Following on with the family food advice, you need to keep considering why you are doing this whole thing, and this will keep you strong in your times of doubt and uncertainty.
- Eating often is fun and good for you!
– This day’s eating is all about eating every 3 hours or so, raising the rate our bodies burn calories so we burn more fat, feeling full throughout the day so we don’t feel the need to binge at certain time, and actually feel about hundred times better than we have before.
Positive trade off’s
– You CAN keep this way of eating up if you really try and all it takes sometimes is 5 minutes preparation the night before making a packed lunch.
– Plus, all that money you will have spent on junk food can go on something worthwhile, like a new dvd or some new clothes!
- Summing up
– changing your lifestyle to a rewarding healthy one starts with what you put into your body. Make it a priority when you go to a supermarket to influence your parents on what you want to eat. As a parent, you can inspire your kids to eat well too. They will listen if you tell then you want good food (and vice-versa) and soon it will become second nature.
– Make sure you try and work up to 5 servings of fruit and veg a day
– Try and get 2 servings of protein such as fish, chicken, eggs, lean beef, nuts, lentils etc per day.
– Choose 2 portions of milk, yoghurt, cheese etc for calcium and extra protein
– Use whole meal/wholegrain versions of pasta, bread, rice, cereals, potatoes to give you lots of energy every day.
– Try to limit these in your diet using them more as a treat-Crisps, cakes, biscuits, pastries, chips, mayo, salad cream, margarine, cooking oil, pop/fizzy drinks
You have had a pretty good overview on how you should be making your healthy lifestyle count, and its benefits.
If you adopt all or most of these guidelines, then you and your family’s quality of life in terms of health will be enhanced out of all recognition.
Once you do it this way, you won’t fall for the next “big” diet, those slimming classes that never ever worked long term (scientific studies back all of this up), or any of the faddy ways to lose weight.
Trust in your own instincts of what is right, is sensible and likely to work for you over a lifetime!
