Just another wanna be writing about how to lose weight blah blah blah…but this wanna be actually did lose weight and A LOT. I like to say right now on a good day I am 5′ 10. I used to weigh almost 300 lbs when I wasn’t even 5′ 8. And growing up as a kid, I have always struggled with my weight. Food was just darn good and readily available. Not wanting to move at all certainly helped too. Now I weight around 175 lbs and there are a few key attributes I like to say contributed to the weight loss journey that I always tell people. Some are obvious and some are not. They also are pretty simple and work if you aren’t fully dedicated to a workout regime like the Rock.
Here are some helpful tips that actually can be put into use:
- Avoid going out to each as much as possible. There’s a reason why restaurants and fast food options are now putting out their calorie labels on there food cuisines cause they are INSANE. Hidden calories one wouldn’t think of are used to make the food (example: extra delicious stick of butter) and they add up quickly. It’s hard to keep track of what you are putting in your body when going out to eat and Peer Pressure. Maybe not down a beer in 3 seconds peer pressure, but peers will invite you to go out to eat and order an appetizer of potato skins to share. Before you know it, your bill is pricey and your stomach is asking what the heck just went down. What I recommend doing to help lose weight is either to have a limit of how many times you will go out to eat, and/or order menu items that fit into your calorie count goals and always order the healthy options even if it costs a little extra more.
- Avoid Calorie Drinks and stick to water. Wow do calorie drinks add up. I mean think about it. For every beer you drink, it is around 150 calories per to be generous and you have 3 of those and that’s 450 calories right there. Yeah and that is one meal only. Imagine the orange juice for breakfast and the soda for lunch. Calorie drinks are an easy way to add up unnecessary calories. I found that losing weight was assisted strongly by drinking a lot of water mostly which can fill you up too (kinda sorta). But limiting calorie drinks allows for more calories to be put into food which is safe to say we all enjoy and love that idea of more food in our bellies.
- Avoid small samples of high calorie foods. This doesn’t necessarily apply to everyone, but I struggle with control when I eat something delicious. For Thanksgiving dinners and spinach dip, one bite and goodnight the bowl is mine. I recommend to limit the bad foods you eat as much as possible even as samples as it will leave the taste and craving in your mouth for more which becomes a much tougher challenge for you. And once you avoid those delicious foods that are extremely bad for you during long periods of time, you come to find that they don’t actually seem appetizing after a while. Kinda surprising but true.
Oh thank goodness, first real kinda sorta blog post is wrapped up. I need a beer now.
Just kidding. Hope you enjoyed though as I want to start creating more blog content on healthy habits as well as some personal financial planning and career goals advice. So I am supposed to end with some type of call to action but honestly not quite sure yet what to have…so stay tuned for my next post.
Thanks everyone,
Mike M
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