So how do you change eating habits?

I have come to the conclusion that diets are not something someone can do forever hence the reason they fail and people go back to their old eating habits.  What has to change for a healthy eating lifestlye to emerge is simply PERCEPTION.  How you perceive food will determine if you eat it.  If you look at a hot dog and know what is in it, you will be repulsed and will probably never touch one again. So if you are truly interested in eating healthy all the time without feeling deprived you have to change your perception about food.  You need to learn to look at food for its face value.  Ask yourself, what is in it and how will it affect my body.   If it is full of ingredients that you can't even pronounce, it is probably somewhat toxic and in the end may provide you with short moments of pleasure followed by guilt and feelings of illness which you may not even connect with the food that you are eating.  I challenge you to start looking at the food that you eat and ask yourself, what is this food doing for me.  Is it causing you to prosper or is it just slowing you down.