Most of us come up with this New Year resolution of losing weight or maintaining a healthier lifestyle that does not last long. Are you trying to lose weight year after year unsuccessfully?
Here are some tips that may help you establish a goal of maintaining a healthier life:
- Think about the immediate benefits: how good it feels when you are healthy, the sense of well-being, energetic, mentally alert. As a reminder put a picture of yourself having a good time.
- Make small, easy changes over time:
- Begin taking walks after dinner, instead of watching television.
- Instead of cakes, have fruits for desserts.
- Add a vegetable and fruit in every meal; they are packed with disease–fighting plant compounds.
- Use olive oil and squeeze a lemon in your salads rather than store bought salad dressings.
Try a variety of strategies:
- Make family goals, such as committing to eat fish twice per week.
- Drink water rather than soda.
- For mindless munching, eat olives, pickles with no high fructose corn syrup, and hummus.
- Sleep more; use strategies like meditation, music, and reading before going to bed.
It is important to put the focus on living a healthy lifestyle, rather than on obtaining a particular weight.
Source: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FY/FY70800.pdf
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