Weight Loss Ideas
Weight Loss Ideas
Weight loss is a battle we wage daily, but there are always a few weight loss ideas to help along the way.
You can cut the calories of your favorite foods by 50% without changing anything about them — just eat half. For example, if you usually eat a deli sandwich at lunch, eat half it, but replace your chips with carrot sticks. Still hungry? Before you reach for the rest of your sandwich, munch on a piece of fruit. Try to make the piece of fruit an apple or a pear. The crunchiness helps and takes longer to eat. Produce takes longer to eat and digest than other foods, which means you’ll have more time to notice you’re getting full. The added fiber in both the carrots and fruit will help you feel more satisfied than chips would have and will certainly be more beneficial for your weight loss regime.
Weight loss ideas regarding food and eating at restaurants:
When you are dining at a restaurant, ask the waiter for a take-out container as soon as he gets your order. Put half of your meal in the box as soon as it arrives. Try to eat slowly and enjoy the conversation and the restaurant’s ambiance. Remember, it takes about 20 minutes to start to feel full, so eating at a slower pace will prevent you from overeating. Weight loss is so much easier to accomplish if you don’t have to deal with the hunger pains. Eat slowly! You can always take some of the food back out of the carton at the restaurant if you’re still truly hungry, but chances are you won’t want to. If you take the container home, chances are, you will never eat it.
Here are some weight loss ideas you can use and they are effective. If warming up leftovers the next day isn’t your cup of tea, find out if your eatery offers lunch-sized portions of their dishes. These are almost always significantly smaller than full-sized dinner entrees, so don’t be afraid to ask if you can purchase the lunch entree at dinner time. As a last resort, if they resist, tell them you are on a weight loss program and need the smaller portions.
If that’s not an option, ask to order from the children’s menu … practicing this portion control pointer will save your waistline some inches and your wallet some bucks.
Weight loss ideas and snack food portions:
Just how many of those chips are in a serving? Check the nutrition label to find out — you may be surprised at how small an actual serving looks compared to what you usually eat. Learn what a serving is of your favorite snacks; start by measuring them out the next few times you eat them. Once you get into the habit of seeing how much a serving really looks like, you’ll eventually be able to “eyeball” servings and know how much is too much. Most weight loss programs readily have available charts to let you know what the actual serving size should be. Weight loss is all about being aware.
Marilyn Nelson
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