Still, here are five important tips to get you started:
You just continue the next day as if nothing happened.” ‘Cheating’ is part of the Mediterranean diet. “Food is to be enjoyed, and the Mediterranean diet promotes a healthy relationship with food.
“Even within the Mediterranean diet there are what we call ‘special occasion days’ where you may eat more or eat foods that perhaps are not very healthy, but that is actually part of the lifestyle,” Paravantes-Hargitt says.
There’s no following this to a T or falling off the wagon and feeling like a failure. The good news is that because this is a style of eating versus a set of rigid rules, you can fully customize this approach to suit your likes and dislikes.
