5 Tips For Long-Term Weight Loss

Gourmandize

1) Do it yourself

Try cooking from scratch using only healthy ingredients. Teach yourself how to prepare the basics like tomato sauce and vegetable soup. Ready-to-eat foods and canned products are convenient, but you don't always know what goes in them. Making these foods yourself will help you avoid the extra salt, sugar, or fat that's often added to processed foods.

2) Stick to Fresh

Avoid using the seasoning mixes that often comes with the food you buy at the grocery store! While these blends are comprised of flavorful herbs and spices, they may also contain harmful additives like MSG. Instead, use fresh herbs to season your dishes as much as possible.

3) So Long Sugar!

You don't need white, refined sugar to satisfy your sweet cravings! Instead, use natural sweeteners such as bananas, unsweetened apple sauce, dates, or honey to sweeten your smoothies or desserts.

4) snack Smarter

You should always see a diet change as a gain rather than a restriction. If your drawers are full of snickers and gummy bears, then you'll only see it as a punishment. Instead, look for snacking inspiration online or in cookbooks. You can often filter the electronic versions by categories such as "healthy", "vegan" or "light kitchen", which makes life much easier for you.

Plan your snacks along with breakfast, lunch and dinner for the week. Hide those tempting snacks from your reach and replace them with healthy alternatives.

5) meal prep Is Key

We often hurry out of the house without having breakfast, sometimes buying the first unhealthy thing we see on the road. When we get home, we're too tired from work to cook. It's tempting to just order takeout.

To avoid this, a certain degree of organization and preparation is required. For example, you can cook stews or tomato sauces on the weekend, which you can then freeze and eat over the week. For breakfast, you can start cook oatmeal the night before or make smoothies. For lunch, bring your salad to work in a mason jar. Get recipe ideas through fun websites like Pinterest, and eating well will never feel like a chore for you!

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