How to Get Back to Healthy Eating After Overindulging
It's distressingly common that a healthy diet will seem completely satisfying (or at least doable) until some sort of interruption comes along. Then, after a holiday or trip, you feel like your diet is ruined, and you don't want to give up your favorite foods all over again. If healthy eating is important to you, the attempt to get back to healthy eating after overindulging should be just as important. Luckily, it's doable. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Recommit to healthy eating. Realize that although mistakes were made, you have all the same reasons that you did before to value healthy eating.
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Start right away. It's always easier to think you will get back to healthy eating after overindulging as long as you can do it next week, but next week it will seem just as hard as it does today. If you absolutely can't bring yourself to start eating healthy right away, set a firm date to return to your plan.
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Make sure you have plenty of healthy food options that satisfy your cravings. For example, if you've got a sweet tooth, try to keep fruit in the house. Doing this will help you feel less deprived as you start to get back to healthy eating after overindulging.
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Consider a diet plan that includes the occasional indulgence. For example, if you allow yourself to eat any treat you want on holidays, or even once a week, realizing that this has happened won't make you feel that you have failed at healthy eating. Maybe it would be better to eat healthy food all the time, but the important thing is to make a constant effort and not become discouraged.
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Maintain a positive attitude. Beating yourself up about what you've already done is unlikely to help anything. If you have trouble staying positive, remind yourself that you got back on your diet plan when it was tough, and you are now facing the challenges of healthy eating fair and square.
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Tips & Warnings
If you think you'll be in a situation that will tempt you to overindulge again, for example an upcoming holiday season or vacation, try to make a plan ahead of time about what indulgences you will allow and how you will stay healthy during this time.
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sunnymommy
Feb 06, 2011
I have been a food junkie all my life, but I discovered this dietplan that takes care of all of my problems; it's called the up-day down-day diet, basically you get to eat normally one day, the second day you don't eat more than 500 kcals. No problem to not eat "bad" things for one day (I usually drink very much low-cal that "down" day, eat lots of raw vegetables, one day you can do that!, I know I will be able to have the things I love tomorrow. I am now holding my weight around 60 kg at 170 cm height, perfect for my age(56), and my bones and joints thank me. You can find that dietplan "The up-day down-day Diet"on the internet, many of my friends are real successful with it. Now that I have my desired weight, as soon as I put on a kg or two, I go back on that plan, and within one or two weeks I am back in shape -
sianze
Jan 17, 2011
Do remember your teeth when you focuse on eating healthy.
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ironmanpalooza
Jan 04, 2011
Good article after the holiday season!
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tomhirt
Dec 19, 2010
I would question why folks allow themselves say it's ok to have the occasional indulgence. No, make the decision to do something, or don't! There are plenty of options to remain true to your new lifestyle change and not parcipitate in the indulgence of others. My number one tip is to eat clean before you go events where you know crap will be served. How about if we avoid putting on extra pounds to begin with?! You have now set yourself up to lose pounds and land on your feet running in the new year. And continue this thinking the rest of the year.
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How to Lose Weight Fast
Dec 13, 2010
Good article with nice information on weight loss. I am also agree with you that to lose weight we should have patience and should have positive attitude. It helps us to motivate.
