Bridal Diet?
I know it’s only 80 day till my big day. Now I have to seriously watch what I am eating.
It’s not like I need to go on a diet to lose 30lbs… but I think it might be a good post for those who wants to change their lifestyle to lose weight.
1. set Realistic and Small goals - eat smaller portion and avoid unhealthy food
setting a goal to lose 40lbs might be good, but what happen after 40lbs? you gonna keep it up or you gonna gain it all back?
I personally set small and realistic goal for me. Right now, all I am trying to do is to eat smaller portion and avoid unhealthy food. Instead of looking at the number of pounds that I should be losing, I am looking at conditioning my body with better food and not eat a huge portion at one shot
2. Frequent meals
It’s actually pretty bad to eat only 3 meals a day. You are really starving your body till certain time of the day and then stock up with a lot more food that you should consume. So I am now trying to cut my lunch and dinner portion in half.. and eat small snacks in between meals. Small snacks can be a bowl of cereal, fruit salad, or two cookies.
3. Maintain active lifestyle
Losing weight is basically you spent more energy than what you take in. Now I will be playing 3 nights of Ultimate in summer, it will definitely keeps me active and burning my extra calories.
Active lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to go to gym. In fact, I am quitting gym in July. Gym is just another evil corporation like cellphone companies in Canada. $80 a month for membership? I would invest it to my RRSP.
Active lifestyle are things like walking to work, carrying grocery bags from supermarkets, climbing stairs, cleaning the house..etc. As long as you are moving, you are burning off your extra energies.
4. It’s a lifestyle that you are changing, not a number of weight that you are losing
If you seen my photos on my wedding site, you’d know that I lost 50lbs before. And to maintain my body not to gain weight is extremely difficult. I personally gained back 15lbs when I moved to downtown toronto. Everyday I am just fighting not to gain anymore weight is really stressful. Now I realize that, if I only thinks about follow the above 3 rules I set for my life, then it is less stressful for me to think about losing weight.
So, that’s it. 4 simple tips!
Now I can go get my yogurt in the fridge for my afternoon snacks.
20.May.08 
wedding 
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