Eating a good healthy diet will give your energy a boost and help you cope with stress much easier. Of course, thinking about eating properly when you're on the run is admittedly very difficult. The following "secrets' will definitely help.
1. Eating at Restaurants
When the menus are tempting, the portions are big and the atmosphere is great healthy eating takes a back seat. And the bonus for eating poorly is a lot of extra weight which makes being on the go, go slow. SECRET: When the food arrives DON'T EAT! Put 1/2 in a doggy bag and take it home. Or if eating with someone: Split the dish!
2. Eating at Airports
The stress at airports can cause you to dump the healthy eating diet. SECRET: Eat right, eat light. Order a big salad and a cup, not a bowl, of veggie soup. BETTER SECRET: DON'T EAT unless you are really hungry. Learn to tell hunger pangs from stress signals.
3. Eating in Your Car?
Yes, I know I have done it too. Even with one hand on the wheel and one hand on a sandwich or a taco or a .... SECRET: Same as #2 above: DON'T. Well, O.K. if you are starving then keep some healthy snacks on board. Repeat HEALTHY snacks.
4. On the run at Home? What?
Yes, getting out the door on time sacrifices breakfast every morning. Never leave home without having something to eat. NEVER. Eat at least some healthy cereal preferably hot oatmeal with soy milk. Maybe a banana. O.K. take the apple with you but eat it at mid morning. SECRET: Eating in the morning is simple to do. How? GET UP 1/2 HOUR EARLIER. Turn off the T.V. 1/2 hour earlier the night before and GO TO BED.
Eating on the run is not hard to do once you create good eating habits. How do you do that?
I could tell he was hoping we really would all be engulfed by a black hole emanating from a Swiss mountainside, which would lead to the intriguing result that Switzerland had produced the cuckoo clock, lots of secretive but extremely boring bankers, and the end of the planet. In his mind this would give him several days of a hedonistic teenage existence, unlimited computer and internet access accompanied by industrial quantities of sweets and fizzy drinks. After all, if the world is going to end, why be restrained.
That's why teenagers have mothers - to stop them being totally stupid.
Without the license to behave irresponsibly he kept on doing his homework, eating sensible food, and living a reasonably restrained life. Writing a story like this illustrates how tempting it is to do crazy stuff when it's possible we might not be held accountable.
Isn't that often the way with weight loss?
* Sneak that extra cookie because no one is looking.
* Have the chips rather than the salad because it's Friday (and Saturday and Sunday).
* Eat the extra slice of cake you made otherwise it'll go stale.
We pretend that these actions are justified. One extra cookie won't count. I'll have that bar of chocolate at the weekend. It's not good to waste food. But what we are really doing is not being accountable. Not being accountable to your slimming club or your nutritionist or your loved ones. But above all not being accountable to yourself.
The world will not end with the Large Hadron Collider. (I can say that with confidence because if the world does end you won't be reading this newsletter.) My son has no excuse for not doing his homework because, however much he hopes for it, his maths teacher is not going to disappear into a black hole.
And you have no excuse for not eating well because however much you hope for it, excess calories will always turn into fat.
It's easy to think "I'll start the diet tomorrow" or "One cookie won't hurt" or "Nobody will know if I have this snack".
But don't let your mind become a black hole of excuses. Don't let your digestive system become a black hole for food - engulfing everything it encounters. Don't let a Swiss chocolate mountain end up on your hips.
Tell yourself - "The world will not end tomorrow but I'll still have this excess fat. So I'm making choices today so I can be slim tomorrow".
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