8 Summer Dieting Tips
Summer is coming up and everyone wants to look good for swim suit season. Here are 8 easy tips to lose that unwanted weight you may have gained over the winter that can be incorporated into your everyday routine:
1) Be Open Minded
You may want to try new foods that can incorporate healthier aspects into your diet. This could include eating more fruits and vegetables along with some leaner meats. Also, you may need to put down some of the foods that you have grown accustomed to eating that may include some of the things that you want to avoid. This can help you incorporate some of the other steps into your daily routine and allow you to be able to have an easier diet experience.
2) Drink, Drink, Drink
It has been proven that if you drink a lot of water your body will be able to cleanse its self of all waste and unwanted vitamins and minerals. Also, water works in your body as a solvent to help break down vitamins and minerals. A rule of thumb is that you should drink two-thirds of an ounce per pound of body weight a day. Therefore if you weigh 120 pounds you should drink 80 oz of water a day.
3) Watch Your Fat Intake
It has been proven that the fattier your diet is the more likely you are to gain weight and not have a successful time loosing the desired weight. Tests have proven that a person should not consume any more than 25 percent of their diet form fats and these fats should come from non-saturated fats.
4) Fiber Works Wonders
By increasing your fiber intake you can help suppress your hunger. The fibrous foods are more filling and cause you to eat less. It is recommended that you eat more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to achieve this tip.
5) Don’t Be Too Sweet
Sugar has been associated with an increase calorie consumption. The sugar its self is not as bad for you as what the increased amounts of fat are. However, it can lead to you wanting to eat more do to the crave that you develop something that is sweet. Therefore, the crave that develops can cause you to want to eat more incorporating into your diet.
6) Portion Control
Don’t only look at what you are eating but the amount as well. If you are eating healthy but you are eating huge amounts you may be defeating the purpose of eating healthy to begin with. Limit the amounts that you are eating to smaller portions. Also, it’s not bad to eat some things that may not be in your diet. However, you have to control yourself and not allow yourself to eat large quantities of those foods.
7) Don’t Pull The Trigger
Try to avoid trigger foods. These are foods that once you begin to eat them you find it hard to stop. For a lot of people these kinds of foods include potato chips, nuts, and anything that is real salty or sweet. These foods can put a huge roadblock on your diet if you find yourself eating them a lot.
8) Reward Yourself
If you have a good week and exceed your goal for the week allow yourself to have a little reward whether it is ice cream or a piece of your favorite cake. Just remember as mentioned before, do not allow yourself to binge eat and consume a lot of whatever the reward may be.
These tips can be really helpful and easy to follow to be able to shed off the unwanted pounds. Many of these tips can be followed and incorporated into your everyday life and give you a jumpstart to your weight loss goals. Just follow these 8 tips and you will be hitting the beaches in no time having one hot body.
22 pounds lost in one month
It’s been a month since I started this diet blog, and in the last 30 days I’ve lost 22 pounds. That’s not bad since I haven’t exercised one second (shame on me!) and that’s an average of 5.5 lbs per week. I haven’t posted a lot (or as much as I should have) on this blog about what I’ve been doing, but the post I HAVE made to indicate the framework.
I wrote a diet plan (that included a meal plan), a found healthy recipes to use, I replaced junk food with healthy snacks, and I found a better sugar free substitute. I’ve been trying to cut down how much pop I drink, and I think I’ve done that by about half maybe. Now I drink 2 – 20 oz diet pops per day, and I was up to 2+ 2 liters per day or more.
I cut down the amount of red meat I eat by 80-90%, I have no cookies or snacks in the house, and only occasional “sugar free” snacks. Mostly I snack on cucumber, grapes, strawberries, bananas, occasional sugar free ice cream bars or fudgesicles, a few pretzels, sugar free kool-aid or lemonade, and that’s about it.
Each morning I have granola cereal (sometimes with fruit), I drink a few cups of water everyday, and I’ve replaced some things with healthier alternatives (like regular pasta for wheat pasta).
I’ve gone from a size 44 inch waist, to just about 41 inches now, I just barely too big for the size 40 pants in my closet. I anticipate that the next part will be much harder, because the first month and first bit of weight are ALWAYS the easiest to get off. It’s water weight and the initial garbage in your body from eating bad. After 15-20 lbs EVERYONE I’ve ever known hits a wall where they don’t lose as much and it takes seemingly forever to get past that hurdle!
The most I ever weighed was like 308 I think, and the lowest I’ve been down to (that I can remember) in the last say 15 years is in the mid 250′s range. At that time I was able to get comfortably into size 40 pants (I know – I still have them, it was just a year ago). But I’ve never gotten down to bottom 250′s – or actually 250 itself. My goal this month is to (somehow) get down to 250 lbs.
That’s only 10 lbs in one month, the goal is half of last month! I may have to just break out the exercise equipment for this one. That’s probably going to be my next post!
What to Expect from this Diet Blog
Hi – my name is John and I’ll be your host for this diet blogging journey. It ought to be quite interesting, because I’m not very good at dieting at all. I’m great at eating, and I love to cook…maybe that’s the problem! Honestly, being heavy is a problem, and I know that I’m not alone in this area. I’m a 39 year old male, I’m about 5′ 11″ and I weigh 272lbs. My belt and pants size is 44 and I don’t really get any exercise. 5 years ago I was told I had type II diabetes, and I stopped eating sugar then (for the most part). I don’t eat candy anymore, I do eat light sugared cereal and an occasional cookie.
I don’t have to take any pills or insulin, but if I went to the doctor I know he’d probably put my on something. I’m addicted to caffeine and I drink diet pepsi constantly all day long. I do drink a few bottles of water on weekdays at work, but many days I drink a can of pop on the way to work, another for lunch, and yet another on the way home.
I used to smoke, but I don’t anymore. Other than a 3 month jaunt last year, I’ve been off the Marlboro’s now for about 3 years. I smoked a pack a day or more for about 9 years I think. Why do I want to lose weight? It’s not as much about the “wanting” to lose weight as it is the “having” to lose weight. My wife and I have 3 kids, and two them are 17 and 18. But we also have a 2 year old as well, and he’s giving us a run for our money. I want to be able to do things with him and be active, in addition to the fact that I’m at a pretty ripe age for heart attack anyway.
My wife says that if I weren’t as active as I was I’d be 500 lbs. I don’t think I’m that active at all. I spend 95% of my time online blogging and building web sites. I sit at a computer all day working on web sites for my day job. I go from my bed, to my car, to my work desk, to my car, to my couch (and my laptop) back to my bed most every day. Once a week I mow the lawn and every 10 days or so I pull some weeds in the garden or clean the garage. I lead a pretty sedentary life. I have a back condition, but being heavy just makes it worse.
Learning to lose weight and keep it off is a change in lifestyle you have to maintain for the long haul. The lowest I’ve gotten down to in the last 10-15 years is probably about 250 lbs, and that got me into size 38 jeans. I just read the other day that the average American waistline is 39 inches for males and 37 inches for females, and currently I’ve 5 inches over that. I guess my first goal would be to lose 30 lbs and get back to that size 38. My body felt so much better then.
What can you expect from this diet blog? The good, bad, and the ugly – all my problems and trials and tribulations losing weight, and all the crazy stuff I’ll try to get where I need to be. Keep reading, there’s lot more to come!
