This Is One Of The Healthy Eating Facts That Actually Works!
It all gets pretty confusing, protein, nutrients, good carbs, bad carbs... there are tons of good healthy eating facts out there and it can get very frustrating.
Today, let's put away the latest calorie counting charts and discuss a tactic that is incredibly easy and is guaranteed to help you lose weight, and eat more healthy. It is truly one of the best healthy eating facts around.
Take a moment to think about this...when was the last time you picked up dinner at a fast food restaurant, or ordered a pizza?
Why? You are trying to lose weight, and you know those things are bad for you...so why did you do it?
Of course there will be exceptions, but for most of you - I venture to guess - that you ordered a pizza or went to the fast food place because you didn't have any good ideas on what to fix for dinner! And they offered an easy solution!
To a surprising extent, our unhealthy diets exist for no reason other than convenience. It's a fact - but, not one of the healthy eating facts. The last thing we want to do after a long day at work, is create a menu for our dinner. We are tired! Then, when you consider the minefield of good carbs, bad carbs and so on... it's even worse. BTW - it's just as bad to toss a frozen pizza into the oven as it is to order one.
For an easy solution to the problem, try this. Set aside a couple of hours, schedule them if you must, and plan your dinner menus for each day of the coming week. If you can work up the ambition, go for two weeks.
Write out each meal plan on a separate sheet of paper. Then place them all in a three ring binder. If you really want to get fancy, you could separate the days with pretty multicolored tabs. Somewhere down the line, you will probably want to laminate the pages too.
Every night, when you get home, open your binder to that days menu and prepare it. Here's the important part, we want to make this a habit so never deviate from this daily plan.
This will stop you from having to worry about what to fix for dinner and will totally eliminate those last minute impulse buys from the local fast food place.
The danger is, many of you won't want to try this because it seems too simple. But, it works and saves a lot of money too.
If you were to hire a personal chef and gave them the task of fixing tasty, nutritious, low calorie, healthy meals, you wouldn't question it, you would just eat the meals. Think of your weekly meal plan as being prepared by your personal healthy eating chef. Don't change it during the week, just fix that meal every day.
Once you make this a habit, you will learn to truly value and depend on that little binder.
Think of it, if you plan all of your meals to be nutritious, low-calorie and healthy ones, eventually your health must improve. It has to, it's a scientific fact.
At the end of your first week, sit down and do it again. Make up a new meal plan for the next week. Try to make them all different recipes than the ones you had before. By the end of the first month, you will have a months worth of different recipes you can call on.
Every meal, for four weeks, will be different. This way you will never get tired of eating the same meals over and over again. They will all be tasty, nutritious and low calorie. Once you've gotten this far, you can stop your weekly planning and just continuously rotate the recipes in your binder.
I think that's one of the best healthy eating facts out there, and it will help you save a bundle at the grocery store.
Check out my website for a bunch of additional information and a free subscription to my " Fast Weight Loss" mini course. - 17273
Today, let's put away the latest calorie counting charts and discuss a tactic that is incredibly easy and is guaranteed to help you lose weight, and eat more healthy. It is truly one of the best healthy eating facts around.
Take a moment to think about this...when was the last time you picked up dinner at a fast food restaurant, or ordered a pizza?
Why? You are trying to lose weight, and you know those things are bad for you...so why did you do it?
Of course there will be exceptions, but for most of you - I venture to guess - that you ordered a pizza or went to the fast food place because you didn't have any good ideas on what to fix for dinner! And they offered an easy solution!
To a surprising extent, our unhealthy diets exist for no reason other than convenience. It's a fact - but, not one of the healthy eating facts. The last thing we want to do after a long day at work, is create a menu for our dinner. We are tired! Then, when you consider the minefield of good carbs, bad carbs and so on... it's even worse. BTW - it's just as bad to toss a frozen pizza into the oven as it is to order one.
For an easy solution to the problem, try this. Set aside a couple of hours, schedule them if you must, and plan your dinner menus for each day of the coming week. If you can work up the ambition, go for two weeks.
Write out each meal plan on a separate sheet of paper. Then place them all in a three ring binder. If you really want to get fancy, you could separate the days with pretty multicolored tabs. Somewhere down the line, you will probably want to laminate the pages too.
Every night, when you get home, open your binder to that days menu and prepare it. Here's the important part, we want to make this a habit so never deviate from this daily plan.
This will stop you from having to worry about what to fix for dinner and will totally eliminate those last minute impulse buys from the local fast food place.
The danger is, many of you won't want to try this because it seems too simple. But, it works and saves a lot of money too.
If you were to hire a personal chef and gave them the task of fixing tasty, nutritious, low calorie, healthy meals, you wouldn't question it, you would just eat the meals. Think of your weekly meal plan as being prepared by your personal healthy eating chef. Don't change it during the week, just fix that meal every day.
Once you make this a habit, you will learn to truly value and depend on that little binder.
Think of it, if you plan all of your meals to be nutritious, low-calorie and healthy ones, eventually your health must improve. It has to, it's a scientific fact.
At the end of your first week, sit down and do it again. Make up a new meal plan for the next week. Try to make them all different recipes than the ones you had before. By the end of the first month, you will have a months worth of different recipes you can call on.
Every meal, for four weeks, will be different. This way you will never get tired of eating the same meals over and over again. They will all be tasty, nutritious and low calorie. Once you've gotten this far, you can stop your weekly planning and just continuously rotate the recipes in your binder.
I think that's one of the best healthy eating facts out there, and it will help you save a bundle at the grocery store.
Check out my website for a bunch of additional information and a free subscription to my " Fast Weight Loss" mini course. - 17273
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