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5 Diet Plan Saving Tips !

Guilty and frustrated from cheating on your diet plan? These diet plan saving tips will keep you on track!

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It’s nine thirty at night and you have followed your new diet plan perfectly to a tee all day. A pizza advertisement comes on the commercial break of your favorite show and you notice it is close to your next mealtime.
Up to the kitchen you go to eat your next meal. When in the fridge pulling out your nicelyprepared diet plan meal, you notice some left over Fettuccini Alfredo your wife or roommate brought home. Sure looks good you think as you catch a little bit of saliva about to drip on your shirt!

“Just a little taste won’t hurt my diet plan,” you justify…

“ I’ve stuck to my diet plan all day……”

A little taste and before you know it you tell yourself the extra carbs and calories will be a good boost to your workout tomorrow!

An hour later your gut is stretching and Indigestion plagues you from cheating on your diet plan!!

“I should have stuck to my diet plan!” is going through your head as you lay down to have nightmares of a fat ass! “Tomorrow I’ll stick to my diet plan “, you chant in your head!But you fall from your diet plan only a day or two later!

The occasional stray from your diet plan can really add up!And billboards,tv’s, radios and people are everywhere pushing fast foods and junk to sabotage your diet plan!

Here are five diet plan saving tips to arm yourself against the onslaught of the Cheating War!

Diet Plan Tip #1 – Eat Slowly – Take your time when you sit down to eat.

The chances you will stuff yourself or overeat diminish and you will reach the point of satiety much more quickly if you eat slowly!

The more you are satisfied with what you have eaten the less likely you will continue to think of food. That chocolate Black Forest cake won’t be as tempting either!

Diet Plan Tip #2 – Have Delicious Meals That Fit Your Meal Plan Prepared Ahead Of Time.

Having meals prepared ahead of time makes it convenient to eat according to a plan and on schedule.

You can make it more convenient to stick to your diet plan than it is to eat that bag of candy by having your diet plan meals prepared and available when it is time to eat– and when you gethungry.

Diet Plan Tip #3 – Get Used To Eating For Your Purpose Instead Of For Your Taste Buds.

Satisfying your taste buds when you get the urge to gorge down a Big Mac will never develop a healthy, lean, muscular physique! Keep in mind you are eating to develop a lean, healthy muscular physique every time you open your mouth! The temporary taste satisfaction of a jelly-filled donut will be gone real fast but the empty calories you just devoured can defeat a whole day’s worth of bodybuilding effort!

Diet Plan Tip #4 – Be creative with your cooking to make sticking to your diet enjoyable.

Ideally, with proper preparation and some reciperesearch you can create delicious mouth watering meals that meet your diet plan criteria. Learn to cook. Employ spices from other parts of the world. India and China are twocountries with interesting choices to really spice up your diet plan. When you don’t have to force feed yourself with your nose plugged the chances are much higher you can stick to your diet plan more easily!

Diet Plan Tip #5 – Drink Water.

Drinking water between meals can help to reduce your hunger pains temporarily by giving a sense of fullness. For those of you that sabotage your diet plan munching here and there,keeping a water bottle with you wherever you go can really help.Just sip away when its oral satisfaction rather than hunger driving you.

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Can You Lose Weight Without Starving?

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University are providing some clues to help you achieve permanent weight loss. They are looking at the effects of your food choices and how they affect your ability to lose weight. (The influence of food portion size and energy density on energy intake: implications for weight management. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005 Jul;82(1 Suppl):236S-241S.)

The researchers were interested in finding out what determined how much food people eat at each meal. You might think that people would tend to eat until they were no longer hungry and then stop. Or that they would eat a certain number of calories and their body would sense they had enough and they would stop.

But what they found was somewhat surprising. They found that people tend to eat a meal based on how big it is.

In other words, the participants in the study were used to eating food of a certain size. Whether half a plate, a full plate, a small bowl or a large bowl, they found that people tend to eat the same size meal. It is as though they do not feel it is a full meal unless it is a certain size portion.

The problem of meal size and weight loss is that some foods are much denser than others. For example, fatty meats and rich sauces are much denser than fresh fruits and vegetables.

So when you eat a full plate of fatty meats with sauces and potatoes with gravy you are getting very calorically dense food. It is very easy when eating this kind of food to get excess calories. Even a small number of extra calories will store as fat, and over the years your weight will creep up.

As hard as it may be to believe, if you eat an extra 100 calories per day you will gain nine pounds per year. And it takes very little of this calorically dense food to amount to 100 calories.

The most common solution is to try to cut down on the amount of food at each meal. But as the researchers showed, it is difficult to cut down on meal size. When you eat a smaller meal you do not feel satisfied.

Now, it is true that portions of foods in our modern society have become bloated beyond all reason. A generation ago eight ounces of soda was considered a full serving; now you see people drinking 64 ounce cups.

