- Stop eating 3 hours before going to bed. In The Kind Diet, Alicia talks about how it's better for digestion and a restful sleep to go to bed on an empty stomach. For me, I should stop eating by 7:30 each night. The issue is that I have a second job in the evenings. I leave work at 5 and start my 2nd job at 5:30, so I eat dinner at 5:10ish. By the time I get home at 9 or so, I'm hungry again. This leads to my next point.
- Portion control. I have always been a big eater, meaning I eat a lot of food at each meal. I need to have more snack foods around so I'm not starving by the time I have my meals. I need to concentrate on eating my meals at the usual times, but snacking in between. One snack at 10am, another at 3pm, then another right before the cut-off at 7:30. It's 10am right now and I'm having one of my amari and seaweed rice cakes!
- Drink more water. The last few days I've had some serious dehydration headaches. It's starting to get hot here in Utah (finally!) so drinking tons of water is key. I get these headaches and then I start drinking water. I need to drink water before the headaches start and avoid them.
- Stay Superhero. I've recently taken on a full superhero diet, but haven't been doing very well with it. I need to be much more strict and really cut out processed foods, eat tons of whole grains and veggies, cut back on fruits, nuts, and soy milk. I might need to get back into this next week since I'm dog sitting and working so much this week, that I don't really have time to cook these healthy meals. I've been resorting to the Simply Asian microwaveable noodle bowls and Near East couscous.
That's it! It's good to write these things down. And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to go get a big glass of ice water!
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