I'm choosing to try to "re" learn about healthier portions & how to eat better. I'm going to teach myself how to eat cleaner, & incorporate more exercise in my life.. I'm going to have my setbacks, but each time I fall, I learn something new.. and learn to do things better & more effectively for the next time. :)
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For this first week, I exercised 1 day out of the week, and ate clean about 3 days out of the week.. haha. It made me start to seriously think how exactly I'm going to go about this health & fitness challenge to myself. After my husband & I cancelled our gym membership, we got super duper lazy, and fell off track. It's easy to lose motivation, but just don't quit.. if there's even a little fire left, that's good!! All you got to do is re-ignite that passion to get this done, and let's all do this together. As long as you don't give up, you're half way there! :) Sooooooooo....... since my first week back at this fitness challenge went horribly, I'm going list down why.... POOR PLANNING. I didn't fail, but this first attempt was half-ass and lousy! As I let the week just pass me by, I did put a lot of thought into how to go about this better, starting with better eating habits.
I made a list, and I'm going to follow through... I'm going to follow this, and hope it helps you too.
TIPS TO HELP EAT HEALTHIER:
1. BIG JUG OF WATER, purchase or find a big container for your drinking water. One of the biggest things to change is your drinking habits, drinking sweets alone is unhealthy. Soda & other sweet drinks are packed with calories & sugarrrrrrrrrrrrr! If you can't cut out soda completely, try your best to limit yourself. I've cut out soda since high school, but did find myself addicted to teas & unhealthy juices.. I countered that habit by purchasing a gallon jug from Walmart, and try my best to bring it with me wherever I go, it doesn't just allow me to get enough water daily, but you save some $$ by not purchasing those $4-5 large drinks whenever you eat out. Try it out, it really helps. :)
2. HEALTHIER SNACKING, buy healthier snacks! I've noticed that whatever food I have at home, is what I will end up snacking on in the middle of the night when I have the munchies. If you have a lot of junk food in your pantry, you will more likely snack on it especially when you're hungry.. and you'll mostly likely eat if not all, most of it! Choose your snacks wisely. My hubby & I usually get granola bars, fruits, or those instant oatmeal. Recently I've found a good chips alternative, called "Pirate's Booty." I tried the "White Cheddar" and "New York Pizza," it's really lightly seasoned, and I prefer to eat them together!! :)
3. PLAN OUT YOUR MEALS, this is where I notice I've failed whenever I started my health/fitness journey. If you don't plan out your meals for the week, you will most likely go back to your bad eating habits, because you end up getting HUNGRY and when you're tired or lazy you won't cook the healthier meals, but instead look for convenience, so it's easier and more likely that you'll pick up some takeout food or fast food!! I know this too well, because I've done it.. so, we have to plan out our meals!! :)
4. KEEP A FOOD JOURNAL, if you can, keep a food journal to log everything you're eating daily. This will help you track your eating habits, and help you catch your bad eating habits & patterns! Make sure to log down the TIMES when you eat, so that you can look for patterns of what part of the day you tend to eat the most unhealthy. I'm guilty of being too lazy to keep up with these food journals, but I will purchase a composition notebook and try this out as well.
5. CHEAT DAY, Allow yourself ONE day out of the week to have your cheat meal. I'm allowing myself once a week, since I'm starting back up.. and I will try to work myself up to once every 2 weeks & so forth..
Hope this helps, I'm going to get to planning out my meals tomorrow.. it'll also help when grocery shopping! :)
Love & Healthy thoughts, Pauline
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