Successful Weight Loss

Balance Your Blood Sugar – yes I know I’m a broken record with this, but it makes it so much easier to lose weight, ditch cravings and require less food.

The key points for blood sugar balance are:

– (a) protein with every meal

– (b) only complex carbs with their fibre (not white carbs) taking up only 1/4 of your plate

-(c) half plate of veg or salad

-(d) add in good fats – a spoon of olive oil, real butter or some avocado slices.

Planning, planning, planning – if planning feels restrictive then use it as a tool rather than a rule.

If writing out your menu for all lunches and dinners isn’t for you (I love it!) then write out what are all your favourite pick and mix bits, such as cottage cheese, baby carrots, olives, slices of cold meat, cooked new potatoes, sachets of pre-cooked brown rice, avocados, marinated peppers, etc; plus a couple of main meals.  

The point is (a) you have to have the food in the fridge /cupboard; and (b) relying on a tired brain at the end of busy day to come up with a nutritious meal is a big ask without a plan!

Eat 2 meals, plus one healthy snack, or 3 meals a day with no snacks – cooked from scratch, 80% of the time ideally.  

Cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be hours in the kitchen, it could be eggs and ham on wholegrain toast, or prawns rice and peas.

Eat when you are hungry not because it’s a mealtime or there’s something tasty being presented.  

Learn to be a little hungry, and to give up the constant grazing.  Your weight and metabolism and sleep will thank you.