Thinking yourself into a whole new persona is one step, and getting your diet right is another. You can't change yourself overnight, but you can start by cutting three cookies down to one, or making one serving of pudding last, so you don't need a second helping.
Many diet plans are always based on the understanding that slimmers aren't second-class citizens, and if everyone else is eating cookies or pudding, they can too. 'Have some fruit instead' is the usual advice for dieters at dinner parties, or 'Ignore the peanuts and choose the carrot and celery sticks instead.' Well, it doesn't sound much of a life to me. Vegetables and mineral water can be dressed up to sound thrilling, but we all know they're boring. When you see people in party dresses pulling into the twenty-four-hour service stations, it's not to buy gas, it's to stock up on the vast quantities of chocolate, cookies and apple pies they've spent the last five hours trying to avoid, and in the process had a thoroughly rotten time.
I only ever recommend banning something on the grounds of spoiling your looks, as in the case of fried foods and chocolate, or for health reasons. Coffee, alcohol, fried foods and sweets are fine in small quantities, but we rarely stick with small amounts. Coffee and alcohol are addictive drugs which cause' free radical attack, sweets contain too much sugar and give you spots, and fried foods contain far too much fat and also damage your skin.
Apart from this small list, banning foods doesn't work. Restricting yourself to small portions does; rationing yourself to so much a week and no more also works. Treating yourself well and allowing yourself proper, decent food like everyone else also contributes to lasting success.
The reason I mention all this is because today's meal choices, often consist of eating bland food or forgoing your diet completely. Instead start by eating smaller portions, it may sound odd at first but if you gradually start eating smaller portions your body will get used to it and you won't overeat. The sad fact is Americans are vastly overweight, and most of it has to do with portion sizes. Just think about it, almost everywhere you go crazy marketers are screaming at you "do you want to jumbo size that" or chefs who think everything needs to be falling off the plate.
Written by, Barbara Johnson. If you enjoyed this topic you may want to consider a career in healthcare as a nurse, for more information you can visit my website which covers CNA Training and passing your CNA certification nursing exam.
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