Whenever I am dispatching advice, I am always highlighting installing little habits...
Usually there is skepticism...
It can be hard to see the effect they may have...
a few for example...
To aim to eat smaller, moderate sized portions but more often...
To become a "grazer" if you will...
Recent advice was trying low energy carbohydrate options to replace high energy ones, like Cauliflower rice instead of traditional rice for example...
If you are on the go, taking balanced snacks with you...
I've noticed a few of you have pedometers and are trying ways to increase your number of steps...
Not cutting out your favourite food and drinks, (because I'm not going without a sausage sandwich Sunday morning ?!!) but trying to have them less often during a typical week...
Drinking more water...
Adding strength training to an exercise routine, be it at a gym or at home...
these may seem a little insignificant and not worth the energy or discipline...
But they could have a big effect...
Most of the habits change the balance from Flub storage to Flub Burning...
The problem is although we feel different quickly, a physical result can take time...
But the above habits either reduce the amount of calories or fuel going into the body or speed up metabolism or both...
Let's say you start having moderate main meals and balanced snacks, instead of sporadic big meals...
there are many reasons for this, the main one is it stops us overeating, we are spreading out the food, rather than over eating because we are very hungry...
The digestive system works harder, I've seen research that says if we eat 5 times a day (3 main meals, 2 balanced snacks) that we expend up to 350 extra calories per day...
By strength training increasing overall muscle (doesn't take much time with a little effort) by 1Lb burns an up to an extra 50 calories per day...
The reason progress seems slow is that a pound of flub is 3500 calories...
But installing just a few little habits can get you there as quickly as is scientifically possible and keep you there if you keep doing them...
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