Healthy Weight Loss Tips

One thing I often battle with my clients over is keeping a food journal. They don’t want to bother with it. It seems like too much work.

The work isn’t just in writing down what you eat. The work really happens in planning your food and calorie intake. This definitely takes planning and forethought.

When you journal, you can’t eat mindlessly. You’re conscious of every choice, every serving, and every calorie. To stay in your calorie goal and stick to healthy eating, you have to think about your food.

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Do you know the nutrition information for a kid’s Happy Meal?

Well, McDonald’s website doesn’t list it, but we can look at each piece of the meal: small fries – 230 calories, 11 grams fat, 160 milligrams of sodium; 4 piece chicken McNuggets – 190 calories, 12 grams fat, 400 milligrams of sodium; chocolate milk – 170 calories, 3 grams fat, 150 milligrams of sodium. That’s a grand total of 590 calories, 26 grams fat, and 710 milligrams of sodium.

As moms and dads we have the most influence with our kids when it comes to eating habits. What foods we eat in front of them, share with them, feed them (and give to them when they beg) is establishing their eating behavior.

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