Best Dieting Tips I’ve Collected
1. If you’re like me, you may not have a complete set of measuring cups. Stop what you’re doing and invest in a measuring cups and actually use them. Wash them after each use and put them away immediately. Thusly, you don’t “guestimate” your food intake.
2. Buy a digital food scale to help you portion your food (like meats which are generally calorie heavy.) This keeps your caloric intake as measurable as possible and allows you to avoid overeating. Overeating is one of my biggest struggles, my stomach just doesn’t tell my brain to stop eating until I’m sick.
3. Drink water. Hydrating your body means less cravings. If you have a hard time drinking water add lemon juice. You don’t even need to buy lemons, just get the Lemon Juice from concentrate. Sugar free, calorie free, and good for you.
4. Do not rely on fad diets. Fads like keto come and go, they’re quickly debunked or they’re specifically for people with medical issues (IE ketosis is exactly that.) Nothing that is good for your organs will work quickly. Slow and steady wins the race my fellow little tortoise.
5. Guess what? Unless a doctor tells you that you have a liver problem, you don’t need to “cleanse” your body. Your body does that naturally. If you want to “cleanse” anything, cleanse your diet. Steer yourself away from artificial and overly processed foods.
6. You don’t need to make drastic and immediate change unless your doctor tells you to make those kind of changes. You can start with working out fifteen minutes a day - like I did. Gradually increase. Eat one meal healthy and the rest as usual until you adjust. Start trying new healthy recipes a few times a week. Make it a gradual lifestyle change and STICK TO IT. It’ll happen and it’s okay for it to take time.
7. The middle of the grocery store is not your friend. Avoid it like the plague.
8. Having to pee a thousand times a day is a happy trade off for feeling sluggish, hungry, headaches, shaky, and overall shitty. Water does a lot of good. Yes, this is a second tip to STAY HYDRATED.
9. Stop drinking soda. Everything about soda is bad for you. Literally, everything. There’s no soda on the planet that’s healthy.
10. Talk about your healthy lifestyle changes. The more you talk about it, the more accountable you are. Walk the walk, talk the talk.
11. Scales shmales. If you really want to rely on a scale get one of those expensive ones that measure your body fat percentage as well. Otherwise, they’re good to use for measurement more like once a month vs. once a week. A week is nothing.
12. Measure yourself consistently and using the same parts of your body.
13. Measure progress by how far you’ve come with your fitness routine. I started out 15 minutes a day. Now I workout about a half hour to an hour and a half depending on the level of impact.
14. Set new goals if your old goals just don’t inspire you anymore. It’s okay to change and grow. I think I’m going to try to train for a 5K here soon, I was not under the impression I’d ever WANT to do something like that. My initial goal was to turn into a skeleton and that’s how I’d feel beautiful. Now my goal is to be muscular and get a booty.
15. Follow fitness accounts and unfollow people or accounts that discourage you or make you feel like reverting to unhealthy behavior. This is general advice for life. Don’t keep negative people in your life, they don’t make anything easier, better, or brighter. Surround yourself with people who lift you up and make you a better person than you were yesterday.
