Weight Loss Tips – Cut Down Snack Portions
By · CommentsOne of the hardest things to give up can be your regular snack. If you always have a couple of biscuits with your mid-morning coffee, or a bar of chocolate when you fill up the car, the psychological effort required to give this up can seem insurmountable. You could of course give up the coffee, [...]
Weight Loss Tips – Recognise 100 Calories
By · CommentsIf you’re going to think in portions of 100 calories for snacks, which is useful, it will help to have an idea of what constitutes 100 calories. Here are a few examples of snacks that come in at around that level: – A piece of fruit – Ten crisps – Two oatcakes – Half a [...]
Weight Loss Tips – Divide Your Cheese
By · CommentsWhen you buy something such as a lump of cheese, cut it up into 25 g/1 oz pieces as soon as you unpack the shopping. That way you know how much you’re eating each time without having to guess, which is of course a thoroughly unreliable approach. If you use a calorie-counting method of losing [...]
The Basics of Weight Loss – Don’t Get Hungry
By · CommentsAlthough many of the barriers to losing weight are in your head and not on your plate, it certainly doesn’t help if your body is sending messages telling you that you must eat as much as possible right now. If you feel hungry when you sit down to eat, you’re likely to eat as much [...]
Sleep and Weight Loss
By · CommentsIf you’re not getting enough sleep, it makes it much harder to lose weight. Those busy researcher chaps have been at it again, and have found that if you get less than five hours of sleep a night you’re over 30 per cent more likely to gain weight than someone who gets at least seven [...]
Weight Loss Tips – Take Food to Work
By · CommentsIf you go out to work, you have to eat during the day. And if you’re surrounded by fast food outlets, sandwich bars and cafeterias, it’s pretty hard to find something really healthy and low calorie to eat. And it can be even harder to make yourself order it when it’s surrounded by other temptations. [...]
Drinking Water and Weight Loss
By · CommentsI’m talking about water here, before you ask. They say you should drink around two litres a day, which is roughly eight glasses. You might personally find that your own optimum level is a bit lower or higher than this, but certainly if you drink very little you should find that drinking plenty of water [...]
Weight Loss Tips – Distract Yourself
By · CommentsWhat do you do when you hear food calling you from the fridge or the cupboard? Do you walk zombie-like, with glazed eyes, to the source of the sound? Well, what else can you do? Anything. You can do anything you like. Just find some way to distract yourself. Make it your automatic reaction when [...]
Weight Loss Tips – Hands off the Kids’ Leftovers
By · CommentsIf you have kids, you’ll doubtless be well aware of the temptations of leftovers. Sometimes they look so revolting you wouldn’t touch them if you were starving, but sometimes they can seem quite appetising. That untouched fishfinger, those cheese sandwiches, the end of that packet of crisps… Stop! Have you ever added up how much [...]
And before you ask, yes, that’s your own fist. No good finding a huge hulking bloke and borrowing his. Then again, look on the bright side, you don’t have to use a two year old’s fist either. Look, this whole thing is about moderation, and your fist is as good a gauge of moderation as [...]