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Random Weightloss Tips
Hi Everyone,
here's one of my lists I like to make. Feel free to disagree - it's what works for me. 1. Plan your meals and snacks and write a shopping list based on it. This avoids running out of food or not knowing what to eat, as well as reducing the risk of snacking on inappropriate stuff due to getting over-hungry. 2. Cheese is a luxury, kind of like caviar. 3. Only ever buy candy/chocolate/cakes/cookies in very small quantities and avoid high fat, high calorie sweets entirely. 4. Have one treat and one alcoholic drink per day. 5. Wear a pedometer in the house - it inspires you to fetch things you might otherwise think "I'll get it later" and then never fetch, and it will greatly encourage you just how much ground you can cover without leaving the house. 6. Related to 5: Have radios tuned into your favourite station all over the house. That way, you won't be tempted to stay in one place just in case you miss anything. Alternatively, if you don't have access to BBC Radio 4 (yay!) you can listen to audio books, but you might need a Walkman for that unless your house is wired into a sound system! 7. Always dance to music, whenever you hear music, although be careful about dancing and driving. 8. Get a cordless phone and pace about while talking to someone. 9. If you can't think of what to eat, eat porridge. It'll even out your blood sugar and avoid hunger for a few hours while you think about what else to eat. 10. Go shopping for food frequently. Not only does this mean you can get more fresh stuff, shopping is exercise! 11. Wear flat, supportive shoes so you can move more easily. Likewise, wear comfortable clothing that fits properly (even if you have to buy a bigger size, prior to buying a smaller size in a few weeks). 12. Get yourself measured for a new bra (if you're a woman, of course!). It won't actually make you thinner, but you'll look a million times better and your waist will be distinguished from your bust, giving you a smaller waist measurement. (Actually, this was British comedian Eddie Izzard's reasoning for why men should wear fake breasts - it makes your tummy look smaller in comparison!) 13. Get into healthy cooking - try a new recipe every day for a week. You might not keep it up but the scary thing is always doing a new recipe for the first time. If you like one of the meals you've cooked, you are more likely to cook it again, and gradually you will increase your repatoire of healthy, low points meals. 14. Use fresh herbs as much as possible. Also fresh chillis (try different sorts), garlic and onions. 15. Spend money on expensive veg, like asparagus or exotic fruit as you are much less likely to let it moulder in the fridge and it's a healthy treat. 16. Have a healthy dinner party - invite friends who are trying to lose weight, or who would like to improve their diets, and experiment on them with new recipes. 17. Get involved in local ecology projects (the sort that require Wellington boots and a shovel, like tree planting, or river clearing), animal shelters (mucking out, hosing out kennels etc), disabled sports (helpers are always required), furniture reclamation project or animal/bird surveying (counting creatures in a wood, or on a lake or whatever). Basically, any hobby that involves humping, dumping and walking. You can ever do this sort of thing in a city - I was hearing on the radio about a project in New York for building allotment gardens (rather like the fictional project in the movie "Green Card"), which is now being marketed as "fitness training" to overweight New Yorkers who hate treadmills and static bicycles! And a project in UK to clear rivers and streams is also being marketed as an "Outdoor Gym". 18. Don't just watch sport on TV - go to a local, support your local teams, get involved behind the scenes. Or if sport isn't your thing, local theatre, dance, music, bands or orchestra. You can burn off 500 calories an hour at a rock concert! 19. Take the dog for a walk. If you haven't got a dog, offer to take a neighbour's dog for a walk. The majority of pet dogs are overweight these days, so do a dog a favour. 20. Don't spend too long at the computer, writing daft lists for everybody. -- Anna (in UK) Start Weight: 174 lbs Goal Weight: 146 lbs Current Weight: 168 lbs |
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5. Wear a pedometer in the house - it inspires you to fetch things you might otherwise think "I'll get it later" and then never fetch, and it will greatly encourage you just how much ground you can cover without leaving the house. Kids love this too as I am no longer asking them to get things, I want the steps. 6. Related to 5: Have radios tuned into your favourite station all over the house. That way, you won't be tempted to stay in one place just in case you miss anything. Makes cleaning more fun also to dance as you are cleaning. 11. Wear flat, supportive shoes so you can move more easily. Don't forget that sneakers lose there supportiveness in about 3-6 months of regular use. Don't feel bad about replacing them as it helps keep backaches and leg pains down 13. Get into healthy cooking - try a new recipe every day for a week. I try to put a new one weekly into the monthly menu, if it goes over well it is put in the favorite list, if not, well I at least tried. DH has the final say unless of course I don't like it. My cookbook program lets you plan you month out and since we have chicken 3x/week I needed ways to make it different. We now have enough we like for more than a month and I am still trying new ones. 14. Use fresh herbs as much as possible. Also fresh chillis (try different sorts), garlic and onions. For a DH who is mostly Italian, garlic is a must. If the recipe calls for 4 cloves he adds 6-8. Same with onions. 19. Take the dog for a walk. The majority of pet dogs are overweight these days, so do a dog a favour. Fuzz fits right in there with the overweight dogs, she gets to many table scraps and she will only eat cat food but she does love her walks when I get to give them to her. 20. Don't spend too long at the computer, writing daft lists for everybody. Not just lists, but email, recipes, bill pasy, etc. I finally figured out I have to move at least every hour when working at the computer or I get so stiff the chiropractor has a hard time getting me back in. It is muscles, not vertebre but still, I do the stretches he gave me for the neck and I have been able to cut back from 2x/week to every 2-4 weeks. Big difference. Adele |
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LOL. Well, I read the whole list and took it all soooo seriously and
then.... Debbie 20. Don't spend too long at the computer, writing daft lists for everybody. -- Anna (in UK) Start Weight: 174 lbs Goal Weight: 146 lbs Current Weight: 168 lbs |
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