Find that you and your partner are both overweight? What can you do together to lose that extra weight? The best solution is to make some lifestyle changes together; everything from food to activity. Don't try to go on a two different diets. Stay on the same one. The problem with going on two separate diets is that if one of you sees the other eating a particular food, they might be tempted to go off their diet. Below are six steps to losing weight together:
1. Plan your diet or food intake together. Help one another stay on it. Both of you should write down your weekly goals and talk about your diet menu. Write steps to how you are going to stay on this diet; everything from shopping to cooking to cleaning up. Document your progress in your journals.
2. In the kitchen together, throw out all junk food, sweets, fattening foods... Don't have fattening food in your house. Only keep in the refrigerator and pantries food that is on your diet. If you don't want to "throw out" the food, donate it to a soup or church kitchen.
3. Plan physical activities together. For example, after dinner every night, go for a long walk around your neighborhood. If that's not possible, find a time to go to a local high school track and walk around it together. Still more, you can join a gym together and meet there after work. You can go biking also. There are any numbers of activities you can do together. Find one that you both enjoy and can stick too. This will help your figure and your heart both.
4. Be the number one fan for each other through the diet. It's not easy to change food intake and what we are used to eating. But if you can help each other stick to it, after a few months it will be much easier. Also, do thinks to make it more enjoyable. Place candles on your dining room table and make it a romantic dinner setting. Anything to make your time of eating more enjoyable is a good thing.
5. On the weekends change it up. Maybe go on a picnic together. This way you could mix eating with taking a hike afterwards. Eat out on the weekends but eat healthy and stick to your diet caloric intake. Eat salads, seafood, fruit, chicken instead of steak and potatoes. Avoid desert. Be there for one another in support.
6. Look on the internet for new diet meals. The internet is full of low calorie and low fat recipes and menus. Look together and find some that appeal to you both.
The key is to support one another as you venture out into this new weight lose program. I can be exciting and most certainly bring you closer together.
