Need motivation for a healthy lifestyle? Call a football coach. Need someone to remove roadblocks? That’s where I hope to help. A healthy lifestyle, of course, starts in two areas: diet and exercise. If you are thinking of five reasons that you cannot diet and five more that you cannot exercise, then let’s get moving. This article focuses on diet.
To truly make a healthy lifestyle commitment, list five reasons that you are not dieting. Let’s attack them one by one. Even I have not looked at your personal list, I’m sure some of them are addressed below.
First of all, don’t let others control your diet. Whether it is family or work, you need to make sure your meal decisions reflect your diet needs. Work may offer free lunch every day, but if that lunch is pizza or cheese steaks, they might as well as be handing you bullets. And cookies and desserts are never free. They end up in the hips and belly. Ask whoever is in charge to include healthy food in the menu. If necessary, use the “dietary restriction” card. Controlling your diet is controlling your destiny.
If work means a lot of lunches and dinners at restaurants, then you need to be forever vigilant. Get the diet meals, and keep your alcohol intake to a minimum. This ain’t the fifties, everyone will understand.
Home is a hard place for eating discipline. Temptation is everywhere. Someone is always eating and that makes you want to join in. Stop. First of all, your family should not be eating any worse than you are. Get rid of the processed breakfast sausages and dinner enchiladas. There are better ways to get your daily minimum requirements. Find some veggies and fruits that everyone likes and you can all get thinner together. A healthy lifestyle is a family commitment.
Another diet problem is the human dumpster. Who wants to see food go to waste? Aren’t people starving in China (or is it Africa?)? But think about it: You can eat the excess food or throw it out. If you eat it, you are taking in calories that you do not need. Cut out the middle man, throw it in the garbage. A better thing to do with leftovers is to save them for another meal. Then shrink your portions according to your actual family needs.
Food triggers are dangerous to every diet. There are certain foods that will cause you to crave more of that food. For me it is cookies and M&M’s (especially M&M’s). Avoid these foods as much as possible. Replace them with foods that will satiate your appetite. Then when it is time to grab for that Oreo, you have already filled those hunger pangs.
I have not even approached a serious diet, but I really don’t think I need to. Fix the roadblocks outlined here and you can move forward to a healthy lifestyle that can last a lifetime.
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