Vices

jdelisle

While summer is great for losing weight (lots of fun activities!) along with it comes great temptations! Here are my top 10 at the moment, I urge you all to share yours as well, and any tips or ideas on how to overcome them!

1. Sunday morning breakfast with my husband at our favourite restaurant. It’s not on the menu so it’s really quiet and romantic... Canadian back bacon, fried mashed potatoes, baked eggs sunny side up and white toast with melted butter... nothing beats that.

2. The new ice cream shop that just opened up in town. It tastes heavenly.

3. Summer! Who can't resist the gallons of iced tea, lemon-aide, burgers, potatoes, and potato & pasta salads? Not to mention ice cream, popsicles, fugsicles, smores to name a few!

4. The heat, very discouraging when it is so warm out trying to exercise. Does anybody have any suggestions for exercising in the heat? Sunscreen is great for protecting from sunburns and such, but I find it hard to keep the body temperature down enough to exercise comfortably.

5. Evening snacks. It’s sometimes hard to not associate relaxing with snacking.

6. Trying to be frugal in this economy, and not spend too much money on groceries!

7. Not eating MSG or other related chemicals.

8. Steering clear of aspertame, malitol and other sweetners.

9. Not wanting to risk quality when experimenting with 'low fat' products.

10. Vacation! We are all tempted in thinking 'but I'm on vacation so it okay to indulge'. I find it really hard to get back on track once I give into temptation even just a little bit.


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jdelisle

While summer is great for losing weight (lots of fun activities!) along with it comes great temptations! Here are my top 10 at the moment, I urge you all to share yours as well, and any tips or ideas on how to overcome them!

1. Sunday morning breakfast with my husband at our favourite restaurant. It’s not on the menu so it’s really quiet and romantic... Canadian back bacon, fried mashed potatoes, baked eggs sunny side up and white toast with melted butter... nothing beats that.

2. The new ice cream shop that just opened up in town. It tastes heavenly.

3. Summer! Who can't resist the gallons of iced tea, lemon-aide, burgers, potatoes, and potato & pasta salads? Not to mention ice cream, popsicles, fugsicles, smores to name a few!

4. The heat, very discouraging when it is so warm out trying to exercise. Does anybody have any suggestions for exercising in the heat? Sunscreen is great for protecting from sunburns and such, but I find it hard to keep the body temperature down enough to exercise comfortably.

5. Evening snacks. It’s sometimes hard to not associate relaxing with snacking.

6. Trying to be frugal in this economy, and not spend too much money on groceries!

7. Not eating MSG or other related chemicals.

8. Steering clear of aspertame, malitol and other sweetners.

9. Not wanting to risk quality when experimenting with 'low fat' products.

10. Vacation! We are all tempted in thinking 'but I'm on vacation so it okay to indulge'. I find it really hard to get back on track once I give into temptation even just a little bit.


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cnolovechild

I live REALLY south in Louisiana so I know all about the hot humid summers lol. I've been doing a more of my exercize indoors or at night when it's a little cooler. Try some workout videos when you can't stand the heat. You can find some in low impact or high impact. Usually it's easy to find something that catches your attention by suiting your tastes whether its your run of the mill aerobics or belly dancing, tai chi inspired, strip tease (lol), dancing, run/walking....you name it...it's out there. You can even download a lot of them off the internet nowadays.
If you really want to get outdoors just try either earlier in the mornings or later in the evening when the sun isn't so brutal...hope this helps. :happy:

IndigoElectron

My advice would be to have the things you love (e.g. the ice cream) but to build it into your calories for the day, and not to have it too often. The romantic breakfast sounds lovely but if you do it every week it could be your downfall - do they maybe do a lower calorie version you could have? The vacation 'mindset' is difficult but you need to get over it - just think, would you be happy putting on weight? What's more important to you?

As for the exercise, I go to an air conditioned gym, which solves the problem of being too hot. But I also plan to go for some nice long walks when it's sunny, which is still exercise, if not quite as strenuous.

I find it's easy to eat healthily and cheaply. I bulk out my meals with things like veg, beans, wholegrain pasta etc, and only have a small amount of meat. It's certainly cheaper than buying lots of processed food.

'Low fat' products - I'd just use your common sense. Lower fat dairy products are generally quite good as they don't have loads of crap (and sugar) added, but they do taste different - there's no avoiding that. I'd just try to get used to them, and maybe do it step by step, e.g. have semi-skimmed milk first, before going on to skimmed later.

Evening snacks/iced tea etc - just make lower cal versions! There's nothing wrong with snacking in itself, it just depends what you eat.

Good luck!