Your Body will Love That. Free Energy and Productivity Gain if you ONLY Apply these Simple Techniques.

Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are…

This famous French literature-derived expression explains the entire topic: if you want to lose weight, you have the answer in front of your eyes; you just have to open them!

You move daily between what you eat (calories intake) and your activities (calories expenditure). Losing weight means tweaking this situation, either:

• by reducing intake
• by increasing expenses

NB: Any #weight reduction efforts will work better if you work out at least a bit every day, if possible!

It sounds simple, so why isn’t it super easy to #loseweight ?

Because there are “intimate” enemies with whom fighting is complicated:

Hunger or the feeling of #hunger , the irrepressible desire to snack is one of them. These pangs reflect a need for self-reassurance, compensating for a?lack, or being overwhelmed… So many reasons that make you go beyond your will!

This is why eating low-calorie foods is not enough; you must eat nutritious foods so you won’t succumb to your (extremely intense) hunger pangs!

Now let’s focus on hunger as your psyche’s reaction to internal or external events (what I called previously “feeling of hunger”). It is essential to work upstream and be prepared for the challenge that you face.

Behavioral, strategic bases

This is about creating positive habits and/or breaking the cycle of negative patterns. The purpose is to set up an environment where your weight loss process can develop unhindered. Here are five crucial points.

• Do not buy products rich in sugars and saturated fatty acids (crisps, chocolate, cold meats). There is no point in putting yourself in difficulty if you know you will have trouble fighting against your desire to eat these products! The solution is indeed radical, but it has the merit of being very effective. Let’s make a bet: if you have to walk 20 minutes to the supermarket to buy a bar of chocolate, your interest in doing that will suddenly plummet! On the other hand, if you just need to open a storeroom in your kitchen…
• Put the chocolate or other temptations in a hard-to-reach place! Okay, let’s say you don’t live alone and your partner wants to eat chocolate if they want to. The solution is to store the products in a place that takes effort to reach. For example, place them in the cellar if you have one or at the top of the cupboard where you need a stepladder (in reality, we all use a kitchen chair) to get it. Why? Because when you feel the urge to snack, your brain is in automatic mode, and you can’t objectively consider the situation! Moving away from that chocolate gives you time to “take back” control of the problem.
• Fill your fridge as soon as you have the chance with fresh vegetables and fruits. If possible, store them already sliced. That way, you eliminate all reasons to eat something other than these #healthyproducts (which are also low-calorie, as we will see).
• Use the eight glasses of water a day technique! This is the amount of #water necessary for the proper functioning of your body! We can go further, kill two birds with one stone and consider drinking a full glass of water every time you feel the need to binge-eat.
• Apply the ? – ? – ? formula for lunch and dinner! That formula entails:

- Vegetables should be ? of the serving.

- Starches ? portion.

- Protein ? of the serving.

Behaviours are not the only thing to #loseweight , #knowledge is also important. I'll treat this part in the next article.

Simple strategies that you establish are your key of success of gaining more #energy and #productivity .

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