Whether you are the one holding the party, or you're the one who was invited- we are all eventually going to be at a BBQ this summer. Here are 11 Tips for Staying on Track while still having a blast this summer with your friends and family. 1. Don't Ignore the Problem.
Admit it. You'll want to eat the chips and then you'll want some soda. After that you'll be hungry for something more and a burger and hotdog hit the spot with your cold beer. You know it will happen. I know it will happen. Hiding your head in the sand and not making a game plan will not help you on your way to your weight loss goals. Start putting a simple game plan together now. 2. Salt. Sugar. Fat. You eat something salty, then you want something sweet, then you are hungry. Thanks to some really smart food engineers (ya those are real), the chemicals added to foods like Lay's Potato Chips or your can of soda, send signals to the brain telling them to eat more more more. Salt, sugar, and fat: those are what you need to watch out for and steer clear off. Don't start the cycle, but if you have eaten a handful of chips and are now wanting a Coke, choose water instead. Are you going to eat? Yes you are! But decide to eat wisely. Choose the best foods you have available and enjoy! 3. Sauces, Spices & Soda. Most sauces and spices are covered in sugar, mono-dyglerites and msg. A can of soda has more sugar than what an average adult should intake in a day. The processed meat you are eating more than likely will take a day or two just to digest. Now you have all the ingredients for constipation, fatigue, bloating, headaches, immune flare ups, yeast infections and more. Mmmmmm delicious. 4. It's not about what you eat. It's about why you eat it. You have to eat to live (like our name implies). A half of a bag of Lay's BBQ will not help you to live. It's eating to die. So ask yourself these questions: "What is this food going to do for me?" "Was made by a plant or IN a plant?" "Is there a healthier choice i could be eating instead right now?" Sometimes we have to put aside what we want now for who we want to become. 5. It's okay to eat. So eat! If you feed your body the exact same foods over and over, it will bore of it pretty quickly. Weight Loss plateaus are extremely frustrating and one way to avoid them is to let loose a little and enjoy that fire grilled burger or Kabob. We aren't machines. We are human. Sometimes in order to get out of a plateau, more perfection isn't what's required- but a shake up is! So if you've been on your A game for a while, it's okay to let loose and enjoy, just remember #4- It's not about what you eat. It's about why you eat it. 6. Eat before you leave. This is a classic. It’s also a classic no one follows. You prep and prepare the entire morning and then head to the party starving. Happens nearly every time doesn't it? So don’t allow it anymore. Eat and stuff yourself silly at home with your healthy food, then go to the party satiated. Don't fall into the trap of "it's too hard". That's a lie made to make you believe you are weak. It's not too hard. You are strong enough. Be disciplined but remember #5- It's okay to eat. So eat! 7. Bring your own Food. Another Classic that too few people do. Sure, it’s easier to just swing into Publix and grab pre-made potato salad and 2 bags of chips, but you’re not only making yourself sick, you're also paying $10 to do it. I rather pay $20 and feel good about myself. Or, rephrased, wouldn't it feel awesome to go have a great time out all day AND eat right? Think about how proud you're going to be of yourself. Not a good cook? Check out our recipes here if you are a Member. 8. Alcohol isn’t your friend. Not beer. Not a margarita. Not a strawberry daiquiri (although that would be the least of your concerns). Sugar mixed with alcohol creates fat. Plain and simple. Whole grains turn into sugar and sugar turns into fat. Beer is made from grain, beer causes weight gain. Better to take a shot of tequila than a can of beer. One or two drinks really do cause weight gain and inflammation. Stick with water and no regrets. Seriously, it's true, you don't need alcohol to have fun. (Plus it's way more fun to watch all the drunks when you aren't one of them!) Party on! 9. Life doesn’t revolve around food. I heard someone shout "oh yes it does!" People just head to the food table like cattle because there’s nothing else to say or do. You're told to bring food because what else are they gonna tell you to bring? You can buy a full sports net, volley ball and so much more for under $30 and now you're not only "the cool one" at the party- you're losing weight by burning calories too! Someone hand me a burger! So strike up a conversation, don’t just stand around holding a plate- have fun again socializing, which is why you’re there right? 10. Expect the Best but don’t expect perfection. Failure is part of the process. You have to go down the road of failure if you will ever end up with success. Don’t hold yourself to impossible standards like perfect eating; it takes months and months, if not years, to develop and keep clean eating habits and still never reach perfection. So if you are new to this, give yourself more credit. The fact that you are reading this says you are trying. You're doing better than the majority! 11. Don’t blow it all because of one mistake. You said you wouldn’t have any more brownies but you just keep going back and getting another nibble, another piece, and then you say… “Screw it! I already messed up, mid as well…” and you eat more and more until you feel so guilty you want to puke. Don’t fall into that trap darling, you’ve worked too damn hard and too damn long to let something like one mess up make you go back and re-work for all of it. If you get a flat tire, you fix it. You don’t stab the other 3 tires. Address it and keep moving forward. Mistakes are part of it. Remember why you’re doing this. Eating bad foods isn’t a reward, it’s a punishment. If it were easy, everyone would do it. But it isn’t easy and you have to be strong while accepting your own failures as a way forward to success.
