Removing Temptation

Removing Temptation
written by: Dan Burley

Keeping baked goods, chips and other easy to eat, fattening snacks at
home in places where you frequently visit and have easy access will
sabotage your weight loss effort. Remove the temptation if you have a
problem snacking on pastries, chocolate or chips, particularly late at night.

Lunch buffets and office parties can be equally distracting when you're
trying to lose weight. The first 3 to 4 weeks are critical to establishing
good eating habits and little things such as birthday cake at the office
or chocolate bars can destroy your motivation to lose weight.

Remember, weight loss is not an overnight process. It takes weeks to
establish good eating and exercise habits and several more weeks to start
seeing results. Below are a few tricks you can do to REMOVE temptation
so your efforts will pay off.

(1) If family members don't normally eat junk food, DO NOT buy baked
goods, pastry, chips or other high calorie junk food. You can ALWAYS
treat yourself to something sweet and fatty once or twice a week, but
don't keep it around the house.

(2) If family members are not willing to give up their junk food then put
all fatty snacks in a designated place where you seldom visit. The old
saying "Out of sight, out of mind" is very true when it comes to removing
tempting foods from your reach.

(3) If family members eat all the goodies in a short time, DON'T BUY MORE.
Wait until the next scheduled time to go grocery shopping. This will train
family members not to over indulge in junk food because once eaten,
they'll have to wait until the next time you go grocery shopping.

(4) Office parties and celebrations are notorious for getting people off
track from their diet. Usually, you'll know in advance of an upcoming
celebration of cake and ice cream. Remove yourself from the party area.
You can always walk to the opposite end of the office / building for 10 or
15 minutes.

(5) Congratulate your office mate after all the goodies are gone. Explain
why you did not participate in the festivities. They will understand!

(6) Not all fast food restaurants are bad. It depends on what you select.
Grilled chicken sandwiches, grilled chicken and rice bowl, sandwiches
with no cheese and small amount of mayonnaise, fat free or baked chips,
diet soda or water, salads with light dressing are available in most
restaurants. BUFFETS will do you in, so avoid them.

Dan Burley is author of http://DietForum.com
and has written hundreds of health and fitness
articles on the Internet.

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