Many friends: Moms, dads, brothers, sisters, husbands, husbands, and wives was always push food on them. I tell them exactly what I'm telling you: Acknowledge these behaviors. Recognize the problems, sit the people in question down, and let them know that you are trying to lose weight and be healthy. Tell them how they can help and support you. Chances are they'll want to help and will be willing to learn new recipes so that they can cook for you without sabotaging your health and happiness.
We count on the people closest to us to support us through thick and thin. The fact that a loved one may be sabotaging your efforts to get in shape, whether they are conscious of their behavior or not, can be tough to swallow and address. Take a good look at your current significant relationships to see how they affect your life both on a day-to-day level and on a larger scale. Is anyone in your circle a food-pusher?
Sure, it seems innocent enough. These people may not realize what they are doing, or they may think they are doing it out of love. The bottom line is that their way of loving you is through food. It's time to stop it for good.
You have to be strong and say no when people offer you more food then you have selected for yourself. For example, just because a friend offers you a shot, you dont always take it. If you are already buzzed, you will probably turn it down.
Most addictions are perpetuated by the people we surround ourselves. If you smoke, you probably hang around smokers, if you play basketball you probably get up early on saturday mornings to ball it up for 4 hours, if you are overweight then you probably have friends that eat way too much, if you drink a ton, take a look at who is handing you those drinks.
Sometimes to make a lifestyle change we need to hang with new people. When it comes to food please ask me if you need advice. This christmas weekend, eat all day, but graze dont binge. What I mean is eat a small portion every 3 hours. Just keep going back to it, and it will still taste good, and by grazing you will fuel your metabolism to burn more energy, instead of storing it as fat for energy when you go more than 5 hours without eating. If your really hungry try drinking a glass of water, sometimes those hunger pangs are actually dehydration. If your urine is very yellow then you are most likely very dehydrated. When I drink water all day, the urine is clear like water.\
So enjoy all the goodies of xmas, but timing your eating is just as important in maintaining your energy level, and preventing you from getting food coma or needing to nap. Think of stoking a fire with wood, if you run out of wood, you run out of fire. But if you put all the wood at the same time, it burns fiercely for a few minutes, but then it is gone. If you put in a little bit of wood at a time, you can keep that fire burning all day and melting away calories of fat from your body.
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