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Drop Your Snacks And Hit The Road
By Thomas | January 30, 2008
One obstacle to weight loss is overeating. If you are like me, you love snacking. I personally like chocolate, cheese, bread and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for snacking. I used to fill myself up on these things all during the day. If you have a snacking habit, it can be hard to kick. One avenue of attack against snacking is to schedule your workouts to coincide with the times you tend to snack.
The first thing to do is find out if there is any pattern to your snacking. Keep a little journal documenting when you get the urge to eat snacks during the day. Whether you give into your urges or not, just write down the time, what you are doing and how you feel. You don’t need to keep this journal for a long time. A week is probably enough to spot a pattern.
Once you have a week to two weeks of data, look over it and search for a pattern. Do you eat a snack every night at 9pm? Do you crave a snack whenever The Simpsons or Dexter comes on at night? Do you get the munchies right before you go to bed when you are sleepy? If you do the research, you will probably find that you can predict the times when you will want to snack.
So what do we do with that? Make those times your workout times. If you snack at 9pm every night, then go jogging at 8:50. If you eat a pint of ice cream every time you sit down to watch your favorite show, TiVo that crap, go do your jog and then watch your show after you’ve just finished a big meal. If you eat a snack at night right before bed, do ten rounds of Bas Rutten first and your arms will be too fatigued to lift the lid of the cookie jar.
Drop your snacks and hit the road. Not only will you not be eating snacks, but you’ll also be getting your exercise in.
Btw, Dr. Kal has a recipe for healthy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Hell yeah.
Topics: Weight Loss Challenge 2008 |
February 1st, 2008 at 12:20 am
What do chocolate, cheese, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches taste like? If that’s your snack, what do you eat for dinner? I like your journal idea. I mean…it’s gotta be better than standing naked in front of a full length mirror and screaming obscenities at yourself with a mouth full of girl scout cookies.