It used to be that a dinner salad was a portion; now you see restaurants serving a 2000 or 3000 calorie platter of salad heaped with meat, bread, cheese and ladles of salad dressing. This is more food than your body needs for an entire day.

If you are living in this society and are overweight you are suffering from these oversized portions to some degree.

It is not easy to adjust to normal size portions when you have grown used to the large portions. As the research shows, you will not be satisfied until you have eaten your usual volume of food.

If you are used to eating a whole plate of food, you will want to eat a whole plate whether the food is light or heavy. If you are used to eating two bowls of food, you will want to eat two bowls full whether the food is low calorie or high calorie.

But what you can do is change the composition of what you eat. When you eat one of the very dense foods, like fatty meats and rich sauces for instance, you are not generally satisfied with a small amount.

Your body only needs about 600-700 calories for each meal; this is a normal meal size in a lean, healthy adult.

But a small portion of meat and gravy will probably not seem like a meal to you. It is not very likely that you are going to be satisfied with that. You might have to double the portion to feel satisfied.

But a meal with less dense foods, like grains, soups and vegetables, will be a lot of food. There are not too many calories in a bowl of soup and a heap of lettuce, and add some grains and you will have plenty of food. Even with some lean meat you will still get more to eat.

Soup in particular can be very helpful when you are trying to slim down. If it is prepared properly soup can provide a very tasty, nutritious, low-density food. It can help you feel you had a meal and not leave you feeling hungry or deprived.

So when you add in the less calorically dense foods, which are mainly foods like fruits, vegetables, grains and rice, you get a lot more to eat, plain and simple. And it is always easier to stick with your weight loss efforts if you feel you are getting enough to eat.

If you are overweight this is the place to start. Substitute less dense foods for the heavier foods you may be used to. And finally get on the road to permanent weight loss.

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A Quick Look at Some of Today’s Most Effective Diets

The idiot-proof diet is all about calorie shifting. That is, in this diet, you shift your food intake throughout the day instead of eating just 3 meals a day. The diet is popular because it’s actually very easy to follow and there are hardly any restrictions when it comes to the types of food you can eat.

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The Idiot-Proof Diet

The idiot-proof diet is all about calorie shifting. That is, in this diet, you shift your food intake throughout the day instead of eating just 3 meals a day. The diet is popular because it’s actually very easy to follow and there are hardly any restrictions when it comes to the types of food you can eat.

The ‘calorie shifting’ model takes place because you eat every two and half hours. The theory is that because your body is consuming calories (energy) constantly throughout the day, it’s always in ‘burning calories’ mode instead of the ‘saving calories’ mode.

When you sign up for the diet, you get access to a diet handbook, an 11-day diet-plan and a diet calculator. You get to pick what foods you like to eat so don’t think that you’ll be tarving in this diet!

NutriSystem

The NutriSystem way of dieting is all about proper meal planning. People love this diet because it takes away the burden of trying to figure out what to eat during their dieting phase. You see, a lot of people actually get confused as to what they can eat when they want to lose weight. That’s not really surprising because there’s so much information out there and for every yay sayer, there is a nay sayer so it’s really tough to know what to eat.

However, with NurtiSystem, they do all the meal planning and portion controlling for you. You just need to sign up to any of their diet programs (e.g., Women’s Program, Men’s Program, Vegetarian Program, etc.) and order a multi-day (usually for 28 days) diet program.

After you choose your diet program, a menu is presented to you and you simply choose what you want to eat. The meals are then delivered to your doorstep at various intervals during your diet program.

The South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet is popular because the name alone conjures bikini-clad bodies! Add to that the fact that it was founded by a cardiologist, Dr. Arthur Agatston, then you have a sort of ‘doctor recommended, doctor approved’ seal on the diet as well.

At first glance, the South Beach Diet looks a lot like the Atkins Diet in the sense that it restricts carbohydrates during the initial phase of the program (there are 3 phases). The first phase (14 days) encourages ‘normal eating’ in the sense that you can pretty much eat whatever you want but you must NOT eat bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, or baked goods. Fruit is also not allowed. No sugar. No alcohol.

The second phase allows you to SLOWLY introduce these items back into your diet but at lesser levels that you consumed them before of course. The third phase is more about general maintenance.

Weight Watchers

Probably one of the longest running diet programs out there is Weight Watchers. It believes in the overall approach where food, exercise, behavior and support are addressed.

Weight Watchers is known for advocating a point system for foods. Using this system, one calculates the calorie intake of the foods he or she eats. The number of points you can have in a day varies depending on your weight. The beauty of the program is that there are no gut-wrenching food restrictions so you never feel deprived of anything. However, the point system teaches you how to balance your meals so that even if you indulge on one food item, you don’t go overboard and consume too much in a day.

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