Ever feel like you have SO much on your plate and no time to do anything?!? So you do a drive-thru run, order some burgers and fries with a soda, and head home to do more work while eating a grease filled burger. We all know that is not the best decision you have made for your body, inside and out. Here are a few tips and tricks I have learned a long my diet way:
Snacking a weakness for you and only unhealthy items readily available? Take one of your days off and change that. Go to the grocery store and only buy healthy items that sound good to you such as carrot chips, apples, grapes, or celery. Even get something that is high in fiber which is a huge bonus some examples are avocados, corn, or wheat crackers. Make sure you grab tons of zip lock baggies and enough food to snack on for a week.
Now when you get home make sure you clean all your veggies and fruits really well. Then decide on what sounds good together as snacks and start pairing them up. Make sure you cut everything up so it’s that much easier through the week. Put them in the zip lock baggies and pop them in the fridge.
Now every day when you’re about to head to work, school, your kids have a play date or whatever you day holds, grab a snack or two. That way when you start to feel that hunger pang you got yourself covered with some healthy and I bet your body would say a big thank you.
Don’t have time to cook a dinner every night so going out its easier for you? Well stop it may be easier but I bet your body is hating it.
Make your meals one day a week and freeze them till you’re ready to eat them. Buy a few things of chicken breast, some turkey meat and whip up some great food that will taste just as good when you defrost and heat it up later this week.
I personally love soup so I make a big batch of soup with chicken and all sorts of veggies, and then freeze it in portion sizes so that way I just have to unthaw what I’ll eat that night. The soup could be 2 suppers and a lunch for my husband and I throughout the week. This makes your whole week a pinch and you are going to feel so much better.
If you absolutely have to go thru a drive thru and have no way around it look for the healthy items. There are plenty of apps for your phone that you can put in a restaurant and what item you are looking at getting, that will show you all the nutritional facts. Look at the calories and carbohydrates before you order any food, also look at the salt. A lot of places use tons of salt making their food and then add some more when it’s done. That is never good for anyone no matter what age you are and what your health status is.
If at all possible avoid buffets like the plaque! You go in saying you’re just going to get the healthy food and only go up once. Like that ever happens for anyone! You have to have amazingly strong will power and then some. Most people, like me, end up getting more than they thought on their plate and you know that it is way above the calorie limit you wanted on that plate. Then after you eat all of that you look over at the buffet and see something you didn’t get. Next thing you know you have another plate full of food on your way back to your seat and knowing that you’re probably going to eat half of that plate. A buffet is just a place for disaster if you’re on a diet, trying to be healthy, or gain some muscles.
Basically plan out your means, prep them ahead of time, and watch what you eat. Your body, partner, kids/ future kids, and pets will thank you for the thought you put into the food you make and eat.
What are your favorite healthy snacks? Foods?
Thanks for reading!
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