- Add just one additional fruit or vegetable serving daily until you’re comfortable with this trend. Once you’re comfortable with this, add another until you’ve reached eight to ten per day.
- Start the day off right by eating a large, healthy breakfast. This will help you eat fewer total calories throughout the rest of the day.
- Make sure your plate is half veggies and/or fruit at both lunch and dinner.
- If you eat out, try taking your order and immediately boxing half of it for later. A typical restaurant meal will contain between 1,000 – 2,000 calories!
- When serving your food, use a salad plate rather than a regular plate. This will help you keep your portions smaller without looking like you’re plate is empty and you’re starving yourself.
- Eat the low calorie and healthy items on your plate first, then move your way to the higher calorie items and items with more starch. That way you’ll get full more quickly and eat less of the items that will add the pounds.
- Instead of whole milk, switch to 1% milk, studies show if you drink one 8oz glass a day, by switching you will automatically lose 5lb’s in a year.
- Juice can have as many calories as a soda or carbonated beverage, so help yourself by limiting your juice intake, and cutting the juice you do have by adding water to it.
- Non-creamy soups tend to have less fat, and are still filling. By eating more soup you will still be satisfied and not have the high calorie intake.
- Take your lunch to work! This will help you monitor your food intake.
- Need a pick me up in the afternoons? Try a V8 juice instead of a coke or other caffeinated drink.
- Try not to snack on nuts. While they are healthy, they can be high in calorie counts, and snacking on a few a day can really add up.
- Try eating before you go to any parties or dinners. This will keep the snacking and unhealthy food to a minimum.
- Try eating more fruit. This will help cut back on your craving for sugar, and your sweet tooth!
- Try these smart little sweets: sugar-free hot cocoa, frozen red grapes, fudgsicles, sugar-free gum, Nutri-Grain chocolate fudge twists, Tootsie Rolls, and hard candy
- Brush your teeth right after dinner. It will help you not have an immediate after dinner snack.
- Can’t get a V8 in the afternoon when you have a sluggish moment? Try yogurt instead.
- Make sure you keep hydrated while exorcising. Waiting until you’re thirsty is only a sign that you’re already dehydrated. Drink 8-16 ounces of water two hours before working out, and keep drinking 4-8 ounces every 20 minutes during a workout.
- Instead of music while working out, which can make you “sprint” rather than hang in there for the duration, try a book on CD for your iPod. It will help take your mind off your exorcising, and still give you something to look forward to tomorrow.
- Water, water, water. Being dehydrated actually can slow your metabolism. By making sure that you sip water throughout the day you are making sure to keep your metabolism up.
