A few simple resolution suggestions that are easy to keep and may help you achieve your health goals:
10. Cook at home more and try to use only fresh ingredients. Except for plain yogurt, avoid foods that are white (white bread, white pasta, mashed potatoes). Then make videos of you cooking to put on YouTube and think about how embarrassing it will be when people see you putting a stick of butter in the frying pan with the loaf of bread and eggs. Hmm that sounds good actually.
9. Pick up a new habit. It is said that habits you drop need a replacement, like decaf for caf coffee. By the way if you are having a hard time giving up coffee or reducing it, at least start by slowly mixing it with decaf. Or do something distracting like making a life list on SuperViva or braiding your hair into 2000 braids over the course of a year. Retort at people who make fun of you that 1/3 of your head is braided as part of your resolutions. Refer to #7 if you’re a guy or have short hair.
8. Eat cheese but semi-firm like Gruyere and firmer cheeses like parmesan. Give up the triple creme Camembert, Cambazola, gorgonzola and anything else that makes you swoon when you eat it. For one thing you won’t want to eat as much of the firmer cheeses.
7. Bite your nails instead of chewing gum. You’ll save money from having to go to a manicurist and will avoid all kinds of nasty chemicals. Are you with me still here?
6. Don’t eat in front of the TV. Stick to this and you may find the pounds dropping off. Even try keeping exercise things like a balance ball or weights there to occupy you. Who knows you may just reduce your TV watching in half by eliminating the food. Then voila, you have so much extra time.
5. Take a miniscule walk after eating even if it’s just around the block. Even if it’s just 50 steps. Just don’t keep sitting after you eat. Snowing? Get out there and shovel! Think of all the money you’ll save on snow plowing then you can tell your children how you used to break your back shoveling snow.
4. Eat brown rice instead of white. Higher protein, higher fiber. Plus it has a great chewy texture and nutty flavor so you’ll firm up your double chin as the weight drops off.
3. Eat buckwheat pasta including Soba noodles if you’re going to eat noodles. Or better yet if you can get (and afford) quinoa pasta, eat that. I bought some delicious wagon wheel pasta. Check out a nutrition comparison of various grains.
2. Find something you love even more than eating. You know what I’m talking about. Do I have to spell it out? Find that thing you love to do and do it instead!
1. Eat chocolate but make it solid dark chocolate. Give up the filled stuff and higher sugar milk chocolate. You’ll get that chocolatey high goodness with much fewer calories. Thankfully chocolate will always be there, so try going without it for 21 days and see how much easier it gets to give it up. Easier than a lot of things anyway!
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January 6th, 2007 |
