Losing weight is always been a struggle to me because I had to prioritized other’s needs over mine … and every year when I write my plans, there is always something about health and losing weight but I never stick on plan or committed for long period of time.
I paid lots of money, I hired a dietitian who designed a plan just fit for me and she used to follow up with me everyday… I learned some technique and how to make healthy foods and snacks and I still keep all her recipes, I signed up in very beautiful gyms with personal coaches which send for me weekly schedules with different fitness program but always commitment missing from my side.
This year I decided to make simple changes in my habits … nothing big, nothing fancy , simple baby steps only and when I was serving the net I came across one article that has useful tips that I want to share with you some of the ideas that I will add on my daily routine and hope it will work.
- Portion control. Eat whatever you want—but half. Start by portioning half on plate. If you want more, then get it.
- Eliminating low-nutrition white food from your diet, Like white sugar, white flour, white rice, and so on. You don’t need to start with 100 percent elimination just try to make conscious effort to ensure whatever you purchase doesn’t contain any sneaky sugars or flours or anything that is no good for you.
- Healthy snacking. If you snacked on junk. Chips, cookies, chocolate, candies. all of that should be ended this year, and If you feel like you want to snack, you have a piece of fruit , it is a great source of fiber, vitamins, and minerals. If not fruit then you can snack on nuts, which have great fats and will satisfy you. Or maybe a whole-grain cracker with a piece of cheese.
- Getting better sleep. make a conscious effort to sleep at least eight hours … for me I need eight hours, some people need more or less.
- Intermittent fasting . You can began with 12 hours of fasting. Eat your last meal , you’re still digesting for a few hours, you go to bed and sleep, you get up, and it’s time to eat. No big deal. Then, progressively, you can go up to 16 hours fasting, eight hours eating. Eight hours is a lot for eating, especially if you’re making a conscious effort to eat the right foods with the right nutrition Have enough fiber, carbs, protein, and good fats and you will be okay. You will not be hungry and then you’ll spend at least half of the 16 hours of fasting asleep. As for the rest of the time, it’s not that hard to power through a little bit of hunger.
So that’s it— hope it will be helpful.