Good carbs, bad carbs, protein, nutrients...It can all get pretty heavy duty. Healthy eating facts abound and can get very confusing.
But today, let's step back and do something that is incredibly simple and is absolutely guaranteed to work and make us lose weight! It is truly one of the healthy eating facts and will help us eat nutritious meals every bit as much as the latest calorie charts!
Consider this, when was the last time you ordered a pizza or went through the drive through at the local fast food place?
Why? You are trying to lose weight, and you know those things are bad for you...so why did you do it?
Of course there will be exceptions, but for most of you - I venture to guess - that you ordered a pizza or went to the fast food place because you didn't have any good ideas on what to fix for dinner! And they offered an easy solution!
That may indeed be a fact, but not a healthy eating fact! True, after a hard day's work, the last thing we want to do is have to come up with an idea for a meal. It's even worse when you throw in the healthy, lose weight restrictions. (Tossing a frozen pizza in the oven is no better than having one delivered.)
Here's how to solve that problem...On your next day off (or whenever you can) set aside a couple hours and plan your dinner menu for each day in the coming week! Go two weeks if you are feeling ambitious.
Put each meal plan on a separate sheet of paper in a 3 ring binder. If you want to go all out, you can even separate the days with pretty, multicolored tabs.
Then, each evening when you get home, flip to that days' recipe and make it. Get in the habit of NEVER - under any circumstance - deviating.
This will stop you from having to worry about what to fix for dinner and will totally eliminate those last minute impulse buys from the local fast food place.
It may seem overly simple, but it works and it will save you quite a bit of money too!
If you were to hire a personal chef and gave them the task of fixing tasty, nutritious, low calorie, healthy meals, you wouldn't question it, you would just eat the meals. Think of your weekly meal plan as being prepared by your personal healthy eating chef. Don't change it during the week, just fix that meal every day.
Once you make this a habit, you will learn to truly value and depend on that little binder.
If you plan all your meals to be healthy ones, it MUST eventually improve your health. It has to!
Now, at the end of the week, do it again! Come up with seven NEW meal plans. By the end of the first month (4 weeks), you will have 28 recipes that you can call on.
Every dinner - for 28 days - will be unique (so you don't get sick of eating the same things over and over), tasty, nutritious, and low calorie. At this point, if you want to, you could stop your weekly planning and just continuously rotate your daily meal plans.
I think that's one of the best healthy eating facts out there, and it will help you save a bundle at the grocery store.
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