Commuting is sometimes just plain annoying! In this episode Avril and Alex talk about tips that you can use to not blow your diet on your commute. Are you a busy, woman that has a commute to your job? It just gets annoying, right? Traffic lights, bad drivers, construction and that annoying accident?
DON’T BLOW YOUR DIET AND WEIGHT LOSS EFFORTS IN THE CAR. STATS… US average 25 minutes
Large Metro Cities 35-45 minutes
60 minutes a day, 5 hours a week 20 hours a month
THE ISSUE Travel time seems to be at meal time, dinner, breakfast, ugh….
WHAT BAD THINGS HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF COMMUTING? Drive thru and carry out because of no time to cook healthy
MCDs, Starbucks or the Bagel shop in the morning
Pick up carry out on the way home or order a pizza, no time or energy to cook
Stressed out from bumper to bumper traffic or crowds on trains
Your starving by the time you get home and get out of your suit. You find yourself just grabbing SOMETHING to take off the edge… Probably eating 300-500 calories extra.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO NOT LET COMMUTING SABOTAGE THEIR WEIGHT LOSS GOALS?
1.) Prepare Your Morning.
Take your coffee or wake up drink from home. Don’t stop for coffee or a beverage bcs you’ll just be tempted to get a sausage Mc Muffin, Danish, muffin or bagel. Avoid the smell of fresh baked bread. Don’t tempt yourself.
Have breakfast in the car or on the train, so take something predetermined with you like a healthy granola bar, not the pseudo candy bar ones. Watch out for the sugar content and opt for the ones with more protein. Protein will keep you fuller longer.
Cup or Tupperware with fruit and yogurt or maybe warm oatmeal. They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well it is from an emotional standpoint. Win breakfast with a healthy choice. If you cave at breakfast to something bad, what are you going to do at lunch…cave again. So start the day off right.
2.) Snacks.
3:00 snack. Keeps you from having a pre-dinner meltdown. Don’t be starving when you start your commute. Safer driver too , when you are hungry you are more apse to be irritable and reckless. “Get out of my way people (usually you use more colorful, less polite language) I am hungry!”
3.) Emergency Snack.
Keep a healthy snack like mixed nuts or low-cal granola bar with you in case of a hunger emergency caused by extra stress at work, maybe public speaking or dealing with a negative situation. That tends to spike your adrenaline and cause your blood sugar to drop. (my story of terminating someone)
Traffic delay due to an accident, construction or bad weather like heavy rain or snow. 30-minute commute just turned into an hour.
4.) Gum and mints on hand. Gives you something to occupy your mouth and adds flavor. You are driving and you pass restaurants, pubs and fast food joints. Billboards and advertisements that make you think about food. Gum and mints will boost your willpower. Plus gum is great way to burn anxious energy.
D – 5.) Dinner prep.
Don’t arrive home, hungry, stressed and exhausted with no dinner plans. That’s when your kids, spouse or your stomach will talk you into ordering a pizza or going out to eat. Remember willpower is a muscle like anything else if you exhausted at work by not telling a co-worker or boss what you really think, you are using your willpower. This is when you are vunerable to make bad choices.
Have dinner prepped. Slow cooker or crockpot with meat and vegetables waiting for you. Cook your meats on the weekend. Grill up chicken breast, steak or lean pork. Think about how much easier it would be if these meats just needed heated up.
Start with a salad or soup while the main course is cooking. Have salads premade. You can have the soup in a pot in the refrigerator so that all you have to do is put it on the stove. Take the hunger edge off so that you eat a reasonable dinner portion.
Also if you have a dinner plan and you know food is ready to go then you are less likely to deviate from the plan and get carryout. You have already taken action on your plan by having stuff already prepared so you are less likely to scrap it.
Few specific products. Me- Nature Valley Protein bars. French Onion soup minus the provolone cheese and croutons. 3:00 snack was left over meat and vegetables, small Tupperware container, about 200 calories
If you are way to frustrated with wanting to lose weight but just not having the time…. I would love to chat with you. Just head out to Diamond Body Image (our website) and click the schedule your call button! Remember- you can say you want something so BAD, but until you actually do it, it’s just a want to…. Not an I will….
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