3 Tips To Stay On Track For Your Weight Loss Goals For 2023
Many of you are probably wondering how you’re going to hit your fitness, weight loss, or health related goals. You’ve heard of New Year’s Resolutions failing most of the time. If you’re interested in reading how to stick to your New Year’s Resolution goal, click the link HERE on the article I wrote.
In today’s blog, I’m going to show you 3 PRACTICAL ways how to make sure you sustain your new year’s resolution for the ENTIRE YEAR to finally get the results you want WITHOUT resorting to yo-yo dieting, starving yourself, or doing detoxes that will waste your time and $$$.
1.DON’T get rid of the foods you like.
This sounds simple but you’d be surprised how MANY people actually stop eating carbs, pasta, or anything they enjoy just for the sake of losing weight. BIG MISTAKE!
You can lose weight but the chances of you keeping off your weight loss in the long run is pretty low if you get rid of the foods you enjoy. A better strategy is to make sure it is just to reduce those portions that you enjoy.
Instead of having 2 cups of rice, just have one cup of rice. If you’re used to drinking a can of soda a day, cut back to one soda 3-4x a time a week.
That SIMPLE change will SAVE you hundreds of calories every single week. If you’re thinking which foods to cut out or reduce, I would reduce carbs or fats first BEFORE reducing protein. Rice, potatoes, oils, or even usual treats like cupcakes are usually the ones that I recommend to reduce first.
No need to reduce fruits or vegetables as they don’t have a lot of calories to begin with and they have a ton of nutrients, fiber that your body needs to get full without the added calories.
2. Eat more FRUITS and VEGETABLES the way you like to eat them.
Simple to say but not simple to do. This means you don’t have to eat a salad if you don’t want to. This means that whatever way you eat these fruits and vegetables, you need to find a way to make them enjoyable or else you won’t be happy eating them in the long term. This also means including the fruits and vegetables that you like.
There is no such thing as good or bad fruits or vegetables. All are good, just depends if you like them! If you have more of them it will help you get full faster which means less chances of overeating. This means for vegetables including them in your soups, baking them, saute, or even microwave them. For fruits, you can add them in your cereal, have them as smoothies, and just eat it by itself.
3.Don’t eat like an asshole on the weekends.
A lot of people reward themselves on the weekend because they deserve to “treat” themselves on the weekend only to eat back what they worked so hard to do on the weekdays.
Don’t be that person.
You can be that person that eats in moderation by NOT restricting yourself. By NOT eliminating the foods you actually like on the weekdays.
By being mindful of how much you eat and getting rid of the eat all you can eat mentality on the weekends.
What does moderation mean?
It means eating before you get full or eating when you’ve had just enough.
Foods that can easily make you feel are minimally processed, meaning you can tell a chicken is still chicken. An apple slice is still an apple vs applesauce.
Another thing is to NOT fall for gimmicks by doing detoxes, cleanses or anything that resembles that.
Not only are they a waste of money but they also don’t give you the long lasting results that you want. You can definitely drop a lot of weight with those tactics but the majority of the people that do them don’t keep the weight off. That is what you want right?
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