Say the word diet and I immediately think, hunger, cravings, and weight gain. I just can't go on a diet. Chances are if you are overweight you don't need to go on a diet either. You just need to adjust your eating behaviors. So what might you do? Here are a few suggestions that you can practice starting now.
1. Eat much, much more slowly. Don't be the first person to finish. If someone else finishes before you do, stop eating. Yes. Push your plate away and step away from the food.
Being a dating single person, I get exposure to various eating styles of men. The bigger people always eat all their food, and quickly. The skinnier people leave some and are not in a hurry. That's my mini research project conclusion. 2. Leave food on your plate, especially at a restaurant.
Restaurant servings are full of fat and are unnecessarily large. That's why it tastes so good (but not good for you in large quantities). You eating your food or not does not impact people starving in Ethiopia. If you really care about them, stop eating out and send a little money each month to your favorite charity.
3. Stop drinking soda, juice, sweetened tea and coffee right now. Drink water, diet sodas and use Splenda.
It won't kill you, but your deteriorating health due to excess weight will shorten your life. Yes, juice is just basically sugar water with added nutrients. One juice drink a day is plenty.
4. Move more. Whatever your activity level, make a plan to increase it gradually over the next ten weeks. If you've not been very active, start slowly.
You don't want to hurt yourself. I suggest walking. It's the easiest thing to do and you can walk outside or in a mall. Get a good pair of walking shoes and comfortable clothes and go for a walk. If you haven't walked more than a block in a long time, then your next walk would be two blocks until that is comfortable.
Then increase your time or distance. One of the best things about being overweight is that you have such a great potential for improvement and you can create success for yourself (in weight loss) by just changing a few habits. Write down 3 - 4 things you want to do differently, put them on your calendar or planner, set an alarm for when you need to be doing it and do them for several weeks. After that becomes easy, add a few more .
. . and you won't have to follow any diet plan ever.
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Choose a healthy diet combined with a good exercise program consisting of moderately intense activity five times a week for 30-45 minutes or, three times per week at a higher intensity for twenty minutes. If you are short on time but still want to stay healthy, learn how you can get the benefits of strength and aerobic workouts in twenty minutes, three times a week at Fit, Healthy Self. The Fitness and Health blog is full of information too.
