Tips To Get You In Great Shape

Accept the truth that your expanding waistline is unlikely to be due a slow metabolism or a gland problem and more likely to be due to what and how much you eat! Come to terms with this and you’ll find it easier to get motivated.
• Don’t delay, start today! It’s easy to say you’ll go to a gym on Monday. But you want to lose weight now, don’t you?
• Focus on changing your eating habits for life, rather than dieting. Otherwise, once your ‘diet’ is done with, you return to the eating habits that made you pile on the kilos in the first place.
• Avoid ‘all or nothing’ thinking. One small overindulgence doesn’t mean you’ve blown your diet and can now go on a food fest. Simply put the indulgence behind you and move on and away from the fridge.
• Keep an honest food diary to identify how much you eat and when. Once you see an accurate of your eating habits, you’ll find it easier to identify things you can change.
• Stop blaming special occasions for eating habits. Accept these situations as a normal part of life and incorporate the food and drink that’s on offer into your healthy eating plan rather than use them as an excuse to constantly overindulge.
• Don’t assume all salads are healthy. Some might be laden with oily dressings or cheese, making them higher in calories than a meat pie.
• Watch the way slim women eat. For example they might skip desserts, and only occasionally succumb to the daily chocolate run at work.
• Focus on eating more on food things rather than less of the bad things. So eat more fruits and veggies and you’ll automatically eat less fatty and sugary foods.
• Don’t eat from packets and tubs because when you eat in these, you will get to know how much you’ve eaten. Instead eat in bowls and plates.

Nibbling solutions:
• Chew sugar free gum while you’re cooking, it’ll stop you from nibbling. Cut out a daily slither of cheese and you could lose almost six kilos a year.
• Keep your hands busy if you nibble on sweets, chocolate and crisps while watching TV. Try knitting, sewing or even giving your pampering manicure.
• If you always eat when you drink, change your drinking habits.
• Clean your teeth when you fancy nibbling. Food tastes horrible after toothpaste.

Fast foods know how:
• Keep a supply of microwave low fat ready meals in your freezer. And serve them with vegetables and salads.
• Serve scrambled eggs and fresh tomato on toast or make an omelet and serve them with salad and a micro waved jacket potato or crusty bread.
• Throw together a salad using cherry tomatoes, canned sweet corn, canned tuna, grated fat cheese and a little vinegar.

Easy tricks to beat hunger:
• Start every main meal with a large bowl of salad and little vinegar or fat free dressing.
• Choose food with low glycaemic index, in other words, which give you a long term energy boost, as they’ll help keep blood sugar levels steady so you’ll be less likely to feel hungry and snack.
• Try low calorie and tasty foods when you feel hungry like cup of low fat soup, slice of melon, bowl of fresh salad etc.
• Keep a bowl of chopped vegetables in your fridge so you always have healthy snacks at hand.

Don’t cut out major groups of foods like dairy products in an effort to lose weight. Sure, they’ll shift the kilos, but can you really carry on eating like this forever? The eating habits you develop to loose weight should be sustainable forever.