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Today I am sharing Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle. This post is brought to you by our sponsor, Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion. The opinions expressed below are my own.
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This is the final post in a 4 part series of the Always Eat After 7 PM Book. This series will document my experience and results from following the program from the Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion. If you missed part 1, part 2, or part 3 of this series go catch up.
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Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle Doesn't Have to be Hard
The Lifestyle Phase is the final phase of the Always Eat After 7 PM program. The focus here is to take all of the tips you learned in the Acceleration Phase and the Main Phase and carry them with you to maintain your weight loss. This phase is designed to help you stay at your goal weight while avoiding a rebound weight gain. My overall goal when starting this program was to get a foundation for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
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Drink Plenty of Water
The Always Eat After 7 PM program encourages you to start the morning off with one of the simplest 3-Minute Fat-Burning Morning Rituals, lemon water. Lemon water is a glass of water mixed with the juice of one half of a lemon. This drink provides all the benefits of regular drinking water, which supports weight loss, digestive health, physical performance, and cognitive function.
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The book explains that water helps digest your food, expel wastes, regulate your temperature, protect your tissues, cushion your joints, and protect your spinal column, among many other vital functions. It is through water that hormones flow to the proper organs, that nutrients reach all cells, and that toxins are diluted and removed from the body. Sipping water throughout the day helped me stay hydrated and avoid eating when I was actually thirsty.
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Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss
The program promotes intermittent fasting (IF). IF is a pattern of food consumption that cycles between fasting and eating in specific time periods. There are various ways to do it; one of the most common is the 16/8 protocol, which involves 16 hours of fasting—typically done overnight—with an 8-hour window in which to eat each day. I explained in part 1 how I incorporated intermittent fasting into my daily routine.
Research from the book, explains how intermittent fasting really shines when it comes to improving the hormones that directly affect your hunger, blood sugar, and metabolism. One is insulin. IF combats insulin resistance, meaning that it helps your body use insulin more normally, thereby lowering your diabetes risk and boosting your metabolism.
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Enjoying a Variety of Foods Will Help You Maintain Your Healthy Lifestyle
Eating a variety of nutrient-rich foods will not only prevent you from getting bored with your diet, but it will help you lose weight. Having a well-rounded diet that includes, routine, fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, and even carbs definitely helped me stay on track with my eating.
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You can maintain a healthy lifestyle and eat carbs
The book explains, avoiding carbohydrates and restricting calories later in the day can have an adverse effect on your thyroid hormones, which play a major role in metabolism. When the thyroid fails to secrete enough of the hormones that control metabolism, this can trigger symptoms like fatigue, depression, weight gain, thinning hair, and dry skin. I loved that this plan did not eliminate carbs. I was still able to enjoy potatoes and rice.
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Fats are Good for You
Contrary to what we've been told, fats should be apart of our diet. The book demonstrates that in general, healthy fats can also help increase feelings of fullness and satisfaction because they regulate appetite through a number of mechanisms, including the release of appetite hormones. What’s more, combining fats with fiber has been shown to further increase the satiating potential of fat. The satiating power of fats is often one explanation offered to describe why some weight loss trials have shown that low-carbohydrate (and higher-fat) diets tend to lead to greater weight loss than low-fat diets.
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Give Yourself Grace with maintaining a healthy lifestyle
In the past, once I completed a fitness program and achieved my goal weight, it felt like I crossed the finished line, and I often regressed to my unhealthy habits. I'm really hoping that does not happen this time. I'm keeping in mind the initial reason I started the program, which was to look and feel good in my clothes and have more energy. I have lost 6 pounds so far and I'm very proud of myself.
This program encourages one cheat meal a week so you don't feel the need to overindulge. I enjoy a slice of pizza, or a cupcake during the week and don't feel guilty about it. The fact that I also get to eat wine and dessert during the week, helps me to feel like I'm not missing out on anything. Which in turn helps with maintaining a healthy lifestyle
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Learn more about the book and how to purchase Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion. Get more tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle here.
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This post is brought to you by our sponsor, Always Eat After 7 PM. The opinions expressed are my own.
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