This blog is going to be more about the nutrition side getting in shape and how important it is to maintain a healthy diet if you are going to sustain your desired lifestyle. In my opinion, it is much more important to make sure that you're fuelling your body with the correct nutrition rather than eat loads of junk food and spend two or three hours in the gym burning it off. As I said recently, if you're dieting it is okay to treat yourself everyone once in a while, but not everyday! Once or twice a month, depending on the treat, was enough for me to control my cravings but everyone is different and you may need a few more treats or even none at all, depending on you and your cravings. I must stress though that the occasional treats are only okay and won't damage the progress you've made, if you're able to sensibly moderate them. There is nothing worse than spending all week either being in a calorie deficit or eating healthier foods to then go and ruin it all by losing control and splurging out, reversing all of the hard work you've put in, so make sure to control your cravings! A few methods that I implemented into my routine to prevent me from binge eating was to not buy any high calorific foods that would be detrimental to the progress that I had made if I was to eat loads of it in one go. That meant that any kind of chocolate, sweets, fizzy drinks, ice cream, pizza had to go, although if you live with someone, whether it's your parents or children, get them to eat it all up before you do! But don't get confused, don't think that if you want to lose weight then you can only eat three meals a day and no more because that just simply isn't true. During a typical day, when I go to the gym, I will have three meals as well as a snack or two between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, but the difference is that they are nutritious and moderated rather than having a high calorie value and being full of sugar. Some examples of healthy snacks that I often have include Snack-A-Jack's rice cakes (a maximum of two at a time though), fat free greek yoghurt, fruit (the obvious one), nuts (although a maximum of 20g) or protein bars, but I encourage you to do your own research into this to find the snacks that can be bought within your budget. Something else that you can try to prevent binge eating would be to include meals into your diet that you enjoy eating so it doesn't feel like such a chore eating healthy. Originally I started off eating just chicken, salmon and salad as the majority of my meals for about two months but as you can guess, this got boring very quickly so I decided to buy some recipe books to help mix it up! Some of the books that I cannot praise enough and I would urge anyone who wants to go on a diet to buy themselves a copy would be Joe Wick's 'Lean in 15', as well as Gino D'Acampo's 'The Italian Diet' as they both have so many yummy recipes that you'll want to eat over and over again, both of which are pictured at the bottom of this blog. At the time of purchasing these books I was adequately inept, however by following the recipes in these books, I was able to develop my catering abilities to the point where I am no longer a novice. My final piece of advice when trying to avoid binge eating is to actually eat some of the foods that you want to chow down on, but as i've said so many times before in other blogs, it must be very occasional! I'm a nutella-lover and I could it jars upon jars of it without question and if I was to do that, then no matter how hard I worked in the gym I would never get into the shape that I want to. Some people are lucky enough to be able to cut indulgence foods out of their diet completely and feel no yearning for anything sweet at all and can easily stick to their guns. But for me, and many others, we aren't able to do this and therefore need to indulge in treats every now and then, but it must be just that, every now and then. The rule I have set myself and still stick to today is one treat a month as this, for me, is enough to meet my desires for sweet food without being detrimental to the fitness goals I am trying to achieve. By still having these special treats on a regular basis, you end up feeling less deprived of them if you were to cut them out completely and therefore you're more likely to stick with it for longer, changing your diet into your lifestyle. So there you have it, three tips for avoiding binge eating when you're trying to lose weight. Make sure that you stay strong, learn to say no when you must, but then enjoy the treats when you can and keep your #WillPower, by doing that you'll no doubt achieve your goals and lead a much healthier lifestyle that will make you feel better about yourself.
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