The subject of this post is some what misleading. The fact is that the "TRICKS" below will help you change your lifestyle, your bad eating habits and any other obsessions you may have with food!!!
Enjoy your food
Food that is eaten mindlessly is neglected food. When you pay attention, you are satisfied in a deeper way.
Keep away from junk food -- It's Addictive
Junk food can affect your brain in ways similar to drug abuse.
Structure meal times
Long stretches without food make people crave energy-dense snacks, which can make healthy choices difficult.
Satisfy your body -- especially at breakfast
A protein-rich breakfast leaves you less hungry for the rest of the day. Some fat in the meal can help, too.
Favor foods closer to nature
Favoring whole fresh foods over processed ones will naturally optimize the healthiness of your food choices.
Change your environment
Altering your food environment -- whether this means using smaller plates or keeping seconds out of immediate reach -- can help you lose weight.
Avoid or Minimise Sugar
Sugar, sugary foods and especially soft drinks, processed fruit juices and beer. The carbohydrates in most sugary foods and drinks are called empty carbohydrates, and are stored as fat.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
I am down to 65.7kg (144.5 pounds). From December 2010 till now, June 2011, I have lost 8 kg (approximately 16 pounds).
It really is not a substantial amount of weight when you think about it, but to ME it is a huge amount of weight. I can honestly feel a big difference on every level in my daily life.
I am no longer getting onto the scale every day. When I started this journey I sometimes use to get onto the scale twice a day. It was almost like an obsession. But I believe a healthy obsession. Because when I got onto the scale this morning, I felt so overwhelmed – I couldn’t believe that I am still losing weight. It is a slow process, but a totally safe, healthy and natural way that I am going about it. And suddenly it hit me!!!!
A revelation…
I AM NO LONGER EMOTIONALLY CONNECTED TO FOOD the way that I use to be.
I was never obese, just a little over weight. But how do you get to being obese? You firstly become a little bit over weight, then more over weight and more. And eventually one day when you see yourself on a photograph you just won’t recognise yourself.
And I may be on a wild goose chase, but I think the number 1 reason woman get obese or even just a little overweight is their emotional relationship with food. Food that makes us feel better, but that is not at all good for us.
The best way to test yourself is to keep a diary. A record of when you eat and your emotion when you eat and before and after you eat and what you eat. I did this when I started out my journey and I really just needed to do it for a week or two. Once I could see and analyse my eating patterns and behaviours I quickly realised that I have bad habits that I have to break before I will be in charge and in control of what goes into my mouth. And then it takes a lot of discipline to change habits. Research shows that it takes approximately 21 days to undo a bad habit or even to learn a new habit (a good one), bad ones can be learnt overnight! So, just stick it out for 21 days, after that it will come naturally!!!!
Hold thumbs for me. I have another 5 kg to go to get to my goal weight!
It really is not a substantial amount of weight when you think about it, but to ME it is a huge amount of weight. I can honestly feel a big difference on every level in my daily life.
I am no longer getting onto the scale every day. When I started this journey I sometimes use to get onto the scale twice a day. It was almost like an obsession. But I believe a healthy obsession. Because when I got onto the scale this morning, I felt so overwhelmed – I couldn’t believe that I am still losing weight. It is a slow process, but a totally safe, healthy and natural way that I am going about it. And suddenly it hit me!!!!
A revelation…
I AM NO LONGER EMOTIONALLY CONNECTED TO FOOD the way that I use to be.
I was never obese, just a little over weight. But how do you get to being obese? You firstly become a little bit over weight, then more over weight and more. And eventually one day when you see yourself on a photograph you just won’t recognise yourself.
And I may be on a wild goose chase, but I think the number 1 reason woman get obese or even just a little overweight is their emotional relationship with food. Food that makes us feel better, but that is not at all good for us.
The best way to test yourself is to keep a diary. A record of when you eat and your emotion when you eat and before and after you eat and what you eat. I did this when I started out my journey and I really just needed to do it for a week or two. Once I could see and analyse my eating patterns and behaviours I quickly realised that I have bad habits that I have to break before I will be in charge and in control of what goes into my mouth. And then it takes a lot of discipline to change habits. Research shows that it takes approximately 21 days to undo a bad habit or even to learn a new habit (a good one), bad ones can be learnt overnight! So, just stick it out for 21 days, after that it will come naturally!!!!
Hold thumbs for me. I have another 5 kg to go to get to my goal weight!
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