Becoming slim isn’t about cutting down on your food, exercising and “being good”, it’s a lifestyle change. The kind where when you arrive at a new lifestyle, you realise what perks you’ve been missing in your life all this time.
- Recognise the frenzy you get into when youre eating – you are driven by a primeval instinct that you do not know where your next meal is coming from. You do. it’s only your frenzied state telling you you should fill up to the brim.Eating less never feels rewarding, so It will be hard at first.This will work for you eventually, and you’ll start eating food to sample various flavours of it, not just to fill a hole.
- Start your day with a cup of herbal tea, with little sugar – warm liquid in your stomach is comforting and sugar will provide you with that first burst of energy
- Eat a decent breakfast followed by fruit and a omega-3 supplement
Eat a reasonable lunch (under 600 calories), fill up on fresh salad.
Eat a light salad or snack for dinner – just something to kill the nagging hunger. You don’t need calories 2-3 hours before sleep. The food you’ve eaten troughout the day should provide enought energy for the strenuous task of sleeping. - Drink water whenever you can. Keep water in front of yourself, you’ll find yourself drinking it troughout the day. You can drink up to 5 litres a day, no problem. Downside is you will be going to toilet more frequently. This should do something for your skin too.
- Walk whenever you can, it might hurt at first but after a few weeks you’ll feel like your overall shape has improved dramatically. Increase the distances, and at a brisker pace.
This will save you funds and hours wasted on a treadmill. - Recognise calories in mayo, chocholate spreads, butter, cheese, bannanas and grapes. These things are so calorie rich that they can make you fat in no time.
- Even if you crack under pressure, these slip-ups will become less and less.
- Being slim is a state of mind. What I mean by that is that you can actually reason yourself with logic to what’s good for you, and this same reasoning will become a part of who you are, not a nagging reminder.
- It takes months and years. But as a man wiser than myself said: “even a 1000 mile journey starts with a single step”.
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