Lose Weight: Smaller Meals Keep the Metabolism Purring

Do you find that you are hungry in between your last meal, and start snack hunting? It never dawned on me to carry healthy snacks for those in between meals until I began to listen to my personal trainer, Dr. Vera Stevens. You could carry a healthy snack just as easy as choosing a calorie laced snack on a hunger search.

Have you noticed the snacks you tend to reach for, if they are in your cupboard, or the office snack machine, is usually something like chips, soda, a candy bar, cookies, etc. Try packaging snacks in small sandwich bags. If you are serious about watching those calorie laced pickings, you could pack a thermal bag with an ice pack to keep it fresh. Take it in the car with you, just in case you want to snack.

The body needs fuel. We have been programmed to eat our three main meals a day, not realizing that we could get hungry sooner than our next scheduled meal. Here are a few suggestions to snack on: Apple Jack Cereal, Yogurt, boiled eggs, Orange and Apple Slices, Broccoli Florets. Whatever your tastes are, choose fruits, veggies, low calorie nutritional foods, to keep your metabolism purring.

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Single or Married: Challenges the Same When It Comes to Weight Loss

Is it easier to lose weight as a single than being married with children? A single can clean the house of all temptations with no opposition. On the other hand, a married person lives with another who may not share the same goal. Come to think of it, the single could also have children, or live with someone, but for this writing I refer to singles who live alone.

Singles can also have a personal discipline problem. One of the challenges to living single could be boredom eating, which can be eliminated by getting rid of unhealthy snacks. If you must have smacks, make it low calorie healthy.

What are the challenges of living with others? They may or may not want to lose weight, or care about your temptations. If you’re married, the whole family may resent you putting them on restrictions. Singles living alone with no children don’t have this problem.

Taking off the pounds married or single depends on your personal commitment to a changed lifestyle. You will have to resist the temptations. The cravings won’t let go that easily. It will be a battle but you can win. Yes, there will be times when you will fall back into old habits. You don’t have to stay there. Start over as many times as it takes.

Single or married: Make your snacks healthy. Keep pieces of fruit, or fruit cups handy; fresh veggies like Brocolli, salad, etc. If you are tempted, read the labels and don’t over do it. Avoid high calorie, high fat snacks like chips, cookies, etc., candy. Watch your meal portion consumption. Eat slower. Chew longer. Practice eating smaller meals in between the main meals. A meal can be Orange and Apple slices.

Remember your goal: to lose the extra pounds, to shape up to look and feel better. I personally don’t like dieting. Gone are the days of starving and denial. Today I eat what my family eats but in moderation.
You can eat healthy and take off the pounds gradually as a part of your lifestyle, or binge diet and lose the fight because of temptation.

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