Is it Better to keep your Fridge Empty?

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. You might begin to believe that the presence of food in your fridge is hindering your efforts to lose weight. If you are one of those people who simply cannot control their appetite when food is available, then you might be well advised to think about the types of food that you keep in your fridge. Even if the temptation is there, you need to be able to limit the impact the food will have on your body. This can ordinarily be achieved by ensuring that only the foods that you have accepted into your regulated diet are kept in the fridge or even the locker.

The way our brain works can be a real handicap when you are trying to manage your food intake. Even if you know that something is not good for you, once it is available, you will somehow find excuses that allow you to consume it, even that consumption might end up putting you in danger as well as shortening your life. It is amazing the amount of excuses we can conjure up if we really want to be able to consume something against the advice of our diet.

However this does not mean that you have to go extreme and ban all foods from your diet. All you are trying to do is have a balanced and reasonable diet. You are not trying to starve yourself to death. In any case, if you tried to pull this stunt all you would get is cravings which lead you to eat even more than you did before. It is better to have a balanced diet rather than striving to achieve the impossible.
Yes there is scope to improve your diet by cleaning out some of the terrible sins that you keep in your fridge. For instance there has to be a really good reason before a weight watcher can justify the presence of lard in their fridge. These are the kinds of food stuffs that really have no place in your life once you start to seriously contemplate managing your weight.

I know some of you might argue that if you completely exclude a lot of the foods that you enjoy from the diet, you end up having a very poor life indeed with limited scope for enjoyment. My response to that is that strict dieting is a gradual process and you can get used to it if you have really made a commitment to make a lifestyle change.

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