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 For Diet & Weight Control Heres the low down on my favorite Diet Tips! THE DON'TS Don't! Dieting is wrong and not natural. Everyones bodies are different and requires different amounts of prime nutrients, protien, carbs, and so on. We are not text book versions of each other, like no two snow flakes being the same. If you have craving for something eat it!If you don't you will "graze" on everything and will eventually break down and have that which you were avoiding anyways. Boom a day of dieting taken down! - Dont feel you have to "clean your plate"! Your not five anymore and is the food or soda you don't finish really gonna help some starving child in another country feel fuller due to you over stuffing yourself? No. When you are satisfied with your meal or the beverage your drinking dump it or get it to go for later and make two meals out of it. Was the whole two liter too much, did you decide after a glass that it was a mistake? Well don't drink it! Pour it out and use that and reinforcement to resist the next one you would buy "Well last time after the first glass I realized that i didn't want it..."
Don't keep a food journal of what you eat! Why do this to yourself? This is just one more step towards a diet failure and crash. Do you really need to be reminded of how many times this week you failed your objectives or "fell off the wagon"...?
THE DO'S - Spilt with a freind. If you have that craving for cheesecake, have a slice. Don't buy a whole cake, just ask out a freind and spilt the piece or get half to go and enjoy later. Usually most of our "cravings" are satisfied after the first two bites or first few sips, the rest we just eat or drink cause it's there.
- Get a to go box first. When we eat out 90% of the time we get way more than we actually need and as your eating habbits improve it will be much more than you want. But the hazard is that we sit with our coffee talking and we continue to nibble on our food past the point where we intended to quit. Soon we have eaten it down to an amount that we don't feel is worthy of a box, so we finish it off. Simple solution... get a to-go-box when your food comes, put half away right then, setting up a plate you feel is more more appropraite to your proper quantity. Then when you are chilling with the coffee your not tempted to just nibble or takes bites of your meal.
- Buy smaller quantities until your able to control yourself. Is it economical? No. But until your able to control your frigerator raiding binges buy small quanties, it may cost a bit more but compared with what it would cost the eat the way you have been for the rest of your life it's a huge savings, no to mention the fewer medical bills you will be facing by maintaining a wiser diet. (I won't say healthier, that implies too much. We just want wiser choices and decisions.)
Keep a journal of what you have not eaten! Nearly every diet and trainer tells you to keep a food journal of what you eat BAH!! Its a set up for failure. Such things are only negative reminders of the mistakes you have made, they shout "this is how i failed on this day and that one." And then theres the fact that most people don't log everything, which leads to a sense of lying and deception, we can't lie to ourselves we know what we ate or exactly how much extra there was. Instead! Make it a positive experience of direct honesty and pure reward! Keep a log of everything you didn't eat. (ps this works with snacking, smoking, etc as well) So you broke down and had a snikers bar, however, what about the 4 times that you almost grabbed one and didnt? Thats an accomplishment! What about when you almost turned into McDonalds to get the double cheeseburger, fries, and coke... and didnt or just drove right on past the box and back onto the road. This is what you need to see! This is an honest achievement and progress. Now go back when you feel down and look at what "isnt" hagging from your belly or clogging your arteries.
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