FOCUS ON: What You Eat……And How Much, #2
Changing lifetime eating habits can be overwhelming! Its hard to change something that you like to do….even if the change is for the better! Some people are able to make major nutritional changes “cold turkey.” Some of us need to take baby steps. More of us fall into the latter category. Here’s a few pointers:
1. Add foods to your menu that you like. You are more likely to stay with a menu loaded with foods you like. I am amazed at some of the “healthy menus” in some magazines! Do people really eat that stuff! Find healthy, nutritious foods that you like and get rid of the foods that are bad for you (interpreted “adds fat to your body“).
2. If you eat a “cheat food” one day, its not the end of the world. Just exercise a little harder that day….and get back on your menu track ASAP! If you stay with your nutrition program 90% of the time, you will do just fine.
3. A good tactic to use: challenge your accountability partner to “eat-no-bad-food days or weeks.” That way, you keep each other in check.
4. List in your food journal items you will not eat/or severely limit like: sodas, sugary fruit juice drinks, candy, cookies, donuts, fried meats and fried foods, fast foods, ketchup, mayonnaise, etc. Right next to that “bad food list,” write down good food items you will replace them with like: whole grain breads, whole grain cereals, oatmeal, almonds, walnuts, low-fat dairy products, low-fat yogurt, fruits, veggies, unsweetened tea, water, lean meats (baked, broiled or grilled), olive oil, cinnamon, mustard, etc. Remember, make a list of foods you like. This replacement tactic works well.
Keep your FOCUS…..
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I love the idea of a list that tells you the foods just to stay away from, I need to have that list up on my refrigerator,as well as the foods to replace it with, and that is a good list! Plus, it just makes so much sense to eat the foods that you like,this needs to be something that will work for the rest of your life. I’m finding that there are many ways to still have my favorites,but just adapt the recipes,and watch the portions.
Thanks for all of the great information that you give us on here, I am sure that you are really helping a lot of people! I know that whenever I check in on you, I learn something new, so thank you!!!!
amber
I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy. Ok, I’m weak. Sooooooo I can not, do not buy the foods I can not eat, because IF they are in the house…. I’ll eat them. CRRRUNNNNCH
Awesome advice, thanks!
Thanks for the comments all! I have to think about these points before I write them, so they apply to me as well and I do them….that’s why I know that they work….