First, if you can’t cook, you should learn. In
my opinion the best way to control what you eat is cooking yourself.
Buy a good scale, and ideally one that tells the percentage of body fat. Also one meter seam to take measurements of your chest, waist and, for the girls, also hips. It's good to weigh yourself and take the measurements on the same day of the week. I usually do that the morning of the day off.
Look for a motivation to get started. It can be serious, like having had a health problem or as silly as mine, the biggest pants I had, started to not fit and did not want to go buy new clothes, well, okay now I have to buy clothes just because I have lost 3 sizes, but that’s not the point. Motivation is very important at first at that time your brain is kind of cheating telling you that you want to eat more even not being hungry. That feeling is what we have at the beginning and is in those moments where the motivation comes. Gradually the feeling goes away because your mind got used to the new portions.
Related to this, aesthetics is not a good motivation, and I say this because this issue is too dependent on people’s opinion. Yes, many people will tell you that you look better, but some people will not notice the change at all and that can frustrate a lot if that’s your motivation. Felling leaner, more energetic, or needing to use smaller clothes, are more objective indicators and much more motivating.
Set reasonable goals for short terms. Start with something like "lose 5 kilos," "reach [insert here the nearest] kilos, thinking in small amounts makes more difficult to see how long the way will be and lose motivation.
When cooking, do it without being hungry. If you wait until you’re hungry to prepare food, it's much easier to start saying "nothing happens if I do it once" and cook fries as side dish instead of the boiled potatoes that were planned.
Prepare (see first tip) just your portion. From personal experience, cooking for several people and trying to calculate your portion at a guess does not work, plain and simple. And this extends to trying to go to restaurants because you don’t want to bring food from home, and pretend it to be the same. Well, you don’t control the portions, the sauces, the salt, so it does not work.
Do not sacrifice more than you can bear. You need to slowly get used to the diet. Feeling it as an obligation is very bad. That's what the two free meals per week are about. As I explained I usually do in one day, but that’s just my way, you can do it differently. And if you want a Tuesday dinner out and get you a plate of pork ribs, go ahead. Yes, well, you just have a free meal less for the rest of the week.
In another post I will give some advices about sports and work outs. But you can imagine that the first one is about starting to exercise, walk, dance classes, anything that makes you get up of the couch.
Buy a good scale, and ideally one that tells the percentage of body fat. Also one meter seam to take measurements of your chest, waist and, for the girls, also hips. It's good to weigh yourself and take the measurements on the same day of the week. I usually do that the morning of the day off.
Look for a motivation to get started. It can be serious, like having had a health problem or as silly as mine, the biggest pants I had, started to not fit and did not want to go buy new clothes, well, okay now I have to buy clothes just because I have lost 3 sizes, but that’s not the point. Motivation is very important at first at that time your brain is kind of cheating telling you that you want to eat more even not being hungry. That feeling is what we have at the beginning and is in those moments where the motivation comes. Gradually the feeling goes away because your mind got used to the new portions.
Related to this, aesthetics is not a good motivation, and I say this because this issue is too dependent on people’s opinion. Yes, many people will tell you that you look better, but some people will not notice the change at all and that can frustrate a lot if that’s your motivation. Felling leaner, more energetic, or needing to use smaller clothes, are more objective indicators and much more motivating.
Set reasonable goals for short terms. Start with something like "lose 5 kilos," "reach [insert here the nearest] kilos, thinking in small amounts makes more difficult to see how long the way will be and lose motivation.
When cooking, do it without being hungry. If you wait until you’re hungry to prepare food, it's much easier to start saying "nothing happens if I do it once" and cook fries as side dish instead of the boiled potatoes that were planned.
Prepare (see first tip) just your portion. From personal experience, cooking for several people and trying to calculate your portion at a guess does not work, plain and simple. And this extends to trying to go to restaurants because you don’t want to bring food from home, and pretend it to be the same. Well, you don’t control the portions, the sauces, the salt, so it does not work.
Do not sacrifice more than you can bear. You need to slowly get used to the diet. Feeling it as an obligation is very bad. That's what the two free meals per week are about. As I explained I usually do in one day, but that’s just my way, you can do it differently. And if you want a Tuesday dinner out and get you a plate of pork ribs, go ahead. Yes, well, you just have a free meal less for the rest of the week.
In another post I will give some advices about sports and work outs. But you can imagine that the first one is about starting to exercise, walk, dance classes, anything that makes you get up of the couch.
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| Tomato and tuna salad |
New Recipe.
This one is very easy, it’s a simple salad. I really think this one is more appropriate for dinner, it’s probably lighter recipe I prepare.
Recipe 2: Tomato, cucumber and tuna
Ingredients:
- 1 can of tuna
- 1 cucumber
- 250 grams of tomato
Preparation:
Wash and chop the tomatoes. Peel and slice the cucumber. Add the tuna and mix everything in a bowl and season as you want.
Serve it with a slice of bread and 2 kiwis.
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