After losing 5 and a half stone on the Cambridge weight plan the next step for me was insuring that I didn’t put the weight back on.
With my councillors words freshly ringing in my ears
“if you go back to eating the same foods you were pre diet you will put the weight back on”
I started a mission to change my lifestyle and adopt a new healthy diet and exercise programme that would see me maintain my new body.
Step 1 – your daily diet
Don’t skip breakfast
Breakfast kick-starts your metabolism, burning calories from the get-go and giving you energy to do more during the day. People who skip breakfast often feel so hungry that they eat more later on. So they get more calories than they would have if they ate breakfast. In fact, people who skip breakfast tend to have higher BMIs than people who eat breakfast.
- I drink 2 litres of water every day
Step 2 excersise
I insure that I work out at least 4 times a week mixing cardio with resistance training to insure I burn calories as well as tone up my body with weights. I tend to use lightweights with higher reps
Other tips
- Replace unhealthy foods with healthier alternatives for example
- Crisps replace with nuts
- White rice replace with brown rice or Cous Cous
- Limit alcohol to once a week
- Limit cakes and sugary food to once a week
- Start a food diary to monitor what you eat
- Prepare food early in the day
- Have your last meal at 1830 at the very latest
- Don’t eat in front of the television
- Watch out for portion distortion. Reduce portion sizes