Some helpful hints for eating right:
1) You will need to eat 6 meals a day (every 2.5 to 3.5 hours) this will speed up your metabolism. The meals will be 1 portion of protien, one portion of carbs and some vegetables or fruit. Keep the portion small especially at dinner time (where we tend to eat HUGE).
2) The meals will need to be balance. This means a balance of protien complex carbs and healthy fat.
3) Get rid of all pop (diet too) chips, chocolate and any other “junk food from your house. This will require cooperation from your family. If it is in the house you will eat it!
4) Drink a very large (12 ounces) glass of water before each of your six meals. This will fill your stomach up slightly and you won’t binge at meal time as much.
5) Alcohol is off limits except in item 6
6) You are aloud one cheat day a week. Pick the day when you know you will not be able to stick to your diet. (when you are having company, are away from home, etc.) This is done to tell your body that you are not starving and may speed up the metabolism.
7) If you are getting hungry between meals drink green tea (you may have to get a taste for it). This will keep your mouth busy so you don’t snack and green tea has huge amounts of anti oxidents (good) and speeds up metaboism.
8) The last meal of the day before bed whould be void of carbs. I recommend 30 grams of protien (casiens slow digesting) mixed with water, a glass of milk or some cottage cheese (all these are slow disgesting protiens).
9) Eat 30-40 grams of protien at each meal. This is difficult so eat lots of eggs, meat (chicken breast, sirloin steak, round steak), fat free cottage cheese, etc.
10) Keep portions small. I use a ziploc container to ensure I am not eating too much.
11) Avoid drinking anything but water and green tea. Pop, juice, etc. all has calories and you don’t want calories unless they come from healthy food.
12) Make your dinners very large and then put some of it in ziplock containers for tomorrows lunches. Portion it up before you eat it so you don’t over eat.
13) PLAN AHEAD - when you wake up in the morning late for work you do not have time to pack 3 lunches. If this happens you will eat out. It is almost impossible to eat healthy out. Make up your lunches for the next day at least the night before or earlier. If you fail to plan you plan to fail.
Good luck.
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