Working towards a healthy lifestyle.
Lesson 7
Working Towards a Healthy Lifestyle
Affirm Your Right To Be Thin
A person who has been heavy all their life may meet with negative feelings from family members when trying to lose weight. Remember, change can be frightening. Stay focused, get control over your own life and affirm your right to change.
Losing weight for someone else is dangerous both physically and emotionally, you must want it.
If you are pressured into weight reduction, the chances are good that you will gain the weight right back. If you feel that you need to be thin to be loved, it is time to reexamine the relationship. The changes you make in your life must only be for you. Affirm your right to be loved, fat or thin!
Working Together With Your Family
Get out of the kitchen! When possible, ask other members of the family to take a turn at cooking meals. Nothing is more devastating to a diet than taste as you go cooking.
Minimize clean up time. Do the dishes quickly and get on to another activity. Lingering over the leftovers will only tempt you to clean the pots by eating what is left in them.
Fill your evenings with people and activities.
Do you eat out of boredom? That is easy to cure. Turn on your favorite music and take a hot bath. Ride your exercise bike while watching your favorite sitcom. The end of a productive day deserves some reward, but it does not have to be a hot fudge sundae.
Try not to shop for food, but if you must, read the labels and become more aware of the caloric consequences of the choices you make.
When eating out, be demanding. Ask for dressings on the side. Request small portions of lean meats. Ask for a doggie bag. If you can not resist the rolls and butter, have them removed.
Out of the house and away from the fridge!
Plan evening walks, bicycle rides, sports-related activities and the like. Changing the focal point of your family time from eating to activity will help everyone rethink their habits, and provide you with company as well!
Act positively.
Moaning and groaning about having to turn down chocolate cake will not elicit the sought after sympathy from your family. If your family sees that you seem happier, they will be more apt to support you and your new lifestyle.
Listen to your body.
Learning to eat when you are hungry is difficult when you were raised to clean your plate. Start by leaving a spoonful of each item untouched at the end of every meal. When food is offered, stop and think. Am I really hungry? Is the item appealing? If the answer to either of these questions is no, then why do I feel pressured to eat?
Health Lifestyles For Future Generations
Remember, all food behaviors are learned. In dealings with our children and grandchildren, we must not fall into the traps of our parents which may present them with obstacles to good nutrition and smart eating habits.
Gene C.
Working Towards a Healthy Lifestyle
Affirm Your Right To Be Thin
A person who has been heavy all their life may meet with negative feelings from family members when trying to lose weight. Remember, change can be frightening. Stay focused, get control over your own life and affirm your right to change.
Losing weight for someone else is dangerous both physically and emotionally, you must want it.
If you are pressured into weight reduction, the chances are good that you will gain the weight right back. If you feel that you need to be thin to be loved, it is time to reexamine the relationship. The changes you make in your life must only be for you. Affirm your right to be loved, fat or thin!
Working Together With Your Family
Get out of the kitchen! When possible, ask other members of the family to take a turn at cooking meals. Nothing is more devastating to a diet than taste as you go cooking.
Minimize clean up time. Do the dishes quickly and get on to another activity. Lingering over the leftovers will only tempt you to clean the pots by eating what is left in them.
Fill your evenings with people and activities.
Do you eat out of boredom? That is easy to cure. Turn on your favorite music and take a hot bath. Ride your exercise bike while watching your favorite sitcom. The end of a productive day deserves some reward, but it does not have to be a hot fudge sundae.
Try not to shop for food, but if you must, read the labels and become more aware of the caloric consequences of the choices you make.
When eating out, be demanding. Ask for dressings on the side. Request small portions of lean meats. Ask for a doggie bag. If you can not resist the rolls and butter, have them removed.
Out of the house and away from the fridge!
Plan evening walks, bicycle rides, sports-related activities and the like. Changing the focal point of your family time from eating to activity will help everyone rethink their habits, and provide you with company as well!
Act positively.
Moaning and groaning about having to turn down chocolate cake will not elicit the sought after sympathy from your family. If your family sees that you seem happier, they will be more apt to support you and your new lifestyle.
Listen to your body.
Learning to eat when you are hungry is difficult when you were raised to clean your plate. Start by leaving a spoonful of each item untouched at the end of every meal. When food is offered, stop and think. Am I really hungry? Is the item appealing? If the answer to either of these questions is no, then why do I feel pressured to eat?
Health Lifestyles For Future Generations
Remember, all food behaviors are learned. In dealings with our children and grandchildren, we must not fall into the traps of our parents which may present them with obstacles to good nutrition and smart eating habits.
Gene C.
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