Hello Dear One!

Have you ever been out at a fun to-do and felt helpless to keep making choices again and again that felt unsupportive waistline wise?

Have you thought that if you’re either around tasty and regrettable food that you have to either EAT TONS, or NOT EAT ANY??

I’d like to offer an alternative to the all or nothing thinking that many of us get into when we’re faced with food that typically accompanies a celebration.

ORDER OF EVENTS MATTER!

What you choose, not just to put on your plate, but to eat FIRST, NEXT, and LAST – can really make an impact in what results that day and LONG term.

VEGGIES RULE.

When we start with salad/etc we start to fill our tank with food that is generally inoffensive calorically and glycemically (ie: won’t spike your blood sugar or make insulin rise high = fat storing hormone).

And starting with salad does not mean that you have to STAY with salad, it simply means that you help take the edge off your hunger and/OR take up a bit of space in your tummy with (generally) undeniably supportive food.

PROTEIN HAS A PURPOSE.

Some fleshy offering assumedly not only holds it’s own allure taste and texture wise, but making a point to eat protein early on in your meal will help ANCHOR the food that you’re ingesting – meaning it will help you to STAY FULL.

This is supremely useful as carbs are QUICK FUEL, often filling us up FAST, and then leaving us wanting later.

If we cut this potential problem off at the pass, we diminish running the risk of wish to graze or go back to the feedbag later.

FAT IS FILLING.

Obvious there is so much focus here on Fat Burning, and using fat for our primary fuel macronutrient wise, but there is a REASON for that.

Even if you’re NOT a Fat Burner, fat still satisfies.

Fat is both tasty and will LAST in your system fullness wise.

By making a point to have something that’s a bit more RICH on your plate (avocado, olive oil, salad dressing, sour cream, fatty meat or skin on the fish/fowl/meat) – you will be giving yourself heartier fuel for the night that will help you to NOT keep grabbing at all of the seductive carbs littering the table.

GET UNDENIABLY FULL.

This is probably the most surprising encouragement I make to Fat Burners.

When we get unquestionably FULL it’s clear that we’ve been SATISFIED with ENOUGH FOOD.

The reason why this is so useful is because it’s let’s us know that we’ve EATEN enough FUEL (which, ahem, is the POINT of eating), additionally it’s SUPREMELY useful for the BRAIN to have the sensation of, “enough”, for if it does NOT – it’s quite likely to drive you to chow down later.

Getting undeniably full allows us to put a period at the end of the sentence that has been our moderate meal, or our celebratory feast.

Either way it helps us to STOP when we hit that mark, AND to steer ourselves away from the ledge of, “Round 2”, when what we’ve consumed has settled or when the sexy spread gets revived with new offerings.

SAVE CARBS FOR LAST.

If this wasn’t obvious with what has been shared so far, please keep those bad girls for the END of your meal.

Clearly dessert TENDS to follow the main course, but aim to keep THE MAJORITY of carbs at the tail end of your meal (chips, crackers, bread, pasta, sweets…). as calories from carbs add up QUICKLY and they don’t necessarily feel that filling.

EAT WHAT YOU LOVE AND LOVE WHAT YOU EAT.

I think this is the most important thing when wishing to be deliberate about how you feed your body and the result that transpires.

I must say I also feel like we can take this thinking to the utmost extreme of viewing your body as sacred, and that the only sustenance you would put in her would be overwhelmingly delightful food that you ADORE.

(And truth be told, that means how it tastes, as well as how it makes you FEEL – inside and out).

So if you WANT the Oreo Cookie pie because it BLOWS your mind each and every time – HAVE IT.

If you could take or leave the baked manicotti or the chocolate cake that your Aunt got from some random bakery – SKIP IT.

When we eat crappy food that we don’t really enjoy – we regret it.  End of story.

Make YOU and your preferences matter most ALWAYS and especially when facing abundant and unexpected offerings food wise.

So that’s it!

I hope that proves USEFUL and SIMPLE.

This was actually taken from a part of a bonus called Dining Done Well in Fat Burning Mastery, as an effort to help new Fat Burners understand how to navigate good, better, best when working off script.

To learn more about how Fat Burning works and an approach that FACTORS IN opportunities like parties and unplanned celebrations, please Learn to Burn.

Check out a list of coaching and training programs if you’re in need of some guidance with your fitness.

And if you’ve yet to check out the Unbound Podcast and how to deal with the spoils at the END of the party, please check out the episode Lethal Leftovers.

 

To getting you clearer on how the body works, and how to make it work for you.  

xox, M