03/05/2008 13:21
Weight Loss Wisdom
I found this great article with some really good advice about losing weight. Here are some excerpts and the link:
- To help make eating automatic, pick at least one meal a day to alter and have the same foods every day for all other meals.
- Eat throughout the day so that you're constantly satisfied. The less you eat, the more likely you are to sink into starvation mode and make your body want to store fat.
- Keep on hand emergency foods and items that can help you kill cravings, like V8, carrot sticks, an apple, or even Listerine breath strips.
- Walk thirty minutes a day every day. No excuses. Then call your support partner after you do it.
- Get seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Lack of sleep promotes hedonistic eating as you search for something to boost chemicals in your brain. Your brain needs sleep to regenerate these chemicals, and sugary foods help release the diminished supply of chemicals you have, to make up for the lack of sleep.
- Play video games. Keeping your hands full keeps them off the coconut muffins.
- Have healthy, safe, monogamous sex. Satisfying one appetite center of your brain can help satisfy another.
- Measure your waist. Ideal is 32 1/2 inches or less for women, and 35 inches or less for men.
- Ask your family what your parents and grandparents looked like when they were eighteen, to give you a sense of what your ideal body should look like.
I thought these suggestions were great. There are lots more at that link, so go read it if you have a few minutes! I loved the video game suggestion. I play video games all the time. The only problem I see with that though is if you're really into video games, you don't want to stop for a healthy meal so you end up just having snack foods instead, that could be bad. I guess everything should be in moderation.
I liked the sex suggestion too. Haha. More sex is always good. ;)