if you're struggling to lose weight it might be it's just too hard and the reason it's too
hard for so many of us is because there are so many rules and so many restrictions and so many
things that we can't eat so I'm going to teach you today one little trick one little rule that
you can set for yourself that will help you make the right choices every single day hi I'm Schellea
and welcome to Fabulous50s the tip that I have for you that's going to change the way that you
think about food is compared to what and what does that mean compared to what gives you an
out it gives you a way to feel good about yourself because when we are on a diet and we go off track
a little bit we beat up on ourselves we feel bad about ourselves and when we do that we give up and
the last thing that you want to do when you're on a diet or when you're trying to figure out
how to eat healthy is to go into it with lots of negatives negative I did this wrong I didn't do
that right so this is why we fail because we put ourselves in the corner of I can't get it
right so this trick that I'm going to teach you will help you get it right because when you ask
the question compared to you can say okay am I choosing this food is it better compared to what
I ate yesterday or is it better than the choice I could have made and I made a better choice so
I'm going to show you some compared to foods and teach you how to figure out the best option for
losing weight that's sustainable and healthy and it becomes a lifestyle you can do this forever
Sugar's the thing that cripples us when we're on a diet because it's just so
hard to give up so here's what we do we say compared to so here's some examples
this is chocolate delicious chocolate this is Cadbury chocolate it's full of sugar and like a
whole lot of other ingredients but it's delicious and you know some people can eat a whole block
and be happy or you could choose a chocolate biscuit these are tim tams from Australia but
we could choose these and we would feel bad after we ate them most of us particularly if
you're trying to lose weight but here's the thing could I choose something like this a protein bar
yes she could would a protein bar be better than this yes but is it much better well if you look
at the ingredients on this protein bar it says it's healthy and you can see healthy ingredients
in it but in actual fact this is full of sugar so this compared to this maybe a bit better because
there's protein in it that's going to give you some benefit but could we choose a dark chocolate
which is anything from 70 cacao and up I like 90. this is my happy place give it a try try 70
80 85 90 try them all and choose one that you can live with for now and once you get used to
not this which is super sweet you're going to start looking forward to this this will cure your
cravings for sugar in the afternoon so with a cup of tea at like three or four o'clock happy days
so Cacao is great for you and if you don't mix it with all of the sugars and all of the additives
it's okay it's going to make you feel good and it's going to help you get through the afternoon
give you some energy but we can do one step better you can choose cacao nibs so this is made from
this and also this is made from this this is the best way that we can eat it and if you've never
tried cacao before just the nibs like this it's bland but it's got a little bit of a bite and once
you eat it it does the same thing as chocolate does it increases your serotonin so it increases
your mood and I write on the back of my jars what everything does what all my foods do and I've got
it increases your mood it's an antioxidant it has fiber and magnesium so when I go to choose this
I'm really happy with myself I'm also happy with myself if I choose this so compared to what gives
you a really good way for you to monitor yourself and if I'm going to have this I'm going to say
okay not beat up on myself I'm going to enjoy it and then say to myself okay next time tomorrow I'm
going to try this and I'm going to train myself to reach for this second and this first but we set
our own rules and when you've got your own rules you can modify them and it's the opposite to being
on this strict diet where you have to do this this and this so you can get that result the next thing
I'm going to show you is soy sauce so soy sauce is delicious and you use it on a lot of foods because
it gives so much flavor but really it's full of salt and full of additives and it's not good for
you so try and not use this in your diet if you can but a really good compared to Alternative
is coconut aminos this tastes like soy sauce a little bit different but it's going to give you
that bite and it's made from the coconut flour the sugar and it still gives you that sweetness
and that saltiness but it's natural so you can put this on your food and feel good about it
so this compared to this you're making a really great choice and you're getting lots of flavor
this is white sugar this is sugar that is a very very very processed and I just have it here for
the tradies when they come because they like sugar so I have it for them a better option is raw sugar
and raw sugar is less processed than this white sugar but then you can have a much
