Share a Good Eating Habit
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It's a new habit, but I have been careful in my new lifestyle with scrutinizing menu items when I do have to eat out. It is unbelievable the extra calories that find their way into restaurant dishes! If it's not posted on the menu, I get online and find a similar restaurant's dish to compare it to. I have been rejecting some of my former favorites since I've seen the calorie count.0
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I'm trying to drink more tea. Herbal tea. I've never really liked tea much but I find plain water hard to drink as much as I should. It's winter where I am at the moment so a nice cup of hot herbal tea has no cals and is soothing too. Also, on a side note - a while ago I was given one of those lovely smelling scented candles. This one is vanilla and pear. Amazingly I am finding that having its lovely sweet smell wafting thru the house is curbing my desire for eating chocs or sweet stuff. Go figure...0
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If it didn’t live in its current form (meat, fish, vegetables, fruit), don’t eat it. The only exception I have is cheese and yogurt.
Allan Misner
NASM Certified Personal Trainer (Corrective Exercise Specialist, Fitness Nutrition Specialist)
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Making sure to take a complete vitamin and mineral supplement to try to avoid getting any deficiencies when one is lowering food intake, and to eat a variety of nutrient rich foods for better health.0
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Great ideas here. In order to drink more water I fill up my workout flask and keep it beside me. It equates to 3 glasses of water so if I finish the flask twice, I know I have drunk 6 glasses. I am steadily working up to the recommended 8 glasses. Also when I eat out I ask for a sparkling water with lemon. I've been doing this for a few months now and I can see and feel the difference.0
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I have a really good water habit. I drink from a 32oz Ball canning jar and drink one first thing in the morning before anything else, one between breakfast and lunch and one between lunch and dinner. If I've done a cardio workout I'll often drink a 4th - that's a gallon per day.0
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ahealthiercara wrote: »I have a really good water habit. I drink from a 32oz Ball canning jar and drink one first thing in the morning before anything else, one between breakfast and lunch and one between lunch and dinner. If I've done a cardio workout I'll often drink a 4th - that's a gallon per day.
I was just about to write that this is my new good habit that I have established in the last week! Except my new water bottle is about 22 oz. It's a really pretty glass one from Ello, so I feel like it's sort of special.
I drink one after my coffee, one with lunch, one between lunch and dinner, one with dinner, and one when I exercise.
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CharlieRuns7225 wrote: »I determine how much to eat by how much I want to exercise. In-other-words, I never sacrifice performance because of lack of nutrition. I meet my goals and the weight takes care of it's self.
^^ this^^
Also, I don't eat meat. Well I don't eat beef, chicken or pork. I do eat fish, venison and elk. It has been fun finding new ways to cook and find protein. I get plenty with my protein shakes, quest bars, quinoa, chia seeds nuts, black bean burgers ect... Finding new ways to incorporate lots of veggies is also a habit for me. And I almost always decide what I'm going to order before we eat out before we get there. I get a to go box and out half in it before I take my first bite. This has helped a ton! I'm full after 1/2 the plate but if it's there I will keep eating it.0 -
Logging my food the day BEFORE. I find this really helps me stay within or close to within my calorie range, and it's easier to make healthier choices when I'm full after dinner than on-the-spot at the lunch bar!0
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Drink 2 glasses of water before eating0
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AllanMisner wrote: »If it didn’t live in its current form (meat, fish, vegetables, fruit), don’t eat it. The only exception I have is cheese and yogurt.
Allan Misner
NASM Certified Personal Trainer (Corrective Exercise Specialist, Fitness Nutrition Specialist)
http://facebook.com/OlderFitness
This, except I eat cheese and butter, and I've gone for long periods without those, too. Unfortunately I've been known to go off the rails and believe quite strongly that cake trees, ice cream springs, and cookies that walk on four legs exist and are meant to be eaten!
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AllanMisner wrote: »If it didn’t live in its current form (meat, fish, vegetables, fruit), don’t eat it. The only exception I have is cheese and yogurt.
Allan Misner
NASM Certified Personal Trainer (Corrective Exercise Specialist, Fitness Nutrition Specialist)
http://facebook.com/OlderFitness
This, except I eat cheese and butter, and I've gone for long periods without those, too. Unfortunately I've been known to go off the rails and believe quite strongly that cake trees, ice cream springs, and cookies that walk on four legs exist and are meant to be eaten!
That’s hilarious!0 -
i am learning to be a mindful flexitarian. meaning, i pay attention to what i am eating, when and why. and i am loosely following the flexitarian eating plan (mostly vegetarian with occassional beef and such).0
