3 Steps To Sticking To Your Diet, Singapore Fitness Instructor Explains

As a fitness bootcamp instructor and personal trainer in Singapore, I recognize the importance of a good diet plan for success in your weight loss, fat loss and muscle building plans. ere are some tips to help you reach those goals.

As promised, here are three simple steps that WILL help you to get that body to die for:

Step 1: Remove all bad foods from your proximity.

Take the bad stuff out of your house, office and locker - whatever place you have food stashes in - of all evil food. This is CRUCIAL. If you have "it" (chips, candy bars, cornflakes) within reach, sooner or later, you will succumb to it. It's happened to me countless times and I've learnt to keep my house junk-free. Having such foods around is just setting yourself up for failure. Once, I found two Snickers bars (they belonged to a relative who had stayed over for a couple of weeks) in the basket on top of the fridge. I ate them, one after the other. So, get rid of it. Don't give it away - it is not even right to offer health destroying food to your family and friends. Dump it. Today. And DON'T BUY MORE!

Step 2: Enlist support

Inform supportive friends and family of your new dietary resolutions. Call them when you're struggling with food cravings to the breaking point and have them remind you of your goals. Play a quick game of bridge with your cousin till the longing for creme-filled choux puffs passes and you're your real self again.

Close friends and members of your family can be very good encouragers and this is even more so during family feasts! Once, when I was on a strict cutting diet, I had a friend who went out of her way to prepare a special low-calorie, high protein soup just for me, during a potluck. That kind of support can be incredibly encouraging when you're struggling with adjusting to your diet.

As for the friends and relatives who will try to sabotage your diet and think it's a great joke to do so, just do your best to avoid them for a bit and stay strong. Remember - they aren't the ones having to squeeze on your pair of skinny jeans. They aren't the ones with your cellulite problem. It's you and you are not going to let all hell stop you from looking lean and sexy.

Step 3:

Be prepared to prepare your own healthy meals, at least a little. While it's not impossible to eat healthy and practice portion control while eating out, it's a lot easier to do both if you're cooking your own meals. (Besides, cooking your own meals is far more economical! And you'll get to impress far more people that way)

Now, while these three steps are simple, they're not always easy. However, once you start seeing the results and feeling all that new energy that comes from just being healther, you'll get addicted to your new, healthy lifestyle!