One - Eat Slowly! By chewing your food properly and taking longer to eat a meal you are much more likely to become full on a smaller amount of food than you'd think! Also it doesn't help to have some table etiquette!
Two - Don't be scared of Fat!! Eating fat does not make you fat. Most body fat gained comes from unused carbohydrates (grains, legumes, sugars) which are high-calorie and slow-release foods. (Great if your Paula Radcliffe.. not if you sit behind a desk all day). Focus more on getting some Fat on your plate than Carbohydrate (it's less inflammatory and just as fulfilling). For 1 meal a day try replacing any grains (rice, bread, pasta, cous cous) or legumes (peas, beans, lentils) with healthy FATS:
- Avocado
- Olives
- Nuts
- Seeds
- Eggs
Three - Use healthy oils like Olive oil or Coconut oil when cooking. Stay away from any kind of Vegetable oil (they're very deceptive). Also when you buy semi-processed healthy foods like nut butter ALWAYS check the ingredients. Most peanut butters and even ol' Quaker Oats are full of sugar. Your much better off with simple, organic foods.
Four - Get in the Kitchen and start cooking!! By baking all your own cakes, biscuits, cookies etc.. you are much more aware how much butter, sugar, chocolate you are eating. (It's easier to ignore the nutritional value label on the back of the packet that it is seeing 300g of sugar being weighed into a bowl!!). Also home cooking provides a much greater sense of achievement!
Five - Drink lots and lots and lots of water. With every meal, in-between meals, when you wake up, when you're going to bed ... just don't stop! Drinking water helps flush your food down and keeps everything going through your digestive system. It's good for your skin too!
A Student's Guide to following the Palaeolithic diet of our cavemen ancestors on a budget. "If it doesn't swim, walk, fly, grow underground or on trees ... I don't eat it!"
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