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Dealing with Boredom in Your Diet

Everything Needs a Little Shake-Up

You start a new diet. You see some fantastic results pretty quickly. The struggle, of course, is then maintaining this weight loss. Changing eating patterns for a short period is different than sustaining them. This is the area people seem to have the most problems with. Once frustration and boredom sets in, once dieters have reached that plateau, it becomes so easy to just give up in disappointment.

Dig Down Deep
When you are in a rut, don’t give up! That’s the worst thing you can do. Boredom might be leading you back towards your old habits, but fight back! What’s vital to overcoming this sense of apathy is to set goals. Not just in the beginning of your diet, but throughout it. Goals should be specific, yet flexible. They should allow for some minor setbacks, and yet encourage you to keep moving forward.

As an example, say your goal is to lose 50 pounds. Great! But how are you going to get there? Is it by eating a specific amount of calories? Perhaps by eating enough servings of fruits and vegetables? Are you going to try to work out a few times a week? Be accommodating to yourself. Realize that you are not perfect and you might splurge on something tasty every now and again. Don’t view this as diet failure.

Keep it Fresh
One of the biggest things that can be seen as contributing to diet boredom is a regimen that is so specific; it eliminates certain things from your diet, such as a low carbohydrate diet. These diets are not inherently bad, but it limits the variety of food options. So do your best to keep it fresh.

When struggles of tediousness come, counterattack! Change the types of food you eat. Don’t have the same dinners every week. Try new things out. It might take a little extra effort in the kitchen, but creativity in the kitchen can be fun. One way to do this is to splurge on a new healthy cookbook. Try out a new recipe once a week. Also, get your family involved in healthy cooking. Perhaps each family member can have a night of the week, not only to help cook, but to help pick out a recipe. You can also do a healthy recipe exchange with friends.

Above all else, a diet is nothing without combining other aspects of healthy living. Drink plenty of water, as always. This will keep you from munching throughout the day. Also, eat around 5-6 times a day, but in smaller portions. Finally, concentrate on fitness aspects as well. You won’t lose weight effectively if you do nothing to train your body. So, with your diet, you’ll be able to build some great healthy habits, but this can lead to plateaus. Add some spice to your diet and you’ll continue seeing success.

One Size Doesn't Fit All
Ever try to squeeze your foot into a shoe that's a size too small just because you think it's cute? Doesn't work, does it? Or maybe you can cram your feet in there for one special evening, but you can't wear those pumps all the time, Cinderella.
It's the same deal with the rest of your body. If the diet doesn't fit your body type, you won't see much success.
Ultimately, there are three basic body types. It's important to understand your shape and know what you can and can't expect. Which one best describes you?

The apple shape. Apples tend to store fat in the upper body, and more specifically around the belly. This pattern, unfortunately, can lead to heart disease, so it is extra-important for apples to be health conscious.

The pear shape. Pears hold the majority of their fat in the lower body — hips, buttocks, saddlebags. Pears are mostly women, and this type of fat is not as much of a health risk as belly fat. On the not-so-bright side, it's harder to lose.

The proportioned shape. Lucky proportionates have fat cells distributed equally throughout their entire body. When they gain weight, they gain it everywhere. When they lose weight, it comes off evenly.

Love the tips!
Here are my goals!
1. under 1400 a day
2. NO MORE emotional eating!
3. Vitamins daily
4. Myself a priority
5. Jillian level 3 every other day, Cardio Max on opposite days, one day off for rest. 4 challenges a day
6. 90 oz of water a day
7. log on as much as possible to harass, support and cheer you all! Amd get support myself!
There ya go!

Oh, I forgot all about posting my goals for the week.

Hmmm...
1. Keep myself top priority
2. Get new sneakers!
3. 1200 calories a day
4. vitamin
5. Try something new for at least one meal this week (no sushi though!)
6. 5 days of cardio
7. 5 days of strength training
8. Break through this stupid plateau
9. Razz, support, and cheer my wonderful team
10. Find something unusual to blog about

Accountability:
B: oatmeal with cottage cheese. granola bar
S: sugar free jelly beans( ya I know, stress got to me)
L: chicken pannini, carrots, peach, cheese stick
S: yogurt
D: will just have a weight watchers dinner or salad.
totals, will be close to 1500 bad day
no workouts today, break.
90 oz water, and vitamins

Originally Posted by 12192

Oh, I forgot all about posting my goals for the week.

Hmmm...
1. Keep myself top priority
2. Get new sneakers!
3. 1200 calories a day
4. vitamin
5. Try something new for at least one meal this week (no sushi though!)
6. 5 days of cardio
7. 5 days of strength training
8. Break through this stupid plateau
9. Razz, support, and cheer my wonderful team
10. Find something unusual to blog about

You can do it!!

Client Fitness Question Of The Week, 13

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 12:26 AM CDT

Some women "inherit" voluptuous rear ends and legs...this question deals with how a woman with this body type should train.

Client Q: I was "blessed" with an "ample" butt and meaty legs! How do I slim up and tone my butt and legs?

Mark's A: You basically have the body type of an endomorph. This means you are more rounded, voluptuous or sometimes chubby. Endomorphs tend to have more body fat and need regular weight training, cardio training and good nutrition. Slow, steady-state cardio has been shown to transfer weight in women from the upper body to the lower body! I don't know any woman who wants this! So, interval cardio would work well for you and anybody else for that matter.

Full body circuit weight training (including bodyweight exercises) will tone your body in general. Always take a full body approach to exercising and use specific exercises to target your problem areas.

As for your lower body, these exercises are great for burning fat: single leg squats and squats of all types, lunges, step ups, leg curls and cable leg abductions/adductions. Also, high-speed jump training, power exercises (like mountain climbers), stair-steppers and sprinting will sculpt your lower body.

Work hard and you will see the results you want!

Originally Posted by FiestyKitty Kama

You can do it!!

So can you! No more stress eating for either of us though! I have been doing my fair share of that as well. Let's make a pact that we will take it out on our workouts and not with our mouths.