By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training
This is always tough to admit, but nutrition is
more important
than
your workouts when it comes to fat loss.
And since diet
is more
important than exercise, I’ve decided to
spend a lot time sharing
nutrition
tips this week, starting with
these 5 diet secrets:
1) Your
nutrition
program doesn’t have to be extreme.
Hold up on making any extreme
diet
changes. Make sure the nutrition
plan you’ve chosen is sustainable.
Simple
diet changes go a lot
farther than you might think.
Why not
just eat
more whole, natural foods rather than trying to go
on an
impossible-to-stick-to ultra-low carb extreme plan?
2) Get the
junk out
of the house.
If it’s in your house, you’ll eat it…and trust
me, this
goes for
me too. When I visit a relative’s house for holiday, I
always eat
the
treats they have sitting around. That’s why I keep the junk out
of
my
house.
So whatever your weakness is, keep it out of your
home.
Success is that simple.
3) Fill in the
"diet-killing"
gap.
For some folks, the diet-killing gap is between work and
dinner.
For others, it’s between dinner and bedtime, but for
almost
everyone, there is a point in the day when we suffer from
mindless
eating.
So make sure you have alternatives…as soon
as you
come home from
work, cut up vegetables and dip them into hummus. That
will
keep
you full on a small amount of calories.
After dinner, if
you
need something sweet, stir up chocolate
protein powder into a small
bit of
plain yogurt. That will satisfy
you.
4) Chew your food 5-10
times
before swallowing.
Most people eat so fast they only about 1-2
times.
You’ll really
notice a difference and you’ll slow your eating so you
feel
full.
5) Have a bowl of broth-based vegetable soup before a meal.
American researcher Barbara Roll has published a lot of
studies
showing that this will help you reduce the food you
eat.
Surprisingly, consuming just water doesn’t seem to do the
same
trick.
So those are just 5 of the diet secrets we have
for you
this year.
Stay tuned for proven secrets to help you lose fat in
2010.
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