Healthy Living
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Craving a brownie? Eat (a small) one.
One of the biggest reasons
why most diets will fail before they even really
begin is that they lead most people to believe that they have to deprive
themselves of the foods they like and the lifestyle they enjoy. They also
require that a person forego their typical way of life and spend it
focused on
calories and on resisting millions of years of evolution.
The best way to begin changing habits is to do so in a way that does not make
you feel deprived. Keep the comfort foods, but eat smaller quantities by adding
some substitutes.
- Feeling deprived of the foods you like in the quantities you want is
the quickest way to watch yourself throw all hope overboard and binge out.
- Comfort foods – think small – are a great way to not feel deprived. Many comfort foods are actually reasonably healthy. Small doses take you a
long ways.
- Keep the notion of volume in mind. The more you eat of low “energy
dense” foods (like green vegetables), the more full you’ll feel and the less
deprived you’ll feel.
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Posted by MochaMama42 Mon Jul 7, 2008 9:20am PDT
I really like this suggestion.
I notice for me, I eat lighter as the day progesses, that way, I don't feel bloated or stuffed later in the day.
The best dieting advice I ever got was from my Grandmother, do did Weight Wathcers back in the 70's...
Everything in MODERATION!!! That really does work.
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Posted by Bellisima Tue Jul 8, 2008 5:29pm PDT
I like this saying I came accross one day. "Eat to live-not live to eat" :) It made me think back when. So I follow it. Hey if it works. right?
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