Things You'll Need:
- healthy foods that you like and enjoy eating
- a good pattern/eating routine
- A few of my favorite foods: pasta
- BREAD
- Fruit, fruit, fruit
- vegetables (corn, potatos mainly)
- Ramen noodles
- pretzels
- Notice the lack of fried foods ( I love them, but you know...will power)
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Step 1
Let me try to explain this in the simplest way possible. Anyone can do this though!
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Step 2
Plan your day ahead of time. Think about the things you want to eat during the day when you get up. Obviously, peoples' minds change, but try to roughly plan some kind of healthy menu for the day. For many people, planning ahead of time will keep them truer to their diets than someone who just eats cake on a whim.
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Step 3
WALK WALK WALK WALK WALK: Want a healthier body? Please, just walk. It seriously does wonders. Don't make it your daily physical exercise, just do it even when you shouldn't have to. Park further away from the grocery store. Walk to work (if you can). Walk anywhere and everywhere. Plan your schedule ahead of time to allow for walking. I didn't realize, but walking twenty minutes to work everyday has helped me tremendously. Go shopping, that requires walking. Whenever you get a chance, just walk. My personal rule in a high rise building, under 3 floors, take the stairs. Why take the elevator and wait the same amount of time for it to get to your floor, when you could have already walked there?
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Step 4
Your liquids: You may not realize it, but all the liquids you consume during the day will and do add to your weight gain. Just think before you have that second soda, do you need it? The average soda has over 100 calories in it. Why contribute to your 2500 daily calorie regimen with liquids? Wouldn't you rather be using that for foods? I know I do. For all those Diet soda lovers, just because your putting zero calories into your body doesn't mean your not putting weight into your body. Diet soda still bears weight, and drinking too much diet soda during the day is not healthy either.
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Step 5
Get in a pattern!!!! You find something healthy that you like to eat? Eat it everyday for a little while. I love pasta; I could eat it everyday, and I nearly do. If you like salad a lot, or fruits, eat those, and often. I love triple cheeseburgers, but why not eat an equivalent amount of pretzels, something that won't add as many calories? Find a daily pattern, and stick to it. It doesn't have to be Special K, but cereal in general is low in calories/fat; eat that often too.
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Step 6
Limit amount:
Which puts more weight on you: eating 2 pounds of oranges, or eating one quarter pounder, no cheese? Well, if I remember my greater/less than skills from elementary school, I know that .25<2. While a burger may not have the healthiest ingredients, if you're basing your decision purely on consumption, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE (not all the time), choose the tastier, smaller portion. Then next time, remember that you ate that burger, and eat the oranges, or whatever else it is you like. -
Step 7
Patience!!! This isn't like waiting to see the dentist, or waiting for 5:00 when work' s over. Weight loss takes time. I am a very impatient person, but repeating these steps over and over for a few weeks will produce results. Physical appearance does not always allude to weight loss. Look at the scale, a number won't lie.
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Step 8
Positivist's attitude: Everyone wants to quit after three days of the Atkins, or South Beach or whatever, because those diets make you modify your eating habits. It may take longer than you expect, but just think of your goal, OFTEN. Picture yourself how you want to look, and get excited. You can make your body look however you want; often times, it's just easier to get fatter than thinner. Remain positive, and take it ONE day at a time.