better option which is coconut sugar so this sugar is less sweet compared to these sugars
and if you're just getting started on on changing over you'll find that you might need a little bit
more of the coconut sugar to get the same flavor as you would from these sugars but that's okay
because you're you're trying you're experimenting so use a little bit of this try it if you if it's
not sweet enough try a little bit more and then gradually reduce it to a Sprinkle because your
taste buds are going to adapt my next compared to is salt and salt is essential in our diet in fact
I take salt every morning under my tongue to give me energy and to help with my electrolytes if a
table salt is like the white sugar you don't want to touch that so this salt here I don't have it
in the house so here's a picture this Soldier you want to eliminate at all costs don't buy it don't
have it in your house don't let your children have it don't let anybody have it that salt is
very dangerous for our bodies a better option is the Himalayan pink salt or the Celtic Sea salt
and these two salts are from nature they're not processed so as you can see these are the size
of the grains you put them in a salt grinder it makes beautiful salt and this is what I use under
my tongue every day this is a Celtic Sea salt and this is what I do I take my teaspoon and just take
this much and put it underneath my tongue and let it dissolve for you know like however long
a few seconds 10 15 20 and then I swallow it and what that does I take that before
my workout it just gives me more energy so give this a try it's really good it's Celtic Sea salt
my next compared to is nuts so let's take almonds for example you can get almonds that are salted
you can get them that are baked and you can get them raw and you can get them organic so
compared to okay raw organic is the best but they're more expensive and then The Salted
tastes the best but they're terrible for you because they've got that salt in it that I was
talking about one option is to activate your almonds you put your almonds in a bowl you
put water in them just like that Happy Days leave them on the sink and then wait overnight and then
in the morning they're going to be fat they're beautiful and plump and fat and they taste so
much better and what you're going to find in the morning when you wake up is the almonds going to
be plump but the other thing is the water is going to be murky and cloudy and you're going to think
oh my goodness I was eating that and putting it into my body so it's a good experiment for you
to do to start soaking your nuts and see what's in the water the day after you don't want that
inside your body and it's a good thing to know as well this is how many nuts I'm going to eat today
because nuts are addictive and you just shovel them in and you have too many and then you beat
up on yourself again so we don't want to beat up on ourselves we want to set our rules for ourself
so that we don't fall off the wagon if you're using the compared to rule if you're not having
sugar nuts or salted nuts compared to having raw nuts that's a great choice and a great option
if you're entertaining it's easy to get caught up so I'm going to show you some
compared twos that are going to help you so this is a Jets biscuit like not real food
it's made of like all these different ingredients that aren't real food so
eating a whole handful of these is not good for you but compared to could you get something that
has less ingredients no gluten and you know it's just going to be a little bit better than this yes
you can do that it's just a matter of reading the ingredients on the pack when you're at the
shops choose something that doesn't have like hundreds of ingredients choose something that
has fewer and then compared to you could get some sourdough bread that only got a few ingredients
and it's baked by the Baker and you can cut that into strips into small strips and you can toast
it or not and then you can use that with cheese or dip or compared to you can cut up a carrot
I know it sounds boring and you might be rolling your eyes but don't because if you have a platter
and you've got some of these and some of these and some of these you can eat half of the time
this and the other half of the time this so you'll still be doing a good job compared to just eating
like these constantly for hours you'll be eating a bit of this so compared to you're doing well and
you're successful and on that cheese platter you could choose some ingredients that are healthy so
this is hummus just made out of chickpeas and a little bit of oil so I check the ingredients
there's only two or three ingredients in this and you can put on that platter some fruit some dates
these are foods compared to lots of these and you know cheese that's not the right color and then
it's out of a pack and that it's you know not real food compared to you're doing a great job so when
you're trying to lose weight and navigating all of the different things that you can and can't eat
stick with compared to and then you'll feel successful and then you can try again tomorrow
but you're setting your own rules you're setting your own boundaries and you will win at this if
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