helps keep things interesting and keeps you excited and inspired for the journey.