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Finding time for yourself between carpooling, after school activities, and your normal household chores is hard enough for a mom, let alone trying to find time to exercise and eat right. More often than not, you are eating what you can, when you can and don’t realize the weight gain till your favorite jeans can no longer be your favorite. Making a few changes that don’t take up your time with these tips on how to lose weight fast can help you get back into those favorite jeans and feel good again.
Say no to eating your kid’s leftovers. It can definitely be tempting, especially when you are low on time and you know the food is good. You just hate to throw it away, but that is what you need to do, throw it away. You would be amazed at how many extra calories you take in just by eating off the kid’s plates without even realizing it.
Go ahead and start eating like your kids. Notice that they are ignoring the “clean your plate” rule and follow suit. You don’t have to eat everything on your plate to feel full and get enough food. Sometimes it can be hard though, so switch to using smaller kid’s size plates for your meals, that way no food is wasted and your smaller portions will look big.
Say no to talking on the phone in the kitchen, especially if you know you are going to reach for the cookies while doing so. How many times have you been talking on the phone only to discover a snack in your hand, half eaten, with no clue on how it got there? When you need to talk on the phone, walk around in another room or go outside, avoid the kitchen like the plague.
Always say yes to a good breakfast. Mornings are busy times in a household with kids, fixing the kids’ breakfast, and getting things ready for school, but you need to take time to eat something yourself too. Breakfast isn’t just the most important meal of the day for kids, adults need it to. This may also help to raise your metabolism and allow you to burn more calories during the day.
Don’t eat straight out of the bag or box. Doing that totally throws portion control out of the window and before you know it, you are left with an empty container wondering how it got that way. Always pour yourself a serving, doesn’t matter the size, so you can see exactly how much you are eating.
When you’re trying to achieve fat loss, do go ahead and splurge from time to time. It isn’t good to deprive yourself of those foods everyone calls “evil”. They are only evil if you go overboard and binge, and you will binge if you don’t allow yourself to give into a craving every once in a while. With kids, this isn’t as hard as you think. When you buy them ice cream, get yourself a child sized cone, you get to satisfy your sweet tooth in a controlled way.
Finding the time to take proper care of yourself to achieve fat burning is hard when you have to put everyone first, and the battle of the bulge seems to forever be waging war. However, you can win that war by paying attention to just a few of these tips on how to lose weight fast while still being able to enjoy fitting in your jeans year after year.
- Ben Pate
