Archive for October, 2008
Easy tips for keeping a healthy diet
First of all, do not diet on the weekends. This is perhaps an unconventional bit of advice. However, I was able to lose 50 pounds without dieting on the weekends. I discovered that I feel tired, depressed, and unmotivated if I wanted to follow my diet into the weekend. I had the impression that Friday and Saturday (my weekend) should be a time to celebrate 5 days of dieting. At the beginning, you may not find this necessary, usually in the first several weeks of a diet. Nevertheless, as many weeks passed, the weekends became a time for me to celebrate my weekly successes and I used them to get myself mentally ready for another five days of dieting. I considered it as a sort of a mental recharge.
Another important thing is to not sacrifice your life for the sake of diet. In some cases you may find yourself unable to eat healthy. Sometimes this will happen because of lunches with your team at work, birthdays, or special occasions, there will be some events that you simply can’t (or don’t want to) eat healthy. A diet will make you feel overwhelmed if you will be forced to sacrifice special events in your life. The way I dealt with this was to exchange a day that I was not going to diet on the weekend. To put it simply, if I didn’t diet on Tuesday, for instance, I would diet on Saturday, instead.