If you intend to lose weight and keep to your goal weight forever, you have to change the way you relate to food. Many of us reluctant to commit to a weight control diet, "live to eat". Eating is the focus of our daily lives and we have no set diet plan. You know, you are never going to lose fat and get fit if you cannot get your head around the advantages of "eating to live" over "living to eat".
You cannot view food as a sinful pleasure, a wicked indulgence or just something that is plain old naughty and forbidden. Unless you are smearing a very close friend's intimate body parts with an edible substance to be licked off later, you really can't justify food as something to be connected with any sort of lustful emotion.
If you are going to lose fat and get fit for the rest of your life, then your diet plan has to incorporate a genuine acceptance of food as fuel for your ever faithful body that is currently doing it's level best for you under the difficult conditions it is suffering. Make your body absolutely ecstatic. Give it high quality nutritious food and you will live a lot better and you'll probably last a lot longer too.
Here are 3 simple steps for learning to "eat to live".
1. Stop grazing. If you spend your waking hours wandering about chewing little fatty, salty and sugary treats, then you have to stop. Right now. These moreish little morsels can be responsible for hundreds of calories a day that you haven't even noticed slipping silently down you eager and accepting gullet. If you snack or eat meals while standing, wandering about or watching TV, then eating is not your focus activity and you will overindulge, every day again. Be aware of this negative practice and desist. It's only a bad habit, like chewing your nails. You have to catch yourself doing it, but you know what to look for now, so you'll be OK.
2. Make choices. Tell yourself you can't have (and indeed don't want) everything. I am not saying you should forbid yourself certain types of food, because you and I both know exactly what will happen then, don't we? I'm saying tell yourself, "Right, I am allowing myself 500 calories for this meal. What's it going to be?" Exercise a little restraint. It's good for your diet plan as well as for your character. Less is more - especially in regard to being more effective for your weight control diet.
3. Eat less, but more often. You expect a lot from your body. You want to be fit and healthy and active, even during the long snoozy hours between lunch and dinner. To get the most out of your body, you have to feed it right. You can't keep skipping breakfast and run on empty till your first saturated fat snack around 11am. You really should not wolf down a take away lunch on the run. You mustn't punish yourself further with a massive dinner to digest through the night. To give your body the food it deserves (and deep down, it craves like mad) you have to eat breakfast. That's number one. Give your stomach something to work on and have energy to burn. Have a mid morning snack. Something nutritious, like fruit or a few unsalted nuts or even a protein bar or shake. Sit down to enjoy a lunch consisting of complex carbs, protein and mainly unsaturated fats. A chicken salad with a bread roll would do the trick. Have another piece of fruit or a protein shake mid afternoon. This will wake you up nicely. Eat sparingly at night. Have a low carb dinner and about 1 hour later, have some fruit and low fat yoghurt. It takes a few weeks to get used to, but it will work for you if you really want to lose weight.
You just have to put some thought, rather than emotion, into your diet plan. Don't fixate on food - don't "live to eat". There are much more exciting and interesting things to do in life.
Eat to live and you will live your life to the fullest.
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