Ok. Ready to start your new lifestyle?
Let's begin with what's in your refrigerator AND your freezer. YIKES! I'll bet there's all sorts of things filled with sodium, packed with fructose, and way past the expiration date. The frozen diet entrees? Come on! You're an adult. You know when to stop eating, you don't need your food rationed! The French bread pizzas & tater tots, gotta go. I ain't buying the "they're for the kids" excuse. How lazy are you that you can't slather some sauce and cheese on a piece of bread or cut a potato and throw it on a cookie sheet?! Shame on you! Look at what's in that stuff? Healthy schmealthy. Throw all that stuff out. It's nasty.
Here's the pyramid. This is how your pantry and fridge should be stocked. This is not to say you can't have ice cream, cookies, or potato chips, but one quart, one box, one bag, is all you need. Take a little personal responsibility here guys!
THE TIPS:
Here's the only way one loses weight. You can't take in 1300 calories and burn off 1100. You can't take in 1300 and work off 1300. You get nowhere. If you take in 1300 calories, you have to burn 1500. You need to create a deficit.
Sweating, working out? Ick. (I'm kidding.) Sorry, you gotta exercise. Ya gotta sweat. It's good for you. All of you. Even if raise your blood pressure for only 15 minutes a day, aka: the time it takes to finish off a box of hoho's, you'll feel empowered. Take a walk, jump rope, dance, just do something. It gets everything moving to the right place on your butt and your heart.
I should tell you to stop caffiene, but I don't want to live in a world without it, so just stay hydrated. Drink water and drink it often. Lose pop, including diet pop, and any other fructose based drinks. There's nothing good about them.
Where most mothers said finish everything on your plate, my grandmother said " If you leave one bite on your plate you won't be an old maid" I don't know why being an old maid was incentive for not overeating but, well, it kinda worked. Although not married, I'm thin! I didn't realize it when I was 10, but that is when my eating habits were developed. I still leave something on my plate. Usually my date finishes it, but at least I'm in control. This is important! You are in control. Not the food. Leave a bite. After awhile you'll leave two.
Eat often. I think of this type of "grazing" as a way of feeding your body. Not feeding you. The plan is to start early and end late. You eat smaller portions, several times a day. Your blood sugars stay constant, your energy is better, you'll sleep better, and you're not as hungry so you naturally eat less. Hooey on not eating after 8pm. First I'm not 90 and eat at 4:30, but I am old enough to stay up after the streetlights go on, so I can eat when I want! The schedule and plan will be posted in the next day or two.
Cook more. Put aside one day a week to cook the basics, stock, sauce, dressings, so you can make great quick meals all week. This'll cut down on the processed sugars, chemicals, and additives in your meals. I'm by no means a treehugging, bee-shunning, food geek, but fresh and organic is good for everyone, not to mention it reduces the "slug affect".
So what did we learn here today?
Clean out the fridge and pantry. Get the junk out of your house.
Exercise & create a calorie deficit. Get the junk out of your trunk.
Stay hydrated. Drink more!
Control the food. Get married.
Eat less more often. YAHOO!
COOK! It's fun!
So all you need to do to succeed at this is to stop dieting and rethink your eating habits. It's easy! Now go have a martini.
Let's begin with what's in your refrigerator AND your freezer. YIKES! I'll bet there's all sorts of things filled with sodium, packed with fructose, and way past the expiration date. The frozen diet entrees? Come on! You're an adult. You know when to stop eating, you don't need your food rationed! The French bread pizzas & tater tots, gotta go. I ain't buying the "they're for the kids" excuse. How lazy are you that you can't slather some sauce and cheese on a piece of bread or cut a potato and throw it on a cookie sheet?! Shame on you! Look at what's in that stuff? Healthy schmealthy. Throw all that stuff out. It's nasty.
Here's the pyramid. This is how your pantry and fridge should be stocked. This is not to say you can't have ice cream, cookies, or potato chips, but one quart, one box, one bag, is all you need. Take a little personal responsibility here guys!
THE TIPS:
Here's the only way one loses weight. You can't take in 1300 calories and burn off 1100. You can't take in 1300 and work off 1300. You get nowhere. If you take in 1300 calories, you have to burn 1500. You need to create a deficit.
Sweating, working out? Ick. (I'm kidding.) Sorry, you gotta exercise. Ya gotta sweat. It's good for you. All of you. Even if raise your blood pressure for only 15 minutes a day, aka: the time it takes to finish off a box of hoho's, you'll feel empowered. Take a walk, jump rope, dance, just do something. It gets everything moving to the right place on your butt and your heart.
I should tell you to stop caffiene, but I don't want to live in a world without it, so just stay hydrated. Drink water and drink it often. Lose pop, including diet pop, and any other fructose based drinks. There's nothing good about them.
Where most mothers said finish everything on your plate, my grandmother said " If you leave one bite on your plate you won't be an old maid" I don't know why being an old maid was incentive for not overeating but, well, it kinda worked. Although not married, I'm thin! I didn't realize it when I was 10, but that is when my eating habits were developed. I still leave something on my plate. Usually my date finishes it, but at least I'm in control. This is important! You are in control. Not the food. Leave a bite. After awhile you'll leave two.
Eat often. I think of this type of "grazing" as a way of feeding your body. Not feeding you. The plan is to start early and end late. You eat smaller portions, several times a day. Your blood sugars stay constant, your energy is better, you'll sleep better, and you're not as hungry so you naturally eat less. Hooey on not eating after 8pm. First I'm not 90 and eat at 4:30, but I am old enough to stay up after the streetlights go on, so I can eat when I want! The schedule and plan will be posted in the next day or two.
Cook more. Put aside one day a week to cook the basics, stock, sauce, dressings, so you can make great quick meals all week. This'll cut down on the processed sugars, chemicals, and additives in your meals. I'm by no means a treehugging, bee-shunning, food geek, but fresh and organic is good for everyone, not to mention it reduces the "slug affect".
So what did we learn here today?
Clean out the fridge and pantry. Get the junk out of your house.
Exercise & create a calorie deficit. Get the junk out of your trunk.
Stay hydrated. Drink more!
Control the food. Get married.
Eat less more often. YAHOO!
COOK! It's fun!
So all you need to do to succeed at this is to stop dieting and rethink your eating habits. It's easy! Now go have a martini.
1 comment:
I was totally with you.
Right up to the "get married" part.
xo,
boozepimp
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