Now that you're adhering to the Atkins Nutritional Approach™, develop a healthy relationship with food by following these do's and don'ts.
We are all plugged into our habits. If you can discover your bad connections and disconnect them, you can begin the exciting process of change. If you can learn new and improved connections and solder them into place, you'll achieve permanent change. Try these steps and see if they make your nutritional life easier:
· Eat slowly and extend the meal to give your brain time to signal satisfaction before your stomach is distended and you feel stuffed.
· Don't eat as much as you can; eat as much as you need.
· Don't finish something just because it's there.
· Establish food rituals that slow down the process of eating. For example, set the dinner table—even when you are eating alone—and don't eat while standing at the kitchen counter.
· Don't eat meals in front of the television set or computer, especially not snacks that you could eat great quantities of while distracted, without even realizing it.
· Try not to eat while talking on the phone.
· Don't cruise the kitchen during television commercials.
· Eat three meals a day—or four or five smaller ones.
Skipping meals leads to unstable blood sugar and cravings, which might allow your bad habits to kick in.
· If you're not adhering to the program as well as you should be, start a food diary and carry it around with you. This is an excellent way to bring your eating behavior to the forefront of your conscious mind.
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