How to Plan Your Diet part 2
August 25th, 2006 by
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Here are some more tips and suggestions when you’re looking to plan your diet!
4. Eat your calories, don’t drink them.
Don’t fill up on sodas and other drinks. You can get all your calories for one day in these if you do it too often. Having a soda with your lunch meal and then one when you’re out of the office is not the way to go. A few cups of hot chocolate there. A few beers here. That will put on the pounds straight back on easily.
5. Exercise.
Organise a time everyday where you can do a little bit of exercise - even doing desk stretches is burning calories and fat. Then put in a three or more times a week when you can go for a jog, bike ride, play with the dog for an hr or so running around with a ball or going to the gym. Remember you burn fats when you’re doing your every day things and once the “10 mins” is up of the first stage of each exercise routine, you start burning sugar. It takes a LONG time to burn off all the bad fats and sugar you’ve been eating throughout the day.
6. Make your meals last.
Don’t just eat and swallow your food fast. Enjoy it and chew slower - this can often help with heartburn too and … choking HAHA. It takes 20 minutes after the first mouthful for your stomach to send a message to your brain to say it’s full. If you’ve already finished your meal, and the dessert and are now snacking because you’re not “full”, you need to slow down your eating.
7. Discover your food triggers.
I’m talking about the ones where you go “oh I feel like that”… When you go shopping what are you thinking when you walk past the cookies isle or the potato chips isle? It’s important to fit your plan around your shopping schedule too. I know this sounds silly but if you’re like the vast majority of us - you WILL buy something that’s not on your list just because you’re an impulse hunger shopper! So put those cookies back and just get the bread and milk you came for!
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November 7th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Great easy tips on starting a diet plan. Dieting is much easier then we ever think, its just a matter of knowing what works!