Throughout the seasons of life as a woman your weight has probably fluctuated somewhat. From your slim school days, perhaps you put on some weight at university and lost it when you started working. Your young married life saw a slim trim you, but pregnancy and children have left little time for the gym and exercise and perhaps you have put on some weight in the last while. While I believe that there is a lot more to life than how much you weight, it is good to find out now and then how far off track you are using a reasonable index known as your BMI (Body Mass Index).  

The role of food in our lives

-  Socially, food plays an important role in the fun of life. Sharing food is an integral part of any occasion.

-  Emotionally, the smell of certain foods can trigger a happy memory or certain foods can comfort us when we are feeling down.

-  Food is essential for life, however what most of us don’t always realize is that the choices we make around food, and the eating habits we form, will determine whether or not that life with be healthy.

The important role that food plays in our lives is not a bad thing as long as we can make lifestyle choices that will help us manage our weight.

6 easy tips on how to lose weight healthily

1.  Choose your food types carefully. Try to include a protein and complex carbohydrate at each meal. The different foods eaten together help your body to get optimal nutrition and prevent the body storing fat.

2.  Try to keep your portion sizes smaller. Sometimes the problem is not that you are eating the wrong things, but just that you are eating too much.

3.  Avoid binging and starving. Try to balance your eating over the whole day, starting with a good healthy breakfast that will fire up your metabolism, and don’t eat all your calories at a large evening meal just before bed.

4.  Avoid comfort eating.  We often blow our weight management plan in the late night hours when we are alone on the couch and start to crave comfort food. Reward yourself with small treats during the week, but avoid big late night binges that will set you back for weeks.

5.  20 minutes of high intensity exercise 3 mornings a week will do wonders to increase your metabolism.

6.  Drink plenty of water. 

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