Tips for leaning out without counting calories

Tips:

1. Focus on Whole Foods but also incorporate fun foods:

When building my meals, I make sure that I have a fat carb, protein and fiber source in each meal. This keeps me satisfied throughout the day, and I don’t randomly snack or find myself thinking about food as much. For me personally, this allows me to be able to stay in a deficit easier and not over obsess with food. In the past, I would try to just make my calories as low as possible for my meals, but found myself always craving foods and would end up over eating later in the day.

2. Drink water all throughout the day:

a lot of times we confuse thirst for hunger, so make sure you’re getting enough water before and after your meals.

3. Low intensity, movement and less high intensity: When I was heavily training, six times a week, lifting weights, and doing cardio every day I found that I was a lot more hungry and it was a lot harder for me to sustain being in a deficit. I have found now that working out for 30-40mins, 4-5x a week(mixture of Pilates and strength training along with walking daily )has allowed me to have normal hunger cues, reduced stress and not feel ravenous throughout the day.

4. Intermittent fasting:

I’m not super strict with this, but not eating super late at night has really helped me with to not over eat. I found myself in a bad habit of just snacking at night even if I wasn’t that hungry. intermittent fasting has allowed my body to take a break and digest my food throughout the night. I personally use the app @Litely which allows me to track my eating window and giving me meal ideas as well.

I hope these tips helped and remember that sometimes less is more! As someone who used to constantly overtrain and restrict then overeat, I found that I needed to change routine, and this has been a lot more sustainable for me and healthy

🥰

#intermittentfasting #lowercortisol #weightlosstips #lowintensityworkout