One of the keys to healthy, long lasting weight loss is reprogramming your life, this means changing your habits. Here is a list of 10 habits that will help you reach your weight loss goals and live a healthier life.
1. Weigh Yourself Often: This can help prevent weight regain. If you want to maintain a certain weight, weighing yourself can be an early warning system.
2. Turn Off the TV: Seeing food on TV can lead to food cravings late at night. Eating at night, especially carbs can be your worst enemy, and watching TV encourages this. So stay away from TV to get the upper hand on losing weight.
3. Junk Food Tastes Better: Your body craves and reacts more favorably to junk food when you are hungry. Have between meal snacks handy to keep yourself from making a trip to the vending machine.
4. Snack on Nuts: Nuts are an excellent source of lean protein and healthy fats. They are also an easy food to throw into a backpack or keep in a desk at work. Almonds and cashews are some of the better nuts to snack on.
5. Take Advantage of Long Days: Spring/summer days are the best time to begin your weight loss journey. The days are long, warm and a great time to workout outdoors. More daylight also means more serotonin and more energy to workout.
6. Drink More Milk: Consider drinking milk with every meal. Milk is a great source of protein, calcium and vitamin D. Calcium is important to your diet because it helps your body breakdown fat more efficiently.
7. Add Competition: Start your weight loss journey with a buddy. A friend not only serves as a great workout partner, but healthy competition can also accelerate your weight loss. Start a 90 day weight loss goal with a friend to see who loses the most.
8. Eat a Big Breakfast: Breakfast in fact IS the most important meal. If you are going to splurge on a meal do it in the morning. You will work off the calories throughout the day, it will provide great sustained energy and will keep you feeling full throughout the day preventing overeating.
9. Eat More Protein: Throughout the day your body is constantly breaking down/building muscle. Keep a constant supply of protein in your system so you are building muscle more often. Lean protein gives you a sense of satiety making you feel full throughout the day.
10. Get Enough Z’s: Sleep is the body’s recovery mode. While sleeping your body recovers and replenishes from any physical activities earlier that day. Your mind also sorts through any lingering issues, problems or stresses while asleep.
