One of my favorite diet tips came from a four year old who was trying to leave the table against her mother’s wishes to have her eat some more.
Mother: You should eat more because you’ll get hungry later.
Child: If I get hungry later, I’ll eat later.
The mother took this to heart and lost forty pounds.
This same breakfast would leave me ravenously hungry and overeating all day. Glad it works for you, though.
Human bodies are built to different specs.
I’ve found that, for me, having one or two light meals really helps. My usual go-to light meal? Soup and salad or half a sandwich and a cup of soup. Usually the sandwich has a lean meat or a lot of veggies, and the soup is in a reasonable portion (1-2 cups at the most). Additionally, if I have salad, I need a high protein oily fish to go with it.
Word. I hate it when I’m in the gym and see a personal trainer (blech! but that’s another thread) taking female trainee through a bunch of useless bullshit. She’d be much better served squatting and deadlifting and benching and overhead pressing, but many personal trainers don’t even suggest those things for women.
Also, as far as diet tips go, I’m afraid I’m not much help–I’m usually concerned about not eating enough. But when it comes to eating well, I can really only follow big broad rules, like “don’t eat anything fried” or “don’t eat a bunch of sugar.” I just lift a bunch and try to eat enough.
Blargh. But lifting weights is hard and is sucks. Cycling rules!
Cycling is for sissies. And it sucks. It most certainly does not “rule”.
Heh. I’ll give you a pass, but for everyone else, no dice.
And along those lines, my favorite diet tip is: never eat anything out of the package it came in.
You want a cookie? Fine, we all deserve a cookie now and then. Go get a cookie, close the package and put it away, and walk away and enjoy your cookie.
You want some chips? Great, chips are yummy. Get a little bowl, put a handful of chips in it, close the bag and put it away, then walk away and enjoy your chips.
When you eat from a package, there’s no line telling your where to stop, so you won’t. Everyone feels snacky now and then, and that’s fine. But get one serving, enough to satisfy your urge to crunch or whatever, and then close that package before you eat a single bite. In the chips example, you can reinforce it by making yourself wash the bowl before you eat any more chips; the more work is involved in snacking, the less snack-prone you’ll be.
Good points, Max - if I keep my junk food by the couch, I sit and eat it. If I keep it in the kitchen cupboard, it lasts a lot longer.
Make your own food with ingredients you bought for yourself. Don’t eat out, don’t eat out of boxes or your freezer. Figure out for yourself what works for you, what kind of changes in your diet you’re comfortable with, and find a cuisine that caters to that.