Effortless Dieting: Six Tips To Make Your Diet Easy
Do you find yourself struggling to maintain the motivation to stick to your diet? If so, perhaps you’ve made things too difficult for yourself.
It’s always hard to force ourselves into action that takes time or thought, so here’s how to make dieting effortless, by making it as easy as possible to make the right choices.
1. Keep “Bad” Foods Out of Reach
Have you ever wondered how cookies somehow sneak out of the jar in the kitchen and into your hand before you’ve even noticed? Most of us spot a tasty snack in range and reach for it almost without thinking … and these little nibbles every time we open the fridge or pass the kitchen can add up to a lot of unnecessary calories.
Put that cookie jar on top of a high cupboard, so that you have to stand on a chair to reach it, and you’ll be amazed how much your will-power will improve…!
2. Suck A Hard Candy When Tempted to Nibble
If you hoover up calories while you’re cooking or baking – a spoonful of cake mix here, a chunk of cheese there – a good tip is to keep something in your mouth. Hard candies work well: go with sugar-free versions if you can.
You could also try brushing your teeth first: most flavours don’t go very well with mint!
3. Leave Your Cash At Home
If you find yourself standing at the vending machine each morning at work, leave all your cash at home – that way, you won’t be able to buy yourself a candy bar or bag of chips without asking a co-worker for a loan. Tell all your office you’re dieting, and you’ll be too embarrassed to admit you want a chocolate fix!
4. Pack Your Gym Kit
When you were a kid, did your parents make you pack your school bag the night before? It’s good advice even for us adults – it saves rushing around madly in the morning, and means you’re much less likely to forget things. Put your gym kit in your bag before bedtime, and you won’t have that “I was too busy” excuse for not taking it to work. (Nor will you find, as I once did, that you’ve brought your gym clothes and no towel for your post-gym shower…)
5. Keep A Bottle Of Water With You
Most of us could do with drinking more water. Keep a bottle on your desk, within easy reach, and you’re much more likely to sip at it throughout the day than if you have to keep getting up and filling a glass. If you already have a bottle, try upsizing it: you might find that you empty the larger bottle as fast as the smaller one, with the result that you increase your water intake without any extra effort.
Pop a bottle of water in your bag when you’re out and about, too; it’s easy to swig from when walking along, and will prevent you from getting dehydrated. Keeping a bottle in the car is also a good idea.
6. Buy Easy-Snacking Fruit and Veg
Do you make firm resolutions to eat more fruit and veg, only to find that all the peeling and chopping and cooking makes it too much effort? Get hold of some easy-snacking fruits and veggies: anything that can be eaten with little or no preparation. Try apples, bananas and all types of berries for no-effort fruit, and carrots (can be eaten unpeeled and raw),
Although they cost a bit more, ready-prepared vegetables might be worth it if they help you to hit that five-a-day target.
Do you have any easy tips for making dieting as effortless as possible? Share them with us in the comments!
Written by Ali HaleRelated posts:
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