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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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Diets – the ‘too-strict’ diet

One of the most frequent complaints that dieters give for not being able to complete a diet is that they just couldn’t stick to it. OK, so you’ve heard this before but listen carefully to them for the reason they often give is that it was too strict. Well, a diet has to be strict to let you lose weight so what are we to do?

Humans are designed to eat a wide range of food and, in fact, we need that range of food to gather all the building blocks required for a healthy body. If you restrict that range then your body will do it’s best to make you eat the food that you are missing – in order to make up the shortfall.

Looked at another way, your body is used to eating a certain variety of different foods which constitutes the way that you normally eat and will try its best to ensure that you go on eating it whatever happens.

This is one reason why diets are so hard to keep to since they usually insist that there are certain food that you can no longer eat, even though your body can see them all around you and knows that it wants them.

You can now begin to see the problem that you have when you try to remove a food or, worse, a food group from your diet – your eyes see the food and your body tells you that you need it but the diet says you can’t have it. So who wins?

OK, you’re right! Your drive to eat that food will become overpowering until you eventually give in. Many dieters already know this to their cost!

But this is not all, for most diets also restrict the amount that you eat as well as the type of food and the result of this is that you become hungry. Now hunger is a much more powerful drive than many people imagine and most people in the Western World (at least in modern times) have, thankfully, never experienced it before.

Believe me, hunger will make you eat no matter how good your intentions or no matter how strong your reserve, you just will not be able to resist it.

It follows, therefore, that any diet which takes out whole food groups or which severely restricts the number of calories that you can eat is doomed to failure in the long term.

You also know that a diet like this is not worth following for the short term since the weight loss will be pursued, once you quit the diet, by a weight gain that sometimes takes you over your starting weight!

I’m afraid this is dismal reading, but the question remains – just how do you diet then? The answer is in choosing the right diet, that is, one that restricts you but does not restrict you too much.

Firstly, it must not curtail the variety of food that you eat, allowing you to eat from all the food groups if possible.

Secondly, it should not restrict too much the number of calories that you eat. Ideally, it should be just less than the amount that you need.

This is the way that many calorie controlled diets work. These let you eat most any food you want but, by using a rationing system of points or similar, they keep your calorie intake to just below the amount that you require but not so far below that you get ravenously hungry.

Because of this, it is possible to follow these diets for a long time and they still remain both healthy and capable of letting you lose the pounds one or two at a week. At the end of the day that is still good weight loss and it is also the sort of weight loss that is sustainable.

The other advantage with these diets is that they help you to change your lifestyle for one that is healthier and more in keeping with modern thinking.

So, before you embark on that diet, review the way it works and see that it meets the criteria above. Then, and I believe this is most important, try it for a fortnight and see how you get on. Only choose it if you are sure that you can get on with it and stay with it over the long term.

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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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