Quick Tips: Weekend Weight Management 2
More Quick Tips on Managing Your Weight during the Weekend:
6. Walk to the Game:
If you’re a season ticket holder and your weekend must-do activities include watching your team play, leave the car at home and walk to the game. If the stadium is too far away from your house, take the subway and get off a little earlier. 30 minutes to and back from game will give you some very good exercise.
7. Play with your Kids:
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Quick Tips: Weekend Weight Management 1
Whether it’s the parties or more restaurant visits, weekends often make weight management a little more difficult than usual. Try these tips to make managing your weight simple during the weekend:
1. Make Your Weekends Fun Yet Physically Active:
Get your friends and family together for a fun physical activity like Hiking, Fly Fishing, Beach Volleyball or Skiing. 3 or 4 hours of such an activity will burn over a 1,000 calories and compensate for any extra eating during the rest of the weekend.
2. Join a Sports League:
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7. Too Many Liquid Calories?
Many times when we’re doing well with the food intake, the calories in beverages manage to fly under the radar. A bottle of beer or a can of coke can add 150 calories each. Make sure you’re counting all the calories in your beverages right. Additionally try these two tricks to reduce calories in what you drink:
- In cold beverages: Add lots of ice
- In hot beverages: Skip the Cream
8. Are You Reading the Labels Right?
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Quick Tips: Vacations & Weight Management – 1
Quick Tips on Managing Your Weight While Vacationing:
1. Take an Active Vacation:
From Skiing to Snorkeling, there are tons of active vacation options available. Plan your next vacation around an exciting physical activity. The weight management issues will take care of themselves.
2. Jog or Bike along a Beautiful Trail:
Start your day with a jog or a bike ride. Ask the hotel for a recommendation on the most beautiful route in the area, than get there first thing in the morning. Read more
Quick Tips: Parties & Weight Management 2
Quick Tips On Managing Your Weight While Partying:
6. Eat or Drink Slowly:
If you’re walking around without a glass (or an empty one), the host is bound to offer you something to drink. Keep your glass full and eat and drink slowly.
7. Bring a Friend Along For The Party.
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Quick Tips on Managing Your Weight While Partying:
1. Be The Designated Driver:
Avoiding alcoholic beverages will save you a lot of calories. The best way to avoid alcohol: Be the designated driver.
Not only does this make weight management easier, you help your friends out as well. Interestingly, according to the 2006 Designated Driver Poll, 65% of Americans believe that being the designated driver is the best way to win points with the boss - Yet another benefit!
2. Make a Mental Note of the Calories in Alcohol:
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Quick Tips: Getting Support From Family & Friends - 1
1. The “Don’t Be a Nutritional Nutcase” Rule:
“Nutritional Nutcases” make a public service announcement along with a health warning for every calorie others take in. Of course, trying to improve others by being judgmental never works.
The better way is to do the right thing. When others see actual results, they are much more likely to join in and give support.
2. Make Gradual Changes:
If the changes in your lifestyle are drastic, it will be very difficult to get your family and friends to support you. For example if you ban the video games for a “family exercise hour” every evening, no one will enjoy the activity.
Instead, if you introduce a fun way to exercise over the weekend and gradually introduce similar activities during the week, it is much more likely to be sustainable.
3. Educate Them:
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8. Friends And Family Eat A Lot & You Can’t Resist:
Social pressure can be hard to resist. Try the following to make it easier:
- Talk to them; figure out how you can go for better options together.
- At Restaurants: Seek healthier options from the menu.
- Take a salad and munch on it. You can still enjoy their company.
- If your friends or family still insist you eat what they’re eating explain why you’re doing this. Mentioning health concerns always helps.
- Avoid any long lectures on the topic. Prove with your actions that it’s not that hard to lose weight and get healthier. Also prove that you’re not starving and they may well join you.
- Share you success. Tell them about the weight management target you just achieved. When they see it’s important to you, they’ll support you as well.
- Tell them it’s your “doctor’s orders”. This may do the trick.
- If nothing works, you may have to avoid these people until you feel comfortable with your new habits.
9. Leftovers? Throw Them Away Or Store Them:
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5. Reward Yourself Differently:
If you reward yourself with food for an achievement, try an alternative reward. Get yourself a new book or a DVD or even a vacation.
Many people reward themselves with food for sticking to their weight management goals. In your mind this may create an image that food is the best thing that can happen to you all week! Try an alternative bonus instead.
6. Gaining Weight After Marriage:
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Quick Tips: Not Hungry, Still Eating - 1
There can be many reasons behind eating when we’re not hungry. Some of these include:
- Eating out of boredom or unhappiness
- Eating more in the company of your friends and family members
- Habitual eating while doing something else like watching T.V.
Whatever the reasons, eating when you’re already full can sabotage your weight management targets. Here are a few tips on helping you overcome this:
1. Figure Out Why You’re Overeating:
This is the first step to solving the problem. Keep a notepad and jolt down any thoughts before and after your unwanted snack. Recognizing the reasons is an excellent first step in solving the problem.
2. Eating Out Of Boredom:
The best way to counter boredom is to take up a hobby. Do something fun that you always wanted to do. If you liked “Lego” as a kid, get into “Lego Serious Play”. This also helps explain the Lego to others (you tell everyone that this to improve your business skills!). Better yet, don’t worry about what others may think and just have some fun. They’ll almost certainly join you soon!
3. Overeating When Stressed:
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