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Sitting down to a fine meal or a quick "Let's do lunch sometime" isn't as easy for everyone has you'd like to think. While Johnny and Jane are pouring over the menu deciding on stuffed rigatoni or the chicken salad sandwich, someone else is staring at their 4 options of salads. If you're trying to lose weight, eating out can be daunting, and generally, we go in accepting defeat with excuses like, "Oh it's only once in a while" or "I've been pretty good, it can't hurt that much." But let me rephrase those to you how I hear them: I'm only poisoning myself a little bit" Look, only YOU are in control of what you put into your mouth, which means, only you can be responsible for it. Good or bad. So the 1st step is to own it. Own all of it. Good or bad. If you screw up, don't spend a day wallowing in guilt. Nor should you allow one mess up to evolve into a sugar/fat party. You know what I'm talking about there. Don't tell me you haven't delved into the Nutella with a spoon and eaten gobs. Don't tell me you haven't eaten entire bags of chips or oreos. We all have. So own it. And don't forget to own the good stuff too. When you go out to eat with friends and family, it makes it very hard to stay on track. So before you pick anything on the menu, here are 4 ways you can eat like a normal person and still actually enjoy yourself. (and there's not a single mention of salad!) Then, fully equipped with knowledge, you can make the best informed choice and own it. "What can I get you to drink?" "Water with lemon please." Every time. 1. Drinking a glass of water before a meal helps you to digest your future meal more easily. 2. Adding lemon to the restaurant's tap water actually changes the pH levels, helping to bring yours up. 3. Drinking a glass of water before a meal helps you to get fuller sooner. 4. More water also fights off any inflammation and swelling that will undoubtedly happen from eating restaurant food. WHAT you order matters, but not in the way you think it does. Here are the Top 3 items you need to make sure you're not eating, or eating too much of.For some ungodly reason, everything is always dripping in oil at restaurants. If you served food that greasy and oily at home, no one would even eat it. Yet, somehow, when we pay for it, we don't mind our broccoli swimming in a bit of grease and "spices". Ordering Meat? Order it with "no oil". believe me, you'll be shocked at how oily it still is for not having any but most importantly, you'll feel better without the 1/2 cup of grease! Eat2Live does NOT recommend eating iodized salt (table salt). We DO recommend eating sea salt or other real salt, untarnished by bleaching or other chemicals. But guess what? Your restaurant doesn't care. Everything you order can be expected to be salt laden. When ordering your food, "no salt please" is an easy request. The devil is always in the details. Maybe that's why a typical salad at McDonalds is just as fattening as a burger. Sauces and Spices cause the most harm to Auto Immune disorder patients and can not only make you retain fluids, but they can cause inflammation of all kinds. Ordering your meal, "Can I have the sauce on the side please?" Great start. Now YOU are in control of what you eat again. Don't feel weird about ordering more specifically, instead feel proud of yourself. As always, your goal is to eat from the ground up, not from a factory.
The World Health Organizations recommendation on sugar intake is 5 percent of your daily calorie intake. For an adult of a normal body mass index (BMI), that works out to about 6 teaspoons -- or 25 grams -- of sugar per day.I know what you're thinking
What about all those studies showing yogurt has helpful bacteria? What about the stories I read about it having pre-biotics to help my stomach? Isn't that what Activia is for? Why would my doctor tell me to eat it if it's not good for me? Are you suggesting that all the scientific studies are wrong?
Just Calm Down There Big Shot
When studies are conducted on yogurt, they are not conducted using Yoplait yogurt or Dannon's. The studies are conducted on pure, unrefined yogurt. Not the stuff you buy at the store. Real yogurt tastes bitter, is thick and goes bad in a matter of days. It is unmarketable to the public (generally speaking).
It IS good for you, but you'd never to eat it, it wouldn't be able to be widely sold because it would go sour too quickly. Both manufacturers and stores would lose profit. Then somebody got an awful idea, a wonderfully awful idea...
(what i picture in my minds eye)
In some all white standard office sits a table of three. The boss, the employees, and a flow chart across the room showing nothing but red. After the silence became too deafening to bare, poor, thin Charlie clears his throat and speaks up to the stone faced man who's his employer. "Hey Mr. Bossman... what if... this is just an idea here I'm floating out there.. just setting it's sails... what if we added a massive amount of sugar to the yogurt and artificial chemicals to preserve it? It could last for weeks!" "Charles, damn you, that's a brilliant idea! But how will we market it?" "Well, Sir, Stanley and I here... umm.. we figured since it WAS yogurt, we could market it as a health food, and, you know, the studies should back us." "Get Mason on the phone, we have some work to do.." QUICK TEST! HOW MUCH SUGAR SHOULD YOU EAT IN A DAY?
You Shouldn't be eating more than 25g of sugar a day, or about 5% of your caloric intake.
Keep that in mind while we browse the yogurt section together. Okay so let's listen to Dr.White Coat and buy some yogurt.But what I find in the store is a little different than the ad I saw...
I'm no rocket scientist, but if the max is 25g for an adult, then it should be about half that for a child right? Looks like our kids are getting their entire day's serving of sugar in one overpriced pouch of "yogurt". Maybe the more expensive fancy stuff is better?
Okay Dr. White Coat, tell me again why I should be eating this stuff? Oh.... for the pro-biotic (or pre-biotic) benefits right?
Great. Let's get into it then shall we? Bacteria is alive. Meaning, it can die.
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