Weight Loss Tips to Start 2009
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As I pulled into a fast food joint near my office today at lunch, I had a choice. I could get the fried chicken sandwich or the grilled chicken sandwich, one being much healthier than the other. I chose the grilled chicken sandwich — it was my healthy choice for the day.
Everyday we’re faced with these kinds of choices. They make up our diets and our overall health. While it may seem like a small choice, it would’ve taken hours of exercises to repair the damage that the fried sandwich would’ve caused. When we look at a week’s worth of food/drink choices, a diet that is represented of mainly soda and fast food is going to make you incredibly overweight and unhealthy.
That’s where we start our tips: make healthy choices.
2. Eat at a table. There are a few tables that are still eating as a family at a certain time every night, together. However, that’s not how I was raised — even though my parents probably would’ve liked that. Turn of the television too, while you’re at it. When you’re at the table, you eat, and when you’re not, you’re not eating when you’re at the house. No food in front the TV!
3. Turn off the phone. It may be hard to do, but you can do it. It gets you away from work, away from businesses that call you, and away from all the stress that the outside world can inject into you through your phone. Once you turn off your phone, go outside, go for a walk, do something in nature — stop and smell the fresh air again.
4. Trade the phone in for a pedometer. These track how many steps you’ve made in the course of a day. While most people take a couple of thousands steps during a day, experts say you should aim for 10,000 to burn calories and lose weight. Add it as part of your routine — park further away from the grocery store, the video store, walk around the mall instead of going to a huge superstore, etc.
5. Have variety. Don’t just go to the gym everyday and run on a treadmill like a hamster for an hour. Go run at the gym a couple of days a week, go to the park and play frisbee with friends a couple of days, play soccer, lift weights, etc. Keep it fresh, relaxing, and enjoy working out — you’ll keep doing it much longer since you don’t hate it.
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