ACTIONS:

 

  1. Adequate Water
  2. Healthy Substitutes
  3. Exercise Before TV or Computer
  4. Visualize Healthy Future
  5. Add a Fruit or Vegetable
  6. Increase Exercise
  7. Add Fiber
  8. Clean Your Home
  9. Add a Daily Supplement
  10. Eat a Healthy Breakfast
  11. Eat a Healthy Lunch
  12. Eat a Healthy Dinner

As you enter this final week of the vice-busting diet plan, I'm sure you've anticipated what this week has in store for you - that's right, a healthy dinner.

 

The final step toward building a lifestyle of health and fitness, although not the least important, is to put your focus on what should be your last meal of the day.

For too many people, dinner comes at a time when their hunger is reaching a peak. You've worked all day and gone most of the afternoon without much in the way of nutrition. While we've covered the importance of not letting yourself get too hungry, one of the hardest things to do is plan your dinner - especially if you work away from home - and it may be tempting to grab something on the way home.

 

If you have gone too long without food, it usually leads to dinner's being the biggest meal of the day. Unfortunately, having your biggest meal at this time gives you too much opportunity to consume too many calories and therefore put on weight. The family time you have may be terrific but the calories aren't. You may be eating too much food at the wrong time.

Dinner at the Right Time

The next big issue with dinner tends to be eating too late or too close to when you go to sleep. You don't want to put a whole bunch of calories in just before your system sits of lies down for an extended period of time.

 

Dinner needs to become the least important of all three meals.

 

As dinner becomes the least important, breakfast is the most important.

4 Aspects of a Good Diet

  1. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day - then lunch, then dinner.
  2. Healthy snacks keeps energy levels high and blood sugar levels from getting low.
  3. Nutrition throughout the day (up to  times) keeps you ready for any task.
  4. You'll have more energy and make quicker recovery - especially from exercising.

Start your day right, build on your first healthy meal with a healthy energy-rich lunch, followed by a snack in the afternoon and even one before exercising.

GOAL OF THE WEEK

 

Eat a Healthy Dinner Every Day

 

END OF WEEK REWARD

 

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Is dinner usually your largest meal? Do you eat after dinner? Your thoughts.....

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