Guilty and frustrated from cheating on your diet plan? These diet plan saving tips will keep you on track!

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It’s nine thirty at night and you have followed your new diet plan perfectly to a tee all day. A pizza advertisement comes on the commercial break of your favorite show and you notice it is close to your next mealtime.
Up to the kitchen you go to eat your next meal. When in the fridge pulling out your nicelyprepared diet plan meal, you notice some left over Fettuccini Alfredo your wife or roommate brought home. Sure looks good you think as you catch a little bit of saliva about to drip on your shirt!

“Just a little taste won’t hurt my diet plan,” you justify…

“ I’ve stuck to my diet plan all day……”

A little taste and before you know it you tell yourself the extra carbs and calories will be a good boost to your workout tomorrow!

An hour later your gut is stretching and Indigestion plagues you from cheating on your diet plan!!

“I should have stuck to my diet plan!” is going through your head as you lay down to have nightmares of a fat ass! “Tomorrow I’ll stick to my diet plan “, you chant in your head!But you fall from your diet plan only a day or two later!

The occasional stray from your diet plan can really add up!And billboards,tv’s, radios and people are everywhere pushing fast foods and junk to sabotage your diet plan!

Here are five diet plan saving tips to arm yourself against the onslaught of the Cheating War!

Diet Plan Tip #1 – Eat Slowly – Take your time when you sit down to eat.

The chances you will stuff yourself or overeat diminish and you will reach the point of satiety much more quickly if you eat slowly!

The more you are satisfied with what you have eaten the less likely you will continue to think of food. That chocolate Black Forest cake won’t be as tempting either!

Diet Plan Tip #2 – Have Delicious Meals That Fit Your Meal Plan Prepared Ahead Of Time.

Having meals prepared ahead of time makes it convenient to eat according to a plan and on schedule.

You can make it more convenient to stick to your diet plan than it is to eat that bag of candy by having your diet plan meals prepared and available when it is time to eat– and when you gethungry.

Diet Plan Tip #3 – Get Used To Eating For Your Purpose Instead Of For Your Taste Buds.

Satisfying your taste buds when you get the urge to gorge down a Big Mac will never develop a healthy, lean, muscular physique! Keep in mind you are eating to develop a lean, healthy muscular physique every time you open your mouth! The temporary taste satisfaction of a jelly-filled donut will be gone real fast but the empty calories you just devoured can defeat a whole day’s worth of bodybuilding effort!

Diet Plan Tip #4 – Be creative with your cooking to make sticking to your diet enjoyable.

Ideally, with proper preparation and some reciperesearch you can create delicious mouth watering meals that meet your diet plan criteria. Learn to cook. Employ spices from other parts of the world. India and China are twocountries with interesting choices to really spice up your diet plan. When you don’t have to force feed yourself with your nose plugged the chances are much higher you can stick to your diet plan more easily!

Diet Plan Tip #5 – Drink Water.

Drinking water between meals can help to reduce your hunger pains temporarily by giving a sense of fullness. For those of you that sabotage your diet plan munching here and there,keeping a water bottle with you wherever you go can really help.Just sip away when its oral satisfaction rather than hunger driving you.

I remember when I would start my week eating healthy and exercising. I would pumped and motivated focusing on what mattered most to me. As the weekend would unfold it wouldn’t be too long before I would justify to myself eating a really unhealthy meal. The pleasure of the moment distracted me from focusing on what really mattered most…and that was my fitness and weight loss goals. As you are enjoying the moment you justify to yourself that you will work out harder at the gym tomorrow. Afterwards, the feelings of guilt and contempt start to set in. To make matters worse, you don’t even go to the gym because you don’t feel good about yourself. You feel fat and you think that you are fat and veer off your goals. This type of sabotage happens all to often. There are steps that you can take to avoid this type of behavior so that you stay on top of your goals but most importantly you feel good about yourself.

What kind of glasses are you using?

