This post is all about diet and avoiding eating more than you should. My wife is constantly trying to lose weight. However she has no willpower and cannot avoid eating sweets as well as munchies that are available in our house most of the time. In fact if there are deserts in the house, she will have a helping for breakfast instead of a regular breakfast.
Food in the Home
Yes if there are desserts in the house, guaranteed it will be eaten before the morning arrives or sometime shortly after. She would rather have dessert for breakfast instead of having a proper nutritional breakfast. In fact she does not even like breakfast, but will have dessert if it is in the house for breakfast. The only way that she seems to be able to have any control over what she eats is to avoid having the food in the house. We find that if we buy peanuts or chips, we both start snacking.
Couch Potato
She will sit down and eat them while watching a TV show or just munch on them during the afternoon. There’s no way that you can let them sit there and this is a terrible way to try to control your diet so we have found that the best way is to avoid buying all those kinds of things. If we’re having a party for some reason the people we have those kinds things in as the host of the party.
If you fall into this category and cannot avoid eating food that’s in the house the best approach is to have food that are low calorie can nature. Fruits and vegetables are a good example of the kinds of foods to have in the house. In fact weight watchers has recently changed their scoring system to include most if not all fruits and vegetables to zero points meaning that you can eat as much of this kind of food as you want.
Get Out of the House, Go For a Walk
Another approach is to get out of the house even if it’s just for a walk or go to an exercise gym and participate in something that gets you moving to start to burn calories. Sitting in the house watching TV eating high calorie food is just a recipe to gain weight.
So this season to maintain your weight or to lose weight, avoid having all of these high carb and calorie foods in the house. Avoid foods such as peanuts chips, pretzels and other foods about type. Instead have lots of fruits and vegetables in your home to munch on whenever you have the urge to eat something. Also avoid any kind of dips that go along with these things unless it is zero calories and zero carbs. Also avoid food that has a lot of salt in them.
Read the labels on every food that you can eat to avoid high salt content and also to make sure that you’re eating low-carb low calorie food if you’re on a diet and cannot avoid or do not have the willpower to avoid eating while you’re sitting watching TV reading a newspaper or just quietly reading.
Get up and move around if his housework or going for a walk or going to the gym or biking or anything that gets you away from the fridge away from getting any kinds of munchies. When you feel the urge to read something get out of the house and go for a walk.
