When you feel a wish to snack, get off the sofa and take a quick walk around the block, or blocks. OK, so you miss a bit of television: what of it? You know you aren't really going to miss anything your brain can't fill in for you.
Keep a bottle of iced non-caffeinated tea in the fridge and drink that.
Get up 15 minutes earlier, have a brisk walk around the block before your shower, maybe once a week for a start.
Azuki beans and brown wholegrain toast - yes, with butter and/or cream cheese - will fuel you up for a good part of the morning, releases complex carbs AND B vitamins slowly, and is generally a good thing. Sometimes I make a simple daikon or turnip pickle - grate the stuff into sweet-and-sour vinegar, keep overnight - and eat that with it. Good winter breakfast food.
Sitting around drinking wine and snacking on carbs in the evening is absolutely the way to put on weight - the wine is the equivalent of just eating starch out of the box with a spoon. Only nicer, of course. But probably is screwing around your sleep and your metabolism as well.
Toxins are generally medicines, but overdosed. A fruit juice glass of red in the evening won't hurt you, 1/3 of a bottle a night will.
Getting a grip on the booze has to be good - not from a moral, finger-wagging perspective but strictly from the POV of health and willpower. It's a good servant, wine, but a bad master...
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Date: December 15th, 2006 11:34 am (UTC)From:Keep a bottle of iced non-caffeinated tea in the fridge and drink that.
Get up 15 minutes earlier, have a brisk walk around the block before your shower, maybe once a week for a start.
Azuki beans and brown wholegrain toast - yes, with butter and/or cream cheese - will fuel you up for a good part of the morning, releases complex carbs AND B vitamins slowly, and is generally a good thing. Sometimes I make a simple daikon or turnip pickle - grate the stuff into sweet-and-sour vinegar, keep overnight - and eat that with it. Good winter breakfast food.
Sitting around drinking wine and snacking on carbs in the evening is absolutely the way to put on weight - the wine is the equivalent of just eating starch out of the box with a spoon. Only nicer, of course. But probably is screwing around your sleep and your metabolism as well.
Toxins are generally medicines, but overdosed. A fruit juice glass of red in the evening won't hurt you, 1/3 of a bottle a night will.
Getting a grip on the booze has to be good - not from a moral, finger-wagging perspective but strictly from the POV of health and willpower. It's a good servant, wine, but a bad master...