Whether you are eating to achieve a healthy weight, or following a nutrition-conscious lifestyle for long-term maintenance and fitness, one of the most challenging tasks you face regularly is going grocery shopping. The choices are overwhelming and the multitude of decisions dizzying, so entering a grocery store without a plan can result in wrong food choices and destruction of a healthy lifestyle.

So to avoid the various pitfalls that can occur during grocery shopping, we offer these…

The reason why the layout of supermarkets is so successful is simple, convenience. Customers typically want to be in and out; they don't want to have to linger for hours trying to locate their favorite brand of ketchup. The general idea behind the layout of a grocery store is to allow customers to easily walk around, selecting the products they wish to use. All the available products can seem so enticing, that unless you come with a premade list of items, chances are you'll be leaving with…