Читать книгу The Lunch Box Diet: Eat all day, lose weight, feel great. Lose up to a stone in 4 weeks. - Simon Lovell - Страница 16

Okay, remember our little chat about healthy weight loss, grazing and metabolism (see page 25)? You’re now going to find out why you had to go back to school for a bit.

Here’s what you will be doing:

1 Eat a healthy breakfast (or your normal breakfast and build up to a healthier one).

2 Graze from your lunch box between breakfast and dinner.

3 Eat a healthy dinner (or your normal dinner and build up to a healthier one).

The lunch box concept is simply the most effective and easiest way to control most people’s nutrition because:

 You know exactly what you’re eating.

 You don’t have to plan and prepare meal after meal.

 You will have a choice of foods that will enable you to enjoy eating from your plastic friend!

Lunch boxes are quick to put together, tasty and will give you bucketloads of energy! Not to mention the added health benefits that we’ll discuss later in Chapter 8.

When working with personal training clients, I always ask them to keep a record of their food intake (a food diary) for about a week to get an idea of what they like and how they eat. I often find that the pitfalls of their dieting behaviour have a lot to do with their busy lifestyles. I suggest you keep a food diary yourself and note down your own thoughts on your food consumption; you may get a bit of a shock, but that’s fine. Just write down everything you eat for a week, including any drinks, and the times you eat, plus the exercise you take.

Finding healthy options during a normal, busy day is extremely difficult. My clients would either go without because they didn’t have good choices, or they would opt for the fast-food or vending-machine items out of sheer necessity. We simply don’t make informed choices when we’re hungry, and that’s why the Lunch Box Diet is such a good way of eating. By grazing out of a box that you prepare ahead of time, you will be eliminating two major barriers to healthy weight loss.

 You won’t end up choosing junk because your blood sugar levels will be more balanced.

 You won’t devour the contents of the fridge as soon as you get a chance.

I’ll talk about breakfast and dinner in a bit (see chapter 6) but for now, let’s concentrate on the box itself.