Best Diet Tips
Weight loss is always hard, more so for some of us than others. And researchers are finding in terms of effort, it is better to be the spouse of a dieter than the dieter themselves. Granted, you won’t lose as much weight. But apparently the significant other of a dieter tends to lose an average of about 5 pounds per year without actually trying. However, one woman lost about 14 pounds while her husband lost 35.
But whether you’re the dieter or the spouse, it isn’t actually so hard to lose weight, even with the busy schedule and hectic lifestyles so many of us have. While living with a dieter is nice, it doesn’t have to stop there. After all, if you want to lose weight, chances are you want to lose more than 5 pounds over a year’s space of time. So follow the next few steps to boost your results.
Check out the ingredients
In 2008, the USDA found that consumers in general tend to read labels less today than they used to 10 years ago. Some also end up extremely confused when a tiny 8oz bottle of orange juice calls itself 2.5 servings. One Tanya Zuckerbrot MS, RD claims that “labels can lie.” If you watch out for things like artificial sweetener and MSG(though MSG is not listed as MSG on your packaging label), you can turn toward healthier options. An easy way to determine this, turn away from any packaged foods whose first 4 listed ingredients you don’t recognize.
Mess with your sleep a little
The standard recognized job tends to require 9 to 5, and likewise we treat our weight loss like a 9 to 5 job. Once we’re off the job, we do whatever we want, eat whatever we want. Studies have shown that in Saturday mornings through Sunday nights, people tend to add up to 9 pound weight gain each year due to larger consumption rates.
Cook a little
If you cook more at home, you have a better idea of what’s going into it. So you have a harder time ignoring that entire cube of butter you put in a one person dish. You can cook before hand and take it to work with you. If you sit down to lunch on the other hand at a restaurant, you are likely to eat 184 more calories or 227 extra calories for fast food. So cook at home occasionally.
Reward Yourself
While you probably don’t want to reward yourself with say a large piece of chocolate cake, you can reward yourself when you do well, when you reach certain preset goals. So it’s not a matter of well I didn’t eat any sugar today, so right before I go to bed I’m going to drink a soda. It’s more like once I lose 10 pounds, I can buy myself that CD I really want or once I get down to this size in pants, I can go buy a new outfit, things like that. Celebrity Fit Club has also used incentives such as manicures, earmarks for charity, etc.
