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My Tips & Tricks for getting to a thin & healthy weight, and staying there 🎈✨👙
1. Identify your weaknesses: salty snacks (chips), sugary processed bread carbs (pastries), salty processed meats (sausage, bacon), alcohol (beer, wine). Many of these foods are designed to make you crave more of them, and you will find you want to eat in between meals because you are not full or satisfied.
2. Have your doctor check your cholesterol, blood sugar, sodium. Eating the above list is likely to have directly contributed to your elevated levels. No doctor is going to green light or encourage eating any of the above foods, even while on medications. Change is necessary for health.
3. Clear your cupboards. If it's in your kitchen, you will be prone to eat it. No one in your family needs chips, cookies, ice cream, or bacon. No one wants to become overweight or develop diabetes, heart disease or kidney stones, least of all kids. If anyone wants those foods, they can get them out of the house.
4. Avoid restaurants when possible and learn to cook. When someone else (including your spouse) cooks for you, you can't control the amount of sugar, butter, oil, and salt added.
5. When you do go out to dine, leave food on the plate. Look around. Thin people do not eat all of the oversized portions in front of them. If anyone comments on your "wasteful" practice, simply say you're watching your cholesterol.
6. No doggy bags. Birthdays and celebrations are once a year, so no bringing home leftovers to celebrate it twice.
7. Cheat days are already built into the calendar. They're called holidays. Weekends are not holidays.
8. Alcohol is empty sugar calories and will lower your inhibitions, making it harder to set down your fork. If you routinely drink 4+ drinks every time you eat out, you won't lose weight and possibly need to do an honest self-evaluation.
9. Exercise every day, even if it's just a 30 minute walk during your lunchbreak. There are only upsides to exercise. Just find something that you enjoy, otherwise it will feel like a chore.
I've maintained 128 lbs. (size 4) with a BMI of 21 for over a year by following the above list.
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