I Choose Thin Diet Tips
We all have heard the same old diet tips over and over, but it is always good to be reminded of what we should be doing. Who knows maybe I will mention a couple that you might not have thought about.
- Keep a food diary.
- If you have a craving, wait 19 minutes before eating to see if it passes.
- Set Attainable goals
- Get enough sleep, stress and fatigue can cause belly fat.
- Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water a day. If you drink a glass a water before a meal it dulls your appetite.
- Find yourself a diet buddy, either a friend or online.
- When cravings hit do an activity before snacking.
- Keep trigger foods out of sight.
- If you like you are a late night muncher, eat a slice of bread or a cracker.
- Don’t use food as a reward.
- Weigh yourself once a week on the same day and time.
- Make dining an important event.
- Don’t grocery shop when you are hungry. Shopping while hungry has you filling your cart with unhealthy foods and sweets.
- Forget about the old rule about eating everything on your plate even if you are a member of the Clean Plate Association!
- Lose weight for yourself, not to please your husband, your neighbor, your parents, tooth fairy, or your friends.
- Make your kitchen off limits except for mealtimes.
- Always eat at the table.
- After taking a fork full, put your fork down until all of your food is chewed and swallowed.
- Taste what you are eating.
- Take baby steps when dieting. An example would be by drink 8 glasses a water a day and do this and only this until it begins a habit, and then move to something like exercise, and so forth.
Comment tell me what your diet tips are. We can learn together.
Law of Attraction and Dieting To Achieve Weight Loss
My wife and I have been trying to lose weight for quite some time and have realized that the best way to drop the pounds is not by counting calories but by healthy eating choices combined with sensible portions and some moderate exercise. During the same time we were trying to lose weight we discovered the Law of Attraction. This all happened long before the Oprah show made the idea popular. We have listened to Wayne Dyer and Ester Hicks and Louise Hay and have become avid believers in the possibility that the Law of Attraction is more than a fad. We have learned that it fits into every decision you make in your life and even when you do not make a decision, it is still there. We have learned that the Law of Attraction has the untapped potential to help you lose weight and make healthy choices in your life.
We go to sleep at night often listening to the teachings about the Law of Attraction and it helps us to stay focused on the big picture. We have learned that by working with the Law of Attraction we have been able to incorporate the belief that weight loss is more about health than it is about dieting. All too often the superficial belief is that if I think I will be rich it will happen. All too often people try to believe that the Law of Attraction is just thinking something into existence. We are here to tell you that thinking your way to thinness is something that can happen, but it is not that simple. To be able to use the Law of Attraction to lose weight you must learn to master the thought process of the Law and that always must start with the basic belief that you love yourself.
If you want the Law of Attraction to work in your life with weight loss then you must start off by not dragging yourself down by your negative thoughts. You must be able to look in the mirror and not be disgusted with your naked body. You must not hate yourself by being overweight. If you desire the Law of Attraction to work in your life you need to start manifesting things through positive thoughts about yourself and your ability to make healthy choices. If you think this is out to lunch then you need to step in front of a mirror while you are naked. Do you have the ability to see your reflection and love what you see? Do you have the capability to see your naked reflection and not criticize areas of your body with negative vibrations?
Until you can learn to love yourself for what you are right this very moment you will have trouble becoming the person you want to be. If you want to change your body you must start with your mind first. To help you lose weight you need to learn to apply the principles that are taught with The Law of Attraction.
Mind versus Weight Loss
I have a few questions for you. How would you describe yourself while looking in the mirror? How do you feel about yourself? How would you describe yourself to other people? Have you made your weight you? Have you forgotten your dreams and aspirations because you feel like you are too overweight to accomplish them? When you look in the mirror do you see a person you would want to be best friends with? Do you love the person you see? Can you see past your double chin and the wrinkles around your eyes? What color are your eyes and can you look yourself in the eyes?
I am asking these questions because if it is difficult to love the person looking back in the mirror when we are overweight. How do we know we will love ourselves when we are thinner? We need to love ourselves for who we are, from the inside first, and only then should we can work on controlling our weight. Many people tend to try and fix the outside by trying every new fad diet or diet pill that comes on the market. The truth of the matter is the problem isn’t on the outside of us, it is inside. Dr. Sklare, an eDiets psychologist tells us that we cannot change our weight until we change our minds.
