A Registered Dietitian’s Advice on What “Healthy” Things You Should Stop Doing

Eating right and trying to stay healthy is not an easy job, especially in today’s world where you have information thrown at you from every direction about what to eat, how to eat it, when to eat it, etc. This can topple the best of our intentions.

As a registered dietitian, Bridgette Zeitlin sees a lot of patients who come to her with health goals, and she also sees how they succeed and what makes them fail. One of the biggest pitfalls, she says, is that people put too much pressure on themselves in the pursuit to do the “healthy” thing, which can set them up for failure, or at the very least add on unnecessary challenges in their journey.

Here are 5 such things that the dietitian says you should stop doing, even if you think that it’s the right thing to do: