Win With Your Diet
It's pretty common to get all excited about starting your brand new diet and be in a high motivational state as you are eager to get going.
A new diet is an exciting thing to be getting started on because not only does it offer you the promise of losing some of that excess weight you want to be rid of, but it also makes you feel good for having taken action to get your life back on track health-wise.
Naturally, you want to succeed in reaching a goal you have set for yourself, so how do you go about increasing your chances of winning?
Review Before You Buy
The first thing you should have done before even getting started is to have reviewed your new diet program to make sure you were completely informed about what it entailed and all its good and bad points from a variety of different perspectives.
That would include viewpoints from other dieters who succeeded or didn't succeed with the same program, expert advice from nutritionists and doctors and other medical experts who perhaps endorse the program.
Sure, that would mean a lot of reading, but it is always worth doing that bit extra to ensure you are doing the right thing to fulfill your own needs.
Assuming you did your due diligence, reviewed and analyzed the diet and are satisfied this is the right choice of program for your personal needs, tastes and circumstances in life, then you need to maximize its effectiveness any way you can.
Be Effective
Of course, a diet is only as good as the person who is doing it and as long as it is a good match for their needs. if it is, then the effectiveness will come from the dieter and not from the program! So make yourself effective!
You do that by first of all making sure you have no foods or drinks in your home that could derail your diet in a moment of temptation. get rid of all cakes, cookies, snacks and anything else you think might trip you up and just keep the foods that are on the program's list. Once you place temptation well and truly out of your way, you can get down to some other helpful tricks.
Drink Water
this may sound like a silly, almost trivial thing but drinking lots of plain water throughout the day is a very good way of boosting your body's digestive system and maximizing the way in which you process the food you eat.
It also helps to drink a glass of water before each meal because that will help you to feel full quicker and for longer afterwards. That will stave off any hunger pangs before your next meal is due (and the resulting temptation to snack).
Often when we think we are feeling hunger, we are actually feeling thirsty, so drinking water satisfies this feeling and avoids any chance of unnecessary eating!
Brush Your Teeth Early
This is a great trick because it uses the psychology of your eating processes to stop you eating earlier than usual and that cuts out the temptation to have a late night snack before going to bed.
Also, the taste of toothpaste often makes food taste terrible, so you simply don't feel like eating!
You can win with your diet in a number of ways. Like taking some daily exercise to help boost your metabolism and burn more of the calories that you are consuming while toning up flabby muscles and helping to get yoruself into good shape as well.
It's all about feeling good and when you exercise, stay well hydrated and know you are not going to succumb to temptation, you just know you're going to feel great and win!
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Posted on Mon, 27 Aug 2012 in Diet | 0 Comments