I know that you want to eat healthy and be healthy, but there is a driving force on the inside of you that steers you in the opposite direction. My husband Keith and I were talking one day and we both agreed that it is almost like there are two different people fighting inside of us. One part of you wants to be exercising, eating healthy, and taking good care of your body and then there is another part of you that procrastinates, makes excuses, interferes and sabotages your best interests. This internal argument goes on all the time within you and it is at the very heart that keeps you from weight control. If you listen you can even hear the argument.
So how do we fix this? How can we make ourselves as one and become united in losing weight, begin an exercise routine and become healthy on the inside first before running to the next fad diet or the new diet pill.
Over Eating Because I Use Food As Entertainment
Weight loss is not something that you can decide to do on Monday and be done with it by Saturday. Granted weight loss surgery will speed the entire process up, but for the mere mortals among us it needs to become a fairly long journey. The hardest part for many people is the changing of the habits that got them over weight in the first place. One of the habits I deal with daily is eating as a form of entertainment.
Sometimes I just love to use food as a comfort item. I like to eat as a backdrop when I watch TV or read the paper. It really amazes me to realize that I think of food almost all day long. I decide early what to eat for dinner and plan lunch out for work so I do not go hungry. I think about where to eat and what to eat and who I will eat with. I plan many of my events around food. My spouse and I always go out for a bite to eat and have friendly bickering sessions to decide on what restaurant. Eating has evolved into an actual pastime that requires alot of thoughts throughout the day to complete. The sad and ironic part is the actions I take while eating. Think for a moment about your eating habits because I bet they are alot like my old habits.
When I used to eat I would spend too much time thinking about food and when it came time to eat I ignored what I was doing. I would break out lunch and read the paper. I would sit down for dinner in front of the television. I would spend too much time thinking about food only to ignore the food while I was in the act of eating! Now that I look back I was pretty lame about my eating habits and it was no wonder I was over weight.
I have since learned to pay a bit more attention to the act of eating. I enjoy my food more and I pay attention to not only my food but also to my body. When I now eat I am more in tune with the portion size of the food and do not just fill up the plate. I cut back on the portions because when I eat slower I give myself the time to hear my belly advise me to stop eating. I have become more attuned to not only the food but also to myself.
I now use food for what it needs to be. I use it to sustain my life and well being. I no longer use food as a form of entertainment. The odd part is that I have learned to appreciate food more now than when I just shoveled it into my mouth. I guess my mind, body and food are all kind of on the same page now.
Food……… it should not be eaten for entertainment.
Dieting Can Be a Bad Diet
Everyday is a day to make choices when it comes to losing weight and fitness. For most people getting out to do the cardiovascular exercise on a daily basis can be most of the battle. You may have a great weight loss morning and afternoon, in your food choices, and then blow the whole day that same night. All too often people get motivated to “get healthy” and start a program and get positive results for awhile but then wander into failure. If you are, or have been in this situation then you by no means alone.
All too often individuals get discouraged or distressed and then wander into a repetitive situation that breeds failure and then more discouragement. What is meant by this is that all too often a person is dieting to lose weight and then one day has a candy bar. Up until that point there was an imaginary barrier and that candy bar was on the other side. After the candy bar is eaten there is a feeling of failure and dejection. If not “checked” this emotion will result in more candy bars and less exercise and then total abandonment of the weight loss / fitness goals. This is, more often than not, the continuation of a perceived cycle of dieting failures because this was just one of many attempts to lose weight that resulted in failure.
A simple cure for this is to skip the “diet” and change the lifestyle. What is meant by this is that if you just try to exercise for the fitness aspect, losing weight becomes part of the equation without the ups and downs of perceived diet failures. If you can start an exercise routine you will be able to “blow” your “diet” on a Friday night every now and then. This is because if you try to get your body healthy through exercise you will not only change your body but you will also change your thinking. If you get into a routine and stick with it for awhile you will actually enjoy performing the exercise. After it becomes a habit (14 days) your mindset starts to change and eating right is less of an issue. It is less of an issue because the focus of your attention isn’t to just lose weight, it is to become healthier. This will begin to manifest itself in eating less bread sticks or not loading up the baked potato. The choices you make to eat will not be limited to diet foods but will expand to any foods. You will just learn, and desire, to to be smarter about your food choices because you want to be able to exercise better because you want to be healthy. When you start to eat right you will be able to stray every once in awhile because ultimately you will be back at the gym on Monday.
By starting an exercise regiment before starting a “diet” you will allow your mind to adjust to the fact that you are doing good things to your body. After awhile the food choices will become easier to decide in the direction of being healthier. By trying to be healthy you will not have to diet because you will make better choices in not only diet, but also in quality and quantity.