Change Your Life, Change Your Food, And Lose Weight

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Most people don’t change their habits until they have to. And that includes eating habits. Changing your eating habits will change your life. It’s not that hard. Most important is to change your portions. If everyone kept a journal of everything they eat all day long and keep the journal for one month, I think you’d be shocked to see how much you consume.

You don’t have to fill up when you eat. The idea that you only eat twice or three times a day is obsolete. When you only eat twice a day, your body gets used to it. Your body expects you to fill up so you can get to the next meal, the problem is that you don’t burn up all that food and then your body stores the excess as fat and guest what, you trained your body to only use the food your eating as energy, so your body takes what it needs and has to store the rest.

After a few weeks of storing the excess, you’ve put on some weight. Start early with breakfast shortly after you wake. You have to start your metabolism every morning with food. The earlier you eat in the morning the more calories you’ll burn that day. Nothing big, but something like yogurt or a bowl of cereal, whole wheat toast and coffee or better juice, approx. 300 calories.

Now if you eat lunch at 12:00 or so, you’ll need something about 9:30, maybe fruit or yogurt, approx. 200 calories. Actually, lunch should be a big meal, bigger than dinner. This depends on your job. For active people, with a job that keeps you moving a big lunch might fit your lifestyle; remember to eat healthy, approx. 500 calories. This gives you all afternoon to work it off.

If you need something in the afternoon to make it to dinner, I usually eat something at about 4, approx.200 calories. I might have more fruit, but some people will eat something more substantial like half a sandwich. The important thing is not to eat snack food or candy or any junk food. That’s where dieters make a mistake. They eat small meals or skip meals to lose weight, then they have to snack and eat the wrong thing.

Anyone who cuts back on food to lose weight and then goes back to their regular diet will gain back the weight. Going back to your regular diet means returning to that portion size that originally put the weight on. Yes, it is about what you eat, but almost more important is how much you eat. You really don’t burn that many calories when you work out. You can’t burn off lunch with a 60-minute power walk. Small portions are the way to cut your food intake, which cuts the calorie intake. If you really want to lose weight permanently then change what you eat, change your portions, and get out of that three meal a day habit.

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