Tips for Maintaining a Fab Figure
Posted on Fri, Oct 09, 2009 @ 01:32 PM
By Robyn Lee Quinn, Assistant to the President
The average American eats around 12 pounds of chocolate every year -- along with 67 pounds of beef, 31 pounds of cheese, five pounds of potato chips and 260 eggs. Hello! No wonder most of us struggle with our weight. I just joined a pre-holiday fitness challenge with 10 other people and I’m looking forward to getting in better shape (and losing 10 lbs) before New Years! Wish me luck.
Ok so I know the exercise part but I really have to take in fewer calories, for those of you who know me, I never miss a meal or wine with dinner!
Here are some simple ways I’ll be using to cut my calories that I thought I would share with anyone who struggles like me with weight lose or just maintaining our fab figures:
1. Eat more often – Small meals please, we need to have our metabolism work with us not against us! Your body will comfortably burn the small healthy meals you eat all day long. I don’t want my body to store my fat because I’ve gone hours and hours without eating. Simple question: Hungry? Eat.
2. Eat your calories don't drink them - Soda and juice are the devil, really they are. Eat your calories and your vitamins, it’s easy, anything that has a pretty color will fuel us just fine! Calories from solids take more time to digest, that means we are fuller longer and our body is busy doing its job!
3. Eat foods that fill you up - A researcher, Susanna Holt was the first to index foods and categories of foods based on satiety. In her study, 38 foods with the same 240 calorie portion size were evaluated over a two-hour period to measure the degree of satiety as compared to a portion of white bread. Potatoes, popcorn, oatmeal and fish were among the foods that scored best.
4. Eat foods that stimulate our senses - Studies suggest that foods that are full of flavor and aroma are more satisfying than bland foods. Oh yes, this is easy, spice it up!!!
5. No whining about no wine – This is a tough one for me, I’m Italian I “need” wine every evening with dinner right? Keep adult bevies on weekends only, this is a huge liquid calorie cutter!!!