Diet and exercise have a huge influence on living a happy, healthy life. Eating healthy and eating a variety of food helps you achieve or maintain a healthy weight. It can even boost weight loss while improving nutrition. Too many of us need to set ourselves up for success, and below are tips to help you get more nutrition and maintain a healthy weight.
Healthy Weight Tips
“Meal-Over” Your Refrigerator and Pantry.
When high-fat, high-sugar, and high-salt foods fill the cabinets, pantry, or refrigerator, the temptations can sidetrack your weight loss goals. Caving into temptations can induce stress from the guilt of not sticking to your diet. Prevent stress and temptations by eliminating those foods from your home. Clean out your cabinets and donate non-perishable foods to a local food bank.
Focus Your Shopping with a Grocery List App
Out of Milk is one of several grocery list apps that lets you create a grocery list so you remember staples. When dieting, this app’s advantage is that your grocery list is always with you. Grocery lists are known to keep dieters focused while shopping and prevent spontaneous purchases. A convenient grocery list will remind you to purchase healthy snacks while saving you time at the grocery store.
Eat the Rainbow
Dieting doesn’t mean your plate should be dull and beige. Candy, ice cream, and cupcakes come in a variety of pretty pastels in every shade of the rainbow. Healthy choices come in a rainbow of colors, too! Instead of reaching for a pink frosted cupcake, fill your plate with colorful fruits and vegetables. Eating your greens doesn’t mean you have to stick to one color. Make salads with radicchio, sliced radishes, or strawberries. Add heirloom tomatoes in green, yellow, or purple. Have fun with grains, and try red quinoa.
Stay Hydrated
Dehydration can cause headaches and mood swings. To prevent pain and irritability, stay hydrated. To add flavor to water, try a water bottle with a fruit infuser basket. Look for an infuser with a long basket to ensure you keep getting naturally flavored water as you drink. During hot months, fill ice cube trays with a few berries, sliced citrus, or watermelon, then add water and freeze.
If your sweet tooth needs a touch of sugar in your water, make a simple syrup with ½ cup sugar and 2 cups warm water. Once the sugar dissolves, dilute with 2 quarts of water. Pour the sweetened water into the ice cube tray over the fruit. Add the sweetened, flavored ice cubes to water or unsweetened iced tea for sweetness and flavor.
Pick one or two of these tips and give them a try. If you want to achieve a healthy weight, check out our IN.FORM Program. Also, check out our article sharing simple tips to lose weight.