Removing Temptation
written by: Dan Burley
Keeping baked goods, chips and other easy to eat, fattening snacks at home in places where you frequently visit and have easy access will sabotage your weight loss effort. Remove the temptation if you have a problem snacking on pastries, chocolate or chips, particularly late at night.
Lunch buffets and office parties can be equally distracting when you'retrying to lose weight. The first 3 to 4 weeks are critical to establishing good eating habits and little things such as birthday cake at the officeor chocolate bars can destroy your motivation to lose weight.
Remember, weight loss is not an overnight process. It takes weeks to establish good eating and exercise habits and several more weeks to start seeing results. Below are a few tricks you can do to REMOVE temptation so your efforts will pay off.
(1) If family members don't normally eat junk food, DO NOT buy baked goods, pastry, chips or other high calorie junk food. You can ALWAYS treat yourself to something sweet and fatty once or twice a week, but don't keep it around the house.
(2) If family members are not willing to give up their junk food then putall fatty snacks in a designated place where you seldom visit. The oldsaying "Out of sight, out of mind" is very true when it comes to removing tempting foods from your reach.
(3) If family members eat all the goodies in a short time, DON'T BUY MORE. Wait until the next scheduled time to go grocery shopping. This will train family members not to over indulge in junk food because once eaten, they'll have to wait until the next time you go grocery shopping.
(4) Office parties and celebrations are notorious for getting people off track from their diet. Usually, you'll know in advance of an upcoming celebration of cake and ice cream. Remove yourself from the party area. You can always walk to the opposite end of the office / building for 10 or 15 minutes.
(5) Congratulate your office mate after all the goodies are gone. Explain why you did not participate in the festivities. They will understand!
(6) Not all fast food restaurants are bad. It depends on what you select. Grilled chicken sandwiches, grilled chicken and rice bowl, sandwiches with no cheese and small amount of mayonnaise, fat free or baked chips, diet soda or water, salads with light dressing are available in most restaurants. BUFFETS will do you in, so avoid them.
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