14 Diet Plan Saving Tips !

by James P. Jordan

It’s nine thirty at night and you have followed your new diet plan perfectly to a tee all day. A pizza advertisement comes on the commercial break of your favorite show and you notice it is close to your next mealtime. Up to the kitchen you go to eat your next meal. When in the fridge pulling out your nicely prepared diet meal you notice some left over Fettuccini Alfredo your wife or roommate brought home. Sure looks good you think as you catch a little bit of saliva about to drip on your shirt!

“Just a little taste won’t hurt,” you justify,

“ I haven’t cheated that much lately…”

A little taste and before you know it you tell yourself the extra carbs and calories will be a good boost to your leg training day on Thursday! Forget that it is only Tuesday night!

Since you have decided to do some carb loading might as well do it right! The pizza you saw on T.V is only twenty-five minutes away!

As you wait for the pizza to arrive a sip of that cola in the fridge would really quench your thirst! Hell some of those potato chips aren’t going to make a difference at this point!

An hour later your gut is stretching from the pizza you just gorged down! Indigestion helps remind you of the guilt and frustration you desperately try to forget!!

“I shouldn’t have done that!” is going through your head as you lay down to have nightmares of a fat ass! Tomorrow will be different you chant in your head! Then the same thing happens a day or two later!

You may not lose it quite this bad but even the occasional cheat can really add up in the high carb high calorie battlefield we fight in each day! Everywhere we look or listen are billboards,tv's, radios and people eating complete garbage!

You go out to lunch with your friends and the waitress puts pressure on you to order a beer or, in the least, a sugar-laden pop! An appetizer looks tempting, and who doesn’t like to finish off a meal out on the town with a delicious dessert! The stuff looks and tastes good but we all know that this is not the way to produce a lean, detailed, healthy physique.

The government shouts: "Obesity...A Nation of Fatties!" The only way to win this battle is to prepare yourself like a soldier going to war!

Here are fourteen diet-saving tips to arm yourself against the onslaught of the Cheating War.

Eat Slowly – Take your time when you sit down to eat. The chances you will stuff yourself or overeat diminish and you will reach the point of satiety much more quickly if you eat slowly! The more you are satisfied with what you have eaten the less likely you will continue to think of food. That chocolate Black Forest cake won’t be as tempting either!

Have Delicious Meals That Fit Your Meal Plan Prepared Ahead Of Time. Having meals prepared ahead of time makes it convenient to eat according to a plan and on schedule. You can make it more convenient to eat right than it is to eat that bag of candy by having your meals prepared and available when it is time to eat-- and when you get hungry.

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Get Used To Eating For Your Purpose Instead Of For Your Taste Buds. Satisfying your taste buds when you get the urge to gorge down a Big Mac will never develop a healthy, lean, muscular physique! Keep in mind you are eating to develop a lean, healthy muscular physique every time you open your mouth! The temporary taste satisfaction of a jelly-filled donut will be gone real fast but the empty calories you just devoured can defeat a whole day's worth of bodybuilding effort!

Be creative with your cooking to make sticking to your diet enjoyable. Ideally, with proper preparation and some recipe research you can create delicious mouth watering meals that meet your muscle building/fat loss criteria. Learn to cook. Employ spices from other parts of the world. India and China are two countries with interesting choices to really spice up your mealtimes. When you don’t have to force feed yourself with your nose plugged the chances are much higher you can stick to your meal plan more easily!

Drink Water. Drinking water between meals can help to reduce your hunger pangs temporarily by giving a sense of fullness. For those of you that sabotage your diet by munching here and there, keeping a water bottle with you wherever you go can really help. Just sip away when its oral satisfaction rather than hunger driving you.

Don’t Put Yourself In Bad Positions For Cheating. Remember when you were a kid your parents didn’t like you to hang around with certain kids that were a bad influence in the neighbourhood? You know the kid that skipped school or was in trouble with the law? Well, even though you may have had the urge to be bad, you didn’t want to get caught and suffer the consequences! So when your parents were around you stayed away from those trouble makers!

Effective dieting is no different! It is a lot easier to stick to your plan if you are not around bad influences! Think ahead and stay away from the candy aisle when grocery shopping. Stay away from the candy jar at work! Quit going to the bar where you know you are going to have to buy a beer or two! Save that visit to Granny's house until your cheat day when you can enjoy that piece of apple pie forced on you! Then indulge guilt free!

Don’t Fool Yourself By Thinking You Can Just Have A Little Taste And That’s It! Once you have a little taste of that old favorite food it is much more difficult to quit than if you hadn’t had any of the offending food at all! What you don’t have you won’t miss! On the other hand it is just too easy to slip into old patterns once you get started!

Keep Yourself Busy Between Meals! Hanging out around the kitchen thinking about sugar plums will only make your chances of cheating very high! I like to read about diet research and what has been shown to effectively work for gaining muscle and fat loss! Even if you are not a nerd like me, pick up a topic of your choice or a hobby to fill in the time productively between meals. Television is not recommended because of all the food advertisements.

Stay Away From Excessive Drinking And Pot (Grass, Weed, Mary Jane) Smoking. This kind of behavior weakens will power. Many disciplined athletes have ruined a perfect eating day (and career) by having a few drinks, a joint and gorging on a late night submarine sandwiches.

Think Long Term Gain Not Short Term Pain! Every time you are about to cheat remind yourself of the consequences! Essentially a cheat on your diet or a missed workout actually can put you further behind than what you were a couple of days ago. The excess calories you just ate negated all the hard work and discipline you practiced all day today and possibly yesterday as well! A cheat here and there makes you consistent with your current lifestyle which is why you look the way you do.

If you want to make changes you absolutely have to be consistent with new eating habits day in and day out! Whatever you are consistency will be reflected in your body appearance. (Note: we are not talking inflexibility, rigidity or blind insanity. If you are sick, take some time off to get well. If you stray one muffin, don't beat yourself up.) But make these times exceptions rather than norms.) When you have a craving think "long term consistency" instead of short term gratification! Then get your mind off food!

Take It Step By Step By Thinking Moment To Moment. The longest journey starts with a single step and body composition changes are no different!. It takes months and months of consistent effort to see results. To succeed what is required is a “slow but steady wins the race” attitude. Feel good about every meal you have completed to your plan and build on your momentum taking it step-by-step, moment-by-moment. You are far less likely to cheat this way as every moment is a step closer to your goal! Quit thinking how far away you are from reaching your goals but how far you have come!

Do Not Shop Hungry. Time your grocery store visits to right after you have finished eating. This way you are less likely to be motivated to purchase your foods by hunger rather than purpose.

Eat Real Foods Instead Of Meal Replacement Shakes And Bars . Though meal replacement bars and shakes are convenient; they are not very filling! Certainly a tiny protein bar or a liquid shake is not as fulfilling as a fillet of fish, some beef jerky and vegetables or a bowl of chilli! Chances of cheating on your meal plan increase when you start relying too heavily on meal replacement shakes and bars!

Take A Good Multi–Vitamin. Taking a good multi vitamin throughout the day may reduce cravings caused by imbalances of l-dopamine and serotonin due to calorie restriction. Split your daily dosage into three servings. Take one serving with your breakfast, one at dinner and one with your last meal of the day. This ensures the vitamins, minerals and nutrients your body requires are present at all times.

Follow these 14 tips following a complete workout program and in a few months and when you look in the mirror you will be amazed at who is looking back!