A sedentary keyboarding lifestyle leaves your bottom half pretty well-rounded and growing if you don?t use caution with your diet. To help get and keep better fit, try these diet tips during your day.
1) Drink plenty of water and healthy beverages throughout the day. Skip the sodas and other sugary drinks. You can get flavored waters, teas, coffees and other healthier beverages, but do skip the sugar in all of them when possible or at least opt for much less sugar or diet drinks and shakes.
2) Look at your local stores for diet snacks and drinks. You can often find healthy power bars and other snack bars, protein shakes and trail mix. If your store doesn?t have much of a selection, check on Amazon.com and eBay.com, especially for special rates and discounted bulk packages.
3) Opt for fresh fruits when you can, over fruit juice or water down your juice, like half-and-half. These means less unhealthy sugar.
4) Check with your healthcare provider and see about adding vitamins and other supplements to your daily diet.
5) Brush your teeth after each snack and meal. This will cut down on your desire to snack more, because you won?t want to keep cleaning your teeth over and over.
6) No need to totally cut out fat. Just cut down, though, and trim fats, eat white meats, nuts and fish more.
7) Make healthy substitutions when you can like apple sauce for oil in recipes, and no fat non-stick spray for grease in pans.
8) Don?t keep jumping around to different fad diets. Either develop a plan following the approval of your doctor, or get professional help choosing and following the right one for you.
9) Go long! When you take a snack break, get up and away form your computer. Do NOT eat there in front of it or around it even. When possible go outside for some fresh air. But get up off your rear and hunt down your food. Don?t make snacking so easy. Stash your goodies in your car and park far away, for example.
10)Keep plenty of healthy foods: fruits and vegetables around, plus dips and anything else you like to go with them. You know where your chocolate is, but how anbout healthy stuff? Set out a fruit basket!
11)While you?re eating - -STAND. While you?re doing other things on your break ? - STAND. In other words, stop sitting so much.
