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before it’s too late. So it’s
4pm and somebody let the cookie monster out.
Uh oh, you bought the cookie. Don’t
panic. Share your treat with a friend or
colleague and you’ll be making friends and
saving your figure at the same time.
Avoid
grocery shopping on an empty stomach. Are you rushing to get to the supermarket? Are you starving too? Have you just returned with a car full of ‘forbidden’
items that you never planned to splash out on in the first place? Next time, eat before you leave. Don’t let your stomach do the shopping.
Eat
slowly. Did you know that
it takes roughly 20 minutes for your brain to realise that you’ve just
eaten? Take your time with food. How?
Have an intense conversation with your colleague or friend over lunch, just remember
to return to work!
Place
treat foods strategically in the fridge. Remember that saying ‘out of sight, out of
mind?’ Place any treat foods cleverly at
the back of the fridge. Next time you access
the fridge you should hopefully be greeted with a spectacular display of fruit
salads and pre-planned snacks. So
splendid, that you’ve already forgotten what’s behind..
Accumulate
the extras. Prepared
too much dinner? Tempted to eat
seconds? Eating is all about the right attitude. Spice up the routine and surprise yourself with
a delicious left-over meal for tomorrow’s lunch.
Grab
the kitchen scissors for meats. Trim
excess fat and skin off meat and chicken.
It tastes the same with or without.
No one will notice. Not even you.
Plan
emergency snacks. Is
that fruit bowl looking a bit lonely? Is
the fridge looking bare? Always stock
your fridge with delicious and pre-planned snacks, so that you’ll never be a
victim of that naughty cookie monster again!
Eat
salads from time to time for dinner. No meat.
Just a simple salad. You can add
cheese, chick peas or nuts for alternative sources of protein. Think of it as your weekly ‘super healthy
night’ to counterbalance all those nights of creamy desserts & endless
cocktails.
Finally,
beat the statistics! An
article by the Daily Mail quoted that ‘1 out of every 5 meals will be sold by
McDonalds during the Olympics’. I know
it’s hard, but try not to be the one...
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