How to Manage Your CALORIES

MANAGE YOUR CALORIES

After you set up the goal for shedding off your extra pounds, you have to go in for a healthy & a balanced diet. Planning your meals wisely is the foremost & the most important step in your weight loss diet programme. You might have cut down many of your favourite foods and have successfully reached near your weight loss goal but suddenly you may start craving for your favourite foods that you had to ward off during your weight loss journey and binging on them can wreak havoc with your weight control and bring you back at the point from where you had started to manage your calories

Therefore, it is very important to learn to make a right balance of calories while binging upon your favourite foods. When you inculcate the habit of finding a way to balance these calorie-dense foods with better nutritional choices, you won’t be as tempted to overindulge as you were earlier.

BE AWARE OF YOUR CALORIES

If you are on a weight loss diet, plan your calories for the whole day. If you cut upon your calories substantially to achieve your goal , try to include healthy and nutritious choices in your daily intake so that you do not feel like eating the harmful ingredients. While shopping, you must inculcate the habit of reading the information slip on any item so as to know its various ingredients and their caloric value. The right choice at the time of shopping will be like half the job done.

MANAGE YOUR TEMPTATIONS

You often get tempted on seeing your favourite foods that are mostly high caloric and unhealthy. To tackle such situations, you should plan your daily intake strategically and stick to your daily intake timing schedule. This will certainly help you to stay away from unhealthy choices. Moreover, when you are on such a weight losing mission, you should make it a point not to buy such foods that can tempt you and distract you from achieving your goal.

CAREFUL PLANNING FOR DIET DEPRIVATIONS

Diet deprivations of some foods can spoil your weight loss plans which make a space for foods that can make you to crave. At such junctures, Dark chocolates can satisfy your sweet tooth to some extent. Similarly take a bit of everything that makes you to crave rather than binging upon it.

SET STRATEGIES FOR EATING OUT

Eating out is proving to be the main culprit for weight gain these days . After a hectic schedule for the week, weekends are often planned outside. This will not become a hurdle in your mission if you look out for such places that can offer you with healthy and nutritional choices. Healthy tempting salad preparations, low fat soups and other low caloric options in the menu card can help you out at this challenging moment. Otherwise, if possible, you may plan an outing or picnic where you can consume your homemade food.

PLAN A TREAT DAY

A well planned treat day can satisfy your temptation for outing. But while you are out on such treat, fried and calorie laden foods should stay away from your meals and grilled & steamed things should be part of your servings. When it is a treat day, a small amount of empty calories is okay, but most people eat far more than it is healthy. It is important to limit empty calories to the amount that fits your calorie and nutrient needs. You can lower your intake by eating and drinking foods and beverages containing empty calories less often or by decreasing the amount of such calories you eat or drink.

BALANCING TASTE WITH HEALTHY CHOICES

Learn to balance your taste buds with healthy options laden with fresh fruits and green vegetables and avoid calorie dense foods . Some food are rich in solid fats and added sugars. Although such foods are appealing and tempting like Cakes, cookies, pastries, donuts and ice creams yet they contain both solid fat and added sugars which are enemies of your good health. You can tune your taste buds with healthy home made options like a home made hummus. It will be a healthy choice over a cheese dip with less calories. Rava Idlies and rava dosas with a dash of spices with vegetable based sambhar can be a occasional treat. Tasty fruit based yoghurt can satisfy your sweet tooth.

MOTIVATING YOURSELF

Although you may have sufficient knowledge to plan out your low calorie and healthy diet, yet you need to be fully motivated all the times throughout your journey to reach at your weight loss goal. For this, you need to consult a professional, who will not only guide you for planning your healthy & balanced diet but also keep on motivating you to achieve your goal. You should also try to make the topics relating to good health, part of your discussion with your companions so that you have a focused approach all the time through out your journey of shedding extra pounds.

Keep these tips in mind & Stay fit and healthy………..