Congratulations! You set a goal to lose weight and you are working toward achieving it. The feeling you’ll get when you reached your goal weight…PRICELESS.
Here are some priceless ways to help you stay on track to lose weight and keep it off.
1. Make Water Your New Best Friend
Drinking enough water is essential to your health. Water should be your new best friend. Like a good best friend, water will always compliment you and allow you to get things out your system. Drinking the proper amount of water daily will not only help you flush your system on a regular basis it will also help keep you hydrated during the day and assist with muscle recovery after strenuous workouts. Did I mention the glowing affect it can have on your skin?
2. Portion Control
Portion control doesn’t mean deprivation. Instead maybe think to yourself, have some now… have some later. By putting the proper portion on your plate now and telling yourself if you want more you can have more later you will be in a much better position to make good portion control decisions. Plus, if you brought water, your new best friend along and had a glass before your meal, odds are you returning to get more food at a later time is less likely.
At home: Reduce the size of your plates to reduce the size of your portions and the size of your body.
Dining out. Either have a share buddy or if you do not have a share buddy ask the person taking your order to wrap half the order before you begin eating. Save it for your next meal.
3. Find Healthy Ways to Reward Yourself with a Treat
While losing weight and when you’ve lost your weight properly as you can do with the WeightLossVillage online weight loss program you learned that treating yourself in the process is a necessity; however, it’s what you treat yourself with that makes the difference on your journey to reaching and maintaining your ideal weight successfully.
Learn to modify your old treats. For instance, instead of downing a chocolate bar and having the guilt afterward, slice a banana and sprinkle a small handful of semi-dark chocolate over it. You will have the same satisfaction with health benefits and without the guilt. Finding healthy treats that don’t feel like punishment will be a major key to your success.
4. Avoid Getting Bored with Your Menu
When being mindful of what you eat, losing weight and maintaining your weight it can be easy to get caught up in the monotony of meal planning. Using an online meal plan program such as WeightLossVillage.com with memberships starting at just $3.95/week can be helpful, quick and an easy way to plan a variety of meals.
WeightLossVillage SAMPLE MENU - 1300 Calorie Low Carb Italian Menu
| Food | Srvgs | Measure | Cals | Prot | Carbs | Fats | ||
| Asparagus/ Fresh – Boiled | 0.50 | cup | 22.00 | 2.30 | 3.80 | 0.30 | Edit Exchange Delete |
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| Cheese, mozzarella, part skim milk | 1.00 | 1 oz | 71.12 | 6.79 | 0.78 | 4.46 | Edit Exchange Delete |
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| Chicken Breast / White Meat | 4.00 | ounce(s) | 124.00 | 26.00 | 0.00 | 1.60 | Edit Exchange Delete |
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| Salad – Sm. garden w/tomato, onion | 1.00 | small | 49.00 | 1.30 | 9.50 | 0.40 | Edit Exchange Delete |
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| Salad dressing, Italian dressing, reduced fat | 1.00 | 1 tablespoon | 11.25 | 0.07 | 0.69 | 0.96 | Edit Exchange Delete |
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| Sauce, pasta, spaghetti/marinara, ready-to-serve | 1.00 | 0.5 cup | 108.75 | 2.22 | 17.20 | 3.36 | Edit Exchange Delete |
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| Totals for Meal | 386.12 | 38.69 | 31.96 | 11.08 | ||||
| Totals for Day | 1344.36 | 104.02 | 143.69 | 41.32 | ||||
Replace the temptation. With an online meal plan membership you can plan your menus. Have the needed ingredients on hand and you’ll be less likely to give into poor eating temptations.
Snacks: Carry portion size healthy snacks with you to replace the urge to eat unhealthy, fattening snacks.
At the restaurant: Know what you want to order and how you want it prepared. Ask the person taking your order to customize your order in advance so the unwanted ingredients are out of site, out of mind.
