TIP: Identify & eliminate the non-essentials
Dieting successfully is all about doing a small number of things correctly, and consistently enough for a long period of time. Obviously the biggest factor here is doing the ‘eating the right quantity of the right quality of foods’ consistently.
The tricky part is that a lot of people THINK that they are doing this … I’ve fallen into this trap too.
Does this sound familiar: You’re dieting ‘hard’ for ages. Strictly tracking your meals and making sure your portions aren’t out of control. But the scale isn’t budging … In fact, sometimes it’s moving in the WRONG direction!
Liquid calories & other non-essentials
Often the mistake being made by the dieter is that, despite all the tracking of meals, portion size is put into excess by the liquid part of the calorie-intake. If you have a couple of glasses of wine every evening (or beers, or Cokes) you are adding unnecessary calories to your daily intake that needn’t/shouldn’t be there.
Look, if you want to halve the portion size of your dinner to drink a bit of wine, be my guest, but also remember that you then get less NUTRITION out of your meal.
The solution: Only have a drink (or two) on weekends. I allow it on Friday and Saturday evening. This will go some of the way to correcting for your unintended surplus.
Additional bonus: This will also help with your grocery budget!
View previous Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips:
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: The ‘Rule of Crumb’
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: The best time to eat
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Re-learn these 5 basic tips
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Remember you still have a CHOICE
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Think AFTER you eat
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Don’t forget to think WHILE You Eat
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Do a daily weigh-in
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: When & how much to eat
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: 7 Essential habits
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Moderate the madness
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Make PLANS not promises
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Get your portions right
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Shift the goalposts to stay motivated
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Set a short-term goal NOW
- Super-Practical Weight-Loss Tips: Commit to ONE idea
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