Sugar is by far the biggest roaadblock to your goals!
If you guys read the blog yesterday, you saw that I wrote about a few different things to help you keep on track with your New Years Resolutions. The first topic I touched on, and one of the biggest, after taking action, was breaking into your diet slowly. This is something that I talk to all of my personal training clients about, and an approach that I have found is the best way for me personally to transfer from eating like crap all of the time into more of a fat loss type of nutrition. I hate calling them diets, but that is another topic for me…
There are a few things that I tell all of my clients to do, regardless of their goals, and a few that are more geared towards those who are trying to lose fat and get back into shape. While some of these are more restrictive than others, they are all not only effective, but important steps for you on the road to your goals in 2010. I will talk about more of these as the week goes on, as you will really get the best results if you take your time and fully implement them as time passes. You will also see that some are diet changes, and some are lifestyle changes. They are both based around your nutrition however, as it will be the most important piece of the puzzzle for you to really have a good grasp on.
DIET CHANGES
1. Cut out the sugar!
The biggest one for most people is also the first one for a reason. Sugar, whether it be in the form of sugar in your coffee, high fructose corn syrup in your daily 44-ouncer from 7-11 sugar alcohols in your sugar free cookies, do more to derail you on the way to your goals than anything. Its hard too because anymore, there is sugar in damn near EVERYTHING that we eat. Did you know that there are 9 grams of sugar in a Quarter Pounder from McDonalds? That’s the same as 3oz of Coke or Pepsi. You don’t taste it like that though do you? Remember, its everywhere, and paying close attention to food labels is going to become very important. Now, it is going to be impossible for you to really eliminate all of the sugar from your diet, as even potatoes and rice have some sugar, but you really need to cut out as much as possible. If its sweet, and its not a Diet Coke, you can probably figure out that you’re wrong. a few things you can do is switch your sugar in your coffee for splenda. My wife did it and she hates anything that isn’t full flavor! trade out your regular pop for the diet variety. Coke Zero and Pepsi max beat the crap out of diet coke and diet pepsi, and it only takes a day or two to completely forget that it tastes a touch different than the norm. Take a week, cut out as much sugar as you can, and keep your sugar intake at this new lower level as you go on. You may find that you lose 10-20lbs just from switching from regular pop to diet. My dad did. You can to. Now get to reading those labels!
Like I said a bit ago, this is just a bit of some of the things I have for you guys to help you out on your way to losing weigh, getting fit, and having a kick ass 2010. ALL of these have been used not only on myself, but after i tested them, I introduced them to my personal training clients, and they are having great results with them as well. Keep in mind that with your diet, little changes can go a long way, especially if you were way off track in the first place.
