TEN TIPS: CHANGING THE WAY YOU EAT
Sometimes weight loss comes down to not only changing what you eat, but how you eat as well. Check out these 10 easy changes that could "automatically" help you on your wellness journey.
1. Brainstorm for Yourself: Decide why being healthy is in your best interest and is the best for you – only for you – and keep that front and center.
2. Prepare Your House: Fill your house with healthy foods. If when you're hungry you can reach for a carrot instead of chips, you will have to.
3. Everyday Is A Clean Slate: The day you fall off the wagon is only a day. Start anew the next day. What you do in a week counts more than what you do in a day.
4. The Past Is In The Past: Your history doesn't ever have to be your future.
5. Be Patient: If it's tough in the beginning, remember that in a few weeks your taste buds will change and you will lose your taste for synthetic food, sweets, salt, and grease.
6. Coach Yourself: Talk yourself through a weak moment. Tell yourself if you're dying for a piece of cake at 10 PM, you can wait till morning to have it. Come morning you won't remember or better yet, won’t even want it.
7. Nothing Is Off Limits: If you need it, eat it -- but just a little.
8. Pace Yourself: Go slow or cold turkey, whatever works for you.
9. Think Ahead: Remember, next year you'll either be exactly where you are now, or more healthy depending upon what you do this year.
10. Just Do It: Begin! Now!
(Tips taken from www.huffingtonpost.com)
1. Brainstorm for Yourself: Decide why being healthy is in your best interest and is the best for you – only for you – and keep that front and center.
2. Prepare Your House: Fill your house with healthy foods. If when you're hungry you can reach for a carrot instead of chips, you will have to.
3. Everyday Is A Clean Slate: The day you fall off the wagon is only a day. Start anew the next day. What you do in a week counts more than what you do in a day.
4. The Past Is In The Past: Your history doesn't ever have to be your future.
5. Be Patient: If it's tough in the beginning, remember that in a few weeks your taste buds will change and you will lose your taste for synthetic food, sweets, salt, and grease.
6. Coach Yourself: Talk yourself through a weak moment. Tell yourself if you're dying for a piece of cake at 10 PM, you can wait till morning to have it. Come morning you won't remember or better yet, won’t even want it.
7. Nothing Is Off Limits: If you need it, eat it -- but just a little.
8. Pace Yourself: Go slow or cold turkey, whatever works for you.
9. Think Ahead: Remember, next year you'll either be exactly where you are now, or more healthy depending upon what you do this year.
10. Just Do It: Begin! Now!
(Tips taken from www.huffingtonpost.com)
STRATEGIES:
CONSUMING YOUR DAILY POINTS TARGET
It is important you consume your daily “Points” value each day. Eating less than your determined value sets you up for DEPRIVATION AND METABOLIC SLOW-DOWN. As you probably know, exercise helps to speed up your metabolism but so does eating. That's why they say breakfast is so important, not only to fuel your body but because it starts the metabolic furnace burning, and it continues to burn all day. If you don't eat anything until noon, you don't stoke your furnace to start burning until then either.
To solve this, try eating mini meals throughout the day. Mini meals are smaller meals (usually 5-6) eaten frequently throughout the day. They keep your metabolism revved up and you satisfied. So if you are allowed 25 “Points” per day, divide it by 5 and eat around a schedule or divvy your “Points” up as you see fit. For example,
Breakfast at 8:00 am = 5 points Breakfast at 8:00 am = 5 points
Snack at 10:30 am = 5 points Snack at 10:30 am = 2 points
Lunch at 1:00 pm = 5 points OR Lunch at 1:00 pm = 5 points
Snack at 3:30 pm = 5 points Snack at 3:30 pm = 2 points
Dinner at 6:00 pm = 5 points Dinner at 6:00 pm = 11 points
To solve this, try eating mini meals throughout the day. Mini meals are smaller meals (usually 5-6) eaten frequently throughout the day. They keep your metabolism revved up and you satisfied. So if you are allowed 25 “Points” per day, divide it by 5 and eat around a schedule or divvy your “Points” up as you see fit. For example,
Breakfast at 8:00 am = 5 points Breakfast at 8:00 am = 5 points
Snack at 10:30 am = 5 points Snack at 10:30 am = 2 points
Lunch at 1:00 pm = 5 points OR Lunch at 1:00 pm = 5 points
Snack at 3:30 pm = 5 points Snack at 3:30 pm = 2 points
Dinner at 6:00 pm = 5 points Dinner at 6:00 pm = 11 points