How To Use Your Kitchen To Lose Weight.
How To Use Your Kitchen To Lose Weight.
The place where you make your favourite food mightn’t seem like the most obvious location to go to lose a few pounds, but your kitchen can actually help you lose weight. If you’re planning on getting into shape after the festive break, here’s how your kitchen can help you:
Convenient food for weight loss
How often have you’ve gone to the fridge for a quick healthy snack only to come back with a pastry, a cake or a bacon sandwich? If you want to eat healthier in between meals you have to make healthy snacks more accessible. The trick is to hide all the unhealthy options at the back of the fridge and fill tupperware containers with pre-prepared fruit, such as grapes, pineapple chunks, cubes of melon or slices of orange
All you have to do then is add a couple of spoonfuls of Greek yogurt, a handful of nuts and swirl of honey and you’ve got a deliciously healthy fruit salad that’s tastes much better than any of that stodgy stuff at the back of the fridge.
You can do the same with salads. The main reason most people don’t have a salad accompaniment with their evening meal is because it can be awkward to prepare. Make a large bowl of salad and a jar of your favourite salad dressing at the beginning of the week and it’ll last several days, meaning you can forget the hassle of peeling, chopping and frying spuds for those all-too-fattening chips.
As any dietitian will tell you, one of the key factors to losing weight is portion control. The more you cook, the more you’re likely to eat. Which is why if you keep your measuring utensils on the preparation worktop or hanging from a hook, instead of at the back of a cupboard, you’re less likely to cook too much food.
Adjust your recipe according to the number of people you’re cooking for and put those measuring cups and spoons to good use. If you cook in bulk for freezing, use your kitchen scales to measure out realistically-sized portions and freeze them individually to avoid wasting food and putting on the pounds.
Out of sight, out of mind
When it comes to your crockery, make your smallest plates most accessible. The bigger the plate, the more tempted you’ll be to fill it. The same applies for snacks such as crisps, biscuits and other goodies. Don’t leave them sitting on a worktop that’s convenient for walk-by nibbling. Store them in the back of your deepest, highest, most inaccessible storage space and you’ll think twice before delving in.
If your thinking of giving your kitchen a facelift…
If you’re giving your kitchen face lift, consider getting an super efficient induction hob, as this can cut cooking times by up to 50%, making it quicker and more convenient than ever to rustle up healthy meals at the drop of a hat.
Research has shown that high wattage lighting can raise stress levels and stimulate appetite. Consider low watt LED under-cabinet halogen lighting will solve this and make your kitchen a much more pleasant space in which to spend time.
And remember, eating less won’t help much unless you get some exercise too, so why not invest in an exercise mat. When it’s not being used for cooking, the kitchen is, in fact, one of the most underused rooms in the house, so why not let it double as your exercise room?