Imagine that you are viewing yourself and the prescription of glasses that you are using are not the right kind. How distorted is your vision of yourself going to be? Do you really think that you will be viewing yourself with the most accuracy? Weight loss has more to do with feelings than anything else. What is important is to get the right prescription glasses so that you are viewing yourself with objectivity and not negativity. What you do is question your feelings about yourself. If you don’t like how you feel about yourself then start questioning those feelings. Are you really a bad person? Are you really a loser? Are you really that overweight? Whatever the questions may be the point is to create enough doubt about your feelings that are bringing you down that you create an eagerness within to feel better, more positive about yourself. The goal is to have a positive self reflection.

Who do you think you are: Judge Judy?

Your thoughts determine the words you’re going to say. Are you using words that are encouraging you or holding you down? When you use words that are not very encouraging you begin to judge yourself. When you label food ‘bad’ and ‘good’ when you eat ‘bad’ food then you judge yourself as a ‘bad’ person. When you label yourself as such what do you think that does to your self perception? I can tell you that it doesn’t make you feel better. Plus, it’s true that you are not a ‘bad’ person. Start believing that and it can change your outcome. Use encouraging words such as I can, I will, I am. Start saying that you are a powerful person. Start saying to yourself that you are an amazing person. Avoid words that insinuate judgment like good and bad, would, could, and should. The point is to eliminate words that bring you down and that judge you and others. Replace those words that will encourage you and increase your self perception.

It took me awhile for these words to integrate into my daily vocabulary. But by doing so, I was focusing on keeping what mattered to me most and that was feeling good about myself. As a former binge eater, I had to battle with the temptation of indulging in unhealthy foods because they taste great and bring instant pleasure. However, by delaying the gratification I was able to put away those temptations. The feeling after was so empowering because you no longer surrender to those temptations that bring you down. Food is not the enemy. There are no enemies. There are only adjustments to be made. You are in control of your emotions. It’s your responsibility to practice your choice that you have. Because you always have a choice as to how you want to experience any situation.

But it was his exercise, conditioning and a 30-pound weight loss before playing for the ABA’s Arizona Scorpions last season that may have saved his life.

Lemon Diet Ceballos suffered a series of small heart attacks during and after a game with the Scorpions on Nov. 27. Only 42 at the time, Ceballos underwent an angioplasty and had stents inserted to open two blocked arteries. A part owner of the Scorpions, Ceballos said Friday that his health is back at “1,000 percent” thanks to his doctors, rehabilitation and his overall physical fitness when stricken. But his semi-pro playing days are over. “I don’t know if there’s ever a perfect time to have a heart attack, but my timing was great,” he said. “I hadn’t played in a while, and the weight just came off once I started getting ready.”

Lemonade DietCeballos, who is also the in-game emcee for the Phoenix Suns, is teaming with HOOPS2HEAL to host “Super Bowl Sunday” in Phoenix this weekend. Several of the city’s current and former NBA and NFL stars (including Larry Fitzgerald, Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Kurt Warner and Charles Barkley) are scheduled to attend and knock down pins to raise money for various youth athletic programs.Barkley’s recent weight loss, spotlighted on his Weight Watchers TV campaign, remains a relief and inspiration to Ceballos, who checked in at 6-foot-7, 220 pounds during his 609-game NBA career. “Man, I’m so happy for the guy. I love him so much, with the fact that the Weight Watchers kicked it in,” said Ceballos, who played with Barkley in Phoenix for two seasons and in the 1993 NBA Finals. “I would see him, hear him and feel him just getting bigger. And I knew it was the danger zone for him. The guy is such a hard worker and he committed himself to working just as hard once he decided to lose the weight. He looks great.”And now it’s on to bowling on Sunday.Ceballos, who once rolled a 267, gives the NFL stars the nod over his NBA brethren. “The Suns are focused on their playoff run,” he said. “The Cardinals are gearing up to beat us. Their intensity level is high. … They’ll have an edge.”