Action: Continue to move toward the recommended intake of water each day.
For seven days you have focused on the one very important action of replacing unhealthy drinks with water. This week you'll be taking the first step in addressing the food in your diet - what you're eating that is the most responsible for your extra weight. You will need to put forth a bit more effort, engage in some planning, and exercise some willpower, but with this second step, you may just be putting yourself in a position to achieve more than 75% of your weight loss goals.
Identifying Your Worst Food Vice
I bet that you're easting something every day with little or no positive or healthy nutritional value that is negatively affecting your weight.
If it's not a specific food, then it may be one food habit that can be responsible for unneeded calories - like dessert every day, or eating pastries for breakfast or a chocolate bar in the afternoon or snacking throughout the day.
Identifying what food or food habit you are indulging in regularly that is contributing the highest number of calories to your diet is important for taking steps toward losing weight.
My food vice is: (this is the food (or habit) that you are going to bust!
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First comes chocolate, !!!! then bread !!!!!
I know this is going to take a little work, but I'll give it a good try, and YES I will suceed. -
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I have a few for sure so I will have to think about which one to "bust" first.
I am NOT a breakfast eater and I know this doesn't help with my weight loss/maintenance efforts as I end up very hungry later on and don't get that boost in the morning that we all need.
Bad habit is not making exercise a priority in my life - but I know what is coming up as I read the book :) so I will work on this one more later.
I think I pretty well have my potato chip vice under control - I just don't buy them anymore. If I do really, really want them - I buy a single serving bag and enjoy every single one of them (alot better than a whole big bag)
I will eat a healthy breakfast within one hour of waking up, giving myself the boost I need, and saving me all those "hungry, ravishing calories" that I eat later on as I waited too long to eat. -
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Quote that showed up in my inbox today - "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."
- Anonymous
How true! -
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Definately too many carbs for me in the way of breads and refined flour based foods. Pasta is a BIG problem here as hubby is Italian and pasta is a staple. I can't just eat a small portion. I have been trying to keep the pasta to once a week..... maybe I'll go for once every two weeks and see how that goes. I almost always eat healthy grain breads but sometimes I binge on heavy white sourdough and marg. Becha I eat 2000 cals at one sitting when I do that! tsk!
I also don't eat breakfast, Rhonda, though many times I have tried to get into the habit, I have never been able to make it stick for more than a month. The only time breakfast works for me is when I am camping.... mmmmm porridge! -
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HI Melody.
I was going to ask if you have tried the whole wheat pastas or Smart pasta but then read you have a hard time with portion size with pasta. I know others that do too. I just can't handle a lot of pasta - makes me too bloated so I guess I am lucky. I usually have a little pasta with lots of sauce packed with veggies. Seems like you have a good plan altering it though.
So I guess I have picked a tough vice - eating breakfast - On day two :)
Have you tried porridge at home? I know Dr Oz tells us to try automating a meal or two so that you don't have choices to help prevent wandering. I think I would get sick of this. I tried it with soup every day for lunch and their are TONS of soup but after a while it was like NO MORE SOUP.
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#6
I guess the one I would work on first would be bread. I love sandwiches. Problem is, I like that soft white bread, that is really not good for us. I am going to start by replacing the white with whole wheat and then having only 1 slice of bread rather than the typical 2 slice sandwich.
Interesting side about the water: used to be when I asked my son to grab a drink for me he would always bring me a diet coke, now he brings me water! It works on the rest of the family to have that pitcher in the fridge. -
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Or Ellen you could try replacing one slice of white with one slice of whole grain on your typical sandwich. Guess it all depends on how strong you love white.
Cutting out white and both slices may be a lot for one day. I like things slow...can you tell..lol
Good for your son....is the rest of your family switching over to water also? -
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wanda has really inspired me more on my wieght lose right now thank you wanda
Simple Works: eliminate one food item and replace it with a healthy substitute.
When you eliminate your food vice, it's time to find something healthy that you are going to put in its place.
Some Recommended healthy replacements
apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, baby carrots, pineapple, grapefruit, carrots, celery, tomatoes, pears, plums, raisins, popcorn (no butter/no salt), brown rice, salads, lean meats, white fish, rice cakes, artichokes, deli sandwiches with lean meat, grilled chicken breast, turkey breast, 12-grain bread, natural unsweetened applesauce, Egg Beaters, butter substitutes Yoplait Lite yogurt, bean soup, low-sugar gum, honey, protein shakes, Kashi Go-Lean cereal
When you remove something from your life, especially a habit, you need to fill that space or time with something else.
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