With the physical activities underway, and the smaller portions, good food, lots of water, and a healthier attitude to food, we need to take stock at this point about what we're actually buying.
We could've discussed this at an earlier point, maybe even to start with, but a lifestyle progresses in little steps and it wouldn't have done us any good if we'd plunged in with the drastic changes straight away.
Now that we're safely into the h.i.t kind of thinking, the time has arrived for us to make a change in the shopping habits. This may be a bit hard for some of us, but take it on gradually, this is the only way it will work. The thing is, if we don't have it in the house/fridge, we can't eat it, so how we shop is extremely important.
Leave the snacks out and get more fruit instead. If we used to buy 4 packs of crisps, get 2 instead and a tub of grapes.
Remember that gaining or losing weight starts at the point of shopping.
When you look into your packed shopping trolley, consider its contents a reflection of who you are and your lifestyle. Just as you can identify single people, cat lovers, new dads, and party hosts from the items in their shopping, you can, without seeing the person, tell a hittie from a fatty by the contents of his/her trolley. What picture does your trolley give of who you are? If you pay attention to your shopping trolley when you get to the checkout, it's not too late to chuck out the pieces of your reflection, which you do not like.
Here is an exercise for us to do at about week 3 or 4. The next time you go shopping, look around for any un-manned trolleys in the aisles. Without looking at the possible owners, try to guess if they are hitties or fatties by simply glancing into their trolleys. By the time you get out of the shop, you will understand why our weight directly relates to our shopping.
Leave it out, if it's fizzy, or fatty. Don't go over board with low fat and non-fat items. Our bodies need a little fat if it's to be h.i.t. We all know that polyunsaturated fats like the ones we find in olive oil are remarkably good for us and may even our lengthen life-span. Some people will go as far as to say that the fat in the food is better for you, than the poison they put into it in order to tease the fat out in the first place.
The bottom line is that if you like cheese, a little of it is good for you. Eating the whole block is obviously stupid. No one needs fizzy drinks and diet varieties do not help us to lose weight. They may not make us any fatter, but they certainly do not help us get lighter. Why would they? They are not healthy foods. You may think that this is too basic for us to even consider, but I've overheard two women in the supermarket deliberating on which fizzy drinks they should get.
Woman 1, “Get some coke, will you.”
Woman 2, “I thought you were on a diet.”
Woman 1, “But it's only a drink, it's not like it's a bar of chocolate.”
Woman 2, “Get the diet coke, it'll help you lose weight.”
Woman 1, “ Well, okay, get me two bottles then.”
Diet varieties of foods do not help us to lose weight. If anyone thinks that this is so, you believe a lie. Granted, they may not actively cause us to put on any more weight, but they do not possess a magic mix of ingredients, which when consumed, lift the weight off our bodies. H.i.t means a desire, then action and dedication. Hence, we start with how we shop.
If there is an option of online shopping at your local super market, why not do this for a few weeks while we settle in. It will help to go online just after your meal, so that psychologically, your body isn't calling for food. This means we won't be tempted to grab anything that looks good. After our bodies and minds are well into h.i.t focus, it would be safe to visit the supermarket again. Just make sure that shopping is always done on a full stomach. This way, rather than beckon you, the fattening roasting chicken and chocolate topped cakes would not even take your fancy.
If you don't have it, you can't eat it.
If you don't put it in, you won't have to work it out.
Kilo eight beckons, while I sit down and decide what foods I need for good health and well-being, and which ones I merely want, which do nothing good for me. The needs should be taken regularly, the wants, only seldom and in small portions.
