Getting enough protein is essential for a good diet. Our bodies use it to build muscle, bone, blood cells, and even hair.
Protein is also great for weight loss. It helps to stabilize blood sugar and stave off hunger.
Eating good protein sources, such as chicken and turkey breast, and extra lean beef is essential. Most of these meats, however, come in large packs. Who wants to thaw a whole pound of ground turkey breast when you only need enough for one burger?
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Eat frequently.
Our bodies are like machines. They work all day, around the clock. We don’t always realize it while we’re sitting at our desks or driving in our cars.
There are thousands of processes going on. Our bodies are repairing and rebuilding muscle, building bone, pumping blood, digesting food, etc.
To do all this well and efficiently, our bodies need fuel. Just like we wouldn’t expect our car to work without gas, we shouldn’t expect our body to run without fuel.
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It’s not uncommon when checking a client’s food log to find that she is eating tons of grains/starches and not enough other foods. For example, she may have cereal and toast for breakfast, baked potato with lunch, pretzels for an afternoon snack, pizza for dinner, and crackers in the evening.
Even if her calories aren’t overly high, all this starchy food isn’t going to help with weight loss.
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“I have no idea what I’m going to eat for dinner tonight,” I heard one lady say to her friend as they walked out of the gym.
She’s headed for trouble, I thought to myself.
When you’re already hungry that is NOT the time to figure out what to eat. Your blood sugar is low, your brain is signaling your body to eat, and your stomach is growling.
If you haven’t already figured out what you’re going to eat before you’re hungry, what do you think you’ll do when you walk in your kitchen door? Calmly prepare a salad and open a can of tuna? Very unlikely. You’ll probably open the cupboards, the fridge, and the freezer and start munching on anything that looks good!
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Weight loss doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, it isn’t. There are very basic principles that work. You may not like them, and you may not want to follow them, but they are simple and they are basic.
You don’t need fancy diets or fancy foods that cost lots of money. You can have them if you want them. But weight loss still comes down to basic principles.
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We all know that eating right and exercising are core principles for both losing weight and maintaining a healthy body weight. What many people do not realize is how much effect sleep can have on body weight as well.
Studies have shown that people who do not get enough sleep gain more weight over time than those who sleep sufficiently!
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If you’re like me, when you get overly hungry all you want to do is put something in your mouth as fast as you can. Then you can hardly stop eating because it takes awhile for your brain to catch up with your belly to know there’s actually food in there.
When you wait too long to eat, your blood sugar drops and the brain sends hunger signals to your body. These hunger signals get stronger until you’re ravenous. When you do start eating, the digestion of food and release of sugar into the blood stream takes a little time. So it makes overeating very likely.
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