The Two Changeless Pillars of Healthy Weight Loss: Sensible Diet and Regular Exercise – Part 1
Anyone who has tried to lose weight can probably vouch for the fact that trying to lose weight is a true test of character. For someone who wants to lose weight safely and permanently, must come to grips with the fact of two rock solid truths.
Eat right and Exercise.
You simply cannot divorce the one from the other. Oh, how I wish there were some way around it but the fact remains we must change some things, namely: what and how we eat and add regular exercise/activity.
Let’s take on one of these “pillars” of a healthy lifestyle (notice I didn’t say “diet”?)
Facing facts, we cannot continue to eat brownies and large chocolate shakes, bagels and lattes and top the day off with a dessert of cheesecake and a triple mocha. Oh, I know you had a tuna salad on wheat bun and a fruit cocktail for lunch and a heaping plate of fish and chips for dinner – oh, yes, and the coleslaw.
Just writing that made me gain a pound! Phew! OK, so most of us know we need to change the eating habits. Away with the sugar; in with the sugar free!
Ummm… Hate to break it to you but using sugar free anything isn’t getting to the crux of the problem. The problem being undisciplined eating habits. Sooner of later, my friend, you must let those yummies go. Oh, not forever. There is nothing wrong with a dessert every now and then – just don’t justify your every now and then to be every night…and coffee break and …
The idea is to have a healthful sensible diet MOST of the time. A good breakfast of some kind of protein, cereal or bread/muffin and some fruit. A light mid morning snack of half a bagel and cream cheese. Lunch of creamy chicken vegetable soup with cucumber and onion slices in rice wine vinegar. Around 3 o’clock a cheese sticks with fruit juice. Then dinner of a sauted chicken breast or lean beef steak, steamed broccoli with butter (yes!) and a good sized salad with vinaigrette. You Go!
And…why not have a brownie – one brownie on Monday night or what ever night you choose. Just not every night and every break and every in between.
It’s time we stop acting like a kid who has constant access to the cookie jar. It’s time to say, ‘no, save room for dinner’, to ourselves. Deal?
Hey, next time I want to take on the weight loss twin sister – regular